A little food for thought. This paragraph used to be part of the Declaration of Principles of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, until 2005 when it was replaced by a statement regarding tyranny in general.
Masonry abhors Communism as being repugnant to its conception of the dignity of the individual personality, destructive of the basic human rights which are the Divine heritage of all men, and inimical to the fundamental Masonic tenet of faith in God.
It first appeared in that document in or around 1947, when it was adopted as a resolution by the Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in North America. I’m sure our Grand Secretary at the time was quick to have it added to our Declaration of Principles; he was death on communism.
Given the continued communist tyranny and genocides that followed 1947 and have lasted even into our own day, I wonder sometimes if we should have watered down our abhorrence of that very specific type of tyranny…