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Radical Leftist Democrats Are Following a Communist Script

Recent primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are being hailed in certain left-wing circles as some sort of a grassroots movement, when it’s anything but.

Those familiar with the wretchedness of communism have for years been doing their best to sound the alarm bells about the ideological seepage that has been occurring in our own country.

In a way, the DSA victories are serving a purpose in that more and more influential political and media figures are beginning to speak out about the dangers of veiled communist constructs and their inevitable road to ruin.

The philosophical playbooks, which the recent candidates and potential officeholders embrace, mirror the early stages that transformed previously free societies into economic and humanitarian catastrophes.

It may not be an exact replay of history’s songbook, but the anti-liberty refrain is eerily familiar. In the name of equality, activists pursue ideas about concentrating economic power.

If we look at communist countries prior to their becoming glorified prison camps, each experienced a state-controlled takeover of healthcare, energy, housing, and wages, usually accompanied by the fomenting of hostility to private enterprise, a redistribution of wealth, and a continuous erosion of individual freedom.

Venezuela is one of the more modern examples. Its tilt toward communism didn’t begin with tanks in the streets. It started with the holding of elections.

In 1998, Hugo Chávez was democratically elected on the promise of being a fighter of poverty and corporate greed. He called his platform “21st Century Socialism.”

He quickly nationalized the oil, steel, and food industries, imposing price controls, currency restrictions, and massive wealth transfers. Communism had slithered its way into a once-free country.

Supporters hailed the new way of life as empowering the people against the wealthy. Within a brief time period major production collapsed, shortages appeared, hyperinflation exceeded one million percent at peaks, and GDP cratered.

Millions fled, opposition leaders were jailed, and media were muzzled. What started as popular redistribution required an ever-greater coercion to sustain. What Nicolas Maduro inherited, he further hardened.

With regard to Russia, after 1917 the Bolsheviks promised land and bread. Factories and farms were seized under “war communism.” Then Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy gave way to Joseph Stalin’s total collectivization. The results were engineered famines, gulags, and a police state that murdered millions to enforce central planning.

China’s Maoists promised peasant liberation. The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution resulted in the deaths of millions from famine and purges, all the while private property and markets were being decimated.

Cuba’s Castro followers seized power. They promised democracy and justice, but turned around and built a tyrannical one-party system that practiced rationing, surveillance, and confiscation.

In each of the above cases, the initial pitch was the same: End exploitation, give power to the working class, and use the state as an instrument of justice.

The mechanism used was also the same: Replace voluntary exchange and dispersed knowledge with government allocation of resources.

When results were disappointing, and they consistently were, leaders blamed fake scapegoats such as saboteurs, foreign interference, or insufficient commitment to Marxist principles.

More power was demanded to fix what a prior power grab had broken. Liberty eroded bit by bit, and the system collapsed because it is impossible for central planners to replicate the information and incentives of free markets.

DSA platforms and candidates drape their major themes in American garb. Proposals such as “Medicare for All” and “Green New Deal” have them dreaming about massive new federal control over trillions in economic activity.

“Housing for All” and “Tenant Rights” campaigns end up being a means of imposing rent control, while restricting development and reducing supply.

Criticism of “corporate greed” and calls for the public ownership of businesses use the same twisted logic that was used to justify nationalizations in Moscow, Havana, Beijing, and Caracas.

For decades the United States has retained stronger constitutional guardrails, federalism, an armed citizenry, and a culture of individual rights, unlike nations that have succumbed to communism.

However, the trajectory of ideas in the leftward direction is particularly concerning for our country precisely because, more often than not, it is an incremental process.

Each step is typically defended as temporary and necessary. Each step makes reversal more difficult and failure more costly.

Americans who value prosperity and freedom should treat DSA advances, not as quaint democratic socialism but as the latest iteration of failed communist ideology.

The United States built its wealth and mobility on the opposite principles. Vigilance begins with a total rejection of the premise that concentrated political authority over production and distribution is superior to individual choice.

It’s best to listen to those who have suffered under leftist totalitarian regimes. They are sending us a message to immediately banish communism from our midst.

We fail to listen at our own peril.

The Threat Posed by the Democratic Socialists of America

For decades many of us were warning that socialism (a.k.a., communism lite) was slowly creeping onto the American stage, largely due to an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Now, following Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s November 5, 2025 mayoral election, things have become crystal clear. Overt socialism has gotten a major foothold in the largest and most iconic city in America.

Time to take a more in-depth look at DSA.

With over 80,000 dues-paying members, including 11 sitting members of Congress and over 200 state and local officials, DSA has been able to wrestle control of the levers of power in a number of key places in the U.S.

In New York City, the group controls key committees, and in Chicago, 6 DSA members have a seat at the city council’s table.

DSA presents itself as a champion of compassion. However, beneath rhetoric such as “medicare for all” and “affordable housing” lies a radical agenda rooted in Marxist ideology.

The organization has been following the communist playbook to a T, seeking to obtain power through infiltration. It has made insidious steady progress toward this goal.

Unfortunately, it is currently the central focal point of energy for the Democratic Party, a party that appears to have so lost its way it is difficult to imagine any kind of return to sensibility.

Now let’s look at DSA’s core ideology.

Founded in 1982, its ideology is firmly rooted in Marxism, advocating for the end to all capitalism in favor of governmental control of industry.

The organization explicitly calls for the abolition of private property, the nationalization of enterprise, and the replacement of the free market system.

Most of the sustained attempts at the implementation of its ideology have ultimately arrived at communism’s doorstep. Communism’s legacy is one of economic decay, governmental ruin, and social collapse, a distinct pattern that is historically consistent across time, place, and events.

DSA’s own platform, updated in 2023, demands “public ownership of utilities, housing, and finance,” “decommodifying healthcare and education,” and “seizing the means of production,” all prequels to the imposition of totalitarianism and freedom’s ultimate demise.

The reality is DSA is a political insurgency with a proven playbook: Infiltrate, normalize, and dismantle.

Its youth wing, Young Democratic Socialists, is in favor of “abolishing prisons,” a prescription for crime and chaos that disproportionately harms the very vulnerable communities the group professes that it is seeking to protect.

DSA’s 2024 platform calls for nationalizing key sectors of the economy, such as energy and housing.

Its working group, “Ecosocialism,” advocates for “planned degrowth,” deliberately working to shrink the economy in order to meet specified climate goals.

The organization’s 2024 convention passed a resolution that called for “expropriating fossil fuel companies” and “banning private real estate development,” resolutions that translate into a form of national self-destruction.

DSA’s policies reflect a visceral hatred for the free market, and conversely, a worship of government. This inevitably leads to food shortages, black markets, and Soviet-style oppression.

The tenets of its foreign policy are equally atrocious. DSA’s “International Committee” has called for cutting all aid to Israel. It has hosted events with activists that are linked to terrorist groups. And it has refused to condemn Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

A document from the NYC-DSA’s Anti-War Working Group (AWWG), which was recently obtained by the Just The News website, shows AWWG has been plotting ways to pressure newly-elected New York mayor Mamdani to comply with its “demands.”

Demands include arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers, divesting city pension funds from Israeli securities, withdrawing city funds from banks that do business with Israel, ending city contracts with companies that do business with Israel, operating city-run grocery stores free from Israeli products, and evicting weapons manufacturers and transporters from New York City.

Mamdani is a longtime DSA member and leader. He is listed as one of the group’s “New York State Socialists in Office.”

When DSA-aligned officials are in power, “defund the police” efforts are typically underway as well, leading to skyrocketing crime rates.

Homicides were already up 30% in NYC post-2020, according to FBI data. Now with Mamdani’s victory secured, the trend is unlikely to be NYC’s friend.

Those who are DSA-aligned have also pushed for open borders and sanctuary policies, which have fueled a host of crises, including fentanyl overdoses, human trafficking, surging crime rates, and wage suppression for working-class Americans.

DSA’s own rhetoric betrays itself. Co-chairperson Ari Rabin-Havt recently tweeted about “seizing the means of production” as essential to combating climate change, ignoring how such seizures in Cuba and Nicaragua have led to corruption and poverty.

The communism that DSA is peddling has a 100% failure rate. This is because, among other irrefutable things, it violates human nature and defies economic realities.

We ignore this group at our peril.

It may be that many who subscribe to socialist ideology have never had to work to protect their rights. Someone else has always done that for them.

As one who with wholehearted rejection of communism and its socialism offspring has battled across decades to preserve our God-given rights, I speak for those of us who are still willing to continue to do so.

Just praying that it’s not too late.