According to Daly, Soviet government sought to dictate every
aspect of life in the name of the common good, including the
indexing of Soviet publications by libraries. He writes, “[I]f
Soviet publications failed to end up in libraries, then, as
Lenin railed, ‘we have to know precisely whom to imprison.’”  In
the Winter-Fall 2012 issue of Modern Age (54, nos. 1-4),
Jonathan Daly contributes a helpful exploration of what happens
when desire for the common good goes bad. His article,
“Bolshevik Power and Ideas of the Common Good,” focuses on the
disastrously ill-conceived effort by the Russian revolutionaries
to promote the common good through their self-proclaimed
“revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”  Daly contends,
“The horrors of Bolshevik governance stemmed directly from their
repudiation of the precious fruits of Western political
thought.” It is a classic example of the tendency of some to
promote cheap moralisms while ignoring the empirical realities
of any given context, what then Joseph Card