The goal of socialism is communism. – Vladimir Lenin
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Bernie Sanders and his AOC pupil praise socialism, Russia, Cuba, and its socialist dictator Fidel Castro. Over two million people (2.052 million) under the age of 30 voted for the Democrat socialist Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election. Polls show that a large percentage of Millennials prefer to live under socialism rather than capitalism. According to the Heritage Foundation, the Democratic Socialists of America have a roster of 30,000 members, most of them in their twenties.
Millennials hang on Bernie Sanders every word – they want free college, single payer health care, racial justice, social justice, economic justice, gender justice, and environmental justice. The free lunch, which economically speaking, does not exist, must be paid, Bernie said, by the rich, millionaires and billionaires.
The socially liberal Millennials dislike capitalism because they cannot find the six-figure salary job their college professors promised them, have huge college debt that funded worthless college degrees for which they cannot possibly find employment, don’t like the status quo, and want to replace capitalism with the promise of everything free under socialism.
Their Marxist god Bernie is the charismatic old uncle with disheveled dirty hair and spittle-laden speeches – repackaged Marxist speeches the Bolsheviks used at the turn of the twentieth century when they enslaved Russia and Eastern Europe with money from Germany, U.K., and America.
G. Edward Griffin told us that “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, G. Edward Griffin, p. 283, 5th ed.)
Personally I don’t believe Millennials would be willing to give up their electronic gadgets, their smart phones, all conveniences that make life easier and more pleasant, free speech, free press, free assembly to protest at the drop of a vagina hat, in exchange for living under communism. Nobody is that altruistic.
The new face of the Democrat Party, the 29-year old bartender from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, won her Congress seat by 57% of the vote over the incumbent. Voters were mesmerized by her promise for Medicare for all (proper healthcare for none), free college tuition, legalization of marijuana, and elimination of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). It is hard to resist an imagined Santa Claus even one in expensive suits and stilettos.
Millennials are clueless that most of the things in life they enjoy are not the result of socialism, but the result of capitalism; Europe and its Nordic states they would like to emulate are not socialist, they have capitalist economies, people and corporations pay heavy taxes which allows the government to be very generous with welfare and socialized medicine. And America foolishly provides them with military protection thus indirectly enabling such government largesse in social services in a welfare state where young people can spend many years in college trying to find themselves.
The reality of socialism is that everything is controlled by the Communist Party that directs the means of production and distribution and enforces everything daily through political tyranny.
Socialist groups and activists have exploded around the country helped by the mainstream media and bolstered by the win of AOC. Lee Edwards wrote for the Heritage Foundation, “On the road to socialism, DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] and its fellow socialists will seek to convert industries like health care into public utilities; regulate coal mines out of existence; subsidize sectors of the economy like solar energy; and operate corporations like Amtrak and Freddie Mac. They will represent socialism as the responsible alternative to the unchecked greed of the captains of capitalism.”
As many survivors of socialism will attest, socialism has never worked anywhere it has been tried. Karl Marx was a socialist atheist bum whose socialist philosophy killed over 100 million people. Socialism prohibited private property through the “dictatorship of the proletariat” enforced through armed heavy police control, barbed wired borders, and a disarmed and hungry populace, forced to stand in food lines daily in order to survive, and spied upon by their friends, relatives, and neighbors, all on the payroll of the Communist Party.
Marx considered religion as the “opiate of the masses” and all his followers terrorized churches and churchgoers. Churches were closed, priests jailed, killed, nuns were raped, all part of the class-cleansing.
Millennials were asleep or absent in history classes. If they did attend class, the textbook was the progressive revisionist version of history written by Howard Zinn in 1980, a text widely adopted around schools in America.
The socialist world that Marx envisioned was a painful dictatorship of the Communist Party but in America the people are supposed to tell their government what to do. Unfortunately, over time, we have reached a level where the government is telling people what to do in America as well. Representatives keep telling us that “this is not who we are,” forcing us to bend to their whims and ideas, while ignoring our wishes and our vote. Worse of all, the government ignores the Constitution and tries to impeach the duly elected President because they hate him.
Millennials do not understand that socialism depends upon a dictatorship in order to gain and maintain power. I know that socialists promise free press, elections, free assembly, free food, housing, health care but none is delivered.
As a survivor of the Communist Party’s Socialism, we had to submit to many freedom-robbing demands from the rabid socialists. As students, we had matriculation numbers sewn onto our uniforms and onto our coat sleeves in winter. If we misbehaved or said anything deemed anti-government in public, we were reported to the principal. Without recourse or evidence, just based on hearsay, we were punished, suspended, and our parents were criticized, insulted, and threatened in front of the entire school body. We also received a bad grade for behavior (an actual subject all the way through high school). If the offense was deemed severe, the guilty was sent to juvenile re-education. Sadly, this practice is still observed in communist China.
It is not just Millennials who wholeheartedly support Marxist Bernie Sanders, Jewish Americans support him as well. The Electorate Institute reported that the Marxist Sanders will obtain 65 percent of the Jewish vote in November. Hillary Clinton captured 70 percent of the Orthodox Jewish vote. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/clinton-won-majority-of-jewish-american-vote-polls-say-1.5459522
Senator Sanders praised the dictator Castro in a recent “60 Minutes” interview. “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thig?”
He has frequently praised Cuba for its advances in education and healthcare as reasons why the Cuban people did not overthrow Castro. The real reason was, they were disarmed. Sanders is concealing the fact that many innocents were killed by firing squads and through torture for simply expressing an opinion that contradicted Comrade Fidel, who left billions in stolen wealth to his family while Cubans were starving, and the buildings were collapsing around them.
Healthcare was not free under Castro’s socialism. Sanders and his followers do not understand basic socialist economics, the “free” healthcare was paid by people through forced distribution of wages and labor. Additionally, many Cubans will tell you that, before Castro, they already had free education and healthcare via private resources.
Dr. Fernando J. Milanes wrote a scathing rebuttal to Sen. Bernie Sanders in which he explained, “in 1954 Cuba spent 4.1 percent of its GDP on education. That translated into a comparatively high literacy rate in the 1950s and high female participation. Cuba in 1957 already had more doctors per 1,000 people than did Norway, Sweden, and Great Britain.” (Cuba: From Economic Take-Off to Collapse under Castro, by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Andro Nodarse-Leon, 1958)
In his 19-page paper, “An Evaluation of Four Decades of Cuban Healthcare, Felipe Eduardo Sixto described Cuba’s relatively high-ranking healthcare in Latin America before Castro. Mutual aid societies operated in Cuba during 1930-1950s, similarly to HMOs in the U.S. They provided comprehensive medical services for their members. “In the 1958 there were over 100 mutual aid clinics and cooperatives.” https://ascedcuba.org//c/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/v12-sixto.pdf
Cubans did fight back against socialism. But many risked life and limb to defect to the U.S. via improvised floating crafts to sail the 90 miles to freedom in Miami. Sanders conveniently ignores the attacks by dissenters like the Brigade 2506. Castro not only confiscated the people’s guns but the guns of those who helped Castro come to power, jailing or exiling them, and confiscated their private businesses, homes, and other private property.
Agustin Blazquez, a Cuban-American documentary film producer, who escaped Cuba, wrote, “Before the Castro revolution, most foreign films shown in Cuba across the island in theaters and on TV had subtitles in Spanish because most people could read. Castro's literacy campaign was a common communist tool to indoctrinate. The wording used was propaganda slogans of Castro's revolution and against "Yankee Imperialism." I remember it well, including the official training booklet full of his slogans. Bernie, Castro's literary campaign is NOT an example of something good because it was deceptive.”
Otto Reich, retired U.S. Ambassador, commented in the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Sanders still flunks Cuban literacy 101. Before the 1959 revolution, some 80% of Cuba could read. … Cuba has gone from being one of the more advanced countries in the region in the mid-1950s to one of the most impoverished, and the reason is its economic socialism and political tyranny.”
People don’t leave behind their families and everything they know and love, they are not just some idyllic socialists escaping Fidel Castro’s literacy propaganda program, free lousy healthcare, free housing in decaying buildings with chipped paint and oozing concrete from years of neglect, and free college in scientific socialism degrees. They are people escaping a totalitarian state. I don’t see any Americans escaping by rickety boats, crossing 90 miles of treacherous sea to Cuba.
Millennials think they want socialism because it would solve all their social and financial problems, real and imagined, but they should be very careful what they wish for, they just might get it.
Dear Ileana, I’m deeply impressed (as usual) by your recent article about Bernie’s idyllic socialism, but I must confess now that even my own idea of socialism was also quite idyllic, in spite of all my old Soviet labels of an “anti-communist imperialistic enemy”. You see, in February I’ve read a large E-book edition of the ultra-secret archive documents called “Molotov-NKVD Special File 1944-1956”. I was rather intrigued by the title, because I knew that Molotov had to deal during this period mainly with the Soviet economy, while the Stalin’s NKVD henchmen had to do mainly with all kinds of repressions. The E-book’s documents proved that I was right about Molotov, but dead wrong about NKVD. As it was clear from their reports, requests and complaints to Molotov, the horrible organization was 100% in economy too!
ReplyDeleteAfter the disastrous economic failures of the mid-thirties Stalin understood only too well that no great Soviet plans could be fulfilled with any degree of freedom of labor. It could be done only through sheer slavery: no trade-unions, no day-offs, no working-day’s limits, no wage, no jobs-changing etc. Since that time the GULAG has become the country’s principal economic engine – folks could be arrested by NKVD for anything, but all of them went to GULAG to toil as slaves. Some worked in the shipbuilding camps, some in the agricultural ones, some in railway ones, with a formal title of “Within the XXX Ministry’s economic plans”. You may imagine how horrified I was to read the NKVD report to Molotov: “There is no way to enlarge the OSTANKINO brewery’s production as far as we have not enough prisoners in their labor camp”. Even the USSR’s most popular beer could be brewed only by ever-hungry slaves, behind barbed wire and watchtowers… Or NKVD’s refuse to free a famous professor for his University work: “No, dear Comrade Molotov, he can’t be transferred to Leningrad as far as this able geologist is badly needed here in the Northern Siberia, so we’ll have to arrest him again right after the end of his GULAG term”…
The Molotov’s special file was declassified during the short period of the early nineties’ freedom, now Putin has classified it again (I can understand his basic KGB instinct, though I’d say he used it just a bit too late). Of course, Bernie and his voters would be true to the unclassified form of the Zinn’s Socialism all the same, but as for me I’d prefer now my own version of the Lenin’s epigraph in your article: “The goal of socialism is total slavery”.
With every good wish from Tasmania – your devoted reader Slava.
Ileana,
ReplyDelete'Tis a shame that so many can be so wrong about something so dangerous.
A. J. Cameron