Stephen Hicks of Rockford College ascribes the violence characteristic of 20th-century socialist rule to these collectivist regimes' abandonment of protections of civil rights and rejection of the values of civil society.
罗克福德大学（英语：Rockford College）的Stephen Hicks把二十世纪社会主义统治的暴力特征归结于那些集体主义政权抛弃保护人权并摒弃公民社会的价值观。