Karl Marx believed that “Democracy is the road to socialism.” Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left.
Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems.
A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the “warmth of collectivism.” The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like “Imagine the end of capitalism.” Those words promise voters that there is a brave new world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation… are common goods and utilities.”
What is incredible is that many are buying this pitch.
It is also ironic that this is happening not just on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence but also on the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations.
As I write in Rage and the Republic:
“While he never visited the United States, his theories seemed quintessentially American to many of his generation. For a revolution that was triggered by tariffs and fueled by events like the Boston Tea Party, Smith’s general principles read like an economic version of Common Sense. It was a type of declaration of independence not just from the British policy of mercantilism (emphasizing British exports over imports) but from economic controls over individual productivity and self-determination….
In summary, Smith was first and foremost viewed as a political theorist, and his economic theories were closely tied to his views on the natural liberties of humanity. He saw capitalism as a liberating system for individuals to allow them the wealth and resources to pursue their own chosen paths. Conversely, he saw government controls and subsidies as forms of control and potentially forms of suppression of the human will. If people are to be truly free, they must have the resources to pursue that freedom. The government dole can become a type of servitude or at least a subterfuge for citizens. If they are dependent on the government, they are never truly free.”
The book compares many of these proposals to identical policies of the Jacobin movement in the French Revolution. Both the American and French revolutions arose during the same period, but one became the world’s oldest democracy while the other became the blood-soaked “The Reign of Terror.”
Notably, the Jacobins pushed for the same unicameral system that the socialists are now advocating as well as attacks on the wealthy.
The DSA is the direct descendant of the Jacobins in seeking to tear down moderating institutions and replace the president and justices with democratically elected figures by a Congress composed only of the House of Representatives.
As with the original Jacobins, those demanding these changes are not the working class but professors, pundits and young college-educated voters.
Pushing this analogy to a more menacing level, another poll shows that roughly 60 percent of Democrats now would support a military coup to remove President Donald Trump.
The return of socialism is like the reappearance of low-rise jeans. You are left mystified by anyone who believes that this is a worthy theory to emulate after consistent and catastrophic failures. Long forgotten is the disaster of the socialist government of François Mitterrand in France.
Most recently, Prime Minister Andy Burnham condemned the privatization policies of Margaret Thatcher: “The country surrendered control of the essentials — housing, water, energy, transport — and left people exposed to higher costs.” What he does not mention is that she followed the collapse of socialist policies under Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977–78 during the so-called “winter of discontent,” which I also discuss in the book.
Perhaps Marx was right after all: “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
Jonathan Turley is the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
As Hannity would say, “UnBalieveAGable!”
Israel firsters need not be concerned. Regardless whoever or whatever is in charge in the United States, it’s true capital shall always and forever be Tel Aviv. The land of Perpetual War is always ready create out of thin air a reason for Americans to bleed blood and treasure for its israeli Homeland.
I say amen and amen.
True Dat, brudha!
So you’d like to see Israel disappear? Israel’s one country that repays America and then some with technology and intelligence. Try to rely on Jordan or Egypt and see how well that works.
Local, state and federal task forces have been practicing covert blacklisting torture for over 25 years now.
The Judicial Branch refuses to do their judicial review duty for 25+ years.
The U.S. Constitution has been totally meaningless for the entire 21st Century. Maybe that’s more important than partisan electioneering?
Shouldn’t this torture program of native born citizens – many with no criminal records and no confrontation – be Turley’s #1 priority?
Ni, it shouldn’t.
If it is covert then you don’t know about it. Therefore it’s obvious you’re making shit up.
More proof of the systemic failure of the USA educational system.
Like I really believe a poll that queried 1200 people out of 330 million as being legitimate.
“Polls” are nonsense. They are more algorithm than poll. Almost no one answers their phone when they don’t recognize the number. Almost no one responds to text messages asking them to fill out a brief survey. The few who do are then used to extrapolate to the general population. Tweak a few variables in that extrapolation, and the number could be 25% or 75%.
Arguing about polls with 5% response rates is stupid. Lonely cat ladies are not representative of the general population.
“The Socialist Chic: Almost Half of Americans Now Hold Positive Views of Socialism”
Proof half of Americans are either ignorant, stupid or both.
Socialism/Communism has a history. A history of poverty, repression, labor camps and political executions. All you have to do is read about that to enlighten yourself.
Yet half of Americans are to ignorant, stupid or lazy to do that.
But this time it’s different. That’s the new mantra.
“Proof half of Americans are either ignorant, stupid or both.” So you’re one if the “half”. Because you sure do sound stupid and ignorant. Gotta give those MAGAots credit for knowing their own deficits.
Define a woman then Mr. Rocket Scientist.
Nothing saddens me more than the indoctrination of the college students, their professors and elitists that look down their noses to the plebes while assuaging their elitist guilt. It’s being pushed by the elites but the gullible are starting to latch onto this dangerous “utopian” road painted with fake flowers. Socialism is now romanticized to be this “us vs them” uprising of people who THINK they have an egalitarian conscience.
Socialism is nothing more than a fig leaf for communism. Tender all of our choices and hard work to the government? The nanny state will take care of us? It always devolves into totalitarianism. Hence the Venezuelas of our world. One of my clients who was originally from Poland, came to the States in the ’70’s and became an American citizen. I asked her, “What makes you love America?”. Her answer: ” I love the “can-do” spirit of Americans!” I ask, when the Berlin Wall fell which way were people moving? Those who follow this DSA road are nothing but gullible suckers. I truly feel sorry for them, but I also fear them. The road to socialism is Gad Saad’s coined saying “Suicidal Empathy”.
If this movement doesn’t go the way of the Tea Party and gains momentum, our country is doomed to become like the malcontent French: A sclerotic shell of a once proud country. I know what I’m talking about: I was born in France, love the country, am happy to visit my relatives, but am a proud and grateful American citizen.
One of my clients was originally from Poland, came to the States in the ’70’s and became an American citizen. I asked her, “What makes you love America?”. Her answer: ” I love the
“can-do” spirit of Americans!” That “can-do” spirit will tragically dwindle to a vague memory if we continue down this socialist road.
Turley: “Socialism is now the rage on the left.”
That probably is why they want to pack the Supreme Court until it looks and sounds like The View.
Young, this court was paid for by Charles Koch via Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. They’re totally committed to Libertarianism with peculiar sympathy for religion. And coincidentally Leonard Leo happens to be a Catholic activist.
So the conservatives on this court are a strange mix of Libertarianism and organized religion. In other words, ‘They don’t represent any real America’. It’s just their ‘own’ America.
Proof? Or just made up crap?
Made up crap. Typical leftist stupidity.
Made up crap. Typical rightist stupidity.
Anon: ‘They don’t represent any real America’. It’s just their ‘own’ America.’
Representation is for politicians.
The Court is there to interpret the law, not to represent.
The Democrats make no secret that they want the Court filled with politicians.
At that moment it ceases to be a real Court and becomes a sordid caricature of a Court like those in the Soviet Union or China.
Young,
Well said and spot on.
Young, I’m afraid the left doesn’t understand the point behind: “The Court is there to interpret the law, not to represent.”
The left seems to think it’s at a school ballgame. When their child acts poorly and the referee benches him, everyone rooting for the child’s team goes wild. They don’t see a referee enforcing the rules; they see someone hurting their side. There is little sense of justice, only loyalty to the team.
When that child grows into a leftist, the same instinct remains: little regard for right and wrong, as long as their side wins.
Moronamous
The job of the Court is not to represent America, their job is to review and interpret legal decisions against the fundamental rights provided under the Constitution.
Of course, nearly the majority of the dupes, dopes, and dummies are compelled to love communism, socialism, and islamism. They’ve been programmed by the public schools and the colleges and universities which are today 99% run by Far-Leftist scoundrels. They are now mostly Leftist Indoctrination Entities (aka “LIEs”). The LIEs have programmed the youth of America to crave communism, socialism, and islamism. The LIE assemply lines continue to chrurn out new dupes, dopes, and dummies. In time, they will be the majority of the people in America. “Bad money drives out good,” as the saying goes.
AfrObongo: “Old men clinging to power.”
American Reality: Americans taking back their country from illegal alien invaders.
Perhaps Marx was right after all: “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.
Many of us have familes, loved ones, careers, and purpose in life. Those on the Left have none of these. They are infertile, empty, lack personal drive and are envious of others who succeded where they failed for lack of effort and self-respect. In the end socialism is a contempt for the self, hoisting onto another personal responsibility.
Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society. It has been tried in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, China, East Germany, Cuba, Tanzania, Benin, Laos, Algeria, South Yemen, Somalia, the Congo, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua and Venezuela, among others. All of these attempts have ended in varying degrees of failure. How can an idea, which has failed so many times, in so many different variants and so many radically different settings, still be so popular? It is because socialists have successfully managed to distance themselves from those examples.
Just as ironically, the enthusiasm of Western intellectuals for China began to fade when the most murderous period was over… Western intellectuals had lavishly heaped praise on China when millions of Chinese people were starving or worked to death in forced labour camps. But when a programme of relative liberalisation lifted millions of people out of poverty, those intellectuals were conspicuous by their silence. Market-based reform programmes, no matter how successful, will never inspire pilgrimages.
from:
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Failed-Idea-That-Never/dp/0255367708/
But what experience and history teach is this, – that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”
“It is because socialists have successfully managed to distance themselves from those examples.”
They achieved that distancing by using, among others, this anti-intellectual tactic:
Socialism is good in theory. But in the past, it was implemented by bad people. This time, we have better people.
This time will be different. No it won’t.
How do you know? Ever lived a socialist country?
Socialism is good in theory. But in the past, it was implemented by bad people. This time, we have better people.
Son of Fulgencio Batista responds:
Roberto Batista: In my eyes, my father’s government had two stages: from 1952 to 1954, after the coup, he was a dictator with absolute power. However, in 1954 they elected him president, and although it is true that the opposition did not participate in the elections, there were senators and representatives of the opposition in the Cuban Chambers, and he reestablished the Constitution of 1940 with all the necessary guarantees. That is acknowledged. It was in this very fruitful period that he launched Cuba into its greatest known prosperity.
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Estovir: Capitalism launched Cuba into the legendary Latin American country for which it is remembered prior to Fidel Castro destroying it.
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Yaiza Santos: You do not shy away from controversy. For example, regarding Batista’s alleged corruption, you concede: “Did he abuse power so much, embezzle public money? Corrupt, tyrant? My son’s heart makes me think that, at home, he was a great father, understanding, home-loving and very tender. However, his inner strength could have played a trick on him and he perhaps went beyond the limits of what was constitutionally allowed.”
Roberto Batista: My father was a born entrepreneur, a man of great inner strength, and this led him to commit that coup. Sometimes the boundaries were crossed, but it must be taken into account that, in that Cuba, there were very disturbing elements, sabotage in the cities, attacks, an opposition that continuously advocated against the Government, so a completely desperate public order was created. In a Cuba that had practically already entered a civil war, outrages were committed on both sides. But it was never true, as Bohemia magazine went on to say and later denied, that my father had caused 20,000 deaths. Between one side and the other, no more than a thousand deaths were caused, and that too is proven.
Yaiza Santos: Why is communism still being respected?
Roberto Batista: That is believed by fools. After seeing the horror of Cuba, 62 years of a totalitarian, repressive and cruel dictatorship, plus Maduro’s Bolivarian Bolsheviks, who can believe that communism can be something beneficial for a country, since the only thing it brings is misery and lack of respect for others? As much as they camouflage things, at the moment of truth they are regimes called to the most absolute failure.
April 30, 2021
https://translatingcuba.com/my-fathers-two-great-mistakes-the-1952-coup-detat-and-freeing-fidel-castro-in-1956/
Democrats have engendered within Americans a contempt for each other, a disrespect for life itself.
Estovir,
“They are infertile, empty, lack personal drive and are envious of others who succeded where they failed for lack of effort and self-respect.”
That is the part that I think is their lack of some kind of drive, ambition, meaning in their empty life. Rather, they want someone else to do the work for them, to include thinking, then do it themselves. I cannot imagine living a life in which someone else is in control.
Shabbat shalom everyone 🥳🍾🎂🎊🎉🎁💯🥰🎊🥳🍞🍷🍞🍷🍞🍷
Need For Safety Nets Here On Blog
The commenter first known as ‘Estovir’ continues posting under endless names and anonymouses even though he’s been thoroughly exposed as a puppet master.
One can only conclude that Estovir is poor and getting paid to comment by who knows who.
Estovir could be handicapped or the caregiver to someone with dementia, perhaps. Or Estovir possibly lives in a rural area where jobs are hard to come by.
Whatever his situation might be, Estovir seriously needs the income this job provides. So quitting out of frustration may not be an option.
Estovir is determined to keep plugging away until whoever is paying him finally says, “That’s enough, Estovir. You’ve done all you can.”
So the obvious question becomes, ‘What government benefits is Estovir collecting?’
The answer might encompass Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Workers Comp, Disability Benefits, etc, etc.
If Estovir needs those benefits, that’s what they’re for. But when he sits around all day generating posts about the evils of socialism, that’s pure hypocrisy!
PSYCHO ANON STRIKES AGAIN!! Need For Safety Nets Here On Blog?? YES! GET RID OF THIS ANON!! A PSYCHO!!
BAN THE BOBBSEY TWINS FOR LIFE!
Unfortunately there are only three people on this forum: 2 liberals and Estovir.
Imagine having no self-respect, being such a lonely empty carcass, as to spend your life seeking attention on someone else’s internet blog. It is hard to think of someone so depraved yet here he is, accusing others of that which he reflects inherently hourly.
There go we by the grace of God…and having a set of tεsτιclεs
What benefits are you collecting, Estovir??
OBVIOUSLY you’re not putting in 70 hours per week just for fun. Just keeping track of all your posts is considerable work.
OBVIOUSLY ANON IS A PSYCHO!!
Good grief! YOU post far more often than Estovir – we would be better served by finding out who is paying you!
Plus, your posts are non-sensical, bile-filled leftist garbage. I lose brain cells if I even scan-read one of your diatribes…
Allen,
Well said!
The annony is truly delusional, believing Estovir is making all these comments.
Estovir,
Great comment.
One has to wonder why someone has lived such an empty life to have to resort to having to troll a blog with useless, meaningless, comments all day, everyday?
It does go back to your previous comment at 7:38PM, “They are infertile, empty, lack personal drive and are envious of others who succeded where they failed for lack of effort and self-respect.”
The annony is a perfect example of exactly that.
However do they get to that place in life?
The evils of socalism are well established.
It is incredibly hypocritical for someone who posts as anonymous to make identity related claims regarding someone who does not.
It is even more hypocritical as even the NYT is now reporting that there are thousands of paid left wing nut posters out there.
If some organization or group wishes to pay those of us who are correctlined the lies of left wing nuts – I am perfectly happy to take their money.
No person or organization has made such and offer.
If those of you on the left are getting paid – Congratulations your a capitalist and an enormous hypocrit.
But whats new.
Regardless the idiotic attacks on posters – espcially named posters – whether from the left or right are just fallacious nonsense.
Anyone who puts a name to their posts is more credible than anyone who does not – regardless of their politics.
Everyone is entitle to post anonymously – I accidentally posted anonymously yesterday several times because my browser lost my identity here and I did not notice. Regardless it is everyone’s right to speak anonymously
But credibility and respect are not rights and you can not earn them anonymously.
If some poster – left or right is actually able to post 20 times a day under 4 different names – more power to them.
And if they are being paid to do so – welcome to free market capitalism, and if you are on the left – which is where what evidence we have suggests all or most paid posters come from welcome to massive hypocrisy.
Regardless you are free to post are often or as little as you wish. You are free to post large posts, bad grammar, misspelled or stupid posts.
You are free to post as offensively as wordpress will allow – and you are brain dead if you can not work arround those limits.
But you re not entitled to respect or credibility. Those are not rights. And you can not earn them posting anonymously.
John Say,
Great comment.
Last year, some guy who runs a “Rent a Mob,” business admitted these were not organic, grass roots ran protests but paid for.
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/rent-a-crowd-ceo-reveals-vast-majority-of-protesters-are-getting-paid-as-trump-takes-control-of-d-c-police/
And,
“Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17 movement have approached us, and in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million,” Crowds on Demand CEO Adam Swart told News Nation.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/16/ceo-of-crowds-on-demand-says-he-was-offered-20m-to-recruit-demonstrators-for-upcoming-anti-trump-protests/
Kinda funny how MSM tries to slant these protests as the will of the people, when it is just capitalism at its best.
The annony has never earned things like respect or credibility. That also would require character.
Charlie Kirk was clearing $80 million a year for his “grass roots” operations.
He didn’t get shot until he said that Israel was doing bad things in Gaza.
Anyhow:
In 2024, the Texas Observer reported that hotelier and Republican political donor Monty Bennett hired Crowds on Demand to create a network of advocacy groups in Dallas, Texas to influence local politics. One of those groups, Dallas Justice Now, was a hoax local Black Lives Matter organization that drew national controversy in 2021 for sending letters urging wealthy white families to not send their children to Ivy League universities. A pro-police group, Keep Dallas Safe, was found to have used the same Republican marketing firm as Dallas Justice Now in 2021, initially denied any connection to Dallas Justice Now, and was revealed to be a Crowds on Demand project in 2024.
There is no proof you put your name to any post; a stage name is as anonymous as any other; a real name among stage names is anonymous as well.
For example:
Sir John Say (1415 – 12 April 1478) was an English courtier, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons.
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John Say Obituary
Published by Morrison Funeral Home Inc on Apr. 24, 2019.
John was born on July 17, 1940 and passed away on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. John was a resident of Pennsylvania at the time of passing.
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So far the lack of respect is clearly mutual and you have earned it.