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To comprehend twenty-first-century world order, one must recognize how many of today's most confounding conditions arise from the collapse of Europe's high nineteenth-century ancien régime during World War I and the twentieth-century Weltanschauungen growing from its consequences. In surveying world order in 2019 from within the United States, Marx's observations about history unfolding first as tragedy and then repeating itself as farce ring true in America's new culture wars over the meaning of “socialism” after the 2018 midterm elections and the Democratic Party regaining their majority in the House of Representatives. Even though their understanding of socialism's numerous variants is…