Profiles

To effectively counter this brand of American socialism, it is important to properly identify the problem, and to attack with precision.

From orthodox Marxism to anarcho-syndicalism, here's a brief guide to the many flavors of socialism.

The more widespread social programs become, the more they tend to undermine the social interactions and exchanges necessary to build wealth. 

Assuming that some groups of foragers indeed practiced "primitive communism," they would have died out because they had lost the fierce competition with the more economically viable "libertarian" tribes. Communism has never appeared spontaneously and "naturally" in the history of mankind.

Democratic socialists are committed to destroying the voluntary and naturally-occurring relationships that develop in the marketplace among consenting human beings. They do it through relentless wealth redistribution programs.