“A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his ‘Communism will win’ message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying ‘Modern Arab intellectual history'”, reports Campus Reform:
In 2017, Spenser Rapone displayed various Marxist messages, such as wearing a Che Guevara shirt beneath his official West Point uniform…
Rapone entered the [University of Texas] Ph.D. program in 2020. His university biography cites his interests as “decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, [and] consciousness,”
Two investigations were launched after Rapone’s communist sentiments were exposed: one by his unit of assignment, the 10th Mountain Division, and another to examine United States Military Academy policies regarding “his suitability for graduation and commissioning.”
Rapone also made headlines in 2018, when he left the U.S. Army under other-than-honorable discharge after a full investigation. As reported by The Associated Press, Rapone resigned due to “conduct unbecoming of an officer” and admittedly advocated online for a socialist revolution.
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” Rapone told The Associated Press at the time. “I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”
In 2018, Rapone also wrote several articles directed towards U.S. servicemen, encouraging active duty soldiers to ignore deployment to the southern border if ordered. In a separate article, he condemned West Point’s “totems of white supremacy” and denounced America’s Founding Fathers as “white, slave-owning, propertied males.”
Rapone was accepted into UT’s graduate program after these sentiments and investigations were revealed to the general public. Admission into the graduate program is highly competitive, with only “exceptionally qualified” students with “considerable academic potential” getting accepted.
According to his curriculum vitae, Rapone served as a teaching assistant for UT classes such as “History of the Black Power Movement.”
In a sane world, calling on your fellow troops “to lay down their arms”, refuse deployment, and then join a revolution, would be treated as disloyalty and punished by imprisonment.
Rapone reveres Che Guevara, the Cuban communist who tortured and killed many people, including children. Guevara helped install the brutal Castro regime in Cuba, which resulted in Cuba being poorer, more backward and eventually less healthy. Guevara, who called himself “Stalin II,” after the Communist Soviet dictator whose regime killed at least 20 million people. As Human Progress reported,
Che Guevara also helped establish the first Cuban concentration camp in Guanahacabibes in 1960. This camp was the first of many. From the Nazis, the Cuban government also adapted the motto at Auschwitz, “Work sets you free,” changing it to “Work will make you men.” According to Álvaro Vargas Llosa, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and others who were believed to have committed a crime against revolutionary morals, were forced to work in these camps to correct their “anti-social behavior.” Many of them died; others were tortured or raped.
