Now that a naked Marxist has won the New Hampshire Democrat primary,
perhaps their 1945-adopted motto should no longer be “Live Free or Die,” but
“Live Marxist or Die.”
The Democrat Party has re-branded itself into full-blown socialists
and their voting base doesn’t seem to mind. Who would object to promises of
free college tuition, free healthcare, free housing, food, guaranteed
employment, equal pay, and other freebies?
Young and indoctrinated Americans believe these empty promises
because they are ignorant of history and of how the Democratic Socialist
Republics under the boot of the Communist Party have built their oppressive
empires. (China, Cuba, Russia, Vietnam, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Bulgaria)
According to G. Edward Griffin, “The Bolshevik revolution
was not a spontaneous uprising of the masses. It was planned, financed, and
orchestrated by outsiders. Some of the financing came from Germany which hoped
that internal problems would force Russia out of the war against her. But most
of the money and leadership came from financiers in England and the United
States. It was a perfect example of the Rothschild formula in action.” (The
Creature from Jekyll Island, 5
th ed., p. 283.
How did the former Soviet communist satellite countries build
their socialist economies? Nikita Khrushchev explained it quite well, “
We
denied ourselves a great deal and restricted ourselves with regard to food,
clothing, and production of consumer goods, and each ruble saved was invested
in the construction of factories and mills for heavy industry, in erecting
power stations. We made great haste in this matter because we knew, … the
imperialists would crush us and would destroy the country in which for the
first time, workers and peasants, the working people, had come to power.” (Fifth
Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democrat Republic, July 11,
1958)
The reality that the “powerful socialist industry” was in
the hands of the Soviet state and not in the hands of the Soviet people, became
evident slowly to the oppressed population who owned nothing much other than
the clothes on their backs.
The propaganda disseminated before the commies took complete
power was bellied by the full state ownership of the land, the total economic
control and management in the hands of the state and thus of the few in power,
with the Communist Party directing “the entire socialist building.” It directed
“the development of agriculture and industry along a single path – the path of
building a communist society.” (Moscow broadcast to the USSR Supreme Soviet,
March 27, 1958)
In a report to the 21
st Congress
, Current
Soviet Policies III, Khrushchev said that “
Herein lies the superiority of
socialism, under which production is not subjected to the aims of deriving
profits but to the maximum satisfaction of the needs of all the members of
society.”
I suppose such rhetoric fooled the useful idiots then and the
American useful idiots today enchanted by socialism, but those of us who lived
for decades under the hardships of economic mismanagement of central planning by
the Communist Party know better and fully understand the lies. We prefer to
live under capitalism because we love to eat, have a decent roof over our
heads, water, electricity, good medical treatment, available medicines, shoes,
and toilet paper.
The socialist economy produced many obsolete models of
machine-tools, shoddy parts with faulty designs, poorly finished, and
performing inadequately. The supply and demand of capitalism eliminates such
useless production. Without competition and standards of quality, the socialist
products were given “an arbitrary value regardless of its usefulness or
salability in the capitalist sense.”
A huge staff of inspectors did not eliminate the low-quality
articles that flooded the socialist economy. To shirk responsibility and
punishment for failures, factory managers refused to accept orders for new
equipment which resulted in even more severe shortages of parts and finished products.
Even though the Communist Party tried to copy the high level
of industrial development of the United States, the envy of the entire world, Khrushchev’s
predictions never materialized fully as he promised in Pittsburgh, September
24, 1959. “
Under revolutionary conditions, on a new social basis, we
utilized everything valuable that you had created, and we proved that your
achievements could not only be equaled but also surpassed.”
The socialist system based on the Soviet economic model is like
“total all-embracing monopoly capitalism” in which the Communist Party controls
and manages everything. Despite the boastful rhetoric about ownership of the means
of production by the people and for the people, “workers” had no real control
of any capital assets and they did not receive “even as large a portion of
their own total production as do most employees of capitalist monopolists."
Socialism, under the rule and control of the Communist Party,
did succeed in creating a class warfare in each nation where it took hold,
enriching the prominent members of the Communist Party and impoverishing the
rest of the population after all their assets, wealth, guns, homes, land, and other
private property were confiscated.
After World War II, Russia emerged as “an imperial power,
with Eastern Europe firmly in the hands of its army and police.”
Marx and Lenin outlined the “contradictions in the
capitalist system” in their communist theory based on the “assumption of
struggle among rival groups and ideas (contradictions) from which one system
(communism) will emerge dominant.” Unfortunately, too many people bought into
this faulty theory which resulted in the eventual murder of 100 million around
the world. By the time they realized and understood the reality, it was too
late to overturn it by peaceful means.
In a Moscow broadcast, on July 30, 1957, Khrushchev said,
“As
a result of World War I, Soviet Russia became a socialist country. As a result
of World War II, twelve other countries became socialist countries. As a result
of a third world war, should it ever be launched by the imperialists,
capitalism will be eliminated. We are convinced of this.”
As it turned out, no war is necessary today, just an
effective globalist indoctrination which was implemented via aggressive socialist
education in the last four decades.
Khrushchev advocated a “
conquest without war.” His believed
that, when the USSR became the leading industrial power in the world, and when
China became the mightiest industrial power and all the socialist countries
together produced more than half of the world industrial output, then the
situation will change drastically.
The communist Chinese had made faster strides when they
adopted communes, “
with 500 million peasants living and working under strict
military discipline, women being freed for work by child nurseries.” The
Chinese believed that communes were a short-cut to communism, bypassing the
Soviet socialism.
Khrushchev was less enthusiastic about communes because, he
said, “the Soviet Union was too poor for egalitarianism.” The Soviet communes, tried
after the 1917 civil war, were described as such,
…” all wanted to live well
but at the same time, to contribute as little labor effort as possible to the
common cause. Or as one may put it: to work according to possibility, but to
receive according to requirements. Nothing came of many of these communes.”
(
Time, June 27, 1960, p. 20)
When the U.S. did not recognize the People’s Republic of
China, the press described the situation, “
To put it graphically, all the
people of China have but to sneeze and a storm will arise in some of the
countries that at present do not recognize the Chinese People’s Republic.” (U.S.
News and World Report, May 2, 1960, p. 32)
Some socialist countries attempted to catch up with the west
through back-breaking hard work, extreme sacrifices by the people, reverse-engineered
technology from the west, and heavy western foreign investment looking for
cheap labor to make their products. The “war of nerves” translated into their
version of “peaceful coexistence.”
For decades the people living under the socialist states and
the Communist Party boot were forced to accept the insufficient
material-technical basis for their dissatisfaction. The communist rhetoric
urged their unwilling subjects to “
heighten their working people socialist
consciousness,” empty words that translated into more voluntary suffering
of their living standards.
Socialism and its next stage, communism, offer nothing but a
“
supreme exploitation of the working people for a mirage of an oppressionless,
‘withered-away’ state, a regime of the whip, of denial and sacrifice, of
stoicism – all rationalized with a promise of a higher standard of living in
the future,” a standard that never materialized.
Had the Eastern European socialist block really caught up
with the west before the countries dissolved themselves in 1989? To get the
right answer, all you had to do is look how poorly much of the population
lived. The socialist/communist man struggled each day to find bread, milk,
butter, meat, and other necessities and staples by standing in interminable
lines. When the Soviets were developing Sputnik, their workers were just wanting
to own a bicycle or to find bread each day.
The one world socialist system ruled by the Communist Party,
the so-called “
dictatorship of the proletariat,” is still “
imperialism
directed by a new elite.” Communism is autocratic, oppressive, and highly
inefficient. It is a super welfare state with the medical care standards of a
charity clinic in the developed world. “
Position, party membership,
privileges, and adequate housing are largely restricted to the new communist
aristocracy.” The Utopia of plenty for all is just that, a pipe dream.
A socialist today does no need weapons or ugly grey uniforms
– he/she just needs a sharp tongue, a microphone, a compliant mass media, and a
convincing stream of meaningless and empty verbal promises.
It appears that Nikita Khrushchev’s dream of conquering
capitalism without war may become reality this November 2020 if Americans are
going to elect the Marxist Bernie as their president. Happy and excited multi-generational
Americans are busy destroying their own country, collapsing it from within,
because teachers have told them capitalism and America are evil. They are marching
in synch over the socialist cliff to the drumbeat of the self-described
Socialist Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
