A Brief History of the Communist Long March to Take Over the United States

—@martyweil drops a capsule history of America’s 100-year indoctrination campaign—and why New York’s socialist capture matters to you

This week, @martyweil published what amounts to a capsule history of the communist long march to take over the United States—and it landed, not in an academic journal, not on the front page of the New York Times, but in the comment section. And that feels appropriate somehow. That’s where you go when the real story’s no longer allowed above the fold.

According to Weil, the story begins in 1921, when the League for Industrial Democracy set up shop in New York and began mailing socialist lesson plans to teachers while the New York Teachers Union pushed the same line in public schools. Over the decades, as each generation of Americans got progressively more “educated,” it became more hostile to individual liberty, private property, and the American founding itself. You know—the good stuff.

Fast forward: Treasury official Harry Dexter White leaks economic blueprints to Stalin. Alger Hiss smooth-talks communism into American postwar diplomacy. The Rosenbergs handed the Soviets the bomb. Meanwhile, exiled German Marxists from the Frankfurt School quietly embedded “critical theory” into our universities in 1934, turning Marxism into a lens through which everything—race, sex, gender, capitalism, even math—is an oppressive social construct.

By the 1960s, their students became foot soldiers in the New Left, rallying under the banner of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)—a name which now echoes in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), their ideological descendants. As Marty puts it, SDS exploded to 300 chapters in 1969, then marched straight into America’s newsrooms, public-sector unions, HR departments, and political campaigns.

This is why the New York situation matters—to all Americans. Because this isn’t just about New York. It’s not even just about the United States. The global communist revolution lost its central headquarters when the Soviet Union collapsed. A few sad holdouts like Cuba and North Korea remain, but even they aren’t practicing Marxism in anything but rhetoric. North Korea is a hereditary criminal syndicate. Cuba allows street vendors now. The revolution didn’t die; it migrated—into Western institutions.

And the belief system? It’s not a governing philosophy so much as a kind of mental illness: a delusion that capitalism is slavery, freedom is oppression, and victimhood is moral currency. This sickness now spreads through the minds of what we call “the woke,” but what are more accurately described as neo-Marxists with smartphones.

They’ve achieved something in New York that should terrify every thinking person: the apparent capture of the Democratic Party’s primary in the nation’s largest city by a card-carrying socialist, Zohran Mamdani. He didn’t just win—he won handily. On a platform that includes rent freezes, city-run grocery stores, and free public buses. That’s not a vision for improved governance. That’s the municipal version of the five-year plan.

But it’s not just New York. The same ideological movement has captured power in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. These places are no longer run by liberals—they are run by Democratic Socialists or those wholly owned by their unionized apparatchiks. The distinction between “Democrat” and “DSA” is not semantic; it’s parasitic. The DSA runs as Democrats, but once in office, they govern like commissars.

This must stop. And that’s where the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” pending in Congress comes in. While derided by both sides—Democrats for being too aggressive, Republicans for being toothless—it represents a line in the sand. Even Elon Musk has publicly raged that it doesn’t go nearly far enough to check the bureaucratic machinery now humming along in the service of socialism.

But let’s be honest. We’re behind. And the Trump movement, for all its flaws, is a reaction-a—a frantic attempt to reverse the tide after 100 years of drift. The data tells the story: the highest voter turnout in New York’s 2025 mayoral primary came from 18-to-24-year-olds. These are kids raised on classroom apologies for America. Their politics? They don’t call it communism. But they do talk about seizing the means of production. Call it what you will—it’s the same rot under a new label.

We’ve allowed this to happen. The education system was the first domino, and we barely blinked. We let them indoctrinate kids into believing their country is evil, their skin color is a sin, and their ancestors are war criminals. The result? In 2001, over 90% of Democrats said they were proud to be American. In 2025? Just 36%. Among Republicans, it’s gone up. That’s no coincidence. That’s the fruit of critical theory: shame as a tool of regime change.

And if you think this is about helping the poor, think again. Shame is how they manufacture consent. You’re an oppressor if you own a business. You’re complicit if you don’t use the right pronouns. You’re a bad person if you love your country. And once you accept those premises, you’re much easier to control.

There’s resistance, yes. Even in places like Chicago, where the “Turn Chicago Red” movement is pushing back. But this is a generational war. The long march didn’t start with Bernie Sanders, and it won’t end with Donald Trump. It started in 1921. It might end with Zohran Mamdani—or it might not. That depends on whether we wake up.

Because the long march isn’t coming.

It’s already here. And if something isn’t done fast to stop it, America could well be a communist country in 50 years.

The first thing that needs to be done is a reform of the Democrats.

The Democrats need to stop allowing the Democratic Socialists of America from running on their ticket. These people are not Democrats, as is very apparent from the division in the party over Mamdani’s nomination. They are a parasite on the party. They’re wolves using the Democrat brand as their sheep‘s clothing. Most Democrats have no idea what they’re voting for when they vote for a Democrat nominee who’s really a DSA member.

If Democrats don’t fix this and fix it fast they’re going to lose their soul and their party to DSA members who really are de facto communists