Confronted with the rebooted Red Scare we are living through presently, Marxism is more visible than it has been for decades, while Marxists are harder to find. Just this May, the Trump administration issued a statement on a new budget proposal, one item of which was to “Defund the Harmful Woke, Marxist Agenda.” The virtue of Hartman’s book is to show us that such mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.

The Marxists Are Coming | Mathias Fuelling
Calls to defund the Marxist left and similar mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.
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