Survey: One in Two U.S. Millennials Would Rather Live in a Socialist or Communist Country
Posted: November 3, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, China, Education, Health and Social Issues, Russia | Tags: 2008 Crash Prompts Young Intellectuals To Revisit Marxism, Decay, Frankfurt School, Ignorance, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Marxism, Mass murder, Millennials, Pol Pot, Socialism, Stalin, Totalitarianism Leave a comment
Anti-aircraft missiles on parade as they are led past Lenin’s Tomb en route to the saluting base in Red Square to celebrate the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Getty.
This survery claims one in two U.S. millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.
Millennials: Communism Sounds Pretty Chill!
Shawn Langlois writes:
… According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.
What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”
Really, that’s what the numbers show.
“Millennials now make up the largest generation in America, and we’re seeing some deeply worrisome trends,” said Marion Smith, executive director of the organization. “Millennials are increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.”
I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism. pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31, 2017
But do they even know what it is?
The survey, which was conducted by research and data firm YouGov, found that millennials are the least knowledgable generation on the subject, with 71% failing to identify the proper definition of communism.
Smith explained that this “troubling turn” highlights pervasive historical illiteracy across the country and “the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago.” Read the rest of this entry »
#MarxismDelayed
Posted: July 26, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, History, Politics | Tags: Bernie Sanders, Communism, Democratic Party, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Lenin, Mao, Marx, Marxism, Millennials, Pol Pot, Socialism, Soviet Union, Stalin, USA Leave a comment
The Nordic Democratic-Socialist Myth
FEEL THE DECAY: As Venezuela Craters, Appeal of Socialism Remains
Posted: June 4, 2016 Filed under: Economics, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Agrarian society, Andrew Lam, Arthur Bremer, Cambodia, Communist Party of Kampuchea, Hugo Chávez, Joseph Stiglitz, Khmer Rouge, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Nicolás Maduro, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Non-governmental organization, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe, The New York Times, Venezuela, Zimbabwe Leave a comment
It is safe to predict that more countries will refuse to learn from history and give socialism a go.
Marian Tupy writes: Three years ago, a well-known American leftist, David Sirota, wrote the following in a Salon essay titled Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle,
Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism at once represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics, and also delivered some indisputably positive results… When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore.
Last Sunday, Nicholas Casey of The New York Times reported in an article Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals,
By morning, three newborns were already dead. The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward. Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died… The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans.
I start with these rather long quotations with a heavy heart. Contrary to Sirota’s glib prediction, I do not intend to laugh off as “harmless and forgettable” Venezuela’s “cautionary tale about the perils of command economics.” I do not find dying children laughable. But then, I did not laugh when I read about starving Ukrainians eating their children during Stalin’s Holodomor.
I did not laugh when I read of Khmer Rouge soldiers shooting infants off their bayonets in communist Cambodia. And I certainly did not laugh when I saw with my own two eyes children reduced to starvation by the Marxist dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. In fact, there is nothing laughable about the almost incomprehensible degree of suffering that socialism has heaped upon humanity wherever it’s been tried. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Ben Carson: ‘When Tyranny Occurs Traditionally Around the World, They Try to Disarm the People First’
Posted: October 9, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: 2nd amendment, Ben Carson, Civil Rights, Communism, Confiscation, Dictatorship, Genocide, GOP, Gun control, Gun Crime, Gun Debate, Gun rights, Mao, Nazi, Pol Pot, Progressivism, Self-defense, Socialism, Stalinism, Tyranny Leave a comment
May Day Proposal: Celebrate Anti-Capitalist Activism? No, May Day Should Honor the Millions of Victims of Communism
Posted: May 2, 2015 Filed under: China, Crime & Corruption, Global, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Amazing Tater, Genocide, Germany, Jews, Kremlin, Mao, Mass murder, May Day, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Pol Pot, Socialism, Soviet Union, Stalin, The Black Book of Communism, United States, Vladimir Putin, World War II 5 Comments
The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined
Ilya Somin writes:
…Since 2007, I have defended the idea of using this date as an international Victims of Communism Day. I outlined the rationale for this proposal (which is not my original idea) in my very first post on the subject:
May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda 
tool to prop up their [authority]. I suggest that we instead use it as a day to commemorate those regimes’ millions of victims. The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined. We appropriately have a Holocaust Memorial Day. It is equally appropriate to commemorate the victims of the twentieth century’s other great totalitarian tyranny. And May Day is the most fitting day to do so….
[Read the full text here, at The Washington Post]
The main alternative to May 1 is November 7, the anniversary of the communist coup in Russia. However, choosing that date might be interpreted as focusing exclusively on the Soviet Union, while ignoring the equally horrendous communist mass murders in China, Cambodia, and elsewhere. So May 1 is the best choice.
Soviet Five-Year Plan propaganda poster.
Our relative neglect of communist crimes carries a real cost. Victims of Communism Day can serve the dual purpose of appropriately commemorating the millions of victims, and diminishing the likelihood that such atrocities will recur. Just as Holocaust Memorial Day and other such commemorations help sensitize us to the dangers of racism, anti-Semitism, and radical nationalism, so Victims of Communism Day can increase awareness of the dangers of far left forms of totalitarianism, and extreme government control of the economy and civil society.
In a 2012 post, I explained why May 1 is a better date for Victims of Communism Day than the available alternatives, such as November 7 (the anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia) and August 23 (the anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Pact). I also addressed the objection that it would be wrong to take May Day away from non-communist socialists and trade union activists. Read the rest of this entry »
Witness Describes Khmer Rouge’s Gruesome Torture During Genocide Trial
Posted: February 2, 2015 Filed under: History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Cambodia, Crimes against humanity, Gallbladder, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Nuon Chea, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, Takéo Province 1 Comment
Cambodian and international journalists watch a live video feed showing former Khmer Rouge leader head of state Khieu Samphan (C) during a hearing for his trial at the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh on January 8, 2015. Cambodia’s UN-backed court on January 8, resumed the genocide trial of two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders over the mass murder of Vietnamese people and ethnic Muslims, forced marriage and rape in late 1970s. AFP PHOTO / TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/Getty Images)
[CHART] Keeping Score: Which Dictator Killed the Most People?
Posted: August 17, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Despotism, Genocide, Hideki Tojo, Kim Sung, Leopold 2 of Belgium, Mao Zedong, Mass murder, Pol Pot, Stalin, Tyranny, Warfare 3 Comments
Source: Gawker
TRIBUNAL: Genocidal Khmer Rouge Defendant Denies Charges of Genocide
Posted: October 31, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History, War Room | Tags: Cambodia, Ieng Thirith, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Nuon Chea, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot 1 Comment
(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) —Justine Drennan reports: Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea denied all charges against him Thursday on the last day of a trial for the surviving leaders of the 1970s Cambodian regime widely blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million people.
The ailing 87-year-old Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, and 82-year-old Khieu Samphan, its head of state, are charged by the Khmer Rouge tribunal with genocide and crimes against humanity. The charges include torture, enslavement and murder for their roles in the radical communist regime nearly 40 years ago.
Hundreds of survivors and onlookers crowded the courtroom and the tribunal’s grounds to hear the two aged defendants speak. Khieu Samphan is expected to make his statement later Thursday. A verdict is expected in the first half of 2014, more than two years after the trial began. Read the rest of this entry »
Reason and Faith: Is Evil Irrational?
Posted: October 29, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Think Tank | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Aristotle, Christian, Dennis Prager, Faith, Faith and rationality, God, Good and evil, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Philosophy, Pol Pot 2 CommentsFrom The Greenroom, Ed Morrissey finds Dennis Prager challenging a centuries-old narrative about history’s worst despots.
Reason and faith go hand in hand in the pursuit of truth, but it’s the belief systems employed that serves as that pursuit’s moral grounding.
pundit from another planet 