[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 214 (Thursday, December 17, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H7256-H7257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     WARNING OF MARXISM IN AMERICA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rose of New York). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of January 3, 2019, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Grothman) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority 
leader.
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, in addition to addressing the Chair, I 
also want to address any history or civics teachers dealing with 
America and make some requests to them tonight.
  In order to understand the current events and understand why I and 
some other people are so concerned about the outcome of this election, 
we must have a discussion of Marxism.
  All American schoolchildren should have an understanding of Marxism. 
To understand why over 30,000 American troops died in Korea, we must 
know a little bit about Marxism. To understand why over 50,000 American 
troops died in the Vietnam war, we must know a little bit about 
Marxism.
  When I think of Marxism, I think of three things. I think of their 
hatred of God and hatred of religion. I think of Karl Marx's thesis 
when he was back in college. It was in part titled ``I Hate All Gods.'' 
And, of course, I think when China bragged about getting rid of the 
last churches, so I always associate Marxism with the end of 
Christianity.
  Secondly, I associate Marxism with the elimination of the family as a 
social unit. As a matter of fact, the elimination of the family as a 
social unit was one of the original goals of Karl Marx. I believe he 
was already teaming up with Engels by that time.

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  Finally, the desire to get rid of private property--by ``private 
property,'' it means: Do individuals have the right to own their own 
house, to form their own business, to buy whatever they want?
  Those are the three things I think of when I think of Marxism.
  I hope all American children are familiar with Communist China, 
Soviet Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Once you learn about the 
horrible things that have happened to these people and the places, Mr. 
Speaker, I want you to think about a quote.
  Now, we spend a great deal on military expenditures here, and we are 
going to wrap things up some time in the next week around here, 
spending more money, again, on troops, ships, and airplanes. But Nikita 
Khrushchev warned us--actually bragged about--we will take America 
without firing a shot.
  Now, think of that. Here we spent all this money on nuclear weapons, 
airplanes, ships, troops, and tanks--some made in my district--but 
Nikita Khrushchev said: That is not how we are going to defeat you. We 
are going to defeat you internally.
  I would assume if they are going to defeat us, it is because we don't 
understand what Marxism is.
  Things that concern me right now is the elevation of Black Lives 
Matter. Two of the three founders of Black Lives Matter made no qualms 
about it: We are Marxists.
  To drive it home, on their website, which they took down when it 
became a little embarrassing going into the election: We disrupt the 
Western-prescribed family.
  I recently ran into a woman in my district who complained that her 
children were driven into debt because she and her husband worked hard 
and had a good middle-class family. She felt other parents who did not 
get married and did not form nuclear families were given preference as 
far as getting university grants. Of course, they are given preferences 
as far as healthcare, as well.
  So, I think we should be concerned when we have a group that, as far 
as I can see, almost nobody has publicly disassociated themselves from 
that makes no bones about the fact that they are Marxists.
  It is one of the reasons why I am concerned when I see one of my 
colleagues from California having a relationship of some sort with 
someone who was apparently working for Marxist Communist China. That is 
why I am scared when I see that the mayor of New York, our greatest 
city, gets elected after he apparently went on a honeymoon to Cuba and 
apparently idealized something like Cuba. He didn't go there because he 
thought it was a horrible place.
  When we look at this, we have to say: Are we in danger?
  I think we are very much in danger when we look at those three 
things.
  Americans do not know what Marxism is. Someday, I would like to have 
a museum to Marxism just as we have a museum to the Holocaust because 
all Americans should know about the tens of millions of people who 
died, the promises the Marxists made to those people, and how it worked 
out.
  I do think, as I said, that as young people are educated about what 
is going on in the world in the last 100 years, they should learn about 
Marxism and all the people who died and all the people whose freedoms 
have been taken away and realize that there are genuinely people out 
there who want to get rid of the old-fashioned nuclear family.

  I should interrupt myself for just one second here. The people who 
wrote on the website for Black Lives Matter described it as a Western 
patriarchic family. The idea of having a mom and dad at home and a dad 
being part of a child growing up is not just an American or Western 
thing. It is an African thing, and it is an Asian thing. It has 
happened all the time, and it is a little bit of a slam on these other 
cultures to imply that they do not have an old-fashioned nuclear family 
in other cultures as well.
  Nevertheless, when I look at that many people without firing a shot 
who apparently don't have a big problem with Marxism, it does scare me.
  So, tonight, I will ask my colleagues to do what they can as they get 
out and about and as they give speeches to tell particularly young 
people what Marxism is. I hope all teachers of our young people educate 
them as to what type of government a lot of very powerful people around 
this world wish we had and how things worked out for other countries 
when they adopted that Marxism model.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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