I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies

Published on September 11, 2024

Commentary As a school board member in the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, when I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum for the first time, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet Union. The communist vocabulary that I remember from my time in the USSR included liberation, oppression, oppressor and oppressed, class struggle, solidarity, hegemony, Zionist, imperialism, colonialism, collective, as well as phrases vilifying capitalism and Zionism (a movement for the establishment and maintaining of a Jewish ethnoreligious state), painting capitalists as oppressors and the working class as oppressed, and presenting capitalists, Israel, and the West as enemies....

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