An Evil Tree: The Story of Communism

An Evil Tree by Agnes Murphy, Ph.D., is a polemical study that traces what the author presents as the historical, philosophical, and institutional roots of modern subversion. Framed as a work of ideological diagnosis rather than detached scholarship, the book argues that destructive doctrines do not arise spontaneously but grow from identifiable intellectual seeds planted generations earlier. Murphy contends that movements commonly treated as reformist or progressive are in fact outgrowths of a deeper, corrosive worldview that seeks to reorder moral authority, family structure, religion, and national cohesion. Direct in tone and unapologetic in its conclusions, the work positions itself as a warning—insisting that before a civilization can defend itself, it must first recognize the root system feeding what it calls an “evil tree.”