Florida to teach public school students about communism

Florida school students will receive instruction on the history of communism after a bill was signed into law on Wednesday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed that will require public schools to implement age-appropriate teaching lessons on the history of communism, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year.

"We've seen what's happened on the island of Cuba over these many decades, because of totalitarian ideology, communist ideology, and you've wrecked a society, because of that tyranny," DeSantis said.

Here’s another Communist “true believer.”

She stupidly even liked Nazis until they asked her about her Jewish heritage.
And, like Maltz, (above) the Commies seem to worship Hollywood.

Lillian Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, and screenwriter known for her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party.

As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes. Hellman’s writing accuracy was challenged in 1979 on The Dick Cavett Show, when author Mary McCarthy said of Hellman’s memoirs that “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

Hellman brought a defamation suit against McCarthy and Cavett, and during the suit, investigators found errors in Hellman’s Pentimento. They said that the “Julia” section of Pentimento, which had been the basis for the Oscar-winning 1977 movie of the same name, was actually based on the life of Muriel Gardiner.[2] Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prominent war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as Ernest Hemingway’s third wife, said that Hellman’s remembrances of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War were wrong. McCarthy, Gellhorn and others accused Hellman of lying about her membership in the Communist Party and of being a committed Stalinist.[3]

The defamation suit was unresolved at the time of Hellman’s death in 1984; her executors eventually withdrew the complaint.

Lillian Florence Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Jewish family. She studied for two years at New York University and then took several courses at Columbia University.

In 1929, she traveled around Europe for a time and settled in Bonn to continue her education. There, Hellman had an initial attraction to a Nazi student group that she perceived advocated “a kind of socialism” ......until their questioning about her Jewish ties made their antisemitism clear, and she returned immediately to the United States.Years later she wrote, “Then for the first time in my life I thought about being a Jew.”

Beginning in 1930, for about a year she earned $50 a week as a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, writing summaries of novels and periodical literature for potential screenplays.[9] Although she found the job rather dull, it created many opportunities for her to meet a greater range of creative people while she became involved in more political and artistic scenes.

On May 1, 1935, Hellman joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Dashiell Hammett, Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I.F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, and Arthur Miller. (Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers.)

Also in 1935, Hellman joined the struggling Screen Writers Guild, devoted herself to recruiting new members, and proved one of its most aggressive advocates. One of its key issues was the dictatorial way producers credited writers for their work, known as “screen credit.”

Hellman was a member of the Communist Party from 1938 to 1940, by her own account written in 1952, “a most casual member. I attended very few meetings and saw and heard nothing more than people sitting around a room talking of current events or discussing the books they had read. I drifted away from the Communist Party because I seemed to be in the wrong place. My own maverick nature was no more suitable to the political left than it had been to the conservative background from which I came.”

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