Keeping Communism Down

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 9, 2009 | Allie Winegar Duzett

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Keeping Communism Down

Allie Winegar Duzett, November 9, 2009

November 9th is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even if news stations like CNN and ABC do not, other people worldwide will be celebrating this defeat of communism.

November 9th marked “the effective death of the Cold War,” Dr. Lee Edwards said at the Heritage Foundation Bloggers’ Briefing earlier this week. The Cold War was “a war which America participated in for forty-six years—it’s the reason why we fought in Korea, the reason we fought in Vietnam: fighting and opposing communism,” he explained, noting that most bloggers present were likely not old enough to remember the days of the Cold War.

“What is communism?” Dr. Edwards asked. “If you pick up Webster’s Dictionary, you’ll see that it is defined as a social system, and there’s no mention there of the gulag, or of tyrants like Lenin and Stalin and Mao… Communism is still with us,” he said.

Indeed, there are currently five communist countries: Cuba, China, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. This means that over 1.4 billion people are living under communism today—over twenty percent of the total population of the world. Dr. Edwards explained that this is “not by their choice,” stating that “if [the people living under communism] were given a choice, it would be going in a different direction.”...

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Obama doesn’t want to keep communism down. He wants to resurrect its dark power under the guises of social equality and government regulation of our economy.

His absence at the anniversary celebration speaks volumes. He doesn’t share our celebration of the fall of communism, he grieves its fall from power. Additionally, his narcissism won’t allow him to get beyond being refused the privilege of speaking at the gate during his campaign.