If you build something, do you believe that you have a right to keep it, sell it, or retain any

profit you make off of that object? Do you think that you have a right to choose what you do with

the fruits of your labor? If you do, you're a capitalist. Capitalism means the private individual can

control and freely trade the fruits of their labor. And to an extreme degree, as far right on

the economic scales you can go, these are people who pretty much believe you can trade anything you

want without regulation. In the United States, we have regulated capitalism. Some things you can't

buy, some things you can't sell, and some things you can't do as a corporation. When people criticize

capitalism, they often refer to the worst aspects of it, like crony capitalism revolving to our

policies or massive, unaccountable, multinational corporations. And in America, we're supposed to have

laws that prevent corruption, and sometimes it doesn't work, things got to control. When we see

wealth inequality, people start to advocate for socialism, not really understanding what socialism

is. I have a lot of friends who tell me they're democratic socialists. And when I ask them very

simple questions like, do you believe you have a right to profit off of your labor? They say yes.

And right away, you've just said you're a capitalist. Because the democratic socialists of America,

one of the lightest forms of socialism that we've seen, actually does not agree with profit.

And that is not my opinion. It's on their website. They actually are calling for the

abolishment of capitalism, meaning the private individual has no right to control the fruits of

their own labor. To varying degrees, there is socialist policy. Obviously, not every time someone

refers to socialism, they're talking about the workers controlling the means of production.

But that's the mistake they're making. Because when you actually look at the DSA once, they do want

to abolish profit. They do want to control distribution of the economic goods. And that's plainly

visible on their website. Too many people look at Bernie Sanders, who claims to be a socialist,

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