Communism Lives On, but What Is Its Agenda?

A woman places flowers at the remains of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 2015, the 26th anniversary of its demolition. From 1961 to 1989, the Wall, built to keep East Germans from emigrating to the democratic west, was a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet communism. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, people rejoiced that the threat of communism was no more.

But the threat of communism is still very much alive in countries like Cuba and China, where totalitarian regimes rule over the population through fear and violence. At the same time, communist ideas have infiltrated the West under the guise of socialism, liberalism, or progressivism.