A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country.
Half of millennials have never heard of communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.
Young people who weren't alive during World War II and its Cold War aftermath might be forgiven for not knowing the horrors of socialism.
America's communists, socialists, and Marxists have little knowledge of socialist history.
Bradley Birzer, a professor of history at Hillsdale College, explains this in an article for The American Conservative titled "Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins."
When the tragedies of socialist regimes-such as those in Venezuela, the USSR, China, Cuba, and many others-are pointed out to America's leftists, they hold up Sweden as their socialist role model.
Johan Norberg points this out in his documentary "Sweden: Lessons for America?" Americans might be surprised to learn that Sweden's experiment with socialism was a relatively brief flirtation, lasting about 20 years and ending in disillusionment and reform.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/05/our-ignorance-of-socialism-is-dangerous/
Half of millennials have never heard of communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.
Young people who weren't alive during World War II and its Cold War aftermath might be forgiven for not knowing the horrors of socialism.
America's communists, socialists, and Marxists have little knowledge of socialist history.
Bradley Birzer, a professor of history at Hillsdale College, explains this in an article for The American Conservative titled "Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins."
When the tragedies of socialist regimes-such as those in Venezuela, the USSR, China, Cuba, and many others-are pointed out to America's leftists, they hold up Sweden as their socialist role model.
Johan Norberg points this out in his documentary "Sweden: Lessons for America?" Americans might be surprised to learn that Sweden's experiment with socialism was a relatively brief flirtation, lasting about 20 years and ending in disillusionment and reform.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/05/our-ignorance-of-socialism-is-dangerous/
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