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.
This was so great. Thank you, as always, for bringing these important issues to light. I read Solzhenitsyn in my 20s and 30s (I am in my 50s now) and couldn’t believe how ignorant we were, and still are, particularly in the UK, about the horrors of the soviet regime. I even remember being taken by my mother to a USSR exhibition in London as a child and I still have the pin badge as proof it happened! From having read about Stalinist Russia I have seen parallels with so many things happening in the UK and US that it is truly terrifying the direction we are heading in. But people around me, educated, smart people, don’t see it because they have no reference. I only have those books: Cancer Ward, The First Circle, A day in the life …, and of course the Gulag Archipelago. After reading those books, which each changed my life, no one can say “communism is a good thing in principle”. I will be getting the paperback of Xi’s book when it comes out. Thank you to you and Xi for everything you do.
Ahhhh this is all so frustrating. The fact we are not really taught history in school nowadays is such a massive, dangerous problem! (I'm glad you enjoyed the interview! Thank you!)