America’s Young Communists Really Believe
True Communism Has Never Been Tried
National Review,
by
Jim Geraghty
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/30/2025 12:50:30 AM
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal offered a deeply reported analysis of the young socialists who are fueling the Democratic Party’s lurch to the left in the past years, tracing it back to economic anxieties of the Great Recession. There’s an eye-opening description of a meeting of communists in Philadelphia:
On a recent evening, 15 comrades from the Northwest Philadelphia cell of the Revolutionary Communists of America gathered for their weekly meeting in a classroom at Thomas Jefferson University.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/30/2025 1:13:47 AM (No. 2010589)
The "bedwetters" gather at a "betwetting" university being taught by "bedwetting" professors
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/30/2025 1:33:45 AM (No. 2010591)
Eventually, with communism, you either kill it or be ruled by it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/30/2025 2:38:05 AM (No. 2010597)
That's kids for ya; doubting thomases to the core. Unless they DO it, it isn't real. Like most brats, they just need to rant and rave to fee-eel important.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/30/2025 3:37:01 AM (No. 2010605)
Ideology is very powerful and youth stupid,
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I suggest they read Animal Farm for starters, then try Lord of the Flies...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 9/30/2025 4:28:19 AM (No. 2010612)
Kiddies, go live in a Communist country for a few years, then come back and we will talk.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley 9/30/2025 5:15:51 AM (No. 2010619)
We lived under the threat of communism growing up. Stories from inside communist countries were common and terrifying. Nowadays, the teachers have no idea about the horrors communism brings. They grew up after it had largely fizzled.
I've noticed the youth are always looking for the quick easy answer to even the most complex problems, with no thought to the unintended consequences. "All you need to do is just ban guns". "All we need is a universal income". "All we need is to just get along". Simple minds, simple solutions.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Penelope27 9/30/2025 6:01:48 AM (No. 2010622)
It starts with teaching the children to hate this country. After that, communism is easy to believe in.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WinterParker 9/30/2025 6:14:28 AM (No. 2010625)
"meeting at Thomas Jefferson University" is funny.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/30/2025 7:12:40 AM (No. 2010646)
These are brainwashed robots. History and facts, logic and reason have no effect on them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smak90 9/30/2025 7:36:11 AM (No. 2010653)
The scary part is it's the ivy league schools who are producing the dumbest educated citizens for the highest cost of education possible. American universities are one of the biggest problems in this country.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mean Gene 9/30/2025 8:59:19 AM (No. 2010694)
Saw a 20-something guy wearing a "Che!" t-shirt the other day.
I put a copy of the photo of Che in Cuba shooting college girls one by one after these "useful idiots" had served their purpose but before they could be a threat to him and Castro.
Will today's useful idiots learn before they, too, are taken out and shot?
If you study history you don't need to repeat its mistakes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 9/30/2025 9:27:06 AM (No. 2010704)
P.T.Barnum astute.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/30/2025 9:40:01 AM (No. 2010721)
America's young communists should have to get a job, and live in communal apartments for a year.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Encore 9/30/2025 9:50:04 AM (No. 2010730)
These naive little toerags have never experienced life. I’ll wager they’ve never earned a living, never paid taxes, never owned anything of worth (anything they’d fear losing). Dangerous young minds.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/30/2025 10:09:23 AM (No. 2010739)
And if you keep looking hard, kids…..really really really hard…you’ll find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NamVet70 9/30/2025 10:34:30 AM (No. 2010752)
I'm pretty sure it was true communism that was tried in Cambodia. To get true communism they just killed the people they didn't think were true communists. That is how you get true communism.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ahpinion 9/30/2025 11:00:34 AM (No. 2010773)
Actually, Communism was tried in the U.S., by the Pilgrims. When they came on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, they decided to work the land on the “to each according to his needs” principle, and many starved to death. The Indians fed them, and now we have a national holiday, but afterwards, they divided the land to the families, and miraculously, they were able to feed themselves, and actually prospered.
Any system that requires a fight against most elements of human nature, is untenable, as we’ve seen.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 9/30/2025 11:05:02 AM (No. 2010777)
Ignorant, dangerous nutcases. True believers in the most hideous system which as caused the greatest number of deaths of any 'system' ever. Hundreds of millions died in the 20th century to prove that Communism is totally unworkable, and only produces mass death and mass misery.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/30/2025 12:00:54 PM (No. 2010797)
Totally Indoctrinated. Let them live in North Korea for 5 years, then check their brains!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
edgar 9/30/2025 1:46:09 PM (No. 2010837)
Ask them to define "real communism" and I bet the responses will demonstrate they haven't a clue what it means.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ronniethek 9/30/2025 6:22:57 PM (No. 2010944)
That’s an age old argument. If only….. it would have worked! Analogizes well when you look at the teachings of Jesus and the Catholic Church. If only… oops can’t say that truth too loudly either.
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