The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recently held their national conference to promote their ideology, including the Marxist “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” This is rich irony: they claim to be democratic, yet push their own dictatorship. But it gets worse – they openly aim to abolish your family. Search YouTube: “Democratic Socialists of America Family.” Be prepared for an onslaught of Marxist dialectics and word salads on par with a Kamala Harris speech. You might also ask why they are still wearing masks.

Socialism’s objective (democratic or otherwise) is always to control your life under a collectivist regime: what you think, do, say, read, eat, etc. Not surprisingly, Democratic Socialism aligns nicely with the National Socialism of Nazi Germany.

All socialism – democratic or otherwise – requires that people be “passive and submissive” as stated by Hillary Clinton in her private 2016 speech that wasn’t supposed to be recorded. Socialism requires a populace that is content being serfs on the Government’s collective plantation, and where the independent “self-made” individual is an enemy that must be destroyed. Wealthy people who align with the Democratic Socialist movement are cowards diving for cover – hoping to be given a pass.

Lenin was the leader of Russia’s Democratic Socialist Party (later renamed “Bolsheviks”). He clearly demonstrated Democratic Socialist values when his party initiated the political mass murder of 30 million people (aka: “The Terror”, concluded by Stalin). Apparently “democracy” was never the point of Democratic Socialism. Read Solzhenitsyn.

Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America until its Democratic Socialism liberated the people from their freedom and their wealth, and created its own “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Venezuela is now a narco-state full of starving people that has lost 20% of its population. Meanwhile, Argentina is recovering from Socialism after the people democratically said “no mas”. Bolivia has also begun its democratic rejection of Socialism.

Sweden and Denmark tended toward Socialism back in the 1970s, until they democratically voted their way out of that disaster 35 years ago. Now they are more free-market than America. Somebody please tell Bernie Sanders.

Of Democratic Socialism, George Orwell observed: “All are equal, but some are more equal than others”. For example, the Democratic Socialist head of Black Lives Matter (BLM) purchased a multi-million-dollar mansion for herself using funds supplied by Leftist organizations. Apparently, she was “more equal” than the folks in the “hood” whom she would ostensibly liberate by burning down their communities.

Democratic Socialists cling to the Marxist doctrine that the traditional family is an instrument of oppression from which society must be liberated. Their cult prophet, Karl Marx, was a parasite born to an upper middle-class family, who sponged off his father and friends his whole life. Marx could not be bothered getting a real job to support his own family, so he literally let his children starve. Marx apparently despised his own family as much as the Democratic Socialists despise yours. His mother chided him, saying that instead of theorizing about “Das Kapital”, he might consider getting a useful job and earning some “kapital” of his own. He never did.

Marx wrote: “anything that advances the revolution is ethical”. Hence, destruction of your family is fully ethical to Socialists who believe “The traditional family is a Bourgeois institution that must be destroyed to make way for Socialism”. The meaning is unambiguous.

Per their own video, the Democratic Socialists officially say this about your family:

– The nuclear family structure must be abolished, and the parent-child bond must be replaced by a bond between the child and the State. (Nazis and Communists did this, too.)

– Surrogate birthing should be used to break the natural bond between mother and child, making it easier to bond the child with the State.

– The nuclear family is an expression of the “white patriarchy”. Non-white nuclear families must be criticized as “white adjacent” oppressors (directly from Critical Race Theory).

Democratic Socialists still attack Daniel Patrick Moynihan for his 1965 report showing that prior to the Welfare State (creeping socialism), over 80% of Black children were raised in two-parent families with crime rates no higher than whites, but after welfare became normal the number of Blacks raised in two-parent households dropped to less than 25%, and crime rates correlated directly with the ratio of “fatherlessness”.

It is only logical that Democratic Socialists welcome our high crime rates if it means the nuclear family has been destroyed. Look at how the Left encourages criminality today – Chicago for instance.

By appending the word “Democratic” to their ideology, socialists hope that people will forget the disastrous history of socialism everywhere it has been tried. But, leopards cannot change their spots. The good news is that if Zohran Mamdani becomes Mayor of NYC, and gets what he wants, the rest of the country will learn very quickly what Democratic Socialism means. A Mamdani win will be a vaccination against Democratic Socialism for the rest of the country.

In the 2024 election, Democratic Socialists pushed hard for NY Proposition One – to let NY State take control of your children against your will and without your knowledge. Did you understand the ramifications of Part B? Are your children to be legally controlled by the State?

Democratic Socialists often refer to themselves as “Progressives.” After you watch their video (mentioned above), you will understand their definition of “progress.”

Michael Dee is a Silver Creek resident while Scott Axelson resides in Jamestown.