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🚨 DSA National Leader Says Nordic Social Democracy Was Never the End Goal
DSA National Political Committee member John Lewis says that, for him, Nordic-style social democracy was never the destination.
Lewis points to Cuba and says he reads “a lot of Maoist thought,” along… pic.twitter.com/iZ16532Cqv
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) September 19, 2026
The Democratic Socialists of America, to whom Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other young Democrat Party stars belong, is supposed to be a chummy, cuddly form of socialism. None of those gulags and reeducation camps, doncha know. The grand old socialist man, Bernie Sanders himself, explained this back in 2020, when he declared, to cheers and applause: “What happened and existed in the Soviet Union was not socialism, it was authoritarian communism.” Democratic socialism, he explained, was much more benign. Now, however, a DSA leader has let the cat out of the bag.
It was surprising enough to hear an avowed socialist proclaim that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wasn’t socialist, and Bernie wasn’t finished. “And communism,” he continued, “whether in Cuba, whether in the Soviet Union, whether in other countries, was marked by totalitarianism, was marked by throwing millions of people into the gulag, Stalinism was about as bad as it got.”
Sanders claimed that he was offering a vastly different product: “Finland is a neighbor to Russia. They have a very democratic society with strong democratic socialist principles. Everybody in Finland has healthcare as a right. Their educational system is, perhaps, the best in the world and college there is free. They take environmental responsibility very, very seriously. They have one of the lowest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. And you know what? Their voting rate, people who participate in their elections, is a lot higher than it is in the United States.”
Wow, let’s all be like Finland, eh? Bernie thought that would be a wonderful thing. “So when we talk about Democratic socialism,” he said, “I’m talking about Finland, I’m talking about Denmark, I’m talking about Sweden. I’m talking about countries all over the world who have used their government to try to improve lives for working families, not just the people on top.”
That’s swell, but in a video that began circulating Saturday, DSA National Political Committee member John Lewis directly contradicted Sanders, saying: “I don’t think that, like, for me there was ever a point where I wanted to stop at Nordic or European social democracy. It just didn’t — it was never a concepulation where — a conceptualization where, like, it just made sense to me.”
Lewis instead explained that he had a decided taste for what Bernie had derided as totalitarianism, continuing in the same crack-brained, semiliterate vein: “I just got back from our Cuba — from DSA’s Cuba delegation. It was amazing being in a society steeped in solidarity, right? Like, steeped in solidarity, doing so much for the world, doing so much for the planet, right? And to come back here and then see all the things that they were doing, even underneath the blockade, for the rest of the planet, right?” Lewis did not bother to explain what he thought Communist Cuba was actually doing for the world. Instead, he went on to demonize the United States in which he lives a comfortable life.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Cuba was Maoists? Today’s woke Proletariats can’t even get their ideology right!
Namer says
Democratic Socialism has always meant Communism.
WPM says
Right ,like ,like right ,Cuba is really into saving the planet right ,like and what the F is he talking about?
Westman says
Attempting to raise degeneracy to meritocracy by taking wealth from the meritorious and freely giving it to the non-meritorious will produce more degeneracy. There is no perpetual wealth machine just as there is no perpetual motion machine.
Elon Musk speaks of a robotic-producing, AI future where almost no one will need to work and will be free to pursue his/her own interests – just the “fix” for socialism/communism. Imagine what would happen to society. Any ideas?
Wellington says
Most people excessiely pursuing their own interests, assuming they have the luxury to do so, will not turn out well because most people are not, a la Ayn Rand, the kind who take our species to new heights. No, quite the opposite.
Most people are rooted in banality, a boring ordinariness or often times something even worse. I feel a little guilty stating this because the Jeffersonian in me wants to trust the common man but something else in me says the elitist viewpoint, not to be confused with mere snobbery, is the most valid viewpoint of all.
Hope, Westman, this statement of mine makes at least some sense but then life would be a Hellish bore if we didn’t contradict ourselves at times and be conflicted again and again with what constitutes the truth, the way things really are. In closing I would suggest to Elon Musk he should be careful for what he intends or wishes because he might get it.
andrew says
19… The amount of times this bespectacled black dude using the word.. like…
When he went to Cuba he was probably on a nice Tourist Tour lead by a nice Tour Guide from the State.
Such people are whom the youth of America follow today and that merely tells me the level of History lessons they have been teaching in schools from Sea to shining Sea.
Communism is against human nature..
Cuba cant even keep the lights on so WTF is this soy boy talking about?.