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WisconsinChristianNews.com Volume 26, Issue 9 Communism In Our Schools and Our Government
By Jeffrey Ludwig February 2026
with and for all the students?” this writer asked, adding, “There are a range of personalities and viewpoints in our classes.” To this, the communist colleague replied, “So what?” At one point, that same teacher who had welcomed me with his poisonous comment about the USSR spent an entire month in his teaching of AP European History explaining and extolling the virtues of the Communist Manifesto published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A group of students complained to the chairlady of the department, but she did nothing. An- other member of the cell regularly distrib- uted to students free copies of the news- papers of the Pro- gressive Labor Party. A third member of the cell became the fac- ulty adviser to the Gay and Straight Al- liance. A fourth mem- ber advised a leftwing student political club. Eventually, this writer became faculty advi- sor to a politically conservative student club, and one afternoon, a debate took place between the two clubs. In the late 1990s, there were a variety of textbooks, so individual teachers could choose to use their preference when teaching. Each of these were written by either one or two authors, and attempted to be balanced. Although some were clearly more “liberal” than others, this writer was able to find one or two that were coherent, informed, relatively balanced, and presented America as a unified culture, not as a hodge-podge of grievances, conflicts, and unresolved hostilities.
picture of the country as a divided or balkanized mess. The sense of and picture of a nation with unifying themes such as Frederick Jack- son Turner seeing westward expansion as defining our growth is en- tirely missing. What about innovation? Love of nature? Transition from agriculture to manufacturing? What about the life and death struggle to assure that there could not be slaves in a country founded to promote liberty and rights? What about the integration of large and diverse immigrant groups despite some resistance? While “The Americans” does not lift up Karl Marx or commies like William Z. Fos-
In the late 1990s, this writer took a position teaching history, gov- ernment, and economics in a New York City public high school. After only two weeks, word circulated that I was a born-again evangelical and politically conservative. One of the senior teachers called me aside and, without any prior argument said, “Communism is over in the Soviet Union, but it’s alive and well at this high school.” Shortly, after that “welcome,” it became apparent that many of the U.S. history teachers were hardcore communists (this is decades before so-called “wokeism”). Howard Zinn’s best-selling communist textbook was not included on the list of high school textbooks because it was a college textbook, but nevertheless, this cell of commies would regularly copy pages out of Zinn’s book, “A Peoples’ History of the United States,” for dis- tribution to the U.S. History students. The commie hostility toward people of faith was also manifested in that department. The thought that people of faith and people who don’t believe can co-exist is alien to Marxists for whom “religion is the opiate of the people.” The left feels threatened by the First Amend- ment which they believe unduly encourages people to believe in God, and thereby takes away from a more realistic assessment of life where one is able to see the class struggle as our top social and po- litical priority. On one occasion, a young lady teacher began moving around in front of me in the teachers’ office taunting me by singing “I don’t have a soul, I don’t have a soul.” Another older left winger called to me from across the teachers’ office, “Tell me Mr. Ludwig, is God a he or a she?” At another point in time, I was saying to another leftist colleague that if we promote a particular political ideology in the classroom, we are advancing our bias, not actually teaching. He replied that “every- one has a bias, so it is better to acknowledge our bias and defend it openly rather than pretend to be more objective.” “But is it not a teacher’s duty to be as impartial as possible in order to communicate
ter, it does fail to call Albert Rosenberg, who sold the secrets of the atomic bomb to the USSR, a traitor. There is no treatment of the use of the term “progressive” by today’s communists in order to connect their re-ordering of today’s society with the icons of American history Theodore Roosevelt (a Repub- lican and Independ- ent) or Woodrow Wilson. Although those Presidents had
some socialist themes insofar as they supported unduly expanding the power of the federal government, they still were not as firmly united with today’s communists as are the present leaders of today’s Democrat Party. Remember that President Harry Truman distanced himself from Henry Wallace who was too sympathetic with Josef Stalin and the communists and ran for President against Truman on the Progressive Party in 1948. However, today’s Democrats have not similarly dis- tanced themselves from the Democratic-Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. Instead, the Biden people came out with a joint statement with Sanders in 2020 that was 110 poorly written pages before com- ing out with the Democratic Party platform. The Democratic Party platform, when subsequently published, although only 90 pages, was totally in sync with the earlier signed agreement. Sanders, who calls himself a Democratic-Socialist is neither a Democrat of the Truman or Kennedy variety, nor is he a socialist. He always finds a way to justify the communists because he is one. What today’s political pundits are calling “woke” (or some form of communism) has been on the march for decades. It was alive and well in the late 1990s and had already been in place for decades. It has gone mainstream in recent years and openly is embraced by many who were more careful not to be seen as sympathetic to Marxist ideology. It is anti-God at its core, and clearly wants government to take over the means of production. The radical hope is to dignify the move towards undermining our republic, natural rights, private prop- erty, and the family is by painting the words “anti-racism” and “gender equality” on the hammer and sickle. Then talk about electric cars and reducing carbon footprints, and hope that the fear generated will change our society forever.
However, after only a few years passed, a single U.S. history text was bought for all teachers to use entitled “The Americans.” This 1000+ page textbook was written by so-called scholars, but they were all from sub-specialties of U.S. history. One specialized in geography, another was from ethnic studies, an- other had written many text prep books, the fourth was an African studies professor, and the fifth spe- cialized in women’s history and was the only woman of the group (surprise!). In addition, there was a long list of “contributors.” Thus, clearly this was a text- book-by-committee production coordinated and managed by Holt McDougal, publisher of the vol- ume. It seemed that the book covered every protest march and strike that ever happened in the United States, yet there was almost no reference to the im- pact of Christianity on our country either during the colonial period or during more recent centuries since the creation of our Constitution. Thus, we have a
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