It is the greatest, most tragic of ironies that those on the political Left, especially America’s election hopefuls such as old ‘should-know-better’ Bernie Sanders and political toddler Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are proposing the kind of society that has proven many times to be the exact opposite of their ambitions.

Socialism – and communism even more so – does what capitalism doesn’t, namely concentrate wealth and privilege in the hands of a few.