The first socialist, the Count of Saint Simon, defended a different idea. He was accused by Marx of being utopian, but in my opinion, Saint Simon's ideas are more realistic and pragmatic than Marx's, despite the risk inherent in using this ideology to seize power with populist rhetoric supposedly in favor of the oppressed.
The problem with socialist ideas is that they fanaticize society into believing that politicians are the solution, and they end up ignoring that these people who offer them socialist solutions do not defend checks and balances on power, they understand their own ideology, socialism, as democracy itself, and adherence to the party or discourse as compulsory, excluding others with violence and expulsion from universities and any forum for discussion.
This constant promotion of utopian, savior-like ideas incites people to commit murders, such as that of Charlie Kirk, among others, and produces horrible dictatorships of poverty such as those in Cuba or Venezuela, regardless of the variant of socialism, since in principle neither Hugo Chávez nor Fidel Castro claimed to be socialists; both claimed to be democrats and constitutionalists.
It is against this totalitarian rise, with its belief in the climate emergency and an absolutist global dictatorship of elites as saviors, that libertarians and patriots are fighting.
