Commentary
Every time I hear a young person romanticize socialism, I picture that person trying to explain it to someone who’s actually lived through it. The pitch is predictable—free rent, free health care, free education, correcting capitalism’s inequities—and especially tempting in a world where everything feels more expensive by the day. But we know how the story ends: not in utopia, but in control, censorship, fear, and far too often, violence.
