Socialist/Communist influencers aim to make socialism great again

They want Masa: make socialism great again. Or they'll say to millions of social media followers, claiming it's working with what it actually did. Really, really – you somehow missed it.

The problem is socialist/communist “influencers” who ironically make a lot of money through “capitalism” that influences people in order to embrace socialism. Increase their argument, they make many fascinating claims. But not surprising, investigative journalist John Stosell said in a new report that their allegations are smoke and mirrors.

In reality, these leftists are already riding on existing socialist waves. In 2010, I wrote about how the Japanese Communist Party achieved a transformation and how the birthplace of Karl Marx in Germany became a tourist attraction. In 2017, MIT Press actually released a book called “Communism for Kids.” And in a 2021 survey, 41% of Americans and 51% of young adults found that they were actively looking at socialism. It may all remind us of the observations by the German philosopher George Hegel. “The only thing we learn from history,” he rephrases: “We learn nothing from history.”

New blood of bloody creed

This brings us to social media socialists today (S/M S. I light up the term “influencer”). They certainly raked cash, but they are very socialist in their tendency to tell tall economic stories. Consider what Stossel revealed in his report.

“Socialism works better than capitalism than 93% of the time,” therefore claims Madeline Pendleton, a young Tiktok star found in green hair and nose rings. However, her statistics came from a Journal of Health Services study 40 years ago, according to the Stossel team. And this claim is deceived as it relates to Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev.

Marxist authors conveniently exclude high-income countries such as the United States, Japan and Canada. In fact, the biggest capitalist nation of all. They compare socialist countries with such capitalist countries (e.g. Burma, India, Somalia, Syria, Congo, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Uganda). Based on this, she (Pendleton) states: “There's all the data that shows that socialism works.”

Oh, Pendleton has 1.6 million Tiktok subscribers. She sells herself well.

She also sells communism – yeah, she likes it (probably). What she likes is “mostly” is “increasing life expectancy” under communism.

However, this is another falsehood.

The reality is, “there is no increase in life expectancy,” says Tokarev. “People live in capitalist places like Japan and Korea,” too, the United States is superior. This, Tokarev adds, despite “more people die younger as we drive more.” “And we have more car accidents. We eat more and get fat. …We shoot each other frequently and take more dangerous medicines.” Our obesity rate is also much higher. However, the average life expectancy in the United States exceeds that of communist/socialist countries, with examples being Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela.

Housing for everything?

Pendleton also boasts a socialist “90-100% homeownership rate.” But “That's ridiculous,” replies Tokarev. “China has almost 90% of the home ownership if you believe their statistics. But that only happened after China fired socialist housing. Under socialism, only 20% owned the home. In socialist Venezuela, homeowners don't own the home.” Crouching in Venezuela is big, but people have no other options.

(Here, calling China a “communist” is a false advertisement. As the above shows, Beijing enacted many free market reforms decades ago, which was a big story back then. So, in business, it's mainly a personal hand, but my brother reaches out to everything.

Bolder, older (and already refuted) claims

Stossel and Tokarev provide some examples of s/ms that make money.

The YouTuber, with around 2 million followers posted under the name “Second Thiness,” boasts socialism's “guaranteed rights to guaranteed healthcare, food and shelter.” Certainly, it is guaranteed, but it does not guarantee that it is of any good. In this regard, I remember a man who grew up under communism. I write to an American thinker about waiting for my turn in the dentist's office as a child. He was able to kill time to hear the screams of the children already in the chair – because novocaine was not available. The socialist tiktalker with Karl Marx-like hair and 100,000 subscribers argue that unlike “capitalism,” socialism “prioritizes people over profits.” In theory, yes, but the reality is a little different. Socialist/Communist governments exposed their citizens to broken labor and cruelty, killing up to 100 million people in the 20th century, destroying the economy, and writing a possibly unprecedented hunger. Before the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), Russia was a nursery. But it was in the Soviet Union and under socialism, it became a basketball case. It was forced to become one of the world's largest food importers. Another YouTuber called “a spooky scary socialist,” said “Communism did well. It provided important services such as full employment, rough income equality.”

“How can these people be so delusional?” Tokarev asks incredibly. These s/ms tell millions of people: “The central idea to unite all socialists is to maximize freedom, a more dignified life, and the democratization of power” (words from S/MS in Kliptokarev theatre). Of course, like Cuba and North Korea today, socialist/communist governments are well known for being oppressive dictatorships. There is no “democracy.” People cannot elect their leaders – they just follow them.

What works

Putting things in perspective is incredible that people living at the richest ages on our planet long for socialism to “make things better.” Historical human norms were shattering poverty. Life was generally difficult, often brutal and short. But we are now enjoying the luxury our ancestors couldn't even dream of. Examples are supermarkets filled with cars, TVs, computers, refrigerators, flush toilets and food. Today, of course, we take them and many other market-born wonders for granted – and many are still complaining.

And where did all this wealth come from? Creatures on Earth do not do anything “productive” without incentives. For example, each animal mates in search of food for incentives for hunger and sexual impulses. When it comes to humans, isn't it just satisfying those desires? Why do we set up and extract resources, create, invent and innovate our businesses? Because there is an incentive.

In particular, we have a deep incentive provided by economic freedom (not “capitalism”; the word was born by socialists). It catalyzes the creative abilities of an ordinary person by allowing him to enjoy fruits worthy of his labor. So, if S/MS can't make money, how likely is it to make their pro-socialist videos?

The entire Stossel segment is below:

Incidentally, the aforementioned S/MS looks very confident except that I disagree with the exception of being interviewed by Stossel. So, by the way, maybe they're really real communists. After all, the old man Comey didn't allow people to question them.