International Communism has returned in the 21st century with a popular call for socialism in the United States of America! explains why converting to socialism would not only be a mistaken path for the United States, but even more so describes how today’s Western nations are already largely socialist countries, which has caused their economic decline in the 21st century. As a result of practicing corporate socialism and government enterprise for over 25 years, the United States and European Union have descended into a de facto STATE of socialism that resembles a synthesis of 20th century Marxist-Leninism, Maoism and Fascism complete with favored upper and government classes, elitist rule and forced industrialization in certain industries (i.e. green energy, technology, banking, housing, health care) that was so espoused by Lenin, Stalin and Moa. The STATE dominates the Western economies and is controlled tightly by a byzantine central economic planning (CEP) network of global central bankers, technology oligarchs and elitist government bureaucracies. This network also has the long standing support of a domineering media emporium intent on indoctrinating the Western masses that socialism will lead them into some prosperous utopia they call equality, absent the reality that the Western world’s inequality has only grown acutely worse under their socialist STATE’s for control the past quarter century. When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the Western world thought socialism was over while rejoicing in their apparent victory over the “evil empire.” In the eyes of the jubilant West capitalism had won and even the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) looked to be abandoning socialism for the capitalist way of life - but was it? The West wasted no time in expanding its global dominance. The United States rushed into Asia and the Middle East without weighing the massive costs. Western Europe expanded into Central and Eastern Europe to create the grand European Union (EU) with “schadenfreude” visions of replacing the United States as the leader of the Western world. In its hasty global expansion, the West adopted its own version of socialism, corporate socialism and government enterprise, in the early 1990s that proliferated into the 21st century. Little did the United States or even the wiser elite of the European Union realize that they were playing into the new strategy of international socialism’s real leader, that being the PRC’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Alas, now there is a popular call to adopt “full throttle” socialism throughout the Western world. Tom Iceland is a financial advisor, economist and historian who serves as a Finance Director for several public and private financial trusts in North America, Europe and Asia. He is currently the Director of the FTPSA Institute in Denver, Colorado. Email:Ticeland@communismreturns.com