The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats supporting it. The resolution "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," passed 328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting
The resolution states that Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.
- It does not specifically define socialism, but describes "socialist ideology" as necessitating "a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorship."
- The resolution further defines the U.S. as founded on an opposite belief: "the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism is fundamentally and necessarily opposed."
The resolution also attributes the deaths of "over 100,000,000 people worldwide" to socialism, including 10 million people sent to the gulags in the Soviet Union, 15-55 million starving in the wake of the Great Leap Forward in China, 1 million people dead in the killing fields of Cambodia, and up to 3.5 million people starving to death in North Korea.
- It also notes that socialism devastated the once-thriving economies of Cuba and Venezuela.
Many prominent Democrats voted against the resolution
- including Reps. Julian Castro and Al Green of Texas, Jerry Connolly of Virginia, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Jerry Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
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