communism Archives

Hans von Spakovsky: 30 Years in Making, Museum Dedicated to Victims of Communism Opens

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-06T11:55:53-05:00June 14th, 2022|

Remember these two numbers: 100 million and 1.5 billion. Those were the two numbers emphasized at the dedication on Wednesday of the new Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which I was privileged to attend along with my family. An estimated 100 million is the number of human beings slaughtered, massacred, and killed by Marxist, communist regimes in the past 100 years, from the Soviet Union to Red China to Castro’s Cuba. And 1.5 billion is the number of people still suffering under oppressive, tyrannical communist regimes today.

ACRU’s Allen West: Education Freedom–the Civil Rights Issue of our Time

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:56:11-05:00March 29th, 2022|

Perhaps you remember the song "Teach the Children" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. In the perspective of the progressive socialist left the word 'teach' is replaced with 'indoctrinate'. I find it interesting that the first person to introduce the idea of state control of education was one Karl Marx. With the rise of power of the leftist teachers’ unions we are witnessing the manifestation of one of Marx's fundamental planks as written in his book, The Communist Manifesto.

The Moment Rose Wilder Lane’s Faith in Communism Was Pierced

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:06:42-05:00April 1st, 2021|

No one understands the dangers of creeping socialism and communism better than those who have lived under it, but also those who once supported it but turned to individual liberty and economic freedom instead. Such is the case of Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Her journey from communism to freedom is brilliant, and a story still needing to be told.

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