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Democratic Socialists of America need to actually meet the China they claim to love
By Douglas MacKinnon
Published August 06, 2026
To be sure, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) seems to be growing as it further intrigues those either too desperate, too ignorant, or too hate-filled to ascertain the danger it represents to them, their families and their country. Ignorance by far, is leading the pack.
Thanks to a piece in The Times of London – and further reported on by multiple sites – that ignorance now shines like the sun on steroids. A recent headline in The Times declared: "DSA members pledge support for Chinese Communist Party after VIP trip." The sub-headline read: "The CCP has organised trips for members of the Democratic Socialists of America, which helped Zohran Mamdani’s election campaign."
Why would the DSA sing the praises of China and offer it up as a model? As reported, within their greater pledge, they answer the question themselves. Say these DSA members in part: "Why China? We support all states building or aspiring to socialism, and we favor the highest level of unity and friendship between them. We foreground China in particular because its size and level of development give it an objectively critical role in the global transition to socialism."
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To be sure, China does play a "critical role in the global transition to socialism." But one that is diametrically opposed to the fantasy being pushed by the DSA.
Protesters hold Democratic Socialists of America signs during a May Day rally in Minneapolis. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
Recently, a DSA member confirmed that the organization does want to literally defund or abolish the police; the military; ICE; sovereign and protected borders; the presidency, Senate, Supreme Court, prisons and corporate ownership. OK.
Newsflash to the DSA: China is the worldwide leader in absolute control and obedience via its powerful – and growing – military, its various police forces, its spy agencies and its military-controlled courts. And do you know what they are also exceptional at? Building prisons and filling them with "enemies of the state."
As the DSA promotes itself as a vessel for the disenfranchised and those injured and exploited by the powerful, I would ask if its "leadership" is for or against "genocide." And if against it, has it ever heard of "the Uyghurs?"
No? Well, they are tragically very easy to learn about. They either reside in Chinese prisons, labor camps or mass graves. Collectively, millions of men, women and children have been persecuted, tortured or killed.
As for sovereign and protected borders, China excels at them. Anyone daring to cross those borders illegally is dealt with by the harshest means possible.
The DSA loves China but hates the presidency, the Senate and the Supreme Court. On that count, President Xi Jinping no doubt agrees when it comes to destabilizing the United States, but gleefully goes them one better. He simplified the process by folding all the power of China into just one body. His own.
Same thing with the "corporate ownership" the DSA hopes to abolish in the U.S. Xi and his handpicked circle of, not shockingly, multi-billionaire bootlickers exert full and brutal control of China’s "corporate" outlets. Every single one of them.
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Many of the idiotic and ignorant pronouncements of the DSA when it comes to its allegiance with China were ironically explained – and exposed – by one of the most infamous communists in world history: Vladimir Lenin.
To be sure, China does play a "critical role in the global transition to socialism." But one that is diametrically opposed to the fantasy being pushed by the DSA.
Lenin globally cultivated what economist Ludwig von Mises described as "useful idiots." Lenin knew communism – minus its genocidal enforcement – was doomed to failure and sought to build an echo chamber of the compromised to push it beyond Russia’s borders. He found and created thousands of such disciples in those who proclaimed themselves part of the liberal "intelligentsia."
Understanding that Machiavellian strategy, one could easily surmise that, were Lenin around today, he would smirk in satisfaction upon reading this quote from an American DSA leader after being hosted by the Communist Chinese Government: "The provincial foreign affairs department staff called us ‘VIPs’ and treated us royally… There is a serene and comfortable spirit of confidence and conviviality among our Chinese hosts."
Wow. Game, set and match for China.
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Why? As reported in the Times piece: "While these seem like quirky activist trips to get people to like China, they’re treated as extraordinarily important vehicles to change the Western perception of China by the Chinese Communist Party," said Alexander Reid Ross, a professor at Portland State University. "They exhibit fingerprints of extraordinarily high-level coordination by the People’s Republic of China."
They do indeed. But the success of China in indoctrinating the DSA should ultimately give the Chinese leadership great pause. Bill Maher recently showed why this is so.
The exceptionally aware and commonsense-espousing host of "Real Time" on HBO called out much of the destructive ignorance of the DSA when he savaged that organization during his July 31 broadcast, simply by listing quote after quote. Maher showed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani word for word echoing the Karl Marx mantra: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
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He showed radical left podcaster Hasan Piker glorifying the murderous regimes of the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong. Maher also highlighted the spine-chilling calls to "seizing all properties from landlords," to "impoverish the White middle class," to "the government’s sacred right to seize private property," and an open call to "elect more communists."
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Maher’s audience is generally left-of-center. But even it repeatedly laughed out loud as the host made fun of the seemingly functionally illiterate DSA. I suspect that if the appropriate people in China have not watched Maher’s segment on the DSA, they soon will.
The DSA loves China but hates the presidency, the Senate and the Supreme Court. On that count, President Xi Jinping no doubt agrees with it when it comes to destabilizing the United States, but gleefully goes them one better. He simplified the process by folding all the power of China into just one body. His own.
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Unlike the DSA – which also pushes "woke" and "identity politics" over merit – China only believes in elevating the most intelligent, the most experienced and the fittest when it comes to its military, its police forces and the spy agencies it controls. As such, China may quickly decide that DSA members would need a promotion to become "useful idiots" and are not worth the time, energy and money to recruit. We live in hope.
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