Socialism has long been a political theory that survives more on hype than history.

The problem for the growing movement of young socialists in America is that it has consistently failed, outside the confines of their college Marxism 101 courses.

During the Cold War, Soviet Communists referred to American liberals as “useful idiots,” armchair revolutionaries who spouted proletarian slogans at cocktail parties.

Today, they are often young people who joined Communist coffee klatches in college under the tutelage of academia’s “radical chic.”

Like Zohran Mamdani and his newly appointed cadre, they engage in chest-pounding about their intentions to “seize the means of production” while living off their parents or working friends in high society.

They often reveal little actual historical or philosophical knowledge, which is an advantage if you are going to call for the replication of one of the least successful political theories in history.

Venezuela is a prime example.

At one time, American radicals pointed to Venezuela as the new workers’ paradise. 

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that the “American........

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