4 Ways to Inoculate Your Children Against Marxism

“They include innocent Ukrainians starved to death in Stalin’s Great Famine or Russians killed in Stalin’s purges; Lithuanians and Latvians and Estonians loaded onto cattle cars and deported to Arctic death camps of Soviet communism. They include Chinese killed in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; Cambodians slain in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields; East Germans shot attempting to scale the Berlin Wall in order to make it to freedom; Poles massacred in the Katyn Forest and Ethiopians slaughtered in the ‘Red Terror’; Miskito Indians murdered by Nicaragua’s Sandinista dictatorship; and Cuban balseros who drowned escaping tyranny.”
This horrific record doesn’t include the countless millions who were imprisoned, tortured, or saw their dreams and potentialities ruined by Marxism. Yet not only do countries such as China and North Korea remain communist, but here in the West—where we should know better by now—we have professors, teachers, corporate personnel, politicians, and ordinary citizens who salute the Red Star. They may not answer to being called Marxists, but they go along with the movement.
Teach those words from our Declaration of Independence to your children. Explain that no government can grant or take away their unalienable rights—that they are a core part of what it means to be human.
Teach your children about the men and women who built this country, who fought against injustice where they found it, and who loved freedom. Teach them early on the stories of American explorers, scientists, soldiers, poets, and all the others whose work and sacrifices gave us the privileges we enjoy today.
Teach them that liberty and its many benefits demand responsibility. Do not let them confuse, as so many do today, liberty with license. Liberty means having the freedom to do the right thing, not simply to do as we wish. Responsibility implies duty, the obligation to be accountable for our actions and to step up when necessary and defend our rights as a free people.
Do these things with love, and the torch of American liberty will never be extinguished.