As detailed in the Black Book of Communism published by Harvard University Press, “the Russian Social Democrats, better known to history as the Bolsheviks, decided in November 1917 to call themselves ‘Communists’.” Their original name of “Social Democrats” sprung from the Communist Manifesto, which calls for winning “the battle of democracy” so that government controls all “communication,” “property,” “transport,” “factories,” “credit,” and “agriculture.” After seizing power, these Communists banned freedom of speech “for the foes of socialism” and killed roughly 20 million of their own citizens. In stark contrast, the founders of the U.S. created a democratic constitutional republic with strong checks on the powers of government in order to “guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”