What Democratic Socialists Truly Want

The DSA’s program advocates exactly what it means – tearing down the successful in the name of a fantasy of an effortless life

In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Onkar Ghate discuss the political platform, moral goals, and philosophical motivations driving the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Topics include:

• Radical goals of the DSA

• DSA versus past communism

• Lack of intellectual argument

• Miseducation versus willful ignorance

• Fantasy world of socialism

• Ayn Rand on producer hatred

• Hypocrisy or true goals

• Foreign policy and authoritarian regimes

Resources:

• Ayn Rand’s title essay in For the New Intellectual

This episode was recorded on August 25, 2026.