As a social theory, the modern [[Democratic party]] uses [[identity politics]] to create a new "oppressed class" of victims which replaces the traditional worker/peasant/proletariat victims of the imaginary "oppressor class" - "the [[bourgeois]]".<ref>https://youtu.be/PkNzYttjSHE</ref> Socialism preys on people who fall victim to the [[sin]]s of [[envy]] and [[covet]]ousness, and raises [[Iconoclasm]] and [[nihilism]] as exalted [[virtue]]s. Left-wing professors and universities have played a large role in advancing socialist ideology.<ref>Lott, Maxim (January 18, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-rising-universities-and-radical-profs-helping-steer-leftward-shift-in-politics Socialism rising: Universities and ‘radical’ profs helping steer leftward shift in politics, critics say]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 18, 2019.</ref>
As an economic theory, socialism is an [[authoritarian]] system which advocates strict [[economic planning|command and control]] of [[income]]s and distribution or rationing of goods and services, including food and healthcare. High taxation to expropriate wealth from the supposed "oppressor class" is common to all socialist regimes. Removal of incentives and demonizing the [[profit]] motive, while expecting common people to produce goods and services, and supply tax revenues to government, for little or no pay is a [[psychotic]] dream. After exterminating "corporations" and "the rich," the cost burden of government - which controls everything - naturally falls to an impoverished working class, the unemployed, and homeless which previously paid no taxes. Because of its core [[anti-democratic]] and authoritarian precepts, socialism is considered [[treason]]ous to [[America]]'s central ideal of [[liberty]].
One of the most well known socialist regimes of the 20th century was the [[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (Nazi Party), headed by [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf_hitler.htm</ref> Through [[affirmative action]] programs, Nazism granted workers and peasants access to educational and employment opportunities previously only available to the German bourgeois and [[nobility]].