Democratic Socialism for a Xenoric World

Xenoric : of foreigners, diverse, of a diverse society

Daniel Gil De Lamadrid
Nov 2 · 4 min read

Macroeconomic sustainability necessitates universal infrastructure that is more cost efficient when financially centralized and freely accessible to all citizens. Democratic Socialism works to establish this successful economic model and exists in the highest ranking nations.

Although adopting this model would seem like the thing to do from anyone with common sense, the United States is the only industrialized nation that has not adopted it.

It’s not surprising however, that the white supremacist movement has seen a rise from under the rocks, showing the growing fear of a political movement to better their country, and it seems to come from two main places:

  • They have no idea how macroeconomics works nor do they understand what Democratic Socialism actually is (which, by the way, isn’t literally socialist) and result to anger and heresy to attack what they fear but don’t understand.
  • They oppose anything that comes from powerful people who are not white and Christian, because they have a caveman complex against ‘foreign’ people and their ideas.

Everyone in the world is a foreigner to someone else.

The United States and many places in the world are what people call melting pots; people from many cultures and places, niches and occupations, subcultures, religions, political views and languages — all living in one society.

The United States is unique regarding the 32 industrialized nations of the world (to what some refer to as 1st world nations). It is so because as Americans, we live in the only industrialized nations that does not offer the universal and sustainable systems that every single other industrialized nation offers.

We are the wealthiest of all nations, however, and our diversity as a society has forged our name as a people into history books as a nation that was once among the champions of education, healthcare and safety, among many other categories.

The United States of America has always been a nation of immigration, built by those of many backgrounds into one of the wealthiest and artistically superior nations in the world. Our constitution was written with that diversity in mind – to an extent (back then the melting pot was a mix of European religions, ethnicities and languages), and today our law of the land fulfills most of the protections a diverse society needs.

The threat of cultural tension and white supremacy on minorities brings light to certain societal issues such as racism and xenophobia. It also shows the inherent racism and classism in the economy, healthcare and education sectors.


Poorer people have less access to healthcare than wealthier people because the United States has not followed in the footsteps of the healthier industrialized nations in establishing a Universal Healthcare System.

Poorer people cannot afford the record breaking costs of tuition that wealthier people can better manage because the United States has not followed in the footsteps of the smarter industrialized nations in providing Universal Higher Education / Free College.


Poorer people have less than half of all the money in the country, while the top 10 percent own over half the countries wealth.


These are systemic problems that have remained unfixed unlike the smartest, healthiest and happiest nations in the world. It shows what under-regulated capitalism looks like, and that’s where Democratic Socialism comes in to play.

Establishing an economy that works for everyone; establishing an education system that works for everyone; establishing a healthcare system that works for everyone is more than possible for the wealthiest nation on earth, while countries with a fraction of our wealth can do it because it literally saves you and the government money, instead of letting it pool into the pockets of a very, very small amount of very, very rich people.

In a society of diversity, Democratic Socialism looks like economic justice. It looks like the highest ranking places to live in the world. It’s the most successful and sustainable economic model in history.

I created the word xenoric to describe how I see the world, it’s diversity and it’s potential to live in systems that let that diversity and human potential survive and thrive.

    Daniel Gil De Lamadrid

    Written by

    Democratic Socialist + Activist for Economic Justice and the Environment. Native American and Sephardic heritage. 🤙

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