Democrats Are Fighting Over Socialism, and the Socialists Are Winning
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
I do not think that means what you think it means.
The seemingly new version of socialism advocated by many on the left today has all too many flaws in common with old kind.
Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
The HBO series is a powerful portrait of the political and social rot that occurs in authoritarian regimes.
Capitalism isn't conservative when it comes to social and economic life. It provides exactly the sort of "bold, structural changes" socialists want but inevitably botch.
Like so many of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success
Marx “was a champion of free trade, and no friend of tariff barriers.”
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates. There will be unintended consequences.
Designing and implementing a government-run health plan would raise many difficult questions.
He's a centrist compared to Sanders, but he's also a classic big-government liberal.
The Vermont socialist can muster a lot of emotional outrage at CEO pay, but his argument about a "moral economy" doesn't add up.
More violence hit Venezuela today following opposition leader Juan Guaidó's calls for the military to abandon the Maduro government.
A libertarian goes to a conference on socialism and finds some surprising similarities.
The democratic socialist gets rich—and makes the argument for capitalism.
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Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.
Media personalities claim socialism didn't cause Venezuela's collapse, but it did. Here's how.
A system that lets us make our own decisions about our own lives is more moral than one that transfers them to powerful strangers.
"Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving."
The awful ideology of the perpetrator of the recent terrorist attack in New Zealand is one of many examples of how far-right nationalists and far-left socialists have more in common than we often think. Both worldviews rest on the dangerous assumption that we are locked in a zero-sum game in which some groups can only succeed and prosper at the expense of others.
Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin used the motto, "Land to the peasants, peace to the nations, bread to the starving." Sounds good, right?
There's a word for that….
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In good economic times, heightened inequality means that class tensions are heightened, as soaring visible wealth stokes envy and resentment.
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To understand socialism, one needn't fixate on its most-horrifying elements-gulags and executions. Think about the simple stuff. Like aspirin.
No matter their age or political persuasion, Americans have similar thoughts on this one.
Today's Democrats want all sorts of new spending, but not the middle-class taxes to go along with it.
Just 18 percent of Americans have favorable views of socialism.
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It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.
Sanders is an avowed democratic socialist.
Even with all the steps the NFL takes to level the playing field between teams, the Patriots keep rising to the top. It generates some envy, and resentment.
The estate tax is a form of double taxation.
It's time to admit that Venezuela's "21st century socialism" failed.
Juan Guaidó declared himself to be the interim president. President Trump and other world leaders have acknowledged him as the country's new head of state.
In international economic-freedom comparisons, Sweden often earns a higher ranking than the U.S.
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
Socialist regimes use government brutality to enforce bad laws.
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
There's no reason to celebrate collective ownership.