Are you concerned that Socialism is gaining ground in America?
Posted By RichC on May 6, 2026
It’s interesting how career journalists and editors make decisions regarding content. A few days ago I submitted a provocative editorial that reflects what some see as a political concern for our country … and I thought it would be fitting for the “right-leaning column” of TheHustings. I expected “some” pushback based on some 
of the commentary I previously submitted, but figured even a left-leaning editor could see the tension among his fellow Democrats.
On the other hand, I expected that the premise of the three columns is to represent different political views and permit those thoughts so that others can agree or disagree. Unfortunately, much of that has been lost these days … even where opposing views are supposed to be represented. Instead, the political left and the right are almost forced to head off into separate “safe spaces” where they and the social media algorithms can feed readers and viewers what they want to see. ☹️
The longer I participate and attempt to submit commentary representative of what the thinking is on the political right, the more I recognize that it is not what website and publication 
editors really want (perhaps it is reflective of the overall MSM and “schools of journalism” these days – even on World Press Day: May 3rd).
What I’ve written about are the noticeable inroads Marxist teaching and socialism had made, and is making, especially with the younger college educated crowd. That opinion is a widespread concern among conservatives who love liberty and free market capitalism. It is especially poignant for those of us who grew up during the Cold War and recognize the path different countries took in getting to a repressive state. Expressing this opinion should be at least represented in a free press … and is the concern many conservatives highlight these days.
Here’s the editor’s reply in rejecting my commentary that I’ll include below the break:
I did not intend to ignore this column, though right off the bat I have an issue with you interchanging “socialism” with “Marxism” and “communism.”
Mamdani, AOC and Bernie Sanders are not advocating the end of all personal property, as Marx would. It’s the flip side of associating anyone who is MAGA with the Proud Boys.
You be the judge – is the history and editorial commentary below too extreme … or an acceptable warning to America?
America Must Reject the Siren Song of Marxism
In the decades since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, too many younger Americans have come to view Marxist ideas not as a cautionary tale but as a fashionable alternative worth considering. From college campuses to city halls—where even some mayors have flirted openly with socialist rhetoric—the under-30 generation often sees “equity” and state-directed economics as compassionate solutions to inequality. They know little of the gulags, the engineered famines that killed millions of Ukrainian kulaks, Mao’s Cultural Revolution or the drab, hopeless lines for bread in communist capitals. Raised in a post-Cold War world of smartphones and social media, they mistake the sanitized slogans
of “democratic socialism” for something new and humane. This historical amnesia is dangerous. It erodes the hard-won understanding that communism is not a noble experiment gone wrong, but a proven destroyer of human freedom.
Liberty and free-market democracy have delivered the very prosperity and opportunity that critics now take for granted. Private property, individual rights and limited government—rooted in America’s founding principles and reinforced by Judeo-Christian morality—created the most dynamic economy and generous society in history. Contrast that with the communist record: state control of production led to chronic shortages, innovation stalled by bureaucrats and personal initiative crushed under the weight of the collective. Even China’s much-touted “market reforms” under Deng Xiaoping succeeded only where the Communist Party loosened its grip—yet Beijing still maintains one-party rule, surveillance and the power to dictate every citizen’s future. Sustainability, population control and utilitarian “greatest good” rhetoric may sound enlightened to academic elites, but they inevitably subordinate the individual to the state. History shows where that road leads: not to utopia, but to tyranny.
Democracy without liberty is merely mob rule dressed up in nice slogans. America’s genius has always been the constitutional republic that protects the rights of the minority—even the single citizen—against the whims of the majority or the dictates of self-appointed experts. Communism, by design, rejects this. It replaces God-given rights with government-granted privileges, private enterprise with central planning and personal conscience with state-approved morality. The left’s long march through our institutions has normalized these ideas in one major party and much of the media. But the American people have rejected them before and we must do so again—through education, honest debate and an unapologetic defense of the principles that made this republic exceptional.
The fight is not merely partisan; it is existential. Younger Americans deserve to hear the unvarnished truth about life under communism—not from dusty textbooks, but from the clear voices of those who remember the Iron Curtain and the boat people fleeing Castro’s paradise. We cannot afford complacency. Private property, individual liberty and faith in the Creator—not the state—remain the only proven path to human flourishing. Resistance to the collectivist tide is not nostalgia; it is patriotism. Our heritage of freedom must be reclaimed, defended, and passed on—before another generation learns these lessons the hard way.
it was a no-brainer just to toggle it off. What a simple fix. DUH!