Do Americans
at large understand that socialism involves various economic and political theories which advocate collective or
government ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods?
I bold-faced the word “theories” because the practice is quite a resounding
failure in all countries in which it was tried or it is currently used.
If you point
to European Fabian socialists as a success story, you are not paying attention
to the bankruptcy level of debt of all these countries, the result of decades
of unrestrained welfare and failed multiculturalism, to the level of
confiscatory taxation, enslavement to government, and its forced tolerant
social programs.
Under
socialism there is no private property, advocates and supporters say. It could
have fooled me. During the twenty years I lived under the transition form from
socialism to communism, all the elites had their private property, including
the union bosses appointed by the Communist Party, while the proletariat had
nothing. The State run by the Communist Party controlled everything, all the
means of production. All we could and had to control was our speech. We could
only use thoughts to curse the abject enslavement that the Communist Party
apparatchiks subjected us to every day.
The ever-clever
theoretician and parasitic thinker who survived on the generosity of rich
friends and patrons, Karl Marx, wrote while scratching his dirty hair, that
socialism is an imperfect transition between capitalism and communism where
goods and pay were unequally distributed, according to work done.
In practice,
doctors and unskilled labor were paid approximately the same, removing the
incentive to spend years in college to become a doctor. The Democrats and their
Occupy Wall Street denizens said, it is obscene for a doctor to make a profit,
they don’t deserve it.
These same socialists
advocate quite loudly a living wage of $15-25 per hour for minimum wage unskilled
workers. It is only “fair” and “social justice” to pay someone enough money
where they can live comfortably while expending no effort to educate themselves
for a career that would enable them to earn a deserved living wage.
As someone
said, in socialist/communist countries, the remuneration was so poor, “we
pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us.” The elites, however, were
paid handsomely for doing nothing. But then again, community organizing and
agitation must have been hard work for most Bolsheviks who often did not have a
high school diploma and were hard-pressed to write an entire sentence
coherently.Socialism is an economic system in which the omnipotent government controls “substantially” the production and distribution of goods, while private enterprise dwindles. We have witnessed the growth of big government in this country and the shrinking of the private sector. Under socialism, competition no longer guides economic activity, cooperation and submission to government rules become the norm.
And then there are
the Fabian Socialists in existence since the Fabian Society (a British
socialist group) was founded in 1884 with “the purpose to advance the
principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means.” The original
purpose was to have a socialist economy. Today the society is a think tank
affiliated with the Labour Party.
There is never a
shortage of new converts to socialism or socialist wannabes. Take for instance
the socialist reading groups spreading around the country among Millennials.
Michael Savage called the Millennials “the new Red Brigades.”
Influenced by the
magazine named after the Haitian rebel slave Jacobin, the reading groups (Millennials
and Occupy Wall Street “veterans”) are focused on organized labor even though
union membership has dropped to 11 percent in this country. Jacobin is a
popular magazine among “a disaffected white bro socialist demographics.” http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post1047/20150613/282183649677663/TextView
Because the economy
is so bad and these Millennials are finding that employment is hard to find especially
when they have pursued unmarketable majors such as Studies of…, Human Rights,
Social Justice, Sustainable Development and other worthless degrees, they are
easy prey to community organizers who want to put a shiny new coat on socialism
in the 21st century, repackage it, and sell it to a bunch of spoiled
brats who have never experienced shortages of anything in their lives but were
subjected to constant indoctrination in schools about the utopian marvels of
socialism and communism. And the indoctrination of the last 40 years is finally
bearing fruit.
They should have asked
the people who risked death fleeing hellholes of socialism in order to come to
this country where private enterprise gave them the opportunity to grow out of
poverty and become successful if they were willing to work hard. Unfortunately
many new immigrants, legal and illegal, want to establish in this country the
exact third world poverty and crime they’ve escaped.
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