Demographically, democratically, culturally, morally, and economically, the West today draws from the past and lives at the expense of the future. This is how it is in socialism. Always. The Russian mathematician and philosopher Igor Shafarewitsch explains in his long-out-of-print classic "The Death Drive in History" why every new socialist experiment – and there have been many over the centuries – always consists of four components: the destruction of private property, tradition, family, and religion. In this sense, for example, the millions of abortions in Western countries or the placement of small children in so-called "crèches" today are also indicators of how far "creeping socialism" has already advanced. Igor Shafarewitsch analyzes like no one else why socialism always fails.