Hammer and Sickle? Who under the age of 60 would even remember that barbaric symbol of Communism? Or the tens of millions it executed under its totalitarian death grip? Or the fact that several nations still smart beneath its jackboot?
Given the degraded state of contemporary education, such ignorance is to be expected. To call this a mere problem is too benign a word, like calling the bombing of Dresden an incident. No, tragedy more befits this development.
Educated Americans sincerely query how such amnesia could have settled upon our nation. The statistics take us aback. Nearly 38 percent of Americans under the age of 30 believe socialism is better than capitalism. Take no consolation that we are speaking about socialism not communism. Hardly a hair’s difference lies between them. Communism is being garroted with a piano wire; socialism is being garroted with a silk scarf. Both are fatal.
This disturbing landscape is being dramatically brought to the forefront of American attention by the election of politicians boasting their socialism bona fides. Socialist politicians staff their campaigns, and then their administrations, with a youth brigade torn right out of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Very little difference lies between a Mamdani cabinet and a Red Guard Struggle Session.
Take a glance at the political platform of the Democratic Socialists of America:
- abolition of police and jails
- abolition of the War Department
- abolition of the Constitution
- abolition of Congress and the presidency
It would be incautious to dismiss this as the rantings of a lunatic fringe. Doing so would be as foolhardy as the Romanovs dismissing Lenin. More disturbing is its currency with the young.
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