Harvard student swims against the Communist tide

Thanks to the sympathetic views of Communism presented in textbooks and widely shared among academics, it is unsurprising that young people are completely ignorant of the evils of Communism.  One young Harvard graduate is aware of the danger this poses:

“After spending four years on a campus saturated with Marxist memes and jokes about communist revolutions, my classmates will graduate with the impression that communism represents a light-hearted critique of the status quo, rather than an empirically violent philosophy that destroyed millions of lives.

Statistics show that young Americans are indeed oblivious to communism’s harrowing past. According to a YouGov poll, only half of millennials believe that communism was a problem, and about a third believe that President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who killed 20 million. If you ask millennials how many people communism killed, 75 percent will undershoot.”

Read the full article in the Harvard Crimson