by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
Never go full Marxist?
While in the past it may have abided by that advice, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is no longer shy about having straight up Marxists within its leadership ranks.
And those Marxists are quite clear about what their ideal America looks like: The overthrow of capitalism and a society governed by workers. But, as history has shown time and again, that’s not how Marxists actually govern. Rule is strictly limited to state and party bureaucrats who hold all decision-making power.
“With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists,” historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson noted in an Aug. 8 op-ed.
As Hanson sees it, Marxist policies have become ingrained in the Democrat Party’s platforms.
Declaring capitalism a failure?
“All the socialists now do that — and even Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also started agreeing that ‘capitalism as we know it doesn’t work either.’ Oddly, Newsom himself, a multimillionaire and a beneficiary of arch-capitalist Gordon Getty’s largesse, seems to have done quite well under capitalism,” Hanson wrote.
Confiscating private property?
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he will do just that if New York’s landlords, in his opinion, are poor custodians of their own property.”
Dismantling the U.S. Constitution?
“Almost all Democrats have long called for destroying the 238-year-old Electoral College. And now the socialists openly brag that, when they take over the Democrat Party and then the nation, they will, as good Bolsheviks, go much further: destroying the Senate, destroying the Pentagon, destroying prisons, destroying the police, and destroying our borders,” Hanson wrote.
“And they want to take over utilities, break up or absorb corporate agriculture, and own major industries. Apparently, socialists believe that with a snap of their fingers they can destroy key elements of the U.S. constitutional order.”
Making “enemies of the people” lists and forcing sales of private property?
“Mamdani just sent out a public list of nearly one million New York homeowners. He sent official warnings to 17,000 of these property owners that, if within four weeks they cannot prove that they have lived full-time in their own properties, the city will levy a huge surtax on them to drive home the point that no one should own an additional high-value home,” Hanson wrote. “Are show trials next for those who decline to reply?
“In other words, Mamdani has flipped the American tradition of “innocent until proven guilty.” Instead, almost 20,000 New Yorkers are now automatically presumed guilty of being house-hoarding, capitalist leeches who owe the exploited classes tens of thousands of dollars a year in reparations, unless they — the newly presumed guilty — can prove themselves innocent.
“Welcome to Mamdani’s revolutionary court.”
Hanson concluded:
“So far, the model holds true: Socialist candidates (as opposed to registered socialist activists) hide their communist-adjacent agendas during elections. But once in office and drunk with power, they find socialism too wishy-washy and go full communist. So, they destroy borders, institutions, names, dates, statues, norms, customs, and traditions to replicate the illiberalism and concomitant failures of a new Haiti, a West Bank, or a Morocco in the West.
“In sum, to make a new socialist America, you must first destroy everything that made Americans and all that they hold dear.”
Since the DSA operates with an open-faction system, Marxist members do not run as isolated individuals. They form internal caucuses, organize voting blocs, and run coordinated campaigns. And they are able to land key leadership positions in the DSA, which refuses to become a true third party because of its success in infiltrating many of America’s suffering Democrat-run cities.
Key Marxist factions within the DSA include the Marxist Unity Group (MUG), Red Star (RS), Bread & Roses (B&R), and Reform & Revolution (R&R).
