As American support for Marxism rises across the country, House Republican leadership held a roundtable with survivors of communism to warn the American public of the true horrors of the communist and socialist ideologies.
Chair of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., questioned the new Democratic Socialists of America agenda while emphasizing that American voters should listen to the testimonies of those displaced because of Marxism before deciding to support the ideology.
“Look at what the Democrats are doing, they are electing democratic socialism,” she said. ”I don’t know what they call them, they put a pretty little name on it, but they’re electing communism.”
“Sadly, too many people born here in the United States don’t know what it’s like in other countries,” she continued. “They don’t know what it’s like. They don’t appreciate, that we’re here in the United States, with the freedoms it delivers, with the opportunities that they have.”
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis added that “nobody can deny that this guy’s [New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani] a communist. I mean, literally, this campaign platform is right out of Karl Marx’s communist playbook.”
During the roundtable, Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who fled the Cuban communist regime as a child, opened his remarks by questioning why Marxists aim to seize one’s property.
“Because one of the first things the communists did was ask you to hand over your guns,” he said. “Why did communists try to control the schools, and then, like, church? Because they tried to control the message.”
Daniel DiMartino, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who escaped communist Venezuela at a young age, echoed Gonzalez’s remarks, adding that American voters who trust the DSA think they’re voting for socialist systems like that of Norway, but in reality are voting for the communist disaster that is Venezuela.
“What concerns me is that because people buy this lie, think they’re voting for what Norway, Sweden, or Denmark does, when they’re actually voting for Venezuela,” DiMartino said.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who also escaped communist Cuba during his childhood, went on to add that those who describe themselves as “democratic socialist” instead of communist are only pretending to be anything but a communist.
“Democratic socialism is a buzzword for communist,” he said. “I’ve heard this before. If you fall for it, in the end, you will pay for it with one thing. Your freedom.”
“Saying democratic socialism is about guaranteeing, guaranteeing housing, healthcare, and transit,” Gimenez added, is wrong.
Using his experience watching sympathetic communist rulers, Gimenez then compared modern-day Marxist leaders in the United States to those he witnessed, such as Cuba’s revolutionary communist dictator Fidel Castro.
“Listen to the language you use when the national media isn’t pressing in for a modern answer,” he said. “I’ve heard the leaders reject the communist label before. I have heard leaders promise that the government only wants to help working people before. I’ve heard promises of greater equality, more benefits, better future. “
“These promises sound very familiar, especially to me, okay? Castro’s revolution was actually supported by the human people, not because he was a communist, but because he was there to free the people from a dictatorship. And he made a lot of promises,” Gimenez continued.
“In the early days of the revolution, Castro framed his movement, not as a radical conscious takeover, but as a uniquely Cuban, populous effort, he famously declared,” the congressman continued.
Gimenez then said that communist like Zohran Mamdani love to pretend like they’re not communist. Again, something he’s heard before.
“In 1959, just months after taking control over the country, Castro went on ‘Meet the Press’ and told Americans and the world that he was not a communist.”
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