Topic: Socialism

The Problem with Mamdani Is Not Socialism July 2, 2025 Robert Weissberg And obsessing over socialism will be a good way to ignore the real issue, and thereby sink America.
The Forgotten Guarantee Clause: Trump’s Constitution Cudgel Against a Radical Mayor July 1, 2025 Huck Davenport While most people are obsessed with Articles I through III of the Constitution, the answer to rising socialism may be hidden in plain sight in Article IV.
Zohran Mamdani Represents The Democrat Party’s Inevitable Drift Left June 30, 2025 Steve McCann Those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.
Taking down civilization May 17, 2025 Richard Jack Rail California reflects the left’s belief that the systems that free people worked hard to build will magically continue despite statist incompetence and ignorance.
Look at all the benefits of socialism! April 1, 2025 D. Parker Venezuela paves the way!
Sanders and AOC: 100 Years of Socialism March 22, 2025 E. Jeffrey Ludwig Today’s commies seem to have no new tricks to pull, so it’s back to the old bag.
The Shadow of Socialism December 3, 2024 Ronald Beaty The DSA's presence in American politics is a stark reminder of the vigilance necessary to protect our republic. 
Will Trump finally end the socialist scourge in America? November 18, 2024 Catherine Sprague He’s promised to do so and if he succeeds, it will be the dawn of a golden age.
America’s ‘most racist organization’ borrows a strategy from the Soviets October 30, 2024 Kathleen Brush More than 100 years ago, Lenin realized that race was America’s Achilles’ heel and sought to exploit it. 
Mujibur Rahman: A Forgotten Socialist Mass-Murderer Of The 20th Century August 23, 2024 Colin C. Cortbus Wherever one looks, socialism leaves behind a legacy of suffering and death on a mass scale, and Bangladesh’s socialist experiment was no exception.
Obama’s Strategy of Socialist Conquest August 19, 2024 Alexander G. Markovsky Barack Obama managed to institute Marxism in America without bothering to organize the proletariat or have a destructive revolution.
Leftists are emulating the Nazis’ words and the National Socialist Welfare State May 23, 2024 D. Parker While the left projects and plays the Hitler card, they emulate the Nazis in calling for the common good before individual good.
More narrative collapse: Fewer than one-in-five Ukrainian ‘refugees’ living in Germany are working, because it’s simply ‘not worth it’ May 14, 2024 Olivia Murray Is it just me, or do “Germany” and “socialism” not belong in the same sentence? Frankly, socialism doesn’t belong anywhere except as an encyclopedic example of an “idiot plot.”
New study: cultural enrichers from sub-Saharan Africa live in French social housing by a ‘hugely disproportionate degree’ April 5, 2024 Olivia Murray Weird—the people with no money, no skills, and no desire to assimilate to the West, turn out to be a huge drain on the taxpayer.
The many disadvantages of an increase in hourly minimum wages April 5, 2024 Uldis Sprogis The long-term benefits are realistically nonexistent.
The Herd is out to trample you April 1, 2024 J.A. Frascino The insurgent Leftist Herd needs to be corralled.  Where are the wranglers?
Chart shows why Argentinians voted for Milei December 23, 2023 Monica Showalter Argentinians had the second-steepest, sharpest fall into poverty from socialism in all South America. Only Venezuela was worse.
New York Times blames oil industry, not socialism, for Venezuela's pollution July 23, 2023 Monica Showalter In a 1,375-word front page story, guess which word was missing?
What's life like in socialist hellholes? Brave Cuban and Venezuelan YouTubers show us on their video channels June 6, 2023 Monica Showalter The information is out there, in living color, on this list of must-watch YouTube channels.
Socialism Persists, But It Ain’t What It Used To Be May 12, 2021 A. Welderson Socialism has been a failure. But the left keeps finding ways to embrace it.
Socialism: The tyranny of the least and the dumbest August 16, 2020 Edward Thal The man who famously said, “God is Dead” also described Socialism as the tyranny of the least and the dumbest. That’s a problem for Socialists because they’re the ones who want God dead.
Why socialism is the pursuit of unhappiness August 13, 2020 Noel S. Williams Where are the happy socialists? 
Do we really want Democrats in charge of health care with complete government control? March 14, 2020 Jack Hellner Killing off old people is how things are done in socialized medicine regimes the world over. Who thinks Democrats running such a system would be at all different?
Socialism and corruption: Joined at the hip in south Florida February 27, 2020 Monica Showalter Funny how Bernie Sanders and all his fellow Democratic candidates never get asked about the humongous scale of corruption in all socialist systems. The prosecutors in Miami know all about it.
The Rebranding of Socialism as 'Democratic Socialism' February 25, 2020 Dave Ball While it may be true that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (Shakespeare) it is also true that socialism by any other name still smells like socialism.
What Would Karl Marx Say If He Met Bernie Sanders? February 8, 2020 Eugene Veklerov Socialism has changed its spot many times throughout the years.
Animated graphic shows Venezuela's year-by-year descent to rock bottom December 23, 2019 Monica Showalter Could a chart like this, showing the linear progression downward of Venezuela under socialism, maybe just change some minds?
Socialist Bolivia heading for the ash heap of history? November 10, 2019 Monica Showalter Socialist dictator and darling of the Eurotrash Evo Morales has this army problem...a big army problem.
About that misfire on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and socialism... September 15, 2019 Monica Showalter Allowing the left to beg the question instead of answer questions about the socialist record.
Press completely opaque to Trump's grip on socialism September 9, 2019 Monica Showalter The Daily Beast is trying to portray Trump as a hypocrite for warning of the dangers of socialism publicly while saying privately that socialism is hard to beat. Actually, that's a warning to them that he's on to their tricks.
Socialism – Its Adherents and the Enduring Lies July 7, 2019 Alexander G. Markovsky The U.S. cultural and intellectual elite has equated the evolution of history with egalitarianism and is holding aloft a banner of socialism.
What people who have lived under socialism, good and hard, will tell you about it May 31, 2019 Brian Tomlinson A career in the energy industry can make anyone privy to the indignities and horrors of on-the-ground socialism.
About that Marxist Roofer: Stemming the Flow Toward Socialism May 30, 2019 Alfredo Ortiz Free market proponents must make their case against socialism today -- before it gains even more widespread cultural appeal. 
Why Not Socialism? May 23, 2019 John Conlin Why not socialism? Because it is based on no factual reality and contradicts many things we know to be scientifically true.  
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist cauliflower for brains May 22, 2019 Monica Showalter The socialist congresswoman from the Bronx is starting to sound like her fellow socialist, People's Temple cult leader Jim Jones, on the matter of tropical urban yuca farming.
Another 'victory' for socialism - Venezuela soars to the top of the world's 2019 misery index April 28, 2019 Monica Showalter ..by a long margin, according to the calculations of Prof. Steve Hanke.
Peru's Alan Garcia — the socialist who came to recognize what socialism does to a country: RIP April 18, 2019 Monica Showalter A sad demise for a once authentic socialist who came to recognize the horrible wages of socialism — and who changed course.
Socialism: The elite and the rubes April 3, 2019 Earick Ward The socialist movement has been content to advance its ideology through the cover of darkness and deceit.
Memo to 2020 voters: Jussie Smollett a reminder of who the 'elites' are March 27, 2019 Monica Showalter America's ruling socialist elites stand exposed as Jussie Smollett walks.
In socialized Venezuela, you pay for all that 'free' single-payer health care — with your vote March 18, 2019 Monica Showalter Hey, lefties! Still want Bernie picking out your doctor?
Hey Ilhan! Hey Alexandria! Venezuela's democratic president wants you to come to Venezuela to see some socialism March 12, 2019 Monica Showalter A new kind of invitation to political pilgrimage for socialism, gals. Have a cup of sewer water and roasted zoo animal. Learn the right way how to dine from the garbage truck.
Can America become socialist? March 7, 2019 Don Wilkie Freedom is a tradeoff: you can't do anything you want, but neither can the government do anything it wants to you.
Aides try to make socialist Commissar Bernie Sanders seem human March 6, 2019 Monica Showalter Trying to put Bernie Sanders through charm school is like trying to make Leonid Brezhnev seem human. Sanders's cold, hard personality is what socialism looks like.
Comrade Ocasio-Cortez has a list... March 1, 2019 Monica Showalter Show trials next for uncooperative Democrats, Commissar Ocasio-Cortez?
Bernie blows his big chance to explain socialism in Venezuela February 22, 2019 Monica Showalter The aging socialist Demcratic presidential candidate got a softball MSNBC interviewer asking him about Venezuela, and all he could utter was boilerplate dreck to deflect the questions.
Finally, the Democrats openly acknowledge their socialism February 17, 2019 Peter Barry Chowka Masks are slipping away on the progressive left, as the 2020 election comes into focus
The Democrats: The Party of Kremlin Dreamers February 12, 2019 Alexander G. Markovsky Has the isolation from the world's turmoil that America has enjoyed over 250 years inhibited our capacity to understand the vulnerabilities of our republic and the fragility of constitutional restraints? 
Maduro waddles into military training with Venezuela's troops to win them over February 9, 2019 Monica Showalter Just how bad is it for Venezuela's embattled dictator, Nicolás Maduro?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fails miserably at dissociating her socialism from Venezuela's February 7, 2019 Monica Showalter The socialist 'it girl' tried to dissociate her brand of socialism from Venezuela's after the president's State of the Union address, with a string of lies dating back from the 1960s.
Bernie Sanders warns about US, not Russian, intervention in Venezuela January 25, 2019 Monica Showalter Bernie should be apologizing for his praise of Venezuela's socialist model. Instead, he's out there warning on Twitter that the real danger is U.S. "intervention."
Vatican News touts Cuba's Castroite revolution in now deleted tweet January 7, 2019 Monica Showalter Disgraceful tweet from Vatican News, assuming it's accurate, hints at more leftism swamping the faith than we might suppose.
Another smackdown for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this time from an economic heavyweight December 8, 2018 Monica Showalter Demonstrating how connected socialism is with stupidity....  
Who's the Mother of All Slumlords over in tumbledown Havana? December 5, 2018 Monica Showalter Hint: It's what Bernie Sanders has in mind for us.
Things fall apart November 22, 2018 James Mullin If you like things in your life to function, then think very, very seriously about not electing socialists. 
New York's subway riders are going Galt November 20, 2018 Monica Showalter The man brought in to fix the mess on New York's famous MTA says the socialist system is now so out of other people's money that it's in a "death spiral."
De Blasio admits his 'socialist impulse' and lust for control of construction, tenants, and rent of apartments November 20, 2018 Thomas Lifson "The world I'd like to see" has an all-powerful government making decisions about housing construction, pricing, and tenants.
Had to happen: Democratic presidential candidate proposes China-style social credit system here November 18, 2018 Monica Showalter Oh, but ours will be a really good socialist social credit system...  
Trump issues 72-page report warning about the dangers of 'socialism' October 24, 2018 Monica Showalter It's a long-needed antidote to one of the world's worst plagues.
From Russian Bolsheviks to American Socialists October 23, 2018 Alexander G. Markovsky The socialist dragon has come of age and poses the existential threat to our way of life. 
Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case against Marx's Radical Dream October 9, 2018 Jay Lehr Younger Americans have not experienced up close and personal the true evils of socialism and communism.
Socialism at its finest: Most NY kids can't get any of that vaunted 'free' education September 20, 2018 Monica Showalter Free stuff in action isn't working out quite the way they said it would in New York's free-public-education-for-all rollout.
California's taxes and greenie laws breaching the gates of even Silicon Valley August 31, 2018 Monica Showalter Funny how that happens in the very Silicon Valley that represses free-market conservative dissent and elects just Democrats to raise its taxes.
How Much Does Socialism Cost? August 24, 2018 Anna L. Stark The true cost of socialism is far higher than what anyone wants to pay.
Venezuela's economy in complete collapse – and the mother of all human waves outward begins August 21, 2018 Monica Showalter Under the guise of fixing Venezuela's collapsing socialist economy, the Maduro regime has destroyed it – and some scary reports of vast human waves of migration are about to come.
Child-catchers: A feature, not a bug, in socialist Norway August 18, 2018 Monica Showalter Under Norway's socialism, the state is all-powerful in determining who the fit parent is.
Socialism and Equality August 4, 2018 David Solway Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a lightweight even on the Bernie Sanders scale, is merely the latest in a long line of what we call today "democratic socialists."
Sunday Schadenfreude: Seems working for socialist Comrade de Blasio isn't much fun for a SJW July 29, 2018 Monica Showalter A social justice warrior is amazed to find out how socialism works in Bill de Blasio's New York.
Oops! Seattle's new streetcars may be too big to fit tracks and maintenance barn July 26, 2018 Thomas Lifson Hey, Democratic Socialists: Tell me why it is a good idea to let the government do more and more of the tasks our economy needs done.
It's not socialism. It's free stuff July 24, 2018 Earick Ward How do we fight free stuff?  
Hell in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba puts Democrats and their beloved S-word on the spot in Florida July 21, 2018 Monica Showalter Miami Herald center-left columnist Andres Oppenheimer warns that Democrats had better start speaking out about the hell-holes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua if they want to win in that state. They aren't.
Socialism in the botanical garden: Why Venezuela can't have nice things July 21, 2018 Monica Showalter You can just imagine what Venezuela's botanical garden looks like. Can you say 'wasteland' in Spanish?
Will Time magazine put this photo of a starving Venezuelan on its cover, too? July 13, 2018 Monica Showalter Starvation photos to shock the conscience. Will Time magazine put those on its cover, too?
Mexico's presidential frontrunner promises Mexicans a new goodie: Flight from his socialist rule June 23, 2018 Monica Showalter Socialist Andrés Manuel López-Obrador, currently the frontrunner in Mexico's presidential election on July 1, has a wonderful goodie to offer the Mexican descamisados: the right to flee the coming hell of his socialist regime.
As the US bails out Venezuela's refugees, why isn't it condemning the horrors of socialism? May 14, 2018 Monica Showalter As long as we're paying for the clean-up of the socialist nightmare in Venezuela, shouldn't we be saying something about what the problem is?
Obamacare's latest 21,904 dead bodies March 8, 2018 Monica Showalter A new report out shows that more than 20,000 Americans have died waiting for care as a result of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
More socialism: Deadbeat Venezuela evicted from its own consulate in Miami February 23, 2018 Monica Showalter Call it the wages of socialism: Venezuela's consulate has been evicted for non-payment of its rent since August.
At Davos, top British leftist claims Venezuela's problem is that it was not socialist enough January 29, 2018 Monica Showalter U.K. Marxist and top Labour Party leader John McDonnell is sneakily trying to extricate himself from association with Venezuela's socialist disaster.  
Venezuela defaults on its debt, blames Trump November 15, 2017 Monica Showalter A sure sign Venezuela is never going to crawl out of its socialist hole.
The triumph of Bill Ayers November 12, 2017 Monica Showalter A poll shows that most millenials prefer socialism or communism to capitalism, DSA's membership has quintupled, and socialists are getting elected to high office. Bill Ayers is smiling.
Communistcare? Bernie Sanders's new health scheme would make Mao blush September 1, 2017 Monica Showalter Bernie Sanders has cooked up a health care scheme to the left of those found in communist countries such as China.
Kasich misses the Democrats' elephant in the room August 28, 2017 Monica Showalter John Kasich claims that Democrats stand for nothing more than hating on Trump.  This is baloney.  With a socialist record to hide, the anti-Trump strategy is all they have left.
Socialists create youth shortages in California August 14, 2017 Monica Showalter Socialism produces shortages wherever it's tried, and it's perfectly evident in California, where coastal cities have managed to chase out young growing families, a new report shows.
The Death Spiral of Socialism July 3, 2017 Eileen F. Toplansky The march toward European totalitarianism goes on.
Refugees from socialism: The next migrant wave won't be from ISIS June 22, 2017 Monica Showalter Venezuela has a surprise for us, courtesy of socialism.
Two of American Thinker’s 'senior readers' grieve for America’s future May 14, 2017 Susan D. Harris Two elderly readers of American Thinker give their state of the union to one of our writers, with startling clarity.
Hold the celebrity enablers of Venezuela's hellhole accountable April 23, 2017 Monica Showalter Venezuela is a grotesque gangster thug regime. Where are the celebrities who told us over the years how great this socialist regime really was?
Elizabeth Warren's book says socialism will work like it's never worked before April 19, 2017 Ed Straker Liz Warren's new book, This Fight Is Our Fight, says ordinary folk could do better economically if we only had more government control and less individual freedom.
What a Tangled Web September 4, 2016 Deana Chadwell Those in the socialist half of this society have been pretending theirs is a winning option ever since Woodrow Wilson and the graduated income tax.
New York Times reports on desperate hunger and starvation in Venezuela, but omits mention of ‘socialism’ June 20, 2016 Thomas Lifson Covering up the evils perpetrated by socialism, just as assiduously as the Obama administration is covering up Islam’s root cause role in global violent jihad terrorism.
Thinking the unthinkable: Could Sanders take the Dem nomination (and win the presidency, too)? April 15, 2016 Thomas Lifson A nightmare scenario looms more and more realistically. Time to fear the Bern.
The Four Types of Socialists February 11, 2016 Tom Trinko Socialists reject the idea that the government serves the people and embrace the idea that the government rules the people. 
So What's Wrong with Socialism Anyway? September 10, 2015 James Arlandson What if Leftists rebrand their ideology and hide it under a current political party in American politics? 
Venezuelan socialism accomplishes the impossible, starts importing oil September 8, 2014 Thomas Lifson The country claiming the world’s largest oil reserves is now reduced to importing oil.
New York City: A Pay More, Get Less Sinkhole February 15, 2014 William A. Levinson If New York has no use for us, then we have no use for New York.
Deconstructing the Socialists February 6, 2014 Anthony Benvin Perhaps we see socialism through the romanticized superficiality of its ethic.
Forward January 19, 2014 Aleksey Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
The Affordable Care Act First does Harm, Period December 13, 2013 Lloyd Billingsley ObamaCare follows a principle beloved of Karl Marx: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Morality, Anti-Morality, and Socialism December 1, 2013 Deborah C. Tyler Progressivism is the fear that someone, somewhere is behaving morally.
De Blasio and the "Heavy Hand of Government" November 19, 2013 Victor Keith Da Mayor lays it on the line.
ObamaCare: Socialist Trojan Horse in a Free-Market Troy November 1, 2013 Michael Grable Everything that a benevolent government must do for you ultimately equates to nothing that a malevolent government can't do to you.
Europe Declares the Welfare State Dead September 24, 2013 Chriss Street The European welfare state hits the wall just as Obama sends the U.S. off on the same trajectory.
Egypt Runs Out of Other Peoples' Money July 2, 2013 Christopher Chantrill You have to keep throwing in nuts if you want the squirrels to turn that wheel.
The Larger Lessons of the IRS Scandal June 6, 2013 Ron Ross Far from being merely a one-time error, the IRS scandal is the result of inherent flaws in the system.
If I Were a Lefty Strongman March 12, 2013 Christopher Chantrill Capitalism says: give up the dog-in-a-manger guild mentality and I will cover you with riches. But most people choose to hang on like grim death to their paltry privileges.
The Socialist Mind Game: A Brief Manual January 2, 2013 Oleg Atbashian We are being played; it's time we learned the game. A holiday must-read, held over
Blameless New World December 21, 2012 Bruce Johnson Why do you think there's always somebody to blame?
Militant Socialism in America November 29, 2012 Eileen F. Toplansky We need to be better marketers for liberty. We need to call Obama out when he creates a web of deceit. If he can come up with one-liners for his party line, so can we.
Orwell's Struggle May Be Over November 22, 2012 Ed Kaitz For George Orwell, being regimented or pushed around by the state is, in the end, far more preferable than the "tyranny" of free competition.
Socialism as Religion November 22, 2012 Glenn Fairman Socialism interprets the cultivation of our search and longing after God as, at best, a narcotic towards despair, and at worse, a retrograde abstention from the obligations of our humanist morality.
Two Vital Lessons November 19, 2012 Glenn Fairman America is on the verge of learning several vital lessons in the realms of economic and moral economy: lessons saturated in pain and hardship and as anchored in nature as universal gravitation or the science of hydraulics.
Why a Typical Honest Russian Immigrant Hates Obama November 1, 2012 Alla Axelrod I did socialism already. I -- and those like me -- don't want to do it again.
Why Communism Works and Socialism Does Not October 29, 2012 Robert Arvay Socialism is not a bridge to communism. It will never get us there. On the contrary, it is a dead end, or worse, a road that leads off the edge of a cliff.
Obama's Taqqiya Unravels October 28, 2012 Nonie Darwish Free democracies, such as the United States, are alien to Islam and socialism both because they regard government as a servant of the people and hold that human rights are granted by God and not by government or the code of Sharia.
Equal in Ignorance October 21, 2012 Judith Weizner In la belle France it seems some parents are better equipped than others to help their children with schoolwork, thus giving them an unfair advantage.
A Shot at What? October 3, 2012 Anthony J. Ciani President Obama has consistently ruled with the highly fluid, novel, unfair, and unjust definitions of "fairness" and "justice" that are commonly found in socialism.
Watch That Last Step, It's a Doozy September 22, 2012 Daren Jonescu What are the real, practical mechanisms whereby socialists have co-opted most of the Western world over the past hundred years without awakening the majority of the population?
The Worldwide Consequences of Obama's Manufactured Crisis Strategy September 20, 2012 James Simpson A fundamental change in our government toward socialism will spell worldwide economic disaster from which we may never recover.
Is America's Dance with Utopian Socialism Ending? September 7, 2012 Lee Cary Since January 2009, America has been dancing with utopian socialism -- whether we wanted to or not. Many of us haven't liked it. Just how many remains to be seen.
Socialist? Communist? Three Questions for Obama July 18, 2012 Paul Kengor Where's the conversion narrative for Obama, for when he left his Marxism behind? We don't know of one, and the scandalously biased pro-Obama media will not bother to ask. We know why: they're afraid of the answer.
Socialism, by Any Other Name, Is Still Socialism May 26, 2012 William Sullivan The Washington Post heralded the election of François Hollande in France as the dawn of a new era, and the birth of a new breed of socialism. It is described as "free-market social democracy -- a pragmatic ideology." Sorry. Not even close.
U.N. Report: Happiness Is...World Socialism April 9, 2012 Daren Jonescu According to the United Nations' new "World Happiness Report," European socialism is the road to well-being, and it ought to be imposed on all mankind.
Taking Socialism Seriously February 21, 2012 Larrey Anderson In a master/slave world there is no right or wrong. There are the strong and the weak (the rich and the poor). Socialism sees the world through the prism of master/slave.
The Social Welfare State, Compassion, and Political Self-Interest January 26, 2012 Monty Pelerin It's now apparent that the siren song of Socialism contains the seeds of destruction that threaten the very foundations of civilization.