New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 45
Know what the Woke Marxists really don’t want? Anti-Communist education in our schools. They do not want our children to learn about the true history of Communism and its atrocities. They do not want our population to be able to recognize Communism for what it is, regardless of what it’s called. We can know that’s true not only because we have such thoroughly “redwashed” education in this country, which avoids teaching about Communism honestly, but because the Democratic Party in Virginia just went all-out to stop that state from adopting curriculum to this purpose, saying it would be potentially “racist” and encourage “anti-Asian hate.” Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets to learn why one of the most valuable strategic moves, short term and long term, is therefore pushing for and creating anti-Communist education for our children.
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I find it troubling that the teachers are willing to indoctrinate the students INTO Socialism/Communism but are unwilling for the students to know what the consequences of that would be. Why hide it if it is so wonderful?
James, I’m having a hard time finding reliable resources about the truth about communism. Conservative histories often just give a flippant “It’s bad, trust us,” while the communists explain, “It’s not that bad, every system has problems.” The end result being everything basically being red-washed. As I try to develop something for my own homeschool and our friends, can I get any recommendations for books or resources (besides your excellent podcast,) that are honest and thorough?
Thanks!
Some of the books/authors that I think provide a good look at the history of Communism are: the work of Orlando Figes and Robert Conquest and Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” (though that’s not an easy read); also Yuri Slezkine’s “House of Government” is excellent and interesting and LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng, which is a great memoir written by a woman imprisoned during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
James Lindsay is a one-man army!
Concur. I can’t recommend Conquest and Solzhenitsyn highly enough.
“The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression”
(Le Livre Noir du Communisme)
Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Margolin
Edited by Mark Kramer
Translated by Jonathan Murphy
1999
(October 1999, Harvard University Press English translation)
free pdf, text, etc. versions:
https://archive.org/details/BlackBookOfCommunism
brief descriptions/reviews of book:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674076082&content=reviews
“The Black Book of Communism] consists of scholarly yet readable (and superbly translated) essays, some based on recently opened Soviet archives, and covers the communist revolutions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Cuba… The Black Book [is] a most important volume of contemporary history produced by a group of French Sovietologists… On finishing this magnificent volume, it is impossible not to see that in three-quarters of a century Soviet communism had left nothing behind except death and destruction.”
Communism “has problems” means 150 million deaths in genocides and famines.
I think it’s interesting that James has a tendency to advocate propaganda tactics similar to the ones used by the Critical Theorists. They have “anti-racism” and he has “anti-Communism.”
I would prefer the “right” or conservatives to take a more positive approach to their propaganda, their educational campaigns, their ads, their documentaries. In other words, “pro-freedom,” “pro-human rights;” anything that will reduce real igonrance and encourage more people to use reason instead of emotion to make their decisions.
I don’t see a problem with calling it what it is. Anti-Communist. We need true anti-Communist education because Communism has infiltrated all of our educational institutions and our government, and if we don’t call it out by name, we can’t expect people to learn to recognize it and reject it.
We also need to teach what Fascism really is, because people throw that word around when they clearly don’t understand it at all. The Left calls the Right Fascist, and all the Right can do is yell back, “no, you’re the real Fascists!” and neither side knows what the fuck they are talking about.
I hope James does a podcast on what Fascism is and what it isn’t, and one about National Socialism vs Communism derived from Socialism and Bolshevism.
In 1947 I was in fourth grade when my teacher told the class about communism. We were a few years after WWII and we were told there is another existential and dangerous threat to our Country and our freedom as bad as the one we had just defeated. It frightened me, and what she said was true. In that year the Russians closed access to Berlin, resulting in the historical Air Lift. Also in that year the Russians exploded their first A-bomb.
Through the years I have asked school officials why students were not educated on the threat of communism, and never received a reasonable answer.
Florida and Arizona now have anticommunist education requirements. Every state, every school in the U.S. should do the same, because now the threat is VERY REAL.