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Call them the A, B Cs eight realities of Communist China. This is not your fathers sleepy, benign, creeping by the night, weak by day Communist China. Things are changing fast. In sum, we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

First, or A for those who like mnemonics, ways to remember:We are facing an A-frame in public understanding of the threat, half who gets that China aims to beat us, is an existential threat to our democracy, is waging unrestricted warfare the other half dopey, sleepy, disengaged, hopeful.

The unengaged half needs to get engaged, understand the stakes, pace of Chinas accelerating attack, multiple fronts on which China aims to best us, is making inroads, military, economic, ideological.

Second, B for recall, China is on a Beeline for supremacy, dominance in virtually every theater of political and military conflict. They are not there, but they are developing, modernizing, laying in ICBMS by the thousands, accelerating maritime abilities, practicing missile and fighter assaults on Taiwan.

That is not all, they are rapidly moving for dominance in quantum computing, cyberwarfare, pushing private and public installation in American engineering, social media, computing, education, and technology infrastructure, enabling everything from MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence) to surveillance, theft to blackmail, changing college curricula to pro-China foreign policy.

Third, or C, we need a political sea-change in this country. Beyond educating, we must understand right now what Reagan educated America about in the 1980s.Some governments are not legitimate. Communism is quintessentially illegitimate.Soviets Communism was; Chinese Communism is.

Any nation that kills its people for mild political objections, which traps, beats, tortures, and brain washes citizens for not accepting the oppression of religious, personal, and political views, which makes no apologies for inflicting Marxist carnage, suppression, coercion, intimidation, and a global virus, is illegitimate. Sovereignty resides in the people; that is the lesson of God-given rights.

Fourth, or D, deterrence is vital. It is possible still with China if we sit up, see the threat, and act. As Reagan demonstrated, peace through strength is the only way to turn back, roll back, stop aggression. We must do that again. Time is short, but concrete ways exist to show China we win if challenged.

Fifth, or E, enforcement of laws in the United States and on foreign soil, helping others call out Chinas corruption, political, governmental, and personal is vital. American companies are private in nature and bound by the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act; Chinas are governmentally tied and cheat all the time. We must use US laws, international tribunals, and allied action to prosecute their cheating.

Sixth, or F, finance is an Achilles heal for China. They such money out of free, free-market, enterprising and wealthy countries, especially the US, via publicly traded companies, US government investments, intellectual property theft, corporate coercion even corrupting politicians. That MUST stop. We would not have invested or indulged building the Soviet war machine; we must not build Chinas. They are corrupt, in debt, and endemically unapologetic about cheating we must stop it.

Seventh, or G, is game theory. China thinks ahead, around corners, aims for dominance, in 500 years, sure but also in five to fifteen years. We must understand the moves before they make them, prevent their information and influence warfare, be smarter by half, and understand the game.

Game is theory is not a game, it is a way of thinking strategically proactively, smartly, and winning. It is what China is doing, although the West typically does it better, is more nimble, has free thought, experience ideals, and individual enterprise to rely on.But we have to do this, think forward, engage, look around corners, plan our chess moves, by being ahead of where they are planning to be.

Finally, eighth or H, is for hidden battles for high ground, which China is totally committed to finding, and we will lose if we let them take those areas of high ground. Arguably, from the Revolutionary War through the Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg during the Civil War, to many of the big battles WWI and WWI, from Anzio to Iwo Jima, casualties, opportunities, and even outcomes are determined by high ground.

Where is the high ground in our epic contest with China? Brace yourself, because it is everywhere in near earth orbit and lunar orbit, in cyberspace, quantum computing, public awareness, information warfare, education, multilateral organization domination, the South China Sea, but also in commercial conquest of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. It is in leasing ports, and militarizing them, recapturing the Solomon Islands which we died to free, and a thousand fronts.

So, how do we win since we must win, or over time perish to the power of illegitimate, but powerful communist coercion? We wake up, as one nation under God, remember who we are, remember what communist oppression looks like, and understand that we live in times not benign but malign.

If we do that, remember the A, B, Cs of beating Chinese communism stopping it before it wins we will prevail and, to borrow from Churchill, men and women for a thousand years will call this our finest hour. If we minimize, ignore, forget, or divide on the importance of unity to freedom, we lose. Either way, we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto time to say so.

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Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao Zedong's communist revolution in China, joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday to share her experience living under and fleeing from communism. Van Fleet cautioned socialist supporters in the U.S. from embracing a dangerous ideology and "abandoning freedom."

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XI VAN FLEET: I just want to say it's so ironic. 36 years ago, I run away from socialism when I left China to come to this great country for freedom. Today, so many Americans [are] abandoning freedom and arriving into socialism. They have no idea what socialism is about. I lived under Mao's socialism. When the government controls everything and makes all the decisions big and small and decide how much grain, meat [and] cooking oil I could have. What I should learn in school, where I should live, and what job I should have and how I should think. In the socialist society I lived under, there was no choices. There is no freedom. And that's what people do not know. Socialism becomes such a diluted word and it's intentional. I can tell you, China is a socialist country. Cuba is a socialist country and so is North Korea. They are a socialist country run by communist parties. And what's the difference? What's the difference between socialism and communism? Not much. Socialism is the initial stage of communism, according to Karl Marx.

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A political and economic ideology in which the means of production are owned communally

Communism is a social, political, and economic ideology in which the means of production are owned communally, and it advocates for a classless society with little or no private ownership of property. The Communist theory was founded by German political philosophers and economists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the second half of the 19thcentury.

In 1848, the pair wrote and published The Communist Manifesto, a detailed outline of communist principles. The book was circulated widely and referred to as the Communist Bible. It was adopted as the communist handbook by several emergent communist countries in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A major aim of communism was to end capitalism. It was to be achieved through a classless society where class conflict will be resolved, and proletarians (the majority working class) will revolt against the bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production) and end worker exploitation. The abolishment of private property ownership ensures a pure communist society is established. Communism meant people gave to society according to their abilities and received according to their needs and the needs of the society placed above the needs of individuals.

Communism is considered a variant or an advanced form of socialism. The debate on the distinction is still ongoing as the two are often used interchangeably throughout history, even by Karl Marx himself. However, communist ideology is largely based on Karl Marxs revolutionary communism philosophy.

Communism comes from the Latin word communis, which means common or shared. Communism is thought to come into existence in ancient times as considered in Platos Socratic dialogue Republic, published around 375 BC. Plato considered an ideal state in which a governing class of guardians serves the interests of the whole community by living as a large family sharing the ownership of goods and people (labor). Other early examples of communism are in Christianity, the formation of the monastic order, and others.

However, the emergence of modern communism was instigated by the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The major highlight of the revolution was the rapid industrialization of world economies, which increased economic productivity. However, the success was largely achieved at the back of exploitation of the proletariat through extreme working conditions and poor wages.

The above phenomenon convinced Karl Max, et al. to rethink a suitable system where there are fewer class struggles and are doing away with the allure of private property ownership that leads to greediness and inequalities in the society. Marx envisaged a society where prosperity is shared by everyone through common ownership of the means of production.

Marxist communism (Marxism) was founded by Karl Marx by laying out the theoretical and scientific foundations of communism. Karl Marx was born in Germany to middle-class Jewish parents who previously abandoned their religion. Marx studied philosophy at the University of Berlin and later moved to the University of Jena, where he obtained a doctorate in 1841.

Marx became a political radical because of his Jewish background living in a European nation. He moved from Germany fearing persecution and settled in Paris, France, where he met Friedrich Engels, a countryman. There, they developed a partnership that culminated in the publication of various communist journals, including The Communist Manifesto.

Marxist communism makes use of materialist methodology to explain and evaluate the development of class society and the role of class struggles in universal political, economic and social change. Marxism became the common ideology for communist movements around the world. The duo believed that challenges faced by the proletariat, such as poverty, early deaths, and diseases, were prevalent in a capitalist society. They argued that the systemic and structural challenges of capitalism could only be solved by replacing capitalism with communism. Marxist communism encompassed three main aspects.

The materialist conception theory, according to Karl Marx, is a series of class struggles and revolutions, which ultimately leads to freedom for all citizens. Marxs view stated that human activity begins with material production for their subsistence before they can embark on other human activities.

According to Karl Marx, material production requires two essential elements, such as:

Marx indicated that the material production process also underwent revolutionary and technological change such that the extractive process, as well as the processing of raw materials, greatly advanced and became more complex.

There are now advanced and complex tools in the hands of one class, i.e., the bourgeoisie ruling class and the proletariat must seek work from the bourgeoisie to be part of the production process. It means the working class lost their independence in material production, necessitating the establishment of a new kind of economic system that is not unfair to one social class.

The critique of capitalism theory is based on the history of societal class dominance over time, where the ruling aristocracy of ancient times was overthrown by the bourgeoisie, thereby replacing feudalism with capitalism. Marxs aim was the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat, thereby replacing capitalism with communism in the process.

Marx regarded capitalism as a necessary stage in societal development mostly because of the conspicuous benefits derived from the economic system over time. The benefits include scientific and technological advancement, which helped humans to conquer nature. In the process, people managed to amass huge wealth but it was mainly concentrated on the capitalist elite, the bourgeoisie.

The unfair distribution of wealth is what concerned Marx as the proletariat were the actual producers of goods and services through their labor. According to Marxs labor theory of value, which states that the value of a product is determined by the amount of labor required to produce it.

It meant that the bourgeoisie was profiting unfairly over the proletariat, who produced the goods and received pity wages while they (the bourgeoisie) pocketed large sums of profits. Hence, one class got richer and more powerful whilst the other fell more and more into poverty. Capitalism causes poverty, inequality, false consciousness, and alienation. Alienation means the working class is separated from:

Marxism is anchored on the belief that capitalism is an unstable and inferior economic system that is destined to falter and fall through its inherent weaknesses that will cause a series of economic crisis events. Such challenges include turbulent economic cycles that produce economic depressions and recessions, which in turn yield to high unemployment, high inflation, poor wages, and misery, an increase in poverty levels among other downstream ills. The proletariat will be a major class severely affected by these economic changes as the bourgeoisie are able to insulate themselves through their accumulated wealth.

Marx believed the proletariat will seize and take over the means of production when they realize that the system is working against them through a process termed revolutionary class consciousness. The seizure should also spread to include institutions of state power, such as the judiciary, police, army, prisons among others.

They will establish a socialist state that Marx described as the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. The proletariat will then rule placing their interest ahead and taking measures to prevent counterrevolution by the bourgeoisie. Eventually, the need for the state will disappear and will be replaced by an egalitarian communist society.

However, Marx could not paint a clear picture of this eventual communist society. Some of the features of this ideal society have been adopted in modern capitalist economies notably public education. Other views are still considered extreme in an economic and political sense and will probably never see mainstream adoption in world economies.

Arguably, there has never been a practical model of communism that had worked successfully for the greater good of all people concerned. Marx was also a believer in democracy, in terms of how institutions of the communist society are determined and designed.

The 19th and 20th centuries witnessed several countries that tried to implement communism and socialism to a certain extent. No single country has been able to clearly implement communism in its purest form. Communism was extensively implemented by the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991.

At present, there are only five remaining countries with communist ideologies in different forms and degrees. They include China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. Most of the countries are in transition from communist/socialist systems to more capitalist or mixed economic systems. A brief look at the countries follows:

Communism was entrenched in China through the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party by Mao Zedong in 1949. However, China started moving towards a mixed economy through the Deng Xiaoping Chinese economic reform in the 1970s. The reforms encompassed allowing private enterprise and the phasing out of collective farms.

In 2004, China changed its constitution to recognize private property. The transition helped the country become the worlds second-largest economy in 2010 and the worlds largest exporter in 2014.

Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1953 and established a communist state by 1965 with strong ties to the Soviet Union. However, when the Soviet Union dissolved, the country went into an economic crisis. The Partido Comunista de Cuba is described by the Cuban constitution as the leading force of society of the state. The party policies are strictly from Marxism-Leninism communist ideology. The country began to initiate a few market reforms after Raul Castro took over in 2008.

China and Russia helped North Korea declare independence to end the Korean War in 1953 led by Kim Il-Sung. North Koreas system involved central planning and communal farming. However, successive famines took place in the 1990s and 2000s. The country began allowing semi-private markets in 2002.

Vietnam became a communist nation in 1975 through communist leader Ho Chi Minh. However, the country began a slow transition to a market-based economy in 1986.

Laos became a communist state in 1975 following a revolution supported by Vietnam and the Soviet Union. However, in 1988, it started allowing some forms of private ownership and joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2013.

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The Director of the House of Terror marked the Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes during an event held at the museum.

The two halves of Europe are still separated by the different experiences of dictatorships, Mria Schmidt, the Director of the House of Terror Museum said at an event marking the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

The West still shrugs its shoulders as a kind of disinterested outsider when we talk about the crimes of communism, she noted.

The conservative historian recalled that when the eastern half of Europe won back its freedom in 1990, Western Europe expected the East to embrace their view of history, which barely mentioned communism. We hoped our stories would be shared stories, but we are still the only ones bowing our heads, she added.

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According to Schmidt, Hungarians have a deep understanding of the national socialist and communist dictatorships, and hate both with all their hearts. Those who want to build dictatorships today have more sophisticated methods than weapons, the historian said. But we Hungarians will not let others tell us what to do and how to do it, and we will not let them take away our freedom, she added.

The memorial day marks the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939, the non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

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Americans must unite to defeat the Marxist takeover of the country, she said.

Lily Tang Williams is a survivor of communist Chinas Cultural Revolution and is now a congressional candidate for New Hampshires 2ndDistrict. Williams calls America a promised land and said she chose to emigrate to the United States for freedom, but shes seeing a disturbing trend toward totalitarian Marxist ideology.

Williams warns that she sees the push for equity or social justice as a guise for socialist wealth redistribution.

Now I notice socialist policies, and today, everybody is talking about equity, equity. How can you have equitywhich is equal outcome, which I heard in China beforewithout the government using force to redistribute wealth? Williams said during an Aug. 18 interview for EpochTVs American Thought Leaders program.

In 1988, Williams immigrated to the United States determined to succeed because she did want to return to communist China. Since that time, she has lived the American dream with a happy marriage, three children, and a good business, she said. Williams never had plans to get into politics.

But because she sees the disturbing trend toward communism, she said she felt compelled to join the government to stop the destruction of Americans Constitutional rights.

Williams questions why every institutionfrom universities andpublic schools to the federal government, private corporations, and the U.S. militaryis teaching equity.

She also sees Black Lives Matter and Antifa using violent Marxisttactics in the name of social justice. She sees schools pushing identity politics and division instead of teaching core subjects and accurate American and world history.

And our kids dont know, she said. Maybe thats why they want socialist policy. They want free college and free health care and free child care and everything free, because theyre entitled to it.

She said shutting down schools and churches and toppling statues of American leaders all resembles communist ideology, and the same things happened during Chinas Cultural Revolution. In addition, the curriculum being used in schools to divide students by race and make one group an oppressor and the other oppressed is also Marxist, she said.

I really feel like Im reliving another Cultural Revolution, she said, also mentioning the critical race theory being taught in schools to divide people and demonize white people over something they cant control.

Williams has seen many other aspects of totalitarianism during the last two years of lockdowns and mandates.

I see this rise of authoritarianism. We have politicians who want to be our tyrants. They want to shut you down. They want to force your business [to] close in the name of [the] pandemic, and then mandatemandate the vaccine, mask. And if you dont comply, you can lose your job, she said.

Williams warns that communism is coming to America if the country continues down this road of dividing people and pitting them against each other.

I see the writing on the wall. I see this trend, she said. We are using identity politics to divide citizens and get our citizens to fight each other instead of [being] united with each other to solve our countrys problems.

Why are Western democratic countries taking Communist Partys tactics and the shutdown methods from their playbooks? said Williams.

Williams said that cancel culture is similar to being targeted during the Cultural Revolution.

They can find something you wrote, something you said many years ago, and then demonize you as oppressor, black class. You lose your job.

The equity trainings where white people are supposed to denounce their white privilege are similar to the struggle sessions in communist China, Williams pointed out.

We should not judge people by their skin color, and by race. But thats what they want to do all day, she said. What is the difference? Chinese were divided by classes, by political opinions, and by economic status. Here its by skin color and by race.

She objects to people being given preferential treatment because of their skin color, instead of merit. Williams cited the fact that Ivy League universities are filling quotas for black students at the expense of Asian students, who work hard and earn their place at these schools.

William also disapproves of the transgender ideology that children are being indoctrinated with in schools, and in many cases without parental knowledge or consent. The state is overriding the rights of the parents, as in the case of some states that are introducing legislation to bypass parental consent for gender changes at the age of 13.

She said she is reminded of Chinas Cultural Revolution, where everyone was constantly indoctrinated with communist ideology in all public forums. From media to schools, they all espoused Maos ideology of the oppressor and oppressed having to struggle against each other.

Her family was labeled the red class, or one of the oppressed groups, while land owners and intellectuals were labeled the black classes.

Under oppressor, there are five black classes. Under oppressed, there are five red classes. I was red. I did not have to go to struggle sessions, but other people were [labeled] black classes. They have to go to struggle sessions [and] be publicly shamed to denounce their families, their ancestors, Williams said.

Mao targeted Chinese traditional culture by destroying the four olds, which included: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits.

And all religions were demonized. We could not call ourselves Buddhist or Christiannothing. Youve got to be the believer of Mao and communism.

After Maos death, the new communist leadership allowed the Chinese people to keep some of what they harvested for themselves, in a sense allowing a bit of landownership, so people began to produce more food compared to the Cultural Revolution period, said Williams.

Because of this economic improvement, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took credit for lifting over 600 million Chinese out of poverty, but Williams completely disagrees and credits free market principles, individual hard work, and desire for prosperity for the improved economic conditions.

I dont buy into their propaganda at all. I think that human beings [have a] natural desire for freedom, for prosperity. They know how to do it, if you just leave people alone.

Because of the complete state control over the information people got, from the media to schools, people in China really believed the black class should be destroyed, or at least subjugated.

I believed then, we need to eliminate black classes. They were the enemies of the people and the enemies of the state, Williams said.

She said another tactic Marxists use is to exploit peoples jealousy of the rich. Mao promised land to peasants but he never gave them land. They only worked on state-owned land to make the Communist Party rich, said Williams.

Maos death made her question the truth because the indoctrination made him out to be god-like, Williams said.

The reason I wanted to study law is that I thought, OK, I want to search for the truth now. Mao was a human being, thats why he died, I realized that. Instead of men ruling China, Williams thought maybe her country should be governed by the rule of law.

After beginning her law studies, she learned a harsh lesson about how the law was used by the CCP. Quickly, I became lost again, because they told me the law is a tool for the party to use to govern the masses.

During this time, Williams met an American exchange student studying in China who told her about Americas Declaration of Independence.

My light bulbs came [on], the first time I heard of the concept of individual rights, said Williams.

The American student also spoke about the creator giving these individual rights to people, which was appealing to Williams because she had only heard of the collective rights of different groups, like workers rights, given by the CCP.

Williams said she was moved and wanted to know more about freedom and America and decided to do whatever it took to go study in the United States.

Williams said she had to come up with a strategy to get to America.

She was now on a mission to leave China but feigned love for the CCP. Her university supervisor had to grant her permission to quit her teaching job to study in an American graduate program in Texas, so only after she had proved her loyalty to the CCP, her request to go to the United States was approved.

She had to sign a paper promising she would come back to China after her education, which is the only way she got permission to apply for a study visa, she said.

After much effort and several attempts, she got her visa to the United States, and everyone in China was excited for her. Williams said although people in China were taught to hate the United States, it is like all jealousythey hated what they didnt have.

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Masooma Haq began reporting for The Epoch Times from Pakistan in 2008. She currently covers a variety of topics including U.S. government, culture, and entertainment.

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Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times and host of the show, "American Thought Leaders." Jans career has spanned academia, media, and international human rights work. In 2009 he joined The Epoch Times full time and has served in a variety of roles, including as website chief editor. He is the producer of the award-winning Holocaust documentary film "Finding Manny."

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