Xi Van Fleet showed up at school one day to a note on the blackboard reading “No class for three days.” Those “three days” lasted two years. Sound familiar?
Xi lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl, eventually managing to escape to America as a university student. She loved the United States and everything it stood for, but began to see troubling parallels emerge in “critical race theory.” Xi had to speak out, and did — first at a Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021. “Critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism — it should have no place in our schools,” she said. “You are now teaching, training our children, to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history.”
What really happens under communism isn’t taught in school today, so Xi has taken it upon herself to tell the world. She published a book, “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning,” last year (out in paperback next month), warning of what she recognizes as a route towards “loss of freedom and totalitarian rule.”
I spoke with Xi about her life, how communism really works (outside the imaginations of leftists — myself included, until recently), and what we must do to save America and our freedoms.
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