卡尔·马克思曾认为“民主是通往社会主义的道路”。社会主义者似乎找到了一代容易受骗的人，让他们买账这种违背历史、异想天开的推销。一项新的民意调查显示，目前有43%的人对社会主义持正面看法。令人震惊的是，65%的民主党人持正面看法。社会主义如今在左翼中风靡一时。
Karl Marx believed that "Democracy is the road to socialism." Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left.
就像服装风格一样，如果你等待的时间足够长，社会主义往往会在那些对过去失败毫无记忆的世代中重新流行起来。然而，在一个地球上最繁荣、且熬过了历史上无数社会主义和共产主义制度失败残骸的国家，出现这种趋势令人震惊。
Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems.
一种包装精美的新型社会主义已经出现，像佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）这样的领导人提出要教导人们“集体主义的温暖”。美国民主社会主义者协会（Democratic Socialists of America）正以“想象资本主义的终结”之类的叙事来吸引选民。这些话向选民承诺，存在一个没有房东、债务、强制工时，且“食品、教育、能源、医药和交通……都是公共产品和公用事业”的美丽新世界。
A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the "warmth of collectivism." The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like "Imagine the end of capitalism." Those words promise voters that there is a brave new world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and "food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation… are common goods and utilities."
最新民调显示，现在对社会主义持正面看法的美国人比以往任何时候都多。令人难以置信的是，许多人竟然相信了这一套说辞。
具有讽刺意味的是，这种情况不仅发生在《独立宣言》发表250周年之际，也发生在亚当·斯密《国富论》出版250周年之际。
MORE AMERICANS THAN EVER NOW HAVE A POSITIVE VIEW OF SOCIALISM, NEW POLL SAYS What is incredible is that many are buying this pitch. It is also ironic that this is happening not just on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence but also on the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. MODERN CAPITALISM IS TURNING 250, TOO.
现代资本主义也迎来了250周年。我们需要提醒美国人为什么它如此重要。
WE NEED TO REMIND AMERICANS WHY IT’S IMPORTANT As I write in Rage and the Republic:
正如我在《愤怒与共和国》（Rage and the Republic）一书中所写：“尽管他从未去过美国，但他的理论在许多与他同龄人看来却具有典型的‘美国特色’。这场由关税引发、并以‘波士顿茶党事件’等事件为导火线的革命，其核心思想其实与亚当·斯密的经济理论如出一辙。这些理论本质上是一种‘独立宣言’——不仅宣告了人们应摆脱英国的重商主义政策（即优先鼓励出口而非进口），同时也宣告了人们应摆脱政府对个人生产力和自主权的种种经济控制……”“总的来说，亚当·斯密首先被视为一位政治理论家，他的经济理论与其关于人类自然权利的观念紧密相连。他认为资本主义是一种能够解放个人的制度，让人们拥有追求自己梦想所需的财富和资源；相反，他认为政府的管制和补贴其实是对个人意志的压制。只有当人们拥有实现自由的资源时，他们才能真正获得自由。如果人们依赖政府救济，那么他们就永远无法真正获得自由。”
"While he never visited the United States, his theories seemed quintessentially American to many of his generation. For a revolution that was triggered by tariffs and fueled by events like the Boston Tea Party, Smith’s general principles read like an economic version of Common Sense. It was a type of declaration of independence not just from the British policy of mercantilism (emphasizing British exports over imports) but from economic controls over individual productivity and self-determination…."
这本书将这些理论与美国独立战争时期的政策进行了对比，发现两者有许多相似之处。美国革命和法国大革命都发生在同一时期，但美国最终成为了世界上最古老的民主国家，而法国则陷入了血腥的“恐怖统治”。如今，得到民主社会主义协会（DSA）支持的候选人正在赢得初选，他们对美国的愿景截然不同。值得注意的是，雅各宾派曾主张实行两院制（即议会由参众两院组成），而如今的社会主义者仍在倡导这一制度；同时，雅各宾派也曾抨击富人。
"In summary, Smith was first and foremost viewed as a political theorist, and his economic theories were closely tied to his views on the natural liberties of humanity. He saw capitalism as a liberating system for individuals to allow them the wealth and resources to pursue their own chosen paths. Conversely, he saw government controls and subsidies as forms of control and potentially forms of suppression of the human will. If people are to be truly free, they must have the resources to pursue that freedom. The government dole can become a type of servitude or at least a subterfuge for citizens.
民主社会主义协会（DSA）正是雅各宾派的直接继承者——他们试图摧毁那些能够起到制衡作用的制度，并主张用由众议院组成的议会来取代总统和法官等权力机构。
If they are dependent on the government, they are never truly free." The book compares many of these proposals to identical policies of the Jacobin movement in the French Revolution.
与当初的雅各宾派一样，要求这些变革的并不是工人阶级，而是教授、评论家以及那些受过高等教育的年轻选民。
Both the American and French revolutions arose during the same period, but one became the world’s oldest democracy while the other became the blood-soaked "The Reign of Terror."
如果将这种类比进一步推向更危险的方向的话，另一项民意调查显示：大约60%的民主党人对通过军事政变来推翻唐纳德·特朗普总统的想法持积极态度。
DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES ARE WINNING PRIMARIES AND THEIR VISION FOR AMERICA IS VERY DIFFERENT Notably, the Jacobins pushed for the same unicameral system that the socialists are now advocating as well as attacks on the wealthy. The DSA is the direct descendant of the Jacobins in seeking to tear down moderating institutions and replace the president and justices with democratically elected figures by a Congress composed only of the House of Representatives.
（点击此处查看更多福克斯新闻的观点。）社会主义的复兴，就如同低腰牛仔裤的重新流行一样——那些认为在社会主义制度屡次失败之后仍值得效仿的人，实在让人感到困惑。弗朗索瓦·密特朗领导的法国社会主义政府所造成的灾难，早已被人们遗忘。
As with the original Jacobins, those demanding these changes are not the working class but professors, pundits and young college-educated voters. Pushing this analogy to a more menacing level, another poll shows that roughly 60 percent of Democrats responded positively to the idea of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The return of socialism is like the reappearance of low-rise jeans.
最近，安迪·伯纳姆首相谴责了玛格丽特·撒切尔的私有化政策，他说：“英国放弃了对其基本公共资源（住房、水、能源、交通等）的控制，导致民众面临更高的生活成本。”但他没有提到的是：撒切尔的这些政策其实是在工党首相詹姆斯·卡拉汉执政期间（1977–1978年）的社会主义政策失败之后实施的；那段时期被称为“不满的冬天”，我在我的书中也详细讨论了这一事件。
You are left mystified by anyone who believes that this is a worthy theory to emulate after consistent and catastrophic failures. Long forgotten is the disaster of the socialist government of François Mitterrand in France. Most recently, Prime Minister Andy Burnham condemned the privatization policies of Margaret Thatcher: "The country surrendered control of the essentials — housing, water, energy, transport — and left people exposed to higher costs." What he does not mention is that she followed the collapse of socialist policies under Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977–78 during the so-called "winter of discontent," which I also discuss in the book.
或许马克思终究是对的：“历史总是重演的——第一次是以悲剧的形式，第二次则以闹剧的形式。”
Perhaps Marx was right after all: "History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce."