Many social-media "influencers" are now touting the benefits of socialism. But most of their claims…
The New American
They want to MASA: Make socialism great again. Or, so they would say, claiming to their millions of social-media followers that it actually did and does work. Really, truly — you just missed it, somehow.
At issue are socialist/communist “influencers,” who, ironically, earn big money via “capitalism” influencing people to embrace socialism. Mounting their arguments, they make many seductive claims. Not surprisingly, however, says investigative journalist John Stossel in a new report, their claims are all smoke and mirrors.
In reality, these leftists are just riding an already existing socialist wave. Back in 2010, I wrote about how the Communist Party in Japan was rapidly winning converts and Karl Marx’s birthplace in Germany had become a tourist attraction. In 2017, MIT Press actually released a “Communism for Kids” book. And then there was the 2021 survey finding that 41 percent of Americans overall, and 51 percent of young adults, view socialism positively. It all could bring to mind, too, an observation by German philosopher Georg Hegel. “The only thing that we learn from history,” a paraphrase of him goes, “is that we learn nothing from history.”
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