Thanks to the recent election of Zohran Mamdani as the City of New York’s ‘socialist’ mayor, there have been increasing alarms warning of a rise in ‘socialism’s popularity’ among a majority of America’s young people. However, this may be an overstatement.
While it is fair to say that there has been a rise in the number of socialist politicians getting elected, to attribute these electoral wins to any love of socialism is simply misguided. Why? Because the average ‘socialist voter’ has no concept of socialism, either in terms of its definition or in terms of its horrific history. They are voting ‘against’ something, not for it.
Socialism, as an understandable or relatable concept, has little or no relevance to most voters’ daily concerns and lives. To them, socialism is just some nebulous label that politicians use to belittle one another (even though they may all behave the same and pursue the same socialist policies).
In practice, socialism is the political application of the philosophy of egalitarianism. Socialist ‘equality’ does not mean ‘equality before and under the law’ – it means equity: the ‘equality’ of results. It means that those who work hard, take risks, and produce the goods, services, and products upon which a society’s survival depends, must be punished to the degree of their success, while those who do not fit into the productive class (for whatever reason) are to be rewarded by sharing in the products they had no part in creating.
But the shift towards socialism is caused by a general failure in knowing how to recognize either socialism or capitalism, which have co-existed in an untenable ‘mixed economy’ leading to today’s economic crisis.
Having lived in the ‘mixed economy’ of socialism’s shadow for decades if not longer, many have been conditioned to blame all the failings of today’s economy on the only part of it that still works – the capitalist part – and to falsely credit our still relatively high standard of living on the socialist part. And of course, it’s exactly the other way round.
As a concept inapplicable to reality, the very term ‘socialism’ itself belongs in the ‘Marxist Language of Fools’ dictionary. It is an immoral concept that inevitably leads to human destruction.
Unfortunately, most of capitalism’s alleged defenders continue to defend capitalism strictly on economic grounds. But to merely argue that ‘capitalism works’ or that ‘capitalism creates abundance’ does not address the nature of capitalism, only its consequences.
Until more on the Right learn to define capitalism as a moral system, not just an economic one, there will be little to persuade others why capitalism is the system that is Just Right for all humanity.
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