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What Are the Lessons of the 20th Century?
When you erase history and leave some ideas deliberately uninterrogated, then it's completely any idea can work. Find me one in 100 American students who've heard of any of the communist despots of the 20th century. I mean, Mao who kills more people than anyone, 65 million Chinese perhaps. How many students in America know what Mao was, who he was, where he was? Nothing. Or worry about that because it means that we might have learned one of the two lessons of the20th century. Fascism and communism. Yeah. We actually haven't learned that lesson. We've learned a little bit of it and we've not learned the other one at all.