Is America Going Socialist under Biden/Harris?

President Trump proclaimed during his last SOTU address: "America will never be a Socialist country!" But, was he right? Democrats sat on their hands and frowned during Trump's speech.

Does the Biden/Harris administration, that took power from him, intend a different outcome? If so, and Socialism is our destination, which variant across the Socialism spectrum of the roughly 25 failed experiments in history will they pursue? What is the American strain of Socialism in 2021, and are Americans sufficiently versed in Marxism/Socialism/Communism to recognize and evaluate it - or stop it?

I'm exploring these questions as I read Dinesh D'Souza's book "United States of Socialism: Who's behind it, Why it's evil, How to Stop it" and Mark Levin's bestseller "American Marxism". 

Let's briefly step through the evolution of the ideological underpinning (Marxism), the various Collectivist expressions in government systems, and the American direction on the Socialism spectrum.

1. Marxism's evolution: 

- Classic Marxism: Marx proposed that society was organized in a division of worker vs owner of capital

- Neo-Marxism: Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci revised Marxism, when it failed to take root in the West, to frame it in a culture context, or "Cultural Marxism"

- Critical Theory (CT): German Marxists (Adorno, Horhheimer,  from Frankfurt University brought Marxism to America as the FrankFurt School in California and Colombia University in NYC. Critical Theory was anti-capitalist and anti-tradition, and aimed to spread deconstruction of society through all academic disciplines in universities. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an evolution of CT, incorporating Gramsci's cultural aspects, developed in the law school curriculum's at Harvard. CT also developed across other disciplines, such as "Queer Studies" etc.

- Identity Socialism: framework proposed by Dinesh D'Souza to define how Identity Politics and Socialism have merged in the culture war in America. Perhaps the American strain of Socialism.

2. Collectivist systems of Socialism / Communism

What are the commonly understood definitions of Socialism and Communism? Are they adequate to explain all of the expressions in governing systems that have emerged in history?

I've seen it defined that Socialism is an intermediary step between Capitalism and Communism. The famous quote from Vladimir Lenin is: "The goal of Socialism is Communism".

a. Worker's paradise: Marx envisioned, to simplify, worker ownership of the means of production, after revolution. 

D'Souza asks: in what country have we seen that governing system happen? Nowhere.

b. Nationalization is the commonly understood definition of Socialism: State ownership of the means of production. 

We've seen this tried before. I grew up when the Communist nations of the Soviet Union and "Red China" controlled half of the planet - with satellite nations like Cuba nationalizing industries. Socialism spread through the African nations, and into South America.

But the Soviet Union failed and imploded. China gave up Socialist economics to some degree for Totalitarian Capitalism. And we'll see what Cuba becomes post-Castro as it has sought to open up to the West. Venezuela is collapsing.

c. Democratic Socialism: The Scandanavia model is oft-touted among American intellectuals, and desired by Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) types like Bernie Sanders. Or anti-business types like Elizabeth Warren. They haven't gotten much traction in America, though Sanders ran strong primaries against Hillary and Biden. AOC and the Squad have significant influence on Speaker Pelosi.

d. Sphere of Influence: D'Souza references another definition of Socialism, from economist Joseph Shumpeter, who defined Socialism as a system in which "as a matter of principle, the economic affairs of society belong to the public, and not to the private sphere".

D'Souza: "This strikes me as an excellent definition because it creates a spectrum. At one end is the free market society, which generates wealth and earnings in the private sphere, requiring little more than laws protecting property rights and enforcing contracts . At the other end is the socialist society, in which the wealth and earnings of the citizens are considered a common pool to be harnessed by the state or the public sphere and dispersed according to the government's objectives and priorities. Shumpeter's definition allows us to locate every type of socialism along this spectrum. 

e. The American Strain: 

D'Souza: "So, what hue of Socialism do our American socialists want? They insist that they are a new breed, with a new vision and a new agenda. While history and other countries may supply useful models, American socialists have introduced a new element - Identity Politics - that Marx would have repudiated and other socialists have assiduously avoided. Consequently, American socialism deserves it's own name, and the name I propose is Identity Socialism".

In short, D'Souza explains that the new American strain redefines the word democracy to define the public sphere. The "we" that Identity Socialists use so often is not the individual sense that traditionalists are use to in "We the People" - in which rights are individual and not collective - but in the "royal we" sense of the collective. State ownership is through representatives, exercised in terms of regulations, taxes, and mandates to meet identity-dominant goals. Democracy in the Identity Socialist sense will use climate change through massive Green New Deal taxing, spending, and regulation to achieve a sort of communism.

4. So, are we transforming to Socialism?

Joe Biden is not Marx, or Lenin, or Gramsci, or Castro, or Xi, or Bernie Sanders. 

But, Biden has stocked his cabinet and advisors with radicals. That includes cabinet members like Mayor Pete "roads are racist" Buttigieg, our Transportation Secretary whose father was a fan of the Communist Manifesto, with an academic's life work of translating Antonio Gramsci's prison diaries. did our cabinet secretary fall far from the Socialist fanboy's tree? The Marxist indoctrination of our elites through the Frankfurt School's inter-disciplinary seeding of academia is evident in Biden's cabinet - from his intersectional race/gender pick for VP,  to his radical secretaries. 

And his radical cabinet and advisors are breaking everything traditional in the first year as they pursue a radical agenda. They broke our border to facilitate a transformational invasion + mass amnesty. They broke our dollar with tax-and-spend inflation. They broke our energy independence, and sold us out again to globalists. They broke our national security as they converted the Taliban to a standing army with $85B of US military weapons, and reinvigorate ISIS and al Qaeda, reverted the Mideast to enable terrorism and make war more likely, and yield everything to China. Our Woke generals, like Gen Mark "the roots of White Rage" Milley and SecDef Austin have broken our military with CRT indoctrination and purges of conservative patriots. And they have re-weaponize DOJ and FBI (as they did during Obama/Biden) to transform the War on Terror domestically aimed at suppressing traditionalist opposition. 

How you look at Biden nominating Saule Omarova for Comptroller of the Currency at Treasury, and not see the transformation to Socialism agenda? Omarova was born in the Soviet Union, educated at Moscow State University on a Lenin scholarship, and wrote her thesis on Marx. Her professional career in the US has been at the most radical universities, from the People's Republic of Madison to the Ivy League. Omarova has proposed bankrupting energy companies to move us to Green climate change policies, and eliminating private banks with everyone having a federal account at the Fed. 

Did Biden nominate Omarova for Treasury? Or is Biden a mentally-diminished figurehead controlled by radicals in his inner circle?

Either way, the direction is clear. We're in the midst of a Cultrual Marxism, Identity Socialism, transformation of America. 

When Barack Obama said that we are five minutes away from a "fundamental transformation of America", he wasn't expecting to be stopped by the Tea Party in his socialist transformation, or for it to be interrupted by one term of an America First outsider fighter. But, the establishments regrouped, remove the outsider from the public square, and are now racing to fully transform us.

Joe Biden has broken almost everything in 10 months in his race to transform us, which started with 100+ Executive Orders reversing everything that Trump had fixed. His reckless socialist spending on our "recovery" has caused rapid inflation and has broken our supply chain. He was bailed out on his boondoggle "infrastructure" bill by 19 sellout GOP Senators and 13 sellout GOP Representatives. If Biden gets 50 Senators to pass his Build Back Better multi-trillion dollar spending bill - a Socialist spending bill euphemistically called "human infrastructure", our Republic is over. Transformed.

The American Marxists are achieving the United States of Socialism.

Fight the Marxist takeover of America, every day.
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