Meanwhile, in America — the country people fleeing socialism risk everything to reach — socialism is growing in popularity. Americans Don't Know What Socialism Actually IsThe problem with discussing socialism is that often when it's discussed, we're not all talking about the same thing. And there are socialist countries where the state controls the money, benefits are generous on paper, and inequality is low. Fortunately for the Latin American countries that recently rejected socialism, they cut the socialism experiment short before it wrecked them. The evidence is alive, it speaks Spanish, and for three years it has been voting — in country after country — against socialism.