Intro
The above link will take you to the DSA website, upon which this post and its succeeding posts are based. I will offer my overarching challenge to this entire diatribe: Show me the one successful socialist movement from anywhere in the world that has endured as long as the free market capitalist model of America. No, not from 1776, or even 1787, but from 1619's dual emergence of eventual American expansion. Everyone knows the 1619 Project as the first date of arrival of African slaves, and the modern protest that has resulted. Less known is the Virginia General Assembly meeting for the first time at Jamestown, becoming the first representative legislative assembly in the New World and laying the groundwork for American constitutional democracy via an economic free market. We'll start there: 1619. Show me a successful socialist movement enduring since then. Don't tell me; show me. Well, you can't because socialism does not predate 1619; it's from 1848, Karl Marx. That may not be accurate. It may have started in Eden as the Serpent's beguiling offer to Eve. But it hasn't succeeded from then, either. That's all you have to do, and I'll back off the claim that socialism an an historic failure without a single enduring success story. Enduring being equal to, or surpassing 1619 to 2026; 407 years.
Part 1: The Raised Fis
Socialists claim the raised fist as the symbol of their movement. There it is, prominent in the above weblink, as if they invented it. Nope. Not even that. That symbol has been around since the ancient Greeks, at least. Moreover, the symbol is not a singular fist, but a hundred of them, all from one individual of Greek mythology: Cottus, son of Uranus, one of three brothers, all of whom are giants of Cottus' appearance; monsters of a hundred hands and fifty heads. Looks like a socialist banquet. So, borrowing from the outset, socialism can do nothing more, for it cannot even generate its own wealth; it must borrow[?] it from others. When the borrowing source is depleted, socialism dies of its own lack of ability to sustain itself. Always has; always will. All myths eventually succumb to the demand of real history: Be ambitious, plan, and execute the plan as an individual effort, or wither and die as a disillusioned, collective union population. The following parts to... follow, just like a socialist parade of raised fists. If I used a free market parade, y'all couldn't follow it.