Posted on 03/22/2016 8:53:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Nikolai Bukharin was executed by shooting in Moscow on March 15, 1938. He had been revered as a giant of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, as one who even worked side by side with Vladimir Lenin himself. Alas, Bukharin’s Marxist chickens had come home to roost by the time he was shot like a dog during Josef Stalin’s reign of terror. His execution marked the pinnacle of Stalin’s show trials of high-level officials.
You see, Bukharin invested in building a political system that inevitably puts the reins of power into the hands of just a few strongmen who end up calling all the shots. It’s a system in which suspicion and the smell of treason tend to hang in the air.
Socialism, by the way, is just such a system. This is the case whether you call it by any other name, whether communism, utopianism, or collectivism. Oh, go ahead and slap some lipstick on that pig and call it “democratic” socialism or “progressivism” or “communitarianism.”
Lenin and his gang all started out calling themselves socialists. Social democrats, to be exact. So the fact remains: the path of socialism is ultimately paved with coercion, censorship, and, yes, terror. Does stating this make me an alarmist? No. It makes me a realist.
Socialism Is a Bait-and-Switch Scheme Socialism and communism both involve ceding to the state control over the distribution of goods and services for the masses. This involves giving up individual rights, and giving the state a good measure of control over our personal lives. This road always leads to tyranny, no matter what you pave it with, and no matter what you name it.
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History has no relationship to today’s current events. Just listen to our prez. It was some stupid course you had to endure if you cared to graduate. The Constitution was written by a bunch of dead white guys, etc.
Today’s youth is face buried in their phones seeing if they’re trending or sexting body parts. They have no regard for history and are doomed to repeat it.
Millennials can barely think, even once.
Finally, after all these years, Gramsci triumphs.
I believe that observation goes far to explain the Millennias’ lust for Socialism.
Well, first they got to take OUR guns.
Well, first they got to take OUR guns.
If Man is god, then “might makes right” with no appeal to any other standard, and whoever controls the gov’t determines what is right and wrong.
Then it isn’t any wonder that they want a powerful, centralized gov’t under “their” control.
Point taken but I would alter that slightly; If you believe Man is god ...
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