Socialism 2025 conference getting lots of publicity-maybe too much

The Socialism 2025 conference, hosted in Chicago over the July 4th weekend of all times (of course these types don't celebrate), is getting more national publicity this year than ever before. And that may be a real problem — for them. Because sometimes when fringe ideologies crawl into the sunlight, the average voter gets a good long look and says, “Wait… what the hell is this?”

The conference — organized primarily by Haymarket Books and a loose confederation of Marxist, Trotskyist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonialist organizations — is an annual gathering of the farthest fringes of the American left. That’s not hyperbole. The folks attending this thing aren’t garden-variety progressives. These are people who quite literally want to dismantle the nation-state, abolish capitalism, eliminate borders, and in some cases “disrupt” the nuclear family as a relic of white supremacy and colonial oppression.

And now they’re livestreaming all of it.

That may not be the smartest move.

Because the more people actually hear what these socialists have to say — the more they’re likely to recoil. The conference is packed with sessions that take aim at everything most Americans still care about: freedom, work, family, national identity, and personal responsibility.

One panel, for example, is about “abolishing the carceral state” — not reforming it, not improving it — abolishing it. Another discusses “the case for open borders,” and others are deep in the weeds of “decolonizing education,” “abolishing the family,” and “breaking capitalism’s grip on the planet.” You know, the usual light fare.

Which raises an obvious question: Why are they suddenly working so hard to get publicity?

One possible answer is the surprise political success of people like Zoran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist who just won the Democratic mayoral nomination in New York City. He calls himself a Democrat, but his politics are straight from the DSA playbook — the same DSA that’s all over this conference. Now to be fair, the timing is tight. Mamdani’s nomination just happened. But it wouldn’t be shocking if the far left sees this as their moment. If Mamdani can hijack the Democratic ballot line in the biggest city in America, maybe it’s time to start saying the quiet part loud.

Big mistake.

Because when these radicals start preaching to the general public — not just to each other in activist reading groups — they make it painfully clear just how out of step they are with the country they’re trying to transform.

What’s being exposed here isn’t just ideology — it’s hostility. Hostility to America, to capitalism, to the rule of law, to local governance, to national sovereignty. These people aren’t just proposing tweaks to the system. They want to burn it down.

This is what the Democratic Socialists of America represent, and let’s be clear: while they’re technically not a political party, they’ve become a kind of ideological parasite feeding off the Democratic Party structure. They don’t run as “DSA” candidates — they run as Democrats. Zoran Mamdani, for example, won his nomination on the Democratic line. Just like AOC. Just like Jamaal Bowman. Just like many others before them.

They use the party label — but reject almost everything the party historically stood for. Liberal democracy? No thanks. Free enterprise? Absolutely not. National borders? A “fascist construct.” Israel? Illegitimate. America? Born in sin, and still too sinful to be redeemed.

And now they want the world to hear it — in high definition, live-streamed, curated, hashtagged, and piped directly into your feed.

This may play well to their activist base, but it’s political suicide in a country where most voters — including many Democrats — still believe in things like work, family, and borders. The DSA and its conference allies want to blow all that up and start over from zero. They say it out loud. They write it in their books. They paint it on their protest banners.

Which brings us back to Socialism 2025.

By giving their views a wider audience, they may be shooting themselves in the foot. Because most Americans have never heard this stuff before — not really. They’ve seen glimpses, sure. But now? Now the mask is off. And once people understand that the left’s new radicals aren’t just liberals with a few edgy ideas — but full-blown anti-American revolutionaries — things start to shift.

People wake up.

Swing voters start asking questions.

Moderate Democrats wonder what their party has become.

And some of the very same independents and normie liberals who rolled their eyes at “red scare” rhetoric in the past might suddenly start to think: Wait a minute — maybe the right has a point.

So yes, Socialism 2025 is getting more attention than ever.

And that might turn out to be the best thing that’s happened to the rest of us in a long time. Because the more people see it, the fewer will want anything to do with it.

And if you want to watch this horror show yourself, evidently they have a YouTube channel. So by all means — check it out. See for yourself what’s in store for America if these socialists come to power.

Which, disturbingly, they are already alarmingly close to doing — at least in New York City.