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The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before?In this pathbreaking book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that the socialism advanced today by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren is very different from the socialism of Lenin, Mao and Castro. It is "identity socialism," a marriage between classic socialism and identity politics. Today's socialists claim to model themselves not on Mao's Great Leap Forward or even Venezuelan socialism but rather on the "socialism that works" in Scandinavian countries like Norway and Sweden.
This is the new face of socialism that D'Souza confronts and decisively refutes with his trademark incisiveness, wit and originality. He shows how socialism abandoned the working class and found new recruits by drawing on the resentments of race, gender and sexual orientation. He reveals how it uses the Venezuelan, not the Scandinavian, formula. D'Souza chillingly documents the full range of lawless, gangster, and authoritarian tendencies that they have adopted.
United States of Socialism is an informative, provocative and thrilling exposé not merely of the ideas but also the tactics of the socialist Left. In making the moral case for entrepreneurs and the free market, the author portrays President Trump as the exemplar of capitalism and also the most effective political leader of the battle against socialism. He shows how we can help Trump defeat the socialist menace.
List of contents
PREFACE: The Specter of Socialism
INTRODUCTION: Identity Socialism
1. THE INVENTION OF INVENTION: America and the Ideal of the Self-Made Man
2. THE DREAM AND THE NIGHTMARE: How Socialism Came to America
3. ALIEN NATION: Why Socialists Abandoned the Working Class
4. VENEZUELA, SI; SWEDEN, NO: Socialism and the Scandinavian Illusion
5. JUST DESERTS: The Moral Basis of Entrepreneurial Capitalism
6. THE ART OF WAR: Battle Plan to Defeat the Socialists
APPENDIX
About the author
DINESH D'SOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, D'SOUZA came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books-
Illiberal Education, Obama's America, Death of a Nation and
The Big Lie-he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.
Summary
For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before?
