Socialism sucks!
Mike walker, Col. USMC (retired)
All,
Listened to one too many talking head to remain silent: Socialism sucks!
Webster defines socialism as “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods” which is in keeping with its nineteenth century philosophical roots.
When the state owns your home and place of work, decides what education you and your children will receive and what goods you will possess, you are not free but a slave of the government.
There is no political freedom without economic freedom.
The new champions of socialism wish to gloss over the truth about their inane economic theory and the new prattle begins with an anachronistic silliness that acts of public good stemmed from socialism.
People have worked for the common good since the dawn of time and the motivations were many.
When free citizens of a small town in New England acted together to build a schoolhouse and hire a teacher, there was no socialist system. They were guided by human goodness and a desire to make a better life, not some political-economic tract that would not be written for another century or so.
Buddhist monks fed and clothed the poor for centuries before socialism.
The Missionaries of Charity, of whom Mother Teresa was a member, serve in accordance to centuries old Christian ideals that have no need of socialist diktats.
Autocratic monarchs claiming to rule by might or right of birth invested in public works, such as the Great Wall of China, long before socialist economic theory was created.
Socialists would have you believe that their theory came first (it just wasn’t written down) and all else followed after. Nonsense.
The next falsehood stems from the anachronistic lie: socialism has exclusive claim to all acts of common good by any government at any time. Elected representation, a judicial system, taxation, government services, etc. are concepts “owned” only by socialists.
Simply put, to have a government is to be a socialist.
This absurdity once again reverses the logic. That all socialist states have a (misguided) form of government is true. That all forms of government are socialist is patently false.
As the historical record and the current world situation demonstrates, there are any number of ways that peoples govern themselves. That socialism is one alternative is true. That socialism can borrow from other models is true. That only socialism gets to lay claim to a beneficial good coming from government is not true.
Acting in the common good and creating public works is part of the human condition; it is the manifestation of human goodness and a desire to care for our fellow beings – there is no need of socialism.
Now that we have gotten past the deceit and conceit, we can honestly get to the black heart of socialism: the concentration of power and control in the hands of government elites.
We need only look to the sacred socialist canon and the five most destructive words ever penned by man:
“THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT”
The breadth of evil that has been spread of across the globe by that mischief created a who’s who of human depravity:
- Lenin and Stalin’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that led to the death of millions
- Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party, formed after World War I out of the nationalist wing of the Italian Socialist Party
- Adolf Hitler’s Nationalist Socialism, by the way, Hitler personally changed the name from the German Workers Party to the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party
- Mao’s Communist Socialism that led to deaths of millions
- Pol Pot’s Agrarian Socialism that carried out an economic genocide on the Cambodian people
And the list goes on…
Socialism is all about power and control.
Indeed, it can be convincingly argued that beginning in 1917, the violence that shook the world throughout most of the twentieth century should be described as the Wars of Radical Socialism.
Thank God for those pesky free-market democracies because…
Socialism sucks!
Mike
