Tag: communism

I Read ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for the First Time. Here’s What I Learned about Karl Marx

The Apple Book Store has a lot of classical eBooks that can be downloaded for free with choices that range from all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire through The Federalist Papers. One title that I recently discovered in their free library is “The Communist Manifesto.” Described as…


Chile’s Socialist President Ignites Controversy Within Weeks of Taking Office

When Gabriel Boric, head of the Left-wing Social Convergence party, became Chile’s new president on March 11 both his supporters and opponents knew he’d be a harbinger of change. Though after less than a month in office some of the actions that have transpired under the new administration have astonished people. On March 25, an…


Capitol Report (March 22): Chinese Communist Party Spies Operating in America; Russia May Launch Cyber Attack on US

Tuesday saw the first direct Q&A between senators and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. How did she respond to a wide range of issues, from abortion to her sentencing record? There were also some unexpected fireworks in the hearing room. The idea of communist spies among us is not a theme of a Hollywood movie, it…


Communism Seeks to Corrupt Churches to Bring Down America: Trevor Loudon

Communism is an “evil religion” seeking to undermine American society, according to anti-communist activist and researcher Trevor Loudon. “They [communists] say they’re atheists, but really, they’re supporting Satan,” Loudoun recently told EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. Loudon is also a contributor to The Epoch Times and hosts the “CounterPunch” program on EpochTV. This is because Satan’s…


University of Florida Strips Marx’s Name From Library Study Room

The University of Florida has removed the name of “Communist Manifesto” author Karl Marx from a library study room after it gained media attention. According to a March 7 report by Campus Reform, the public university had one of its 14 group study rooms at the George A. Smathers Libraries named “Karl Marx Study Room.”…


Marxism Hidden in Many Forms in US: Trevor Loudon

During a recent TV interview, Trevor Loudon said that Marxism is “extremely widespread” in the United States, and is embodied within so many forms, such as Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, the LGBTQ movement, the environmental movement, or pushing for equity—yet may go unnoticed by the average person. Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and…


Can We ‘Contain’ the Enemies of Liberty?

Commentary In post-World War II Western intellectual circles, many were intrigued with the ideological vision of “socialism,” but few understood the ruthless ambitions of communist dictators. One man who had first-hand knowledge about Joseph Stalin’s aggressive inclinations was an American Foreign Service officer, George F. Kennan. In 1946, writing as Mr. X, while he was…


Capitol Report (March 11): US Warns of Possible Chemical Weapons Attack

President Joe Biden announced action to cripple Russia’s economy. The United States and its allies are stripping Russia of its most favored nation trade status. Biden’s also banning imports of other Russian products. As Biden takes more steps to isolate Russia, what will the future of U.S.-Russia relations look like? We pose that question to…


The End of the Unipolar Moment

Commentary The defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in World War II ushered in the Cold War era. For the four and a half decades between the defeat of fascism and the collapse of communism, global affairs unfolded within a bipolar backdrop of “mutually assured” destruction between the two nuclear superpowers: the…


‘Communism Is an Evil Religion,’ Says Trevor Loudon, as Socialism Seeks to Influence Religion and Society in America

During the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) I spoke with Trevor Loudon, an expert on socialism and communism. His new film, “Enemies Within the Churches,” details the corruption communism has brought into Christianity. We discussed how the Chinese Communist Party seeks to subvert America and to bring down the moral fabric of this society….