The DSA Hates Billionaires — Except Fidel Castro

We all know that the Democratic Socialists of America hate billionaires. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says they shouldn’t exist. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), the diva of the Democratic Socialists, says: “You can’t earn a billion dollars. . . . You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.” But there’s one billionaire that the DSA does celebrate — the late Fidel Castro.

On the occasion of what would have been Castro’s 100th birthday this month, the DSA praised him as “an organizer, a fighter, and stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while bizarrely denouncing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for supposedly committing genocide against the Cuban people.

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We all know that the Democratic Socialists of America hate billionaires. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says they shouldn’t exist. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), the diva of the Democratic Socialists, says: “You can’t earn a billion dollars. . . . You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.” But there’s one billionaire that the DSA does celebrate — the late Fidel Castro.

On the occasion of what would have been Castro’s 100th birthday this month, the DSA praised him as “an organizer, a fighter, and stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while bizarrely denouncing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for supposedly committing genocide against the Cuban people.