The Message

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Message is a birds eye view of the origin of Marxism how it came to be a political system what kind of a society it is its daily life all woven around my personal experience.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The remarkable power of his message derives not from rhetorical device but from the searing authenticity of his early life experience.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Without exception the most potent critiques Soviet Communism have been written by those who have had first-hand experience of it.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> His [Dr Michael Hansen] engrossing book The Message is both a history of his daily life under Communism and a philosophical and moral meditation upon Romanian Communism as a spiritual pathology.</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Professor John Fleming Professor Emeritus of literature at Princeton University Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Medieval Academy of America.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>The way the author was able to capture the stark reality of life under a Communist government and the ways in which Communism strikes down the idea of individuality in those nations was both heartbreaking and eye-opening to read about.</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-Pacific Book Review by Jack Chambers</em></p>