The following list shows the election victories and losses for socialist candidates running for office during the 2018 midterm elections. The list was created by the team at StoppingSocialism.com. How did we define “socialist” when constructing this list?: This list includes all candidates for governor, U.S. House, and U.S. Senate […]
Socialism in America
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The 2018 midterms could someday be remembered as the beginning of the Democratic Party’s full embrace of creating a single-payer health care system in the United States. For the first time in American history, a large number of Democrats, many of whom identify as socialists, openly campaigned for the creation […]
Friedrich Hayek, writing when support for capitalism was near its nadir in 1949, believed “socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength to the socialists which traditional liberalism sadly […]
After months of promising a November “blue wave,” Democrats’ chances of taking back Congress are shrinking by the day. Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is on track to lose her seat in North Dakota by double-digits. A recent New York Times/Siena poll has Republican senatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn ahead by more […]
Over the past six months, increasingly more Democrats have cozied up to socialism: Self-described “democratic socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is almost certainly going to become New York’s newest congressional representative; the far-left mayor of Tallahassee won the Democratic primary in Florida’s gubernatorial race; and a new Gallup poll revealed 57 percent […]
Conservative commentator and think tank research fellow Justin Haskins explains one of Karl Marx’s most dangerous socialist ideas. Haskins is the founder of StoppingSocialism.com and the author of Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream. To learn more about Karl Marx’s radical socialist revolution, see Justin Haskins’ […]