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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 9 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 7, 2023 

Received; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Denouncing the horrors of socialism. 

Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of 

power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships; 

Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass 

murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people 

worldwide; 


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Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, 

Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim 

Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and 

Nicola ́s Maduro; 

Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at 

least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the 

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and millions 

more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in 

Ukraine; 

Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved 

to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused 

by the Great Leap Forward in China; 

Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely 

murdered; 

Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North 

Korea, dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution; 

Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of 

Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, 

and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their 

backs; 

Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has 

turned a once-prosperous nation into a failed State with 

the world’s highest rate of inflation; 

Whereas the author of the Declaration of Independence, 

President Thomas Jefferson, wrote, ‘‘To take from one, 

because it is thought that his own industry and that of 

his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to 


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others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle 

of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.’’; 

Whereas the ‘‘Father of the Constitution’’, President James 

Madison, wrote that it ‘‘is not a just government, nor is 

property secure under it, where the property which a man 

has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated 

by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest’’; and 

Whereas the United States of America was founded on the 

belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the 

collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That Congress denounces socialism in all its 

3 forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies 

4 in the United States of America. 

Passed the House of Representatives February 2, 

2023. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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