Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Schools DSA Co-Chair: ‘When You Put Adjectives in Front of Communism .... It Is Still Communism’

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VAN FLEET: “I want to say that when you put whatever adjectives in front of communism or in front of socialism, it doesn't change its nature. It is still communism. It's still socialism. And you can say, oh, the people want free stuff. Let's just have free stuff. Remember, this country is built as a constitutional republic. Just because you and your friends want free stuff. And then we can just get free stuff. That's communism. And that never works out. Eventually, in communism, things will run out quick enough so everybody end with nothing. And I was there, lived through it. So young people like you, please read some history, learn history.”