- Jose Tarano
Unmasking 'Democratic Socialism' in The Americas
The Democratic Trojan Horse: How New Socialist Narratives Seek to Rehabilitate Totalitarianism
In recent decades, we have witnessed a disturbing phenomenon: the resurgence of narratives that, under the cloak of apparently benign concepts like "democratic socialism" or "social justice," seek to rehabilitate ideologies that have historically led to despotism. This analysis examines the discursive strategies and political tactics employed for this rehabilitation, as well as the mechanisms by which apparently democratic movements have used liberal institutions to establish authoritarian regimes, distorting the history of the 20th century that left us a fundamental lesson:
Totalitarian regimes of socialist inspiration caused the death of approximately 100 million people, according to conservative estimates by historians like Stéphane Courtois in "The Black Book of Communism."
The Semantic Rehabilitation Strategy
Ideological Rebranding
The first line of defense of new socialist currents consists of a systematic ideological rebranding operation. This strategy operates through several mechanisms:
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