Leftist protesters staged a minuscule demonstration at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. last weekend. As part of the event, several people began to flip off the monument, which was created to remember the millions of people who died because of the dangerous ideology.
Here are two tweets that went viral across social media:
— PARTISANNEXTDOOR (@BlackAutonomist) March 26, 2017
with the lads at the victims of communism memorial pic.twitter.com/fsFxcSxup5
— YHWH (@TankMaster5000) March 26, 2017
Since they are likely products of the government education system, these protesters are unaware about the atrocities committed by communist regimes. Whether it was actual violence committed by the likes of Joseph Stalin or the economic policies of Mao Tse-Tung that led to millions of deaths, communism is something that should never be championed.
Indeed, many North Americans who promote communism have never lived under a communist dictatorship. If they spent just one month, or even one week, under communism they would scream in terror and cry for their safe space.
The vulgar event also confirmed the results of a study last year that highlighted a growing number of millennials who favor socialism/communism over capitalism (SEE: Scary Study: U.S. millennials rejecting capitalism in favor of socialism, communism).
According to a 2016 study by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), in partnership with research and data firm YouGov, just 37 percent maintain an unfavorable view of communism. The study found that close to half (42 percent) of Generation Z would vote for a socialist, while 21 percent would cast a ballot for a communist. Moreover, about two-thirds (64 percent) of millennials agree with the Marxist statement: “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Here is legendary free market economist Thomas Sowell wrote in 2012 (emphasis ours):
In theory, confiscating the wealth of the more successful people ought to make the rest of the society more prosperous. But when the Soviet Union confiscated the wealth of successful farmers, food became scarce. As many people died of starvation under Stalin in the 1930s as died in Hitler’s Holocaust in the 1940s.
How can that be? It is not complicated. You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth — and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated. Farmers in the Soviet Union cut back on how much time and effort they invested in growing their crops, when they realized that the government was going to take a big part of the harvest. They slaughtered and ate young farm animals that they would normally keep tending and feeding while raising them to maturity.
Oh, and the hero for socialists and communists everywhere, Karl Marx, never worked a day in his life. He was an alcoholic, cheater, wife-beater, gambler and moocher. What a guy to look up to!
Imagine if communism was enacted in the United States. Where would these millennials get their Starbucks, iPhones and hair gel? Oh, the humanity!
–AM
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