The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America has made it clear that socialism endures, even after a century of catastrophic failure. There has never been a successful socialist country, but American socialists have won many of their biggest victories yet this year, most recently in Michigan.

Their platform involves much public (state) ownership of things, just as historical socialism has. If someone ever tries to tell you otherwise, remember this passage from The Communist Manifesto: “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest … all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State.”

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