It's a trend that's likely to continue, and many people worry that socialism is the future of the Democratic Party, if not of America.
Now, these developments are surpassingly strange because socialism is arguably the most discredited idea since slavery.
Slavery lasted for centuries, even millennia, before it was recognized as a thoroughly wicked and tyrannical form of human exploitation.
Socialism, which dates back to nineteen seventeen, when Lenin founded the world's first socialist state, has had a shorter shelf life.
It, too, collapsed around the world because it was understood by the people who lived under it to be a form of slavery.
We see the connection between socialism and slavery in the all-important works on socialism.
Friedrich Hayek's critic of socialism is appropriately titled The Road to Serfdom.
George Orwell depicted the tyrannical dimension of socialism in his two classic novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Using both the techniques of fiction and non-fiction, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in a series of works, The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, depicted Soviet socialism as a vast network of slave camps stretching from Europe to the farthest reaches of Asia.
Slavery in its most obvious form has been abolished worldwide, although enslavement in other forms, sex trafficking, for instance, continues as a gruesome relic of this barbaric practice.
How ridiculous it would be to hear someone say, "The failures of slavery were all failures of implementation.
This time we're really gonna make it work." And yet, here we have socialism in America attempting a comeback and on precisely those terms.
How is this possible? Apparently, socialism means never having to say you're sorry.
Socialism has proved to be a living hell pretty much every way it's been tried.
Let's not forget that within about a century since Marx wrote, in less than half a century since the Bolshevik Revolution, sixty percent of the world's people were living under governments that embraced some form of socialism.
At one time, Josh Muravchik writes, "It was the most popular political idea ever invented, arguably the most popular idea of any kind, about how life should be lived or society organized." The biggest socialist experiment was the Soviet bloc, an orbit of countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.
It's a trend that's likely to continue, and many people worry that socialism is the future of the Democratic Party, if not of America.
Now, these developments are surpassingly strange because socialism is arguably the most discredited idea since slavery.
Slavery lasted for centuries, even millennia, before it was recognized as a thoroughly wicked and tyrannical form of human exploitation.
Socialism, which dates back to nineteen seventeen, when Lenin founded the world's first socialist state, has had a shorter shelf life.
It, too, collapsed around the world because it was understood by the people who lived under it to be a form of slavery.
We see the connection between socialism and slavery in the all-important works on socialism.
Friedrich Hayek's critic of socialism is appropriately titled The Road to Serfdom.
George Orwell depicted the tyrannical dimension of socialism in his two classic novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Using both the techniques of fiction and non-fiction, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in a series of works, The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, depicted Soviet socialism as a vast network of slave camps stretching from Europe to the farthest reaches of Asia.
Slavery in its most obvious form has been abolished worldwide, although enslavement in other forms, sex trafficking, for instance, continues as a gruesome relic of this barbaric practice.
How ridiculous it would be to hear someone say, "The failures of slavery were all failures of implementation.
This time we're really gonna make it work." And yet, here we have socialism in America attempting a comeback and on precisely those terms.
How is this possible? Apparently, socialism means never having to say you're sorry.
Socialism has proved to be a living hell pretty much every way it's been tried.
Let's not forget that within about a century since Marx wrote, in less than half a century since the Bolshevik Revolution, sixty percent of the world's people were living under governments that embraced some form of socialism.
At one time, Josh Muravchik writes, "It was the most popular political idea ever invented, arguably the most popular idea of any kind, about how life should be lived or society organized." The biggest socialist experiment was the Soviet bloc, an orbit of countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.
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