United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

Dinesh D'Souza

Jun 2020 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Poli-sci junkies, skip this diaper pile. There's no argumentative format, nor is this an honest dissection of the facts being used to support D'Souza's position on economic socialism. This hobbled-together mess is really just a diatribe scrawled angrily by a self-appointed polemecist having some dark night of the soul/wallet. Instead of actually picking apart the modern underpinnings of economic socialist beliefs like J. Schumpeter (+ his cycle of Creative Destruction), D'Souza force-feeds the same fringe 4chan-esque ravings about evil, diabolical progressive liberals trying to subvert the nation from within with welfare and gub'mint cheese via Universal Basic Income pilot programs, socialized medicine reforms, or even public/charter schools campaigns. It's nonsensical; disparate connections made by grasping at the most threadbare strands of logic imaginable. D'Souza doesn't even MENTION his criminal history/fraud issues or his sworn testimony admitting to dishonest book writing.

D'Souza, like Candace Owens, is another honorary White American alpha male who has been entrusted by the 1% to serve as one of the two leading voices in the white male's last desperate fight to preserve white power and privilege. Naturally, this book offers nothing new of any significant value other than the same old regurgitated narrative of the poor victimized white man who singlehandedly built this great nation with his own bare hands (which held the bull whip he used to brutally torture and dehumanize Black people as they physically did all the work) is now, tragically, the victim of oppression and "reverse " racism. Like everything written by today's alt right, it blames POC and Women for all that's wrong and denies existence of white supremacy and racism while simultaneously arguing that blacks are an inferior species. Ironically, the two foremost authorities and defenders of white alpha male power and privilege are an Indian man and a Black woman. Poetic justice, perhaps?

When I read this book, there was an overwhelming stench radiating from it the entire time. It smelt like..... rotting garbage. And it also gave me a headache that felt like my brain cells were killing themselves off to spare themselves from stupidity. Also there was a sickening feeling that settled in my stomach, when I realised that a man with no emotion or real reason, was creating propaganda to profit off of the unlawful death of an innocent man. Terrible book. Deserves 0 stars.

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.