Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A few weeks ago, someone commented that a Colson Center, What Would You Say Video, entitled, Am I On the Wrong Side of History, had falsified the crimes committed by communist regimes.

Now, in a way, the critic was correct. The video

only mentioned that 94 million people were killed by communist governments. According to the

victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the actual number is much higher. Though Marxism has inflicted

unparalleled harm on humanity, There are many today, especially young people,

who still want it. In July, the Minnesota Democratic Party endorsed Omar Fate to be the next

mayor of Minneapolis. His self-described democratic socialist agenda foreshadowed the rise of

Zoran Mondani, a leading candidate to be the next mayor of New York City.

Though Fate's endorsement was later revoked with accusations of irregularities at the convention,

the very fact that he made it that far is certainly cause for alarm.

Not to mention, they're still Mamdani.

These young politicians did not come out of left field.

Well, they did, pun intended.

Socialism and Marxism continue to gain much traction today among people too young to remember the 20th century.

They're not old enough to have seen the Berlin Wall come down. They're not old enough to have

witnessed the victims of democratic socialism fleeing to the West, or to have heard all the

stories about how bad things really were

in the so-called workers' paradise. No, they've been taught in school and on social media a different

set of causes for the problems of modern society. Like a recent post on X declared, and I quote,

you don't hate Mondays, you hate being exploited by capitalism. That's silly, of course. Any study of economic growth shows that prosperity increases in step with free markets.

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