Socialism, Communism, Starvation
This is a terrifying article about starvation in North Korea
They clung to their “socialism” as they called it as somewhere between 600,000 and 2.5 million died.
I got to thinking about the famine in Russia in which an estimated 20 million people starved to death. You may or may not have heard about it; Walter Duranty of the NY Times won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Russia at the time. Unfortunately, he wrote that it was a paradise, without a care in the world.
I am not a fear-monger and don’t see the US heading towards a catastrophe of that scale. No way. But I see an educational system which does not wish to convey to students the fact that collectivism almost never works anywhere. They don’t receive the wisdom that millions of human beings have learned the hard way. I wish we did a better job teaching history.
- Aggie
David A. Reyes said,
November 1, 2009 @ 12:50 am
I wish we did a better job of teaching actual history, not the revisonist version with the anti-American, anti-capitalist slant that is taught in liberal colleges by the likes of Bill Ayers today.
-Dave
Danielle said,
January 28, 2010 @ 2:48 pm
Thank you for your honesty. This kind of history needs to be taught to our children. Unfortunately, it is not, because, as one professor explained it to me, it is an “unpopular subject”.