The Politically Incorrect Guides tend to be irreverent, tongue-in-cheek, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny — just like its logo of a grinning pig. P-I-G. Politically Incorrect Guide. Get it?

But Paul Kengor’s guide to communism is not remotely funny. Since he is discussing the most murderous, most destructive political system ever to afflict humankind, humor would be woefully out of place.