House of Representatives, including the current Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib. That said, only about half a dozen DSA members have held federal office over the years, all in the U.S. But there has been some advancement at the state level leaders supported by the DSA won control of Nevada's Democratic Party organization in March 2021. Socialist Party USA had no members in any national or state office in 2020. Overall, socialism accounts for a small percentage of America's political makeup. Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career, my whole career. They are not members of the current socialist party, called Socialist Party USA, or of the nation's biggest socialist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has about 70,000 members nationwide.Īsked what he'd say to people who were worried about socialism, then-candidate Biden told Wisconsin station WLUK-TV: "I beat the socialists. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are not socialists. No socialists ran for president on a major-party ticket in 2020. Some governments blend socialist policies with capitalism and democratically elected leadership, a system usually called social democracy. The fact is, the two systems can, and do, coexist in many countries. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, the majority of Republicans (68%) expressed a positive view of capitalism and a negative view of socialism.īut a substantial minority of voters hold a positive view of both systems - 25% of the overall group of Americans surveyed by Pew felt favorably about socialism as well as a capitalist economy. Many Americans see these two systems as opposites - and Republicans, in particular, tend to view it as an either-or situation. Capitalism, meanwhile, calls for private owners to control the means of production and to keep any profit they make for themselves. Under socialism, any surplus or profit from those sectors must benefit those same citizens. Think infrastructure, energy, natural resources. This is socialism… and this isn'tĪt its simplest, socialism calls for a nation's citizens to control at least some of its means of production - the major ingredients needed for a healthy economy. But what exactly does socialism mean? What do socialists want right now? And is the Republican warning - that socialism is threatening to destroy the American way of life - a real concern? There are some facts about socialism that are beyond dispute.
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