WHEREAS, socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time
again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships; and

WHEREAS, socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of
over 100,000,000 people worldwide; and

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 Nicolas Maduro; and

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; and

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; and

WHEREAS, the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a
million people were gruesomely murdered; and

WHEREAS, up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of freedom
from a land of destitution; and

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; and

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; and

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 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."; and

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 RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota, the Senate
concurring, that it denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist
policies in Minnesota and the United States of America.