I do not see why power struggles within socialist enclaves are perceived as the perverse ideology “dying”. They certainly aren’t throwing it off in favor of any free market systems with small government. No; socialism still lives so long as the prince of this world that inspired it remains in power.
PS. Would the ascendancy of someone like Justin Trudeau be the death of socialism in Canada?
Maybe because it’s new here and we have some of the most educated dummies in the world
I think one problem with analysis like this is that people have attempted to shift the meaning of the word socialism. Socialism is supposed to be a system in which the government owns the “major means of production” - airlines, railways, factories, banks, etc. However, some people have begun to use the word to describe systems in which the government does anything as minor as operating public sewers. The fact that a society has a program like social security does not make it a socialist society under the traditional meaning of the term socialist.
What is being pushed in American (and still to a large part in Europe) is a highly regulated welfare state capitalism. It is so highly regulated that only large business interests can successfully navigate through the red tape without violation in order to bring products and services to market.
This results in a degenerate form of crony capitalism, and so it ultimately morphs into something very much like fascism.
We've all been told that fascism is rightwing and associated with nationalism, racism, antisemitism, etc. And there were plenty of fascist governments in the past where that was definitely the case.
What is metastasizing in Europe and America is a leftist form of fascism. It is not nationalist but globalist. It is not racist so much as race-baiting. It is not antisemitic so much as anti-Israel and anti-Zionist.
Because historians have failed to separate out the core of fascism from the outward facade, we are not allowed to speak of leftist fascism and so it continues to grow with liberal support even though liberals would be the last to openly support something that can only be called fascist.
Those who do not know history are bound to repeat it or simply say, “Those other people did it wrong. We will do it right this time!”
“Socialism Is Dying Everywhere — Except The U.S.”
No other countries left that can still afford it.
You solve the marxist problem the same way Castro solved his Capitalist problem.
Line them up against a wall and shoot them.
There really is no other way.
Oh, and disenfranchise the parasite class , women, and those under 21.
Happy days are here again will be the result.
Never thought I would see the things we are seeing in my Lifetime.
The World is spinning out of control and the POTUS is obsessed with the Bathroom Habits of Crossdressers.
Makes you want to take a Stupid Pill and go through life without a care as a Brain Dead Liberal.
It’s dying here, too.
Vote Trump.
The headline on the article is wrong. Socialism is not dying. It is a cancer, and it is growing. The host countries are slowly dying from the cancer, but the cancer is quite healthy, and I believe spreading.
“Leading from behind”
The core of socialism is The Truth which emanates from the Center. Those at the center are thus All Powerful. Those who support the center get a powerful sense of Virtue. These are called, by the Center, useful idiots, and they are idiots fore being so empty and shallow as to derive a sense of virtue from NOTHING.
The newspapers and teachers won’t report the failure of socialism and Marxism so young people don’t have a clue. Free stuff sounds good to them.