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In the roughly two weeks since the New York primary elections, conservatives\u2014and other normies\u2014have been understandably upset about the prospects of a socialist surge in American politics. Three candidates endorsed by New York City\u2019s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their congressional primaries easily, while Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned candidates around the state did quite well. In short, June 23 was a good day for socialists throughout the country, leaving many observers wondering if this will be a new<\/em> date that lives in infamy, the date that marks the official start of the socialist-led collapse of the world\u2019s quintessential capitalist, democratic republic.<\/p>\n

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As I say, this concern is understandable. Avowed socialists are winning big in cities across the country, not just in New York City but also in Seattle, possibly in Los Angeles, and almost certainly in the nation\u2019s capital, Washington, D.C. It has been well over a hundred years since the United States saw such a swell in socialist-affiliated political success. And this time, it\u2019s highly unlikely that the leader of the Democratic establishment (whoever that is now) will be able to crush the nascent movement like his predecessor did last time, when Progressive patriarch Woodrow Wilson had the head of the Socialist Party of America, Eugene V. Debs, imprisoned for the crime of giving a speech. \u201cSocialism\u201d and its number of adherents will continue to expand for some time, at least until both major parties figure out how to refute their claims and prove the emptiness of their promises.<\/p>\n

To that end, it is important to recognize just who and what it is the Republicans, the mainstream Democrats, and the nation at large are fighting. These are not your father\u2019s socialists, to coin a phrase. Today\u2019s DSA and yesterday\u2019s SPA share much in common, but they also differ from one another in many significant and some definitive ways. Mamdani is not Debs. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not Josephine Conger-Kaneko. Bernie Sanders is not Morris Hillquit. Indeed, to a great extent, today\u2019s \u201csocialists\u201d are socialists in name only. And recognizing that\u2014and what makes them different\u2014is the key to both understanding and defeating them.<\/p>\n

The first thing to note about today\u2019s socialists is that they are not Marxists, not really. They regurgitate the rhetoric, of course, and spout the proper platitudes, but they don\u2019t know or care anything about the \u201cmeans of production.\u201d They think the state should have a greater role in the economy, but not because they believe workers are alienated from their labor or because they think society has arrived, dialectically, at the stage at which that alienation can be rectified through collective action. Rather, they think the state should have a greater role because they want stuff, stuff that they\u2014or those whom they purport to represent\u2014can\u2019t otherwise have: low rents, cheaper groceries, free college education, and healthcare. In this sense, today\u2019s socialists are less Marxists than Stirner-ites, not communists so much as \u201cegoists.\u201d Almost two-and-a-half years ago, in a column in these pages about Joe Biden\u2019s student loan forgiveness obsession, I spelled out some of the differences between Marxists and Stirner-ites this way:<\/p>\n

Un<\/em>like most of his fellow Young Hegelians\u2026[Max] Stirner was not a communist or even a socialist. He was, rather, an \u201cegoist,\u201d which is to say that he was concerned with himself and his needs, first and foremost, and believed that all men were, at heart, radically self-interested. Stirner mocked Marx, Engels, and their fellow communists, assailing their quasi-religious utopian dreams and insisting that man, once freed from the \u201cbondage\u201d imposed by the Christians and their God, would never willingly accept the bondage imposed by the communists and their pseudo-god. Instead, Stirner asserted, man would feed his ego, would satisfy his desires, and would be concerned principally with his own personal comfort.<\/p>\n

Marx, for his part, grew to hate Stirner more, perhaps, than any other person on earth. In part, Marx resented the fact that Stirner mocked his utopia. In larger part, he feared that Stirner was right. He fretted that Stirner had a better grasp of man\u2019s nature and that once all man\u2019s basic needs were met by modern capitalist society, he would\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0demand control of the fruits of his labor or of the means of production but would, instead, demand the satiation of his ego.<\/p>\n

Mamdani isn\u2019t going to end commodity fetishism. He\u2019s going to make bus rides free. He isn\u2019t going to redirect surplus value to the proletariat. He\u2019s going to provide city-subsidized child care so that people can go to work and not feel guilty or have to give up their venti lattes. This isn\u2019t about labor vs. capital. It\u2019s about getting \u201cbillionaires\u201d and \u201ctrillionaires\u201d to pay their \u201cfair share\u201d so that everyone else can live in rent-frozen apartments. Or something. The DSA, in its language and agenda, caters almost exclusively to its supporters\u2019 desire for cheaper, state-controlled creature comforts.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it\u2019s also worth noting that today\u2019s socialists both confirm and repudiate Stirner. This paradox is, in some sense, the key to combating the socialist surge over the long term. While Stirner was inarguably correct about modern man\u2019s preoccupation with his ego and, thus, his general revulsion at Marx\u2019s anti-materialist Utopia, he profoundly misunderstood man\u2019s innate desire for meaning and belonging. Stirner argued that the workers of the world would reject Marx specifically because of the religious nature of the Marxist project. He mocked the Communists as religious zealots of a sort and rightly predicted that modern man would have no more use for this new religion than he had for the old ones. He was right in the narrow sense but mistaken about man\u2019s nature more broadly. Man is selfish. There is little doubt about that. He has innumerable wants and desires, as Stirner rightly saw. Nevertheless, man is an innately religious being. That\u2019s the primary cultural conflict in history: what can man do to live a good life and find meaning while combating his temporal urges? Stirner\u2014a product of the Enlightenment and its attack on traditional religion and its search for meaning\u2014missed man\u2019s need for meaning entirely.<\/p>\n

The United States has always had some handful of political figures who have flirted with \u201csocialism\u201d in its many forms. Starting with Debs and then carrying over to FDR\u2019s administration and the postwar Soviet infiltration of the federal government, true, economic socialists were a part of the governing class. Starting in the 1950s and 60s, the Lukacs and Frankfurt School-influenced cultural Marxists began taking over the institutions (media, education, religion, entertainment, etc.), bringing a different, albeit far more successful type of socialism to the American experience. Over the last few years, the Sanders- and Ocasio-Cortez-led Democratic Socialists have garnered considerable attention by mixing ego-based economic promises with cultural Marxist rhetoric and grievance-mongering. Like the poor, socialists of some form or another we will always have with us.<\/p>\n

The socialists today differ from their predecessors, however, in that they seem to appeal to a bigger and broader constituency. Young people in particular seem drawn to the Utopian fantasy now in far greater numbers than ever before. As a result, the threat seems more real and more immediate.<\/p>\n

Part of this is that we, as a civilization, are experiencing some very real and unprecedented economic problems. Housing affordability and economic mobility\u2014in part driven by unparalleled longevity\u2014are two issues that are genuinely and negatively affecting Generation Z and pushing them toward radical political solutions.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, however, it is largely inarguable that the real surge in socialist affiliation coincides with the appropriation by the movement of authentic religious sentiment and fervor. Mamdani and his cohorts\u2014and the movement more generally\u2014are very much animated by the cultural spirit of Islam. When I say that, I don\u2019t mean just the anti-Zionist\/anti-Israel\/antisemitic vocabulary and policies\u2014although that is a huge part. I also mean the fact that Islam has, for at least the last half century, helped fill two voids in Western society.<\/p>\n

It is, first and foremost, the ultimate form of rebellion against \u201cwhite, Christian hegemony.\u201d In 1978 and 1979, Michel Foucault, one of the most influential intellectuals of the postwar Western Left, traveled to Iran as a newspaper correspondent and, by his own account, fell in love with the revolution unfolding in front of him. He called Ayatollah Khomeini \u201cthe old saint in exile\u201d and described the uprising not as the birth pangs of a theocratic police state but as a \u201cpolitical spirituality,\u201d an authentic alternative to the exhausted, disenchanted rationalism of the West. He was far from alone. Much of the Western intellectual Left spent the early years convinced that Khomeini\u2019s Iran represented liberation rather than its opposite. Only once the executions started did most of them quietly look away.<\/p>\n

To be clear, it\u2019s not Islam itself that appeals here. It\u2019s the West\u2019s fetishization of Islam\u2019s revolutionary edge, which serves as proof of its authenticity. As the late, great Joe Strummer observed, by romanticizing Islam and ignoring its faults, Western radicals feed the Western misunderstanding of the religious tradition and empower tyrants (while also making themselves look foolish). When he wrote that \u201cNow over at the temple, oh, they really pack \u2019em in \/ the in-crowd say it\u2019s cool to dig this chanting thing,\u201d he wasn\u2019t describing Iran. He was mocking his Western contemporaries, the Western hipsters and fellow travelers, Foucault\u2019s spiritual descendants, who found the whole spectacle thrilling precisely because it offended the right people.<\/p>\n

Cat Stevens, to name one hipster, took the whole bit further than most, abandoning the hippie-laden Peace Train, converting to Islam, and joining Khomeini in calling for Salman Rushdie to be killed. The peace train had become pass\u00e9, while hating heretics, apostates, and Jews represented hard-core rebellion. Loving Islam became the ultimate sign of nonconformist legitimacy.<\/p>\n

The second void that Islam helps fill is the void of meaning. As Western Christianity has grown flaccid and doctrinally muddled, Islam has remained steadfast in professing a binary certainty: good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, redemptive vs. condemnable. As a result, Islam has grown in appeal not just to wannabe rebels but to lost souls as well. Almost exactly three years ago, when Sinead O\u2019Connor died, I wrote a note to clients explaining how radically misunderstood she was. Most people\u2014critics, fans, etc.\u2014labeled her \u201cantireligious.\u201d But nothing could have been further from the truth. She was deeply religious and desperate for God in her life:<\/p>\n

When Sinead O\u2019Connor needed healing, forgiveness, and love, she was instead greeted with confusion and contempt.\u00a0Even on the cultural Left, where her \u201cbravery\u201d was heralded, she was treated as something other than human. She was turned into a \u201csecular saint,\u201d a righteous warrior against the inequities and \u201cfantasies\u201d of organized religion, rather than the profoundly broken woman she was.\u00a0The Church, in turn, continued its worldly cover-up of abuses, addressed the \u201cevil\u201d O\u2019Connor identified legalistically, and exacerbated many of its problems by continuing its efforts to save souls through decidedly rationalist means.<\/p>\n

This is why, when she died, her legal name was Shuhada\u2019 Sadaqat. She, like countless other lost souls before her, had converted to Islam, specifically because it offered certainty and a version of security. Modern, post-Enlightenment Christianity had more or less abandoned her search for meaning, and so, she found it somewhere else.<\/p>\n

There is a lesson here. People\u2014young people, in particular\u2014are lost and are searching. If nothing traditional provides them with the meaning and purpose they desire, they will fill that void with politics. And when the option is available, they will fill that void with a political force that arrogates the certainty of religion.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to suggest that America\u2019s youth will all be converting to Islam soon, but it is to say that the current iteration of socialism in this country provides many distinctive challenges\u2014the search for meaning and hatred of Israel being the two most prominent.<\/p>\n

As I said, today\u2019s socialists are not your father\u2019s socialists. They are something else entirely, which means that resisting their advances will require a strategy that is completely different as well. People need a purpose. Work, family, and faith\u2014the bedrocks of the American experiment\u2014all provide purpose. It\u2019s long past time to rediscover and rebuild them\u2014lest the socialists keep winning elections.<\/p>\n

Read more Book Review: \u2018The Last Men: Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity,\u2019 by Charles Cornish-Dale (Raw Egg Nationalist)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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