Observing the rhetoric of the American communists from the DSA, I once again could not resist commenting on this topic, despite the summer vacations. It seems that these people are truly hostages of a poor higher education poisoned by cultural Marxism. Otherwise, there is no other way to explain what they are talking about. The occasion for this note was the claim by DSA leaders that they are not communists, but socialists. It seems they really do not understand what they are talking about. There is no difference between communism and socialism. It is merely a matter of semantics. The main goal of this system is the abolition of private rights and freedoms and their replacement with the dictatorship of abstract classes or groups. So-called collective rights. Therefore, by accusing President Trump of Neo-McCarthyism, the DSA themselves do not realize the insanity of their own statements. This is logical schizophrenia. Although it looks more like blatant incompetence in all historical and political science matters. When Republicans say that the DSA is a path to the Gulag, it is the truth. For this, it is enough to study the psychology of socialism of the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Lenin's Bolshevik party was originally called the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. And only in order to separate Bolshevism from other socialisms was it decided to call it the Communist Party. Adolf Hitler was never a conservative, as the DSA claims. Hitler was a National Socialist. His party was called the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The Assad regime and the Hussein regime, as well as the left's favorite Yasser Arafat, promoted the ideas of Arab socialism. By the way, the ayatollahs of Iran are also religious socialists. Thus, the DSA find themselves in excellent socialist company. More. When the DSA claim that they simply want higher wages and social guarantees, a legitimate question arises. At whose expense? The economic ideology of socialism leads to money being taken from those who work and given to those who do not work. As a result, inflation rises, and all people become impoverished. Unless, of course, you have huge oil reserves, like in Norway. But what is most striking is the lack of understanding among ordinary DSA members of the ideas they preach. They are sincerely convinced that income growth occurs at the whim of the party and the dictatorship of the state bureaucracy, and not thanks to a strong, developed market economy. Thus, they propose to dictate to employers and businessmen how much to pay whom, while not understanding where money actually comes from. The origin of private capital does not arise from exactions, decrees, and taxes, but from the Protestant work ethic of Adam Smith and Max Weber. All communist countries are impoverished dictatorships, except those that have oil and gas reserves. Although even their economic level is quite dubious. Nothing is more contrary to the spirit of the American Constitution, rights, and freedoms than the ideas of the DSA. Not a single socialist has ever stated that they want to build a Gulag. But socialism always ends in dictatorship in one form or another. Because Karl Marx, like Marcuse, drew their inspiration from feudal communes, which ultimately led to the creation of appanage principalities. And today the DSA want to extinguish this last American beacon of evidence of freedom, democracy, and the market, laying it on the altar of mass persecution of people who advocate for the rights of each specific individual. I think communism will receive a fitting rebuff in the United States.

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