WASHINGTON—The House passed a resolution on Nov. 21 denouncing the “horrors of socialism.”

The tally was 285–98 with two voting “present.” There were 86 Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), a daughter of Cuban immigrants who fled the communist regime of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were 63 cosponsors.

The resolution states that “socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships” and “has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over [100 million] people worldwide.”

The measure calls out former Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin, former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Castro, former Cambodian leader Pol Pot, former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as men who committed some of the greatest crimes in history as part of their socialist ideology.

“Tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least [10 million] people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine [in Ukraine],” it reads.

The resolution states that the Great Leap Forward in China under Mao killed between 15 million and 55 million people through starvation caused by famine and devastation.

Moreover, it recalls that socialism in Cambodia “led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered.”

The measure notes that as many as 3.5 million people are starving in North Korea, a communist regime.

“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,” it states.

The resolution also notes that “the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world.”

It quotes former President Thomas Jefferson: “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.”

The resolution also quotes former President James Madison, who said 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.”

Finally, the measure states that “the United States 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.”

The resolution came as New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, visited the White House on Nov. 21 to meet with President Donald Trump, who has called Mamdani a “communist.”