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Its May 1 - May Day - and the workers of the world are uniting. Wait, no, the workers of the world are mostly working, because its Monday and stuff needs to get done.

But socialists of the world will march today, in honor of what theyve designated International Workers Day. Theyll be on the streets in Cuba, in Venezuela, and in San Francisco, where theyll attempt a Day Without Immigrants march.

According to Mother Jones magazine, Donald Trump has made socialism cool again.

The magazine added, Socialisms hipster makeover has been accelerated by a flowering of leftist media and culture.

Thats certainly true, but whats the truth about socialism? We need only look to Venezuela to see.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will expand the number of civilians involved in armed militias, providing guns to as many as 400,000 loyalists, Fox News reported on April 18. The announcement came as Maduro's opponents are gearing up for what they pledge will be the largest rally yet to press for elections and a host of other demands Wednesday. The Bolivarian militias, currently at approximately 100,000, were created by the late Hugo Chavez to assist the armed forces in the defense of his revolution from external and domestic attacks.

The country is now a failed state, with widespread hunger, looting and lawlessness. Its the textbook example of socialism. The government took control of the economy of the wealthiest and most oil-rich country in South America - and wrecked it through mismanagement and corruption.

You wont hear anything about starvation in Venezuela at any of the more fashionable May Day rallies.

This is just the tip of an iceberg of insensitivity, ignorance, and denial about socialisms ongoing and historical track record, notes The Federalists Robert Tracinski. The bodies keep piling up, but the ideology that produced those bodies always gets a free pass.

What we always hear is that socialism hasnt failed because socialism - true socialism - has never been tried.

As Tracinski points out, this is known as the No True Scotsman fallacy in logic. If I tell you no Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge, and you point out that your Uncle Hamish puts sugar on his porridge, I need only respond, Yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.

The problem with this fallacy, as it applies to socialism, is that socialism always does - and always must - lead to the dictatorships and government thuggery that it always has.

These crimes follow inevitably from the basic idea behind socialism: the idea that the good of society as a collective is more important the rights or even the life of the individual, Tracinski writes. Thats the social in socialism, and by throwing out the rights and liberty of the individual, it serves as a rationalization for an endless amount of carnage. Who cares if this particular person - or a few million people - suffer, so long as you can claim that mankind collectively benefits?

Those marching for May Day wont acknowledge this, of course. But history will.

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Editorial: On this May Day, remember what socialism always leads to - Tyler Morning Telegraph