You may have noticed that Marxism is on the rise again.

That's kind of a shocker.

In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a going theory.

The theory was that we had reached the end of history, that from here on in, it was basically going to be liberalism and laissez-faire economics, that the fall of the Soviet Union had definitively shown that the end of government redistributionism and centralization had come. That obviously was untrue, because it turns out that the pitch of Marxism in the end is not really a pitch about efficacy or utilitarianism. It's not about making you wealthier or making you happier. It's about changing the nature of man. The basic idea of Marxism, the basic idea of socialism, is that human beings are inherently good. And the only thing that wrecks that inherent goodness is the systems around us. So when we see bad things happening, when we see inequality, when we see cruelty, when we see crime, that is all a result of the evil capitalist system in which we are plunge. So if we just change that, if we just destroy the entire system and replace it with something, quote, unquote, fairer, if we get all of our rights from government as opposed to God, If we stop worrying so much about individual fate and start worrying a lot more about our community as a whole, then life will be better.

Now, wherever it's been tried, communism has been a failure.

And wherever socialism is tried, it has only been a success to the extent that capitalism

supports it.

When you look at democratic socialist countries in Northern Europe, for example, it is

perfectly obvious that these are capitalist countries with some social welfare policies. However, the rise of Marxist theory anew, I mean pure,

uncut Marxist theory, the idea that income inequality is in essence immoral and exploitation.

The idea that free market economics is, again, exploitation. The basic notion that free

exchange is somehow a violation of personal

rights, that is on the rise. That's why you've seen the rise of the squad and the Democratic Party.

It's why you've seen the rise of Bernie Sanders, who doesn't really advocate for a Denmark-style

system. He more likes the centralized government systems of open communist systems,

even praising those for literally decades.

Now, the fact is that the rights-based system of the United States is a good system.

Capitalism, free markets, they're not just effective. They are moral. They're based on the principle that you are an individual human being and that your labor belongs to you.

That you have the right to alienate that labor voluntarily. That it requires your consent

to remove that which belongs to you from you and that labor voluntarily, that it requires your consent to remove

that which belongs to you from you, and that the best thing that can happen for the world is for

people to engage in mutual exchanges, because the bottom line when it comes to socialism is,

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