and, say, the Soviet Union ideological competition in say, you know, 1960, even though that's a sort of interesting question on its own. and China in a kind of ideological competition, I think, in the way that we thought of the U.S. There is, of course, the largest state on earth, the Chinese government, which is officially a communist state.
We don't really have communism, I think, as a competing ideology. But, you know, calling people communists in 2022 is a bit bizarre.
There's a number of them who are DSA members, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders calls himself socialist.
I mean, it is true that there has been renewed interest in socialism and democratic socialism and there's been renewed identification of members of the sort of Democratic Party left as socialist, democratic socialist. And the communists are taking me over, the Democrat Party has become communist.Īnd it's just a very strange charge to level in 2022. But I thought it was just sort of funny because it points to a larger aspect of conservative discourse which is constantly accusing people of being communists. There was some conservative who was very angry about this and accused me of being a communist. And one thing that (ph) I wrote about is the strangeness of having what feels like it should be a public good, which is the public fear being in the hands of a single private owner and this sort of inadequacy to that and the tensions of it. You know, I wrote a piece for "The New York Times" last week about Twitter and about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. And when the structure itself says our driving energy is profit, not human need, it is not rocket science to think this might be related to the problems of the world.Ĭhris Hayes: Hello and welcome to "Why Is This Happening?" with me your host, Chris Hayes. This can't be as good as we can do and there are only so many times we can say if you just let us tinker with that a little bit, it'll get better.Īnd when that keeps failing, and keeps failing and keeps failing, we have to save to ourselves there is something in this structure that is leading to this. I constantly look around at the world and I think this cannot be as good as we can do.
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