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American socialism
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    • Pro 1: The U.S. already has many successful and popular socialist policies.
    • Pro 2: Socialist policies can work with capitalist structures to undo the harm done by unfettered capitalism.
    • Pro 3: The American public supports socialist policies.
  • Cons
    • Con 1: The U.S. already has too many costly socialist entitlements.
    • Con 2: The job of the U.S. government is to promote equal opportunity, not promise equal results.
    • Con 3: The American public supports a capitalist economy.
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Members of the Democratic Socialists of America hold a large red banner and wave red flags while gathered for a May Day demonstration on a city street in New York. Zohran Mamdani speaks outdoors at a podium with a sign reading Zohran for New York City, campaigning for mayor with microphones in front of him and trees in the background. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, national economist and leading exponent of scientific socialism or communism. Photograph. Photo: Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection.
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Members of the Democratic Socialists of America hold a large red banner and wave red flags while gathered for a May Day demonstration on a city street in New York.
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America, gathered on May Day, May 1, 2019, in New York City.
Should the United States become socialist?
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Zohran Mamdani speaks outdoors at a podium with a sign reading Zohran for New York City, campaigning for mayor with microphones in front of him and trees in the background.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist Mayor of New York City
© Angela Weiss—AFP/Getty Images
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, national economist and leading exponent of scientific socialism or communism. Photograph. Photo: Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection.
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, national economist and leading exponent of scientific socialism or communism. Photograph. Photo: Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection.
Marx, together with Friedrich Engels, wrote the 'Communist Manifesto' in 1848.
© Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy
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