We need to talk to communists because there is so much they need to learn

Protesters affiliated with the Revolutionary Communists of America hold a banner during a May Day march in Minneapolis, Minn.

“I’m not sure about the specifics … ” She then went on to deliver a short address on how communism will deliver a high standard of living by redistributing the obscene wealth of the rich.

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When pressed about the historical record, either of communism’s brutality or specifics about so-called American imperialism, the young woman’s friendly smile never faltered.She really couldn’t name any of the crimes of capitalism.

Calling for the overthrow of the system that allows for a peaceful Saturday at a farmers market made the entire conversation seem absurd.

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Conversations like this one, between average Americans and self-styled communists andsocialists, break down due to differences of content and perspective.

When it comes to perspective, many of the 62% of young Americans, aged 18-29, that think that socialism or communism is a good idea have been educated with a simplistic neo-Marxist lens: U.S.history is a story of oppressor versus oppressed (i.e., patriarchy, race, religious bigotry).The Marxist model can be found in everything from “The 1619 Project” to the platform of theDemocratic Socialists of America.Neo-Marxist critical theories attack the perspectives once widely held by most Americans regarding the American Dream and America’s exceptional service to humanity.

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The part of these conversations that’s the most flummoxing, however, is not ideological.It is the part of the conversation that is about content: cold, hard facts.Anti-communists of all stripes typically point to the overwhelming evidence of the past and present crimes of communism.At 100 million men, women and children murdered, one would think that the evidence ‘proves’ that this is not just an inefficient system, but a diabolical one.

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We have survivor testimony, government records and some photographic evidence of the concentration camps (e.g., Soviet Gulag, China’s Laogai), torture, extermination of minorities, deportations and forced starvation.The violence continues in today’s communist and communist-legacy regimes, from Belarus toCubaand Eritrea to North Korea.

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The young person at the farmers market will blankly stare when you recitethe crimes of communism.She has no point of reference.The crimes of communism are largely unknown;they are untaught and unchallenged in today’s university and high school settings.She has never heard of these things, and she is not sure they are believable.Indeed, she will counter, these atrocities have likely been exaggerated and were undoubtedly justified self-defensive measures against capitalist imperialism.

The young woman then parried, “All I know is that America has a shameful past, and we should try to atone for the crimes of capitalism.”

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When one does not feel (perspective) that the evidence of communism’s crimes demands a verdict, and even disregards that there is evidence of wrongdoing (content), one is living in a different reality than that of most Americans born in the twentieth century.What is to be done?

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First, we need to work hard to return all of the institutions of our civic life — media, schools, houses of worship, the business sector, K-12 andhigher edand especially the family — to the basics.That is where we educate the rising generation with the facts and values of what we are for and what we are against.We adhere to the principles found in the Declaration of Independence, representative government, free-market economics, personal and local responsibility and democratic institutions.

Second, we need to transmit the facts: the personal stories and larger historical narratives of communism’s crimes and America’s valiant, sacrificial efforts at self-defense and global freedom: the Berlin Airlift,the creation of NATOand the United Nations, the defense of Koreans, Vietnamese and many other oppressed peoples, Cold War victory and post-Cold War friendship (i.e., Eastern Europe) and America’s stunning philanthropic giving.

Accurate content and right perspective should also reinforce what we are against: all ideologies and regimes that are anti-human, anti-freedom and anti-family.Communism in any form is a political fantasy rooted in envy and a political program rooted in brutality.We need to make it clear to the rising generation of citizens that communism in any form has not been good for others and will not be good for them.

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How does one talk to a communist?Our best hope lies in inoculating our young against communism at the very youngest age with the right perspective and accurate content.

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