Fresh off a Students for Liberty campus tour in Alaska, where nearly every student who came up to talk was a committed Marxist, we look at where young people are getting these ideas. Several students named two influencers: Jackson Hinkle and Hasan Piker. So we watch them and respond.

We cover Hinkle’s “MAGA communism” pitch to Chris Cuomo, his claim that America is already a planned economy, and his account of what happened to Venezuela. Then we put Venezuela’s GDP next to the price of oil to show what the sanctions story leaves out. We compare Hasan Piker’s definition of socialism with Zohran Mamdani’s “dignity” version, trace China’s growth from Mao’s collapse to Deng’s market reforms, and end with the question every communist needs to answer: what caused the world GDP hockey stick, and how would central planning keep it going?

Socialist, capitalist, or somewhere in between, tell us in the comments where we got it wrong. And if you’ve seen a socialist commentator who actually lays out their ideas in depth, send us the link. We want more.

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