Cowards and Communists
The American people find themselves stuck between two opposing factions: one of cowards, the other of communists.
The American people find themselves stuck between two opposing factions: one of cowards, the other of communists.
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.
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.
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.
12/5: ACRU Policy Board member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams explains why many liberal assumptions about the benefits of Communism are erroneous and harmful to Americans.
Why are leftists soft on communism? The reason leftists give communists a pass is that they sympathize with the chief goal of communism: restricting personal liberty.
American Civil Rights Union Policy Board member Walter Williams explains how the Pilgrims planted the seeds of American self-sufficiency and saved the Massachusetts colony from a collectivist disaster.
Socialism’s greatest outcomes are very predictable - misery, murder and refugees.
For those who see Marx as their hero, there are a few historical tidbits they might find interesting.
The siren song of socialism masks the evil socialists deliver.