When I received an email from a long-time friend telling me her daughter and granddaughter had decided to go the way of communism...(her daughter is also the head of the English Department in an educational institution)...I pulled out the below newsletter I received (June 1, 2018) and sent it to her. I don't know if it will make a difference in their lives, but I wanted to make my case. What makes America great? Christianity, Capitalism, and Our Constitution!
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by Newt Gingrich:
The academic Left and its news
media and Hollywood acolytes cannot confront the horrifying record of Marxism’s
endless inhumanity.
This would be a good year to
begin educating all those who have been lied to by the American academic
infatuation with Marxism.
We need a TV series on Marxism
(and its evolution through Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, etc.) so
that Americans can come to grips with the horrors of centralized government and
the cost of tyranny.
The desire of those with power
to get more and more power seems insatiable.
Our Founding Fathers understood
this and designed the Constitution to distribute power so no one person could
establish a dictatorship. American exceptionalism is the opposite of Leninism.
Lenin used Marx analysis and rhetoric to justify
establishing a secret police-controlled totalitarian system. Within a
remarkably few years, he had centralized authority and begun to lock up,
torture, and kill his critics. When Lenin died, Stalin took his system of
centralized power and refined it with even more brutality. Literally millions
were starved to death as a matter of policy to break the middle-class farmers.
As an example of the grip Marxism had on the American news media and
intellectuals at the time, the New York Times reporter in Moscow conspired with
other reporters to avoid covering the famine and the mass deaths. Diana
West’s American Betrayal cites
the evidence of this deliberate cover-up.
Left-wing American academics
have always had a soft spot for Marxist regimes. One of the most widely read
economic textbook writers and the first American to win a Nobel Prize in
economics, Paul Samuelson, told college students in the 1961 edition of his best-selling Economics:
An Introductory Analysis textbook, that the Soviet Union’s economy was
growing faster than the United States’ economy (never true). This incorrect
information continued to appear in subsequent editions of the book for more
than two decades. Today the Left argues that Marxism didn’t fail in the Soviet
Union, only the way the Russians tried to implement it failed.
In fact, I was told by someone
who was at a dinner with Mikhail Gorbachev and a group of academics that when
one of them made that argument Gorbachev responded, “you would have to be an
American professor to believe that.”
Hitler studied the Lenin-Stalin
police state and modeled much of his own totalitarianism on their design. There
was a lot of the KGB in the design of the Gestapo. The central power of the
state and its authority over people was central to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and
Mao. The individual human disappeared in the search for historic power and
control.
We are about to witness a
fascinating experiment in whether Marxism with big data can work. Xi Jinping is
implementing a system by which Chinese people are heavily surveilled and assigned
citizenship ratings based
on their social media activity, patriotism, productivity, fitness routines, and
other behaviors. Those with low scores can be barred from commercial flights,
some trains, or from having their children enrolled in some schools.
Deng Xiaoping saved the Chinese
communists from popular rejection by advocating a system of free enterprise within
the communist structure after Mao’s death. He argued that unless the Chinese
economy was dramatically improved, China would not prosper. Further, he
understood that if the system didn’t reward the Chinese people, there would be
a widespread rejection of the Communist Party.
In his famous Southern Tour of
China in January and February of 1992, Deng made the case for free markets in
which productivity – not politics – decided winners and losers.
Now Xi Jinping is reversing the
market-oriented decentralization of Deng. As he made clear in his recent speech on Marx
(have your web browser translate it), he regards Marx – not Adam Smith – as the
central guide for China’s future.
If indeed Marxism has defeated
Deng Xiaoping in the corridors of Chinese power, we are in for a terrible
experiment in tyranny. I wrote about President Xi Jinping’s aggressive power
gathering in China, in my new book, Trump’s America: The Truth
About Our Nation’s Great Comeback. I will doubtlessly write
more on this in future columns, but for the moment, simply note that no
experiment in Marxism has come out well.
Centralized control leads people to lie and cheat. Lying and cheating leads to the leadership demanding more secret police with more rules and more punishment. The system becomes a downward spiral in which humans are sacrificed to the power of the few.
This is Marx’s legacy, and President
Xi should study it carefully before taking China off the path of
economic growth and onto the path of tyrannical growth.
by Mike Huckabee:
June 4th marks the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. That peaceful student pro-democracy protest is mostly remembered now for the indelible image of one brave, unarmed protester standing defiantly in front of a Chinese Army tank, as if daring it to roll over him.
But while we all honor the incredible courage of that protester who came to be known as “Tank Man,” the full story of Tiananmen Square is a horror story. It was one of the bloodiest government crackdowns in modern history. Snipers mowed down unarmed protesters, soldiers bayoneted the wounded, and armored vehicles crushed students who tried to block their paths with their bodies. China claims fewer than 300 people were killed, but the Chinese Red Cross estimates it was close to 2,700, while a recently declassified memo by Britain’s ambassador to China put the number of fatalities at 10,454. You can read more details at the link, but I warn you, you’d better steel yourself.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-beijing-tank-man-china-protests-facts-death-toll-a8382111.html
Since that time, China has considered the slaughter to be an embarrassment and done everything in its power to suppress any mention of it. "Tank Man" was later reported to be a 19-year-old archaeology student, Wang Weilin, but to this day, we don't know what became of him. The Tiananmen Square uprising is never mentioned in the media nor taught in schools, any mention of it is censored and those who dare to discuss it are punished. China would like nothing more than to erase it from the collective memory.
Thankfully, with the rise of the Internet, that kind of totalitarian control of information is becoming much harder. And with the election of Donald Trump, America’s leadership is no longer willing to go along with other nations’ unconscionable lies just to keep from making waves.
Even as Trump is negotiating on trade and North Korea with China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the occasion of the anniversary to publicly demand that China “make a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing; to release those who have been jailed for striving to keep the memory of Tiananmen Square alive; and to end the continued harassment of demonstration participants and their families.”
Amen to that. China’s leaders need to learn that a tank may be able to crush a human body, but it can’t crush the human spirit -- or the truth.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/mike-pompeo-to-china-make-a-full-public-accounting-of-tiananmen-square-massacre
But while we all honor the incredible courage of that protester who came to be known as “Tank Man,” the full story of Tiananmen Square is a horror story. It was one of the bloodiest government crackdowns in modern history. Snipers mowed down unarmed protesters, soldiers bayoneted the wounded, and armored vehicles crushed students who tried to block their paths with their bodies. China claims fewer than 300 people were killed, but the Chinese Red Cross estimates it was close to 2,700, while a recently declassified memo by Britain’s ambassador to China put the number of fatalities at 10,454. You can read more details at the link, but I warn you, you’d better steel yourself.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-beijing-tank-man-china-protests-facts-death-toll-a8382111.html
Since that time, China has considered the slaughter to be an embarrassment and done everything in its power to suppress any mention of it. "Tank Man" was later reported to be a 19-year-old archaeology student, Wang Weilin, but to this day, we don't know what became of him. The Tiananmen Square uprising is never mentioned in the media nor taught in schools, any mention of it is censored and those who dare to discuss it are punished. China would like nothing more than to erase it from the collective memory.
Thankfully, with the rise of the Internet, that kind of totalitarian control of information is becoming much harder. And with the election of Donald Trump, America’s leadership is no longer willing to go along with other nations’ unconscionable lies just to keep from making waves.
Even as Trump is negotiating on trade and North Korea with China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the occasion of the anniversary to publicly demand that China “make a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing; to release those who have been jailed for striving to keep the memory of Tiananmen Square alive; and to end the continued harassment of demonstration participants and their families.”
Amen to that. China’s leaders need to learn that a tank may be able to crush a human body, but it can’t crush the human spirit -- or the truth.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/mike-pompeo-to-china-make-a-full-public-accounting-of-tiananmen-square-massacre
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