United States of Socialism Quotes

“Socialism, which dates back to 1917, when Lenin founded the world’s first socialist state, has had a much shorter shelf life. It too collapsed across the world because the people who lived under it considered it to be a form of slavery.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Today the left continues with this project of concealment. It doesn’t want people—especially young people—to know the role of the Democrats in protecting slavery and advancing racism.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Michael Moore accumulated a $50 million fortune by making documentaries bashing capitalism. Moore—who wears a trademark baseball cap to communicate that he’s a regular, working-class guy—nevertheless got “outed” in his divorce in which it came to public light that he and his wife owned nine properties in Michigan and New York, including a 10,000-square-foot lakefront home in Traverse City and a Manhattan condo so large that it was once three separate apartments.48”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“While the Venezuelan people starve, the Chavistas post photographs on Facebook of their European vacations, their lavish parties, their designer outfits, the bouquets of fresh flowers that adorn their homes.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“But in Venezuela, as in America, it is quite possible for “public servants” to become very rich. In fact, it is hard to name any prominent figure on the Venezuelan left, as on the American left, who hasn’t profited handsomely from their politics. Apparently they all came to do good and stayed to do very well.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Finally—and this is the seventh familiar theme of Venezuelan socialism—there is getting rich off politics. Once again, that does not occur in Scandinavia. There is not a single politician in Norway, Sweden or Denmark who has gone from zero to $10 million—or $200 million—while largely employed in the public sector.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“After the Civil War, Democrats promoted racism as a doctrine of biological inferiority.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“What’s going on, I want to suggest, is that race and sex have become more than mechanisms to secure group loyalty for the Democratic left. In addition, they have become tactics of intimidation. The socialist left uses these mechanisms to force people to grovel and submit to its worldview. They want to overturn your moral code and replace it with their moral code. The economist John Maynard Keynes once called this “immoralism,” recognizing that it represented a kind of inversion of traditional moral values.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Naturally, the left expects resistance. So the whole race and gender thing is aimed at torpedoing that resistance. The basic idea is to portray whites, males and heterosexuals as evil oppressors, and nonwhites, females and gender benders of all kinds as the most normal, wonderful people in the world. And if you say otherwise, or oppose this view, the left will demonize you as racist, sexist, heterosexist and a “hater.” Then they will try to destroy your career and your life.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“In this way the socialists hope to win the day, not by convincing a majority of existing Americans but by creating a majority using new Americans who will overpower and subdue the native population.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Yet after a mass shooting by a white supremacist, Omar does not hesitate to call out white supremacy and seek to pin the blame on Trump and his supporters.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“So what’s the left’s motive here? The short-term motive is simple: use the illegals to portray Trump and the Republicans as racist or anti-Mexican and also anti-immigrant. The point is to alienate Trump and the GOP not from illegals, who can’t vote, but from legal immigrants and Mexican Americans, who can.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“When we consider the major themes of Venezuelan socialism, we can see right away that every one of them parallels the themes of the American left. American leftists are wannabe Maduros pretending to take their cues from Sven. If we continue to move in the direction that the left is taking us, we are going to end up not where the Scandinavians are but where the Venezuelans are. Pack your bags, and make sure you label them correctly. It’s not “Stockholm, here we come” but “Caracas, here we come.” It won’t be pretty.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“The American left’s motto comes from the English Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw: “Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“What’s the goal here? It goes beyond economic confiscation; I believe it is nothing less than to make traditional Americans feel like foreigners in their own country. The identity socialists seek an overturning of norms—a redefinition of the American dream—that would convert foreigners into natives, and natives into foreigners. An old Marxist concept, “alienation,” is quite appropriate here. They seek to create a new form of belonging and, in the process, a way to alienate us from our own society.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“In short, climate change is the ruse to get the public to go for full socialism.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“American socialists have introduced a unique element—identity politics—that Marx would have repudiated and other socialists assiduously avoided. Consequently, American socialism deserves its own name, and the name I propose is “identity socialism.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Carl Melin, policy director at the Swedish research institute Futurion, says that Swedes built the welfare state for themselves, not for outsiders. He remarks that his country has been cutting back on immigration because of the realization that “people are quite open to showing solidarity for people who are like themselves.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“The key to understanding Scandinavian socialism is that it is “unification socialism,” very different from the “division socialism” that is characteristic of the American left. Unification socialism is the socialism of the tribe, and its distinguishing features are tribal homogeneity and tribal solidarity. The whole point is to gather the society into a single unit. The motto of unification socialism is that we are one people; we are in this together. The burdens of survival, and the fruits of prosperity, must be broadly shared by the whole society.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“One could raise a similar set of objections regarding America’s alleged theft of Mexican land. Texas used to be part of Mexico but broke off because of tyrannical laws imposed by a Mexican dictator. Texas then opted to join the United States. The Mexican War arose over a border dispute between Texas and Mexico. Mexico lost the war, and ceded the disputed land in a treaty in which the United States paid money and wrote off Mexican debts.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Trump is determined to enforce the law. It is only by erasing the distinction between legals and illegals that the left can insist, as it blusteringly does, that “Trump is against immigrants.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“By now you are probably getting the idea that the whole Green New Deal is a scam, a massive exercise in globaloney, a transparent excuse to replace capitalism with socialism. The rhetoric of the activists certainly supports this. “The climate crisis,” Natasha Fernández-Silber writes in Jacobin, “is quite simply a crisis of capitalism.… We must either replace capitalism with a more sustainable economic system—or face barbarism and extinction.”30 Extinction or socialism: you get to choose!”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“One of the tactics we have already discussed: the left routinely practices the politics of division, not only rich versus poor but also white versus black, male versus female, heterosexual versus homosexual, legal versus illegal. This politics of perpetual turmoil, of pitting Americans against each other, is a tactic aimed at assembling a democratic majority of aggrieved so-called victims. While it takes new forms today, the division formula itself goes back to Marx and is intrinsic to socialism. Therefore, I have dealt with it separately.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“For the Obamas, no money-making scheme is too petty; Michelle rakes in the bucks by charging even nonprofit groups $225,000 to speak and sells 25 different items of merchandise—mugs, shirts and candles—on the speaking circuit.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Entrepreneurs have a name for luck: they call it risk.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“American socialists and leftists were some of the most ardent devotees of Stalinist and Maoist socialism. They also embraced German national socialism, Italian national socialism, Cuban socialism, North Korean socialism and now Venezuelan socialism. We can see this devotion in contemporary progressives and socialists from Bill de Blasio to Bernie Sanders. We also see it in leading progressives and socialists of the past: Charles Beard, Herbert Croly, Corliss Lamont, W. E. B. Du Bois, Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal “brain trust.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Certainly we have whole groups of people today—in academia, in media, in the legal and nonprofit sector—who produce nothing but words. I guess I have to admit that I’m in this group. But I’m not a typical member, in that I don’t share the group’s prejudices and resentments. What are these? Well, the people of words often do pretty well, but in their view they don’t do well enough. They want to be the ruling class. Viewing themselves as smart—the smartest people in society—they feel entitled to be the ones who exercise power, who tell others what to do. And they view with dismay an American Revolution and an American system that brings the entrepreneur to center stage, disburses to him the greatest rewards and places intellectuals and “courtiers” of every stripe in an ancillary, even subservient, role.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Cautioning against socialist wealth confiscation schemes, Lincoln told a delegation of workingmen during the Civil War, “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own.”28”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

“Here we have the central moral claim of American socialism: collective ownership. At least in principle, nothing is yours, nothing is mine, everything is ours. The people—that is to say, the democratic majority—control everything. They have final say. They have the right, and the power, to treat the wealth and earnings of the country as a common pool to be tapped by the state and dispersed through the democratic process. The majority also has the right to other forms of control: for example, subsidizing some lifestyles over others, limiting or confiscating guns and restricting citizens from exercising “hate speech.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.