We Need to Teach the Dark History of Communism
With the results of this year’s midterm election, the Democratic Socialists of America have expanded their caucus in Congress and have even installed one of their own as mayor of the host city for the 2028 Olympics, Los Angeles. The false promises of socialism appear to be increasingly successful on the ballot, but how many Americans know the true and horrifying history of socialism and communism?...
The appeal of socialism has always rested on a false promise: that government can deliver fairness, abundance, and security if it is given power over the economy. It is a seductive fantasy...
But these same promises have been made many times before, in Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, and the result was similar in all these places: shortages, a corrupt ruling elite, lives lost, and freedom curtailed...
Florida offers a model for fixing that. In 2024, the legislature passed Senate Bill 1264, requiring instruction on domestic communist movements and their tactics, the atrocities committed under communist regimes, and how communism conflicts with America’s founding principles. The requirement takes full effect this school year...
What stands out is how seriously Florida took the task...
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To Stop Marxism, Stop the Conditions That Boost It, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, Epoch Times, 11 November 2026:
The reason Marxism survives is not because it is theoretically sound. It is because it seems to offer a path to understanding all that has gone wrong in economic structures that are ever less free. This is a dangerous path we are on. The more we create systems that Marxism seems to explain, and the less literate are the people now coming up through the ranks, the more we risk trading a bad system for something that is infinitely worse.