This section of Discover The Networks examines how the campaigns of the left, under the banner of “social justice,” “equality,” and “compassion” have inflicted catastrophe in many forms — poverty, moral decline, criminality, violence, illness, and death — upon countless millions of people. The programs and policies that led to these disastrous outcomes were unfailingly promoted by the left — often presenting itself more appealingly as “liberalism” — as expressions of a high-minded idealism that promised to improve the living conditions of people in need.