Socialism preys upon a basic human weakness, i.e. the desire for a “free lunch”. There will always be socialism.

What is currently disappearing from the world scene is the form of socialism called “Marxist-Leninism”. This obsolete form of socialism is rapidly being replaced by a new form called “environmentalism” or “green politics”.

Old fashioned socialism in the United States was formerly called “liberalism” but is being re-branded as “progressivism”. I find it hilarious that American socialists now like to call themselves “progressives”. They should really call themselves “retrogrades” (they’re straight out of the 1930s). American style socialism for the most part is a Cold War legacy that lingers due to social inertia. We still haven’t flushed out the Gramscian agit-prop and won’t until the MSM has gone bankrupt and the last “Noam Chomsky” in academia has died from old age.