Friend,
Communism, Socialism, and Marxism.
These are tough subjects to teach today because most Americans have little to no experience with the horrors they bring.
When most people think of socialism, empty grocery stores, gas shortages, and secret police come to mind.
Now think of America today. Censorship is rampant. Gas prices are spiking. Store shelves are empty of baby formula and other basic goods. Inflation is at a 30-year high.
Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Zilvinas Silenas, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).
I grew up in Soviet-controlled Lithuania, and I am terrified of the rise of socialism that I’m seeing in America.
That’s why FEE is dedicated to educating the next generation through FEE in the Classroom, where we go to high schools to teach about the ideas of liberty, economics, free markets, and history.
I’ve set a goal to work with 21,000 high schoolers and provide them an alternative to the woke, socialist ideology that fills today’s classrooms.
It costs roughly $22 per child to provide the classroom materials they need. Can I count on you to join the fight and sponsor 1 or more students?
Click here to generously donate $22, $50, $100, or any amount >>>
With today’s shortages and high prices, it's starting to feel like we're living under a soft communist revolution taking place and destroying our economy.
It is FEE’s mission to inspire, educate, and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society, including individual liberty, free-market economics, entrepreneurship, private property, high moral character, and limited government.
Socialism is a multi-faceted issue. It’s easy to explain the theory, but the day-to-day consequences that millions of people have lived through are hard to understand.
Friend, can I count on you to join the fight and stop the slow tide of socialism that is seeping into America? Click here to sponsor a student >>>
Here is just one example from my childhood:
On May 1, 1986, my family skipped the mandatory workers’ parade in Lithuania. Instead of carrying around red carnations, red balloons, and red placards denouncing the U.S. and the West, we went sunbathing at a local lake.
The lake was polluted with industrial runoff from a government-owned leather factory, so swimming was out of the question. Still, the day was unusually warm, so we enjoyed the sunshine, which is not so abundant in the north-eastern climes where Lithuania (then–Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania) sits.
What we didn’t know was that five days before, on April 26, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, sending radioactive clouds westwards through Belarus, Lithuania, all the way to Sweden and Norway.
You see, on May 1, we did not know. No one told us. In fact, until the Scandinavians picked up elevated levels of radiation, most people in the Soviet Union did not know what had happened. That’s how we were treated under socialism.
During the moment, that was a rare day of sunshine and fun—something that didn’t happen often under Soviet reign. But it was still contaminated by the broken ideology that swept over my home country.
Nowadays, the U.S. seems to be under constant propaganda for a radical agenda against individualism, liberty, and free markets. Socialism is gaining ground once again.
- Major leaders in Congress are openly socialist (Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), calling on 70% income taxes and a Green New Deal which would essentially take over our economy.
- Roughly 18% of social scientists in the United States self-identify as Marxists.
- Perhaps most alarmingly, opinion polls show that more young Americans have a positive view of socialism than have a positive view of capitalism.
Young Americans need to know that there is an alternative. You and I need to get in the classroom and teach the ideals of liberty and economic freedom.
FEE in the Classroom works, Friend.
We recently sent 75,000 educational books to Nevada, for students to have a source of liberty and free-market economics to learn from.
These books represent 75,000 students who now have a chance to escape the socialist dogma they’re forced to learn.
The next generation is hungry for freedom and liberty. They want their chance at the American Dream.
Friend, can you pass the torch of liberty on? Click any amount below to donate.
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Together we can stop the rise of socialism.
