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“My object,” Marx said, “is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” “Communism begins where atheism begins.” Thus, as per my first column in this series, to Marx and his followers, history is a ...

FARGO — The ghost of Karl Marx has been hovering lately. Though often disguised, the vapory silhouette of a bearded man from the 1800s, whose ideas have led to countless human atrocities, still haunts ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has a deep understanding of the perils born from communism. That's because his father, Rafael Cruz, joined the revolution under Fidel Castro in Cuba at 14 years old. He was ...

“Marxism wasn’t a bad idea that went wrong. It was a bad idea.”—Richard Pipes, Communism. Communism failed everywhere, and oceans of blood were the result. Though dozens of attempts worldwide were ...