Communism – It’s Back

RealClear Politics ^ | 27 Jul, 2026 | Kenin M. Spivak

[MtnClimber]

They’re baaack. “They” being communists, or for the academics, Marxists.

Hairsplitting.

Communism is the implementation of the ideology Karl Marx advanced in his 1848 thesis, “The Communist Manifesto.”

The resurgence started with intersectionality, cultural demands, and the redefinition of words like racism, gender, and homeless. Aided by funding from the Chinese Communist Party, and the growth of organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America, the far left added violence and dismantling capitalism. Today, radical leftists pursue the full communist agenda, fused with antisemitism and radical Islam.

Turn up your nose at the Red Menace, but during the 20th century, communists killed more than 90 million of their fellow countrypersons and instigated mass famines, incarceration, and economic hardships. Though the Red Scare of the 1950s has been derided by the intelligencia, decryption of Soviet-era documents obtained in the Venona Project confirms that the substantial majority of those accused of spying for the Soviet Union during this period were indeed guilty. The Soviet Union infiltrated American unions, media, and politics.

More recently, China has taken the lead in penetrating American institutions, co-opting universities and research facilities, and supporting radical left opposition to ICE, data centers, police, fossil fuels, America’s involvement in the Middle East, and other American social and political structures. According to the last U.S. Annual Threat Assessment, China has “increased [its] capabilities to conduct covert influence operations” and will “continue to expand its coercive and subversive malign influence activities to weaken the United States.”

The FBI under both Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed that “The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; marxism; neurotic

[MtnClimber]

Get ready for the struggle sessions.

[Texas Eagle]

Did it ever go away?

[Nateman]

The Communists are using Islam to win. In the direct conflicts between Islam and Communism, Islam has won. When the Communists succeeded in overthrowing Iran the Mozlems killed them first . Even the Soviet Union could not defeat a bunch of rag tag goat shaggers in Afghanistan.

Islam remains as the #1 enemy of mankind .

[No name given]

CCP influence! I knew it!

[No name given]

Nope.

[Carriage Hill]

BKMRK.

[Track9]

It’s good he’s referencing the Venona Project. Important history to be remembered.

[No name given]

True.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the chips and salsa brand of communism. Delivered to us by Dammammi’s pineapple caribbeaner princesses with a herd of Africans Somali and Ethiopian baboons thrown in for their almighty, DNC issued race cards.

[Wallace T.]

There is a school of thought that believes that the fall of Communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe was a managed collapse to weaken the West and NATO into disarmament. This school also believes that the Sino-Soviet split was a charade to encourage Western investment into Red China in order to build up a backward economy made worse by Mao's mismanagement. There were several defectors to the West in the 1980s who claimed that the Soviet plan was to stage a false collapse to make it appear that there was no more Communist menace. Some advocates of this line of thought are J.R. Nyquist, Trevor Loudon, Lee Wheelbarger, and "Jimmy from Brooklyn" (a frequent caller to New York based talk radio shows).

Whether or not they are correct can be disputed. What cannot be disputed are that Russia and China remain closely tied militarily and economically, the countries maintain strong ties with Marxist regimes like Cuba and Nicaragua, and they are the principal suppliers to the Islamist regime in Iran. Putin and the Russian elite have done a good job in convincing a portion of rightists, like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, that Russia has become a Christian and traditionalist country. Not since King Henry IV feigned conversion to Catholicism in order to rule France ("Paris is worth a mass") has a leader (in this case Putin) gained more traction by a religious conversion experience. At the same time, China has convinced many liberals and some conservatives that it is a capitalist country even though their post-Mao economic policy has been Lenin's New Economic Policy on a very massive scale. Under the NEP, the Communist retain control of the economy through permitting limited market economics while securing control over the largest industries and the financial markets.

[SuperLuminal]

No, it is not “back”...

It has never left and has been present as the controlling arm of the American education system since the 1970s...

Several decades of communists turning out thoroughly indoctrinated communists have led us to this point...

[USS Alaska]

The major difference between commies and nazi fascists was commies believed that gummint should own and control all means of production, while the nazis KNEW that private ownership {under the control of the nazis} was the best way to financial success.

They would allow private owners to run major companies, but had a hold on their families and therefore, control on product selection, ie weapons vs home goods.

It proved that during the 20th century the krauts were smarter than the vodka drinkers, but today, the krauts have the balls and brains of the trans people, which is why they will be doing, allah achbar in another 10 years.

The ruskies will stay stoned, but they won't be over run with mooselimbs because they will just kill them "Without Remorse".

I'm rooting for the vodka drinkers.

[xp38]

Very few leftists know of the fate of Tudeh party.

[brownsfan]

We let it happen. No way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Hang on comrades.

[bobbo666]

All collectivist polities are like paint on a spectrum of which paint is colored “white”. They are all white, they are all evil.

AS Rafal Ganowicz said, commies are not human. It is OK to kill.

[antidemoncrat]

If they still taught history:

“After taking power in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin killed at least 9 million people through mass murder, forced labor, and famine, but the true figure may be as high as 60 million.”

“Mao Zedong is estimated to be responsible for over 70 million deaths during his rule, with significant casualties occurring during events like the Great Leap Forward, which alone caused around 45 million deaths from starvation and overwork.

Would people still be supporting the rise of Communism in the US?

[Menes]

Same stuff over here, but it began somewhat earlier.

Still, it’s a different place, but the same horror 😔

[Toespi]

American men and women did NOT fight and die in wars against Communism around the world, fighting for others freedom, only to give it away. Every life and limb lost will have been for nothing, THIS can not stand.

[rktman]

Not taught honestly in schools and not much basis for kids/younger folks to see the failure. Some of us remember it all too well and have seen it up close. I vote NO!