Communists killed 148 million people in the last century. The Cold War ended Soviet Communism. Communist China still oppresses hundreds of millions. How can America – founded on individual liberty, “land of the free and home of the brave” – now be awash in Communist rhetoric? Shockingly, that is where we are.
From Colorado and Minnesota to New York and Maine, rudderless, dependent, and often violent Communists push class warfare, property taking, and far-left ideology.
Last week, on May 1, 600 Communist-affiliated groups took to the streets. The network – worth $2 billion, partly financed by an American in Beijing – has produced 3000 protests, crowds with “hammer and sickle” symbols, sobering.
The Rocky Mountain Voice reports: “At the center of the May Day mobilization …is a network of communist, socialist, Marxist and other far-left organizations… Democratic Socialists of America … People’s Forum, Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, and Code Pink… funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham …promoting the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.”
They are pushing to seize property, punish the rich, raise communism to defeat “MAGA.” Leaflets of the “Revolutionary Communist Party” called to end the “capitalist imperialist system,” a chilling throwback to Stalinist violence.
In New York, now led by a neo-communist mayor, the “Maoist Communist Union” urged protestors to join the “anti-imperialist contingent.” Local Minnesota reporting: “Communist and socialist groups called for a revolution … denounced capitalism and pushed for the seizure of private property and the means of production,” a dramatic turn from past May Days.
Continuing: “Protesters on the ground outlined a range of demands, including rent caps tied to income, a reduced work week and the redistribution of wealth from billionaires,” with “well over 1,000 people” also pushing “immigrant rights.”
In Minnesota, as their beleaguered governor – under investigation for fraud –spoke to the Maine Democrat Party, protests included “the Communist Party of the USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),” many with “hammer and sickle.”
In Maine, the Democrat Party Convention featured fraud-plagued Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and leftist locals – many also under investigation – but a “former” Communist with a Nazi tattoo, now their leading Senate candidate.
For this to be happening at any time in American history, given the sacrifices past generations made for freedom, would be startling. For it to happen as the Nation faces existential challenges to the rule of law, border security, national security, and a social fraying from within, much of it pushed by the media, is especially worrisome.
Whether protestors call themselves communists, socialists, or any other name, the core philosophy – concentration of power, ending free markets, and subjugating individual liberties to total centralized control – would swiftly end the Republic.
As Winston Churchill observed, watching communism spread post-WWII: “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” As history shows, all freedoms are extinguished, ending “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
From Colorado and Minnesota to New York and Maine, we are not yet in a violent standoff with this leftist ideology, but humanity repeats its mistakes – unless alert enough to avoid them. We need to educate, deter, take this threat to individual liberty seriously, and – in the political realm – address it forcefully.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!
