Sections Introduction I. The United States as a World Power II. Why Communism Would Fail in the United States III. What Can Be Done to Prevent This IV. The War in Political Parties V. The Fallacy of Oligarchism VI. A Day in the Life: Communist America Appendix A: References

Introduction

The preceding papers in this series have documented the history of Communism, the legal weapons the United States has forged to defend against it, the ideological distinctions between Socialism and Communism, and the taxonomy of world governments. This paper confronts a more visceral question: what would actually happen if Communism took hold in the United States? The short answer is that it would not — it cannot. The structural, constitutional, cultural, and economic barriers to Communist takeover in America are unlike those in any country where Communism has succeeded. This paper examines each of those barriers in turn, offers citizens practical tools to defend against ideological infiltration, analyzes the partisan landscape and foreign influence operations, dismantles the popular fallacy that Communism eliminates oligarchs, and closes with a light-hearted but sobering look at what a Communist America might feel like in the lived, everyday sense.