Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Educating for Ignorance 1
"Glee meets the Russian Revolution" 2
The "Softer Side" of Communism 4
Chapter 2 How Many People Have These Bastards Killed? 9
Counting the Bodies 11
Odious Comparisons 13
Chapter 3 When and Where It All Began 17
Forerunners 17
Marx the Moocher 23
Abolishing the Family 28
Chapter 4 The Communist Program-and its Problems 31
An Ideal, a Program, and a Regime 34
All Proletarians Are Equal, but Some Proletarians Are Less Equal Than Others 38
Abolishing the Present State of Things 39
Atrocities with No Shame 44
Chapter 5 Bolshevik Brutes 47
Keeper of the Flame 49
Communism in Practice 56
"A Fight to the Death" 57
The Founding Father of Soviet Terror 61
Chapter 6 The Comintern: Taking the Revolution to the World 67
Communism, American-Style 70
Stalin's Hollywood Stooges 77
Working for a "Soviet America" 80
Chapter 7 Uncle Joe 87
Duped by a Dictator 94
The Cold War 99
Captive Nations 106
Death Comes for the Dictator 111
Chapter 8 Mao and Other Monsters: Communism Assaults Asia 115
Cheerleader for the Chairman 115
Red Chinese Butcher's Bill 117
Korea and the Kims 119
Vietnam 129
The Killing Fields of Cambodia 139
Chapter 9 Meet Fidel and Che, Two Vicious Commie Nuts Who Wanted to Blow Up the World 143
Launching the Revolution 143
Fidel's Pal at the New York Times 144
Victory Lap in Manhattan 148
Cold-Blooded Killer 150
America: The Great Enemy of Mankind 154
The Cuban Missile Crisis 155
Everlasting Icon to the Left 159
Castro's Corpses 161
Chapter 10 "21st Century Socialism" (Read: Communism) 165
By Any Other Name 165
A Dime's Worth of Difference 167
The Difficulties of Definition 171
The Latest Model 175
Put Marx in Your Head, Young Man 177
It Happens Every Time 178
All the Right Friends 180
"I Am a Trotskyist" 182
The Knockout Punch 183
Communism Kills 188
Chapter 11 Why Doesn't Everybody Know Communism's Appalling Track Record? 193
Feeling the Bern 193
Educating for Hate 198
Dewey's Children 199
Dewey's "Impressions" 204
The Testimony of Bella Dodd 206
Education Comrades 209
Dewey's Ghost 214
Chapter 12 Cultural Marxism and the New Left 217
The Frankfurt School 217
Antonio Gramsci 222
Cultural Marxism Comes to America 225
The Wretched World of Wilhelm Reich 226
Herbert Marcuse and the New Left 229
Walter Benjamin 232
The Frankfurt School's Intellectual Godchildren 234
"We Sh-t on All Your Conventional Values" 237
Teaching Revolution 240
Chapter 13 Communism Today 249
Revolutionary Communists 249
"Progressives" (Read: Communists) for Obama 252
Democratic Socialists, Socialist-Friendly Democrats 258
CPUSA Today 259
The Seventeenth International Meeting 267
"How to Better Unite the Left" 272
Fundamental Transformation 274
Chapter 14 Commies Just Love Blacks and Women 279
Race-Baiting in Pursuit of Revolution 280
Not a New Strategy 281
Lovett Fort-Whiteman: "The Reddest of the Blacks"-and the Deadest 283
A Soviet-American "Negro Republic" 284
Saluting the Scottsboro Boys 287
Black Lives Matter 289
Confederate Flag, No-Red Flag, Yes 291
Down with the Patriarchy! 293
"If Hell Really Exists… We Saw Its Image" 296
Chapter 15 Stupidity on Parade 305
American Education, or Chicom Agitprop? 308
Putting a Sunny Face on Oppression 311
Wait, Stalin Liberated Normandy? 313
How We Lost the Cold War, After All 314
Acknowledgments 321
Notes 325
Index 373