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To the editor: You write that communism has led to the deaths of tens of millions of people through brutal purges, starvation policies and war. (It's 2017. Being a communist shouldn't be a barrier to public employment, editorial, May 19)

In all fairness, cannot it also be said that capitalism has led to the death of millions of people through brutal wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and tens of thousands in totalitarian regimes in Chile and Brazil, as well as the two great world wars? Go back two centuries as capitalist expansion led to the deaths of millions of native American Indians and African slaves.

The list goes on, past and present: child laborers in third world factories, workers without protection and populations without healthcare. These are the fruits not only of communism and capitalism but also of tribal and nationalist competition.

Can the human species survive its instinctive contradictions? Not until we all abandon our hubris, our irrational and tribal ideologies, our greed and our addiction to violence.

Jay W. Friedman, Los Angeles

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The city of Ottawa, Canada will erect a large, bronze memorial to honorthe victims of communism. The $3 million project is expected to be completed in 2018, and was planned by the countrys former Conservative government.

Despite the fact that the monument will memorialize tens of millions who died over the last century (Stalin, for instance, is believed to have killed more people than Hitler. Similarly millions of Chinese died in Maos Great Leap Forward), someon the left are peeved about the new monument. The tankies are out in full force, demanding a memorial for the victims of capitalism, colonialism and the United States, instead.

Reddits Canada community erupted in a heated argumentin the comment thread under the news of the memorial.

I meant a government going after another political ideology, one user wrote. Thats McCarthyist-era. Its like whoever thought this up just fell asleep in 1960 and woke up today and doesnt understand why people arent still rallying against communists anymore.

Should we be creating a memorial to capitalism as well? wrote another. The British East India company (one of the early multinationals) killed an estimated 10 million Indians over ten years.

Whelp, just goes to show you that even a memorial honoring the death of millions will still have complainers.

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In February, California senator Janet Nguyen (R-Santa Ana), the countrys first Vietnamese-American state legislator, whose district includes more than 100,000 people of Vietnamese descent, wasremovedfrom the Senate chamber after objecting to the lionization of deceased former state assemblyman and senator Tom Hayden, acommunist collaboratorduring the Vietnam War. Nguyen was born in Saigon a year before the city fell to the North Vietnamese forces in 1975 and legally immigrated to the United States with her family four years later, settling in southern California.

When the posthumous lionization began of Haydens service of almost two decades in California state government, Nguyen was distressed. She knew Hayden as someone who had aided and given comfort to the communist enemy in her country of origin. She felt compelled to express the sentiments of her heavily refugee-populated district, whose families had suffered greatly because of North Vietnamese brutality. The community blames the U.S. anti-war movement for undermining the war effort and contributing to the eventual victory of the North Vietnamese communists.

During the Vietnam War in the 1960s,Hayden, a prominent and vocal voice for the North Vietnamese communists, had organized a campaign with Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy to cut off American aid to the existing government of South Vietnam and cooperate with the Vietcong and Khmer Rouge. Hayden traveled to southeast Asia numerous times during the conflict to strategize with the enemy on defeating Americas anti-communist plan. When reports came to light that American soldiers were being tortured in communist captivity, he proclaimed the reports to be propaganda. Hayden and Fonda notoriously weakened the morale of American POWs by participating in broadcasts for the North Vietnamese in which they accused American troops of war crimes.

After Haydens passing October 23, 2016, the California Senate held a ceremony five months later on February 20, 2017, honoring his service to the state legislature. California Democratic Party chairman John Burton praised the former senator as one of the great visionaries and as a guy with a lot of courage. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) crowed, He dedicated his life to the betterment of our state and our great country through the pursuit of peace, justice and equity. Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara)applaudedHayden for his street activism against the Vietnamese war.

These undue accolades proved to be too much for Nguyen, who is aware of the truth regarding Haydens anti-war pursuits. She left the chamber and, later, unsuccessfully attempted to gain approval to recess the session later in the week in remembrance of the one million Vietnamese who died because of the war and to speak about Haydens actions in Vietnam.

Although refused permission, Nguyen returned to the Senate four days later and gave her statement anyway, speaking first in Vietnamese and then English.

Mr. Hayden sided with a communist government that enslaved and/or killed millions of Vietnamese, including members of my own family, she said. Mr. Haydens actions are viewed by many as harmful to democratic values and hateful toward those who sought the very freedoms on which this nation is founded.

Regretfully, Senator Nguyen didnt get far with her statement, as she was chastised for being out of order, had her microphone cut off, and was ultimately removed from the California Senate floor. The following weekend, over 100 local Vietnamese Americans, who felt that the memory of their lost loved ones and the brutal assault on their country had been disrespected, attended arallyin support of the senator and her right to speak out against Haydens actions.

A week later, recognizing the public relations implications of dragging a Vietnam war refugee from the state Senate floor, de Leon attempted an apology that essentially excused Nguyens removal for violating chamber rules by citing thetimingof her remarks. However, this response appeared disingenuous, given that Nguyen was denied permission to speak and, instead, told to either post her comments online or provide them following adjournment, an apparent violation of Senate rules.

In May, once again, Nguyen was forced to act on her anti-communist beliefs whenAssembly Bill 22was introduced by California assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-San Francisco). The legislation amended an existing statute for removing a public employee who is knowingly a member of the Communist party or member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of any state by force or violence. Essentially, the bill would allow communists to work legally in California government. On May 10, the billpassedthe Assembly and was headed for a Senate vote.

Constituents from Nguyens district, often referred to as Little Saigon, were up in arms about A.B. 22. Many had lived under communist oppression and strongly protested the measure. With district support, Nguyen promptly launched a petition to oppose the legislation. Plans were readied in the local Vietnamese-American community to send protesters to Sacramento.

Claiming that his bill didnt endorse communism or encourage communism, Bonta maintained that he was protecting peoples rights and following constitutional precedents that made it illegal for government to fire employees due to their political affiliations, a claim that rang hollow for Nguyens constituents.

For now, it appears that Sen. Nguyens efforts and those of the community she represents succeeded in thwarting plans to allow those espousing communist ideologies to work in California government. On May 18, Bonta announced withdrawal of the bill and apologized to veterans and those who fled the communist regime in Vietnam. Nguyen must be commended for her valiant quest to stand up in the face of acclaim for a traitorous communist collaborator and for her actions to stop legislation that would have normalized communist ideology in the Golden State.

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Janet Levy, MBA, MSW, is an activist, world traveler, and freelance journalist who has contributed to American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Full Disclosure Network, FrontPage Magazine, Family Security Matters and other publications. She blogs at http://www.womenagainstshariah.com

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Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future without social class or formalized state structure, and with social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal.

Early forms of human social organization have been described as "primitive communism". However, communism as a political goal generally is a conjectured form of future social organization which has never been implemented. There is a considerable variety of views among self-identified communists, including Maoism, Trotskyism, council communism, Luxemburgism, and various currents of left communism, which are in addition to more widespread varieties. However, various offshoots of the Soviet and Maoist forms of MarxismLeninism comprise a particular branch of communism that had been the primary driving force for communism in world politics during most of the 20thcentury.

The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.

In 1925 he joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD). In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He worked as a volunteer in the communist publishing house Kmpfer-Verlag in Chemnitz. He became a member of the regional leadership of KJVD in Saxony. In 1932 he became editor of Junge Garde ('Young Guard').

With the National Socialist takeover in Germany, Verner went into exile. Towards the end of 1933, he became a member of the Scandinavian Bureau of the Young Communist International, and edited Jugendinternationale (the German-language publication of the Young Communist International). In 1934 he shifted to Paris, were he became editor-in-chief of Junge Garde (now published in exile), a position he held until the spring of 1935. He moved to Belgium, as the KJVD reorganized. Verner fought as a volunteer in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. After the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to Sweden.

4. Stalin, from the time of the first revolution leads the life of a professional revolutionist. Prisons, exiles, escapes. But during the entire period of the reaction (190711) we do not find a single document article, letter, resolution in which Stalin formulated his own appraisal of the situation and its perspectives. It is impossible that such documents do not exist. It is impossible that they are not preserved, if only in the archives of the police department. Why dont they appear in the press? It is perfectly obvious why: they are unable to strengthen the absurd characterization of the theoretical and political infallibility that the apparatus, which means Stalin himself creates for itself.

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Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has called on people not to worry about a communist resurgence in the country because he said the government would not let the banned ideology return.

"We must overcome this issue about communism. All Golkar members must be deployed to help the government overcome this issue and we must ensure that there is no room for the growth of communism," the senior Golkar Party politician saidon Sunday during the party's national leadership meeting in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.

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"We can't bury the ideology. It will still exist, but ifthose people try to establish a political party or aim to change the country's ideology [of Pancasila], we have to [combat] that because that violates the Constitution," Luhut said.

Despite the now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) having been banned for almost 50 years, Indonesian government, law enforcement and military officials are currently experiencing another surge of communist-phobia.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has cracked down on people selling and wearing T-shirts bearing the hammer-and-sickle symbol and religious zealots have even forced Bank Indonesia to clarify that its signature recto-verso logo on new bank notes have nothing to do with the PKI.

The official fear has grown worse because of unfounded reports about huge numbers of Chinese workers coming into the country.

Luhut said that there were definitely many Chinese workers arriving along with Chinese investment and illegal workers were unavoidable. (wit)

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