​​An Open Letter to Young Socialists

​​An Open Letter to Young Socialists
Democratic Socialists of America march in downtown Berkeley, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2018. Amy Osborne/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Fifty-some years ago, I stood where you stand today. I passionately wanted to help the poor—indeed, to eliminate so far as possible the blight of human poverty. Poverty seemed unnecessarily cruel and morally indefensible in a world where there’s so much affluence. How could the enormous gap between the haves and the have-nots possibly be justified? I was a socialist.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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