Chain, chain, chain

(Chain, chain, chain)

Chain of fools

So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.”

One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”

The chains of Franklin’s song and those of the Marxist slogan are linked by one word: fools.

For over 175 years, believers have bought into Marxist visions of utopia. From the European revolutions of 1848 to the 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, devotees of communism and their apparatchiks have pushed an agenda that has wreaked ruin on nations, created a governing class comprised of thugs, criminals, and murderers, and killed more than 100 million people.

Yet this

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