{"id":2996,"date":"2019-11-06T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2023-10-16T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T20:14:23","slug":"communism-is-making-a-comeback-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2019\/11\/06\/communism-is-making-a-comeback-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Communism Is Making a Comeback: Here\u2019s How to Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It\u2019s a time to celebrate freedom\u2019s victory over communist tyranny. It\u2019s also the best time to ask: Do Americans still oppose communism? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More young Americans also view capitalism and communism as equally violent. Never mind that free enterprise has lifted billions of people from poverty to prosperity, while communism has a track record of misery and murder. In the 20th century alone, communism killed at least 100 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At the time of publishing, Marion Smith was executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published in the<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article237089274.html\"> Miami Herald<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has thrown as many as 3 million Muslim Uighurs into 21st-century gulags. It is also destroying Christian churches and stifling other faiths. Worst of all, China is using technology to build the world\u2019s largest surveillance state. 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