25 Million Communists in America - 43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably.

35 years after the fall of the USSR the first official Communist DSA member, who admired Stalin, will likely be headed to Congress for the next term, in defiance of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and the Communist Control Act. But who is out there voting for Communists?

Despite the countless millions dead at the hands of the Communist regimes, a significant portion of the electorate has a positive view of Communism as a political movement.

A recent Cato poll shows that more members of Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, have a positive view of Communism than those who have a negative view with around a third splitting each way. Some of this can be attributed to social media propaganda, the educational system and popular culture and helps explain the young activists flocking to the DSA.

43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably and only 29% rate it unfavorably making it clear that the higher educational system isn’t just broken, it’s actively recruiting the next generation into extremism, domestic terrorism and totalitarian ideologies of the most terrible kind. This tracks with other polls showing campus support for violence and suppression of free speech.

The ‘Very Favorable’ rating for Communism of 15% by Gen Z and 13% for millennials is in sharp contrast to the 7% rating for Gen X and 2% rating for Baby Boomers who were once seen as the most radical generation. The Communist Party in the 1950s had only 50,000 official members while the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) which is run by Marxist and Communist caucuses already has more than double that many members.

Edgar Hoover’s estimates of Communists and fellow travelers stood at under half a million. The level of “very positive” supporters for Communism among Gen Z is already projected to stand at 10 million, another 9 million or so for Gen Z, another 4.5 million for Gen X and another 1.3 million for the Baby Boomers for a combined projected total of over 25 million Communists.

And that’s only counting those who are “very favorable” to Communism, not the additional 35 million who are only “somewhat favorable” to the murderous totalitarian ideology making for a total of 60 million Americans who are positively disposed towards Communism.

The youngest generation tends to have the most radical politics and produces the largest share of Communist, Nazi and Islamist recruits, but there are other indicators as well.

27% of those who define themselves as ‘liberals’ are also either very or somewhat favorably disposed towards Communism: making a further mockery of the term liberal. 29% of Democrat men, 21% of Democrat women and 22% of Kamala Harris voters are also favorable towards Communism.

Demonstrating once again that at least part of the problem is the extended educational system, postgrads are the educational group with the highest level of support for Communism. Their 16% “very favorable” rating for Communism exceeds that of even Gen Z.

Government employees are among the most positively disposed towards Communism with 14% “very favorable” towards Communism and 17% somewhat favorably disposed so that 31% or nearly a third of government employees have a positive view of Communism.

A few generations ago we would have seen that as an urgent national security crisis. Now it just helps explain why our system works so badly and why the bureaucracy is so radical.

While some women have been overrepresented in the ranks of the radicals, men at 26% are far more likely to view Communism positively than women are at only 15%. (This may however be partially balanced by the longer lifespans of women and the shorter lifespans of men.)

At 17%, white people have the lowest support for Communism of any group, while at 37%, black people have the highest rate, with Hispanics at 30%, falling in the middle. The 17% of black people ‘very favorable’ towards Communism is not surprising as Communists had targeted the black community over a hundred years ago, organized some of the first race riots and continue to recruit heavily in the black community.

Communists traditionally used to begin their addresses with “workers and peasants”, but Communism in America doesn’t have much rural appeal. 30% of city dwellers view Communism positively while only 14% of people in rural and 17% of people in suburban areas do. That’s why despite the flannel and gimme cap, Graham Platner is failing among non-college rural voters.

Dense, diverse urban environments with lots of students and young people are the most fertile ground for Communism, which helps explain recent DSA victories in New York City, but suggests that it will have limited headway outside a limited number of areas in the country.

Considering the radical foreign composition of the DSA’s push centering around foreign nationals like Zohran Mamdani, Dariazila Avila Chevalier, Melat Kiros and others, one might have expected Communism to be an immigrant problem, but Americans born to American parents are more susceptible to Communism (22%) compared to the children of immigrants (21%) and immigrants (17%) reflecting the reality that younger generations of Americans have no clue what Communism is while a number of immigrants came to America from countries that were ravaged by Communism. As the son of a refugee from Communism, I have insights into Communism that all too many younger Americans just don’t have as part of their history.

The bad news for the Democrats from these statistics is that Communism has become all too popular among the demographic groups that the party has come to depend on, leftists, younger voters, students, urbanites, black people and the overly educated.

The Democratic Party alienated much of its working class base, southern white people disappeared, so did rural voters in general, and non-college voters, leaving an electorate prone to leftist extremism and a party machinery that had lost the ability to push back against it.

It’s no coincidence that the rise of the ‘Berniecrats’ accompanied the ‘Obamaization’ of the party and the loss of the rural and the working class base. Every political cycle, Democrats have become more radicalized, more prone to extremist ideology, and Socialists, Marxists and even Communists are their next steps on the road from democracy to tyranny.

Unless the Democrats break the cycle of extremism, theirs will be a Communist Party.

Many commenters have posited various starting points for this New Communist Revolution in the USA. Please allow me to show the entire arc, the grand sweep, starting around 1890.

The roots of radical left influence in America run deeper than many realize. Even before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the 1890s witnessed explosive labor unrest during the Gilded Age. Rapid industrialization, harsh working conditions, extreme poverty, and economic crises — especially the Panic of 1893 — fueled major strikes and growing radicalism.

Homestead Strike (1892) — Carnegie Steel workers clashed with Pinkerton detectives in Pennsylvania; several killed.
Pullman Strike (1894) — Nationwide railroad strike led by Eugene V. Debs; President Cleveland sent federal troops. Debs was jailed and later became a leading socialist.
Broader Movement — The Haymarket Affair aftermath (1886) still lingered, radicalizing many. The People’s Party (Populists) fused agrarian discontent with socialist-leaning demands such as nationalization of railroads.

I highly recommend the Netflix documentary Theodore Roosevelt to understand what extreme poverty, child labor, brutal working conditions, and injustice were like during that era. You will get a sense of the roots of this movement.

Socialist and anarchist groups, often influenced by European immigrants, gained footholds in urban labor movements. Figures like Edward Bellamy popularized utopian socialist ideas that influenced progressives. This turbulent decade proved that collectivist ideologies could take root in the United States long before Soviet agents or the cultural strategies of the 1960s — setting a precedent that later waves of organizers would build upon.

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to address these social issues and labor unrest at the federal level. While he was not a communist, as a leading Progressive cum Socialist he was instrumental in laying foundational groundwork that later made it easier for collectivist and radical ideas to take root in America.

During his presidency (1913–1921), Wilson expanded federal power through the Federal Reserve Act, the progressive income tax, the Federal Trade Commission, and wartime measures like the Espionage and Sedition Acts that suppressed dissent. He championed expert-driven bureaucracy and viewed the Constitution as outdated for modern governance. His administration normalized centralized administrative control and government intervention in the economy and society — ideas that future progressives and radicals would build upon. While rooted in native American progressivism rather than Marxism, Wilson helped shift the country away from limited government toward the kind of managerial state that later ideological movements could more easily infiltrate.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia sent shockwaves across the world. In its wake, communist ideas and operatives began arriving in the United States. They gained significant influence at Columbia University. Whittaker Chambers attended Columbia starting around 1920–1921. In his memoir Witness, he described the 1920s campus atmosphere as one of intellectual and moral crisis amid post-World War I disillusionment.

He observed a growing radicalism among students and faculty, with socialism and Marxism gaining traction as responses to perceived failures of Western capitalism, war, and bourgeois society. Chambers himself shifted from conservative views (he had campaigned for Calvin Coolidge) toward communism while at Columbia. He was influenced by literary circles, figures like Mark Van Doren, and the broader sense of a "dying world" needing revolutionary change.

By the mid-1920s, he saw communism as offering faith, purpose, and a solution to historical crisis (sound familiar?) — leading him to drop out and formally join the Communist Party in 1925. He later viewed this period as the beginning of his seduction by a secular faith that promised salvation through politics but ultimately delivered terror.

In essence, Chambers portrayed Columbia in the 1920s as a microcosm of Western civilization’s spiritual void, where communism filled the vacuum left by fading traditional values. Note that this was soon after the Soviet communist revolution.

In 1954, Congress passed the Communist Control Act (CCA), which outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and stripped it of all rights, privileges, and immunities. The law declared the Party to be an instrument of a foreign conspiracy dedicated to overthrowing the U.S. government. Although largely symbolic and rarely enforced in later decades, it reflected the intense anti-communist mood of the McCarthy era.

The CCA was never meaningfully enforced for several key reasons:

Constitutional problems — It was widely viewed as vague, overbroad, and in conflict with the First Amendment (freedom of speech and association) and Fifth Amendment (due process and self-incrimination). Courts struck down or limited attempts to apply it.
Practical and strategic opposition — Even J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI opposed it, fearing it would drive the Communist Party underground and make surveillance harder. The Justice Department under Eisenhower largely ignored it and never pursued major prosecutions.
Later developments — Key provisions were effectively nullified by Supreme Court rulings (e.g., protecting ballot access and unemployment benefits). Most remaining parts were repealed in 1968 and 1993.

In reality, it was just political theater, not a workable law, and it quickly became a dead letter. The Communist Party USA continued to exist openly (though tiny and irrelevant) into modern times.

With the post-World War II economic boom in the USA, the communists knew they could never succeed here with calls for violent revolution ("Workers of the world UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"). So they turned to a new strategy — the Long March Through the Institutions.

The Long March is a strategy for achieving cultural and political revolution by gradually infiltrating and transforming key societal institutions from within — rather than through violent overthrow. The term was coined in the 1960s by German New Left activist Rudi Dutschke, inspired by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (cultural hegemony) and Mao Zedong’s Long March. In homage to the Chinese communist victory, this Western New Left version became known as the "Long March Through the Institutions."

Instead of storming the barricades, activists should:

Enter and rise within education, media, arts, government, corporations, and civil society. COMPLETE
Slowly shift these institutions’ values, narratives, and personnel toward radical leftist goals. COMPLETE
Create a new cultural “common sense” so radical ideas become normalized. IN PROGRESS

This approach was a marked shift from violent overthrow of the system (like the communist revolutions in Russia in 1917 and China in 1949) to a patient, generational transformation of culture that would eventually make the political power shift inevitable. It is named in honor of Mao’s "Long March" (1934–1935), a grueling 6,000-mile military retreat by the Chinese Communist Red Army to escape encirclement by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces. It became a legendary founding myth of Chinese communism, as roughly 100,000 communists marched across harsh terrain; only about 8,000–10,000 survived, but Mao emerged as the undisputed leader.

Because it is incremental and persistent, it has been the foundational concept of cultural Marxist thought since the 1960s.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet journalist and propagandist Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov became a well-known anti-communist lecturer and author and warned us clearly about their revised strategy. Many of us have watched his 1984 interview with G. Edward Griffin (if you haven't seen it, you should watch it -- highly recommended).

He defected to the West in 1970, was debriefed by the CIA and resettled in Canada under the new identity Tomas David Schuman.

He is best known for detailing the Soviet "ideological subversion" — a long-term psychological warfare strategy with four stages:

Demoralization (15–20 years): Erosion of values through education, media, religion, and culture. COMPLETE
Destabilization (2–5 years): Undermining economy, defense, and social structures. IN PROCESS
Crisis: Period of upheaval allowing power seizure. PLANNED
Normalization: Acceptance of the new oppressive order. FUTURE

He warned about "useful idiots" (idealists who advance the cause but are later discarded). These are the very people this article talks about. The "useful idiots" never know that they are nothing but tools until they are lined up against the wall.

Bezmenov died in 1993 and his lectures gained popularity online, especially regarding his discussions of disinformation and cultural influence.

The long march through the institutions has borne fruit: decades of ideological subversion in education, media, and culture have produced generations who know little of communism’s horrors and much of its false promises. Unless this trend is reversed, the managerial state Wilson helped build may yet complete the USA transformation into the USSA.

Students in the USA have been brainwashed with curriculum provided by the NEA & the CIA filled with Communist propaganda since mid to late 1960. Students have been “dumbed down” on purpose and by design. No Administration or Congress has corrected this planned destruction of our education system.

I am proud to say that I helped with the report “A Nation At Risk” in 1982-1983 after I met a staffer in Sen Orrin Hatch’s office who accepted a position in DC with the Dept of Education under Terrel Bell. Terrel Bell was the secretary of education in the cabinet of President Ronald Reagan. I also personally provided stacks of documentation to Ross Perot exposing what was being taught in the Plano, Tx public school system and across the nation. Merv Stauffer, “Mr. Perot’s right-hand man,” called me to discuss the documentation. Afterwards, “Ross Perot became active in public education in 1983 when he was appointed to a committee to update Texas’s public education system, focusing on measurable outcomes. He believed in improving education through accountability & effective management practices.”

I urge you to read “A Nation At Risk” issued under President Reagan in 1983. Since 1983, every Congress knew that US education was drastically failing our children & not one Admin has fixed the disaster that is the US Education System.

An Open Letter to the American People: A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform

https://www.edweek.org/education/an-open-letter-to-the-american-people-a-nation-at-risk-the-imperative-for-educational-reform/1983/04

https://e4e.org/sites/default/files/a_nation_at_risk_1983.pdf

The following is a portion of the text of the final report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, an 18-member panel appointed by Sec of Education Terrel H. Bell to examine the American educational system and to recommend reforms. The commission, which was began its work in August 1981, based its findings on papers commissioned from a variety of experts; existing studies of education; letters from those volunteering their opinions about needed reforms; descriptions of notable educational programs; and testimony at eight meetings, six public hearings, two panel discussions, a symposium, and a series of meetings around the country.

” ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament. ...

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