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If you read Marx and Engels, and their latter-day evangelists like Trotsky, Lenin, and Gramsci, you'll understand. Yes, socialism brutalizes every culture it touches. Yes, it leaves a trail of misery and inhumanity as gross as a slug's slime. Yes, it has been an abject failure everywhere it's been tried. Yes, it mandates a totalitarian oppression that strips people of their individuality, their dignity, and often, their very lives.

But all that -- ALL that -- is not only acceptable, it is REQUIRED for the sea change that is Marxism to displace the horrible, inequitable condition that is capitalism. People will die. People will be miserable. People will see the very roots of their cultures torn out and cast aside while a tyrannical master beats, cajoles, or murders them into submission.

Then, slowly, the brighter light begins to dawn as the collectivist sun rises. All are equal, free to pursue their dreams of making mankind better and giving their all to the betterment of the Collective. Their mundane needs are met or even sacrificed, but what is giving up a few creature comforts -- like food, shelter, privacy, freedom ... -- if you've contributed to the evolution of society?

Make no mistake: the socialist/communist/globalist cabal will NEVER let history dictate its trajectory. It is determined to impose its vision on the world and drag it kicking, screaming, and bloody into its hellish paradise.

That is all so true, IronJack.

They view freedom (not tyranny) as detrimental to men. That does indeed explain everything.

There are people who look at the opposing camps of capitalism and socialism as being a Ying and a Yang, and many of these people are too willing to extend the air of an equal option to socialism, which it does not deserve, having failed miserably over and over again, while capitalism has shown over and over again that it works when allowed to function.

That extension of legitimacy to socialism is a grave mistake, one that conservatives make in so many arenas. We allow the faulty fundamental premise to stand without question, and liberals build an entire fortress of lies and deceits on top of it, and we spend our days jousting with those extensions of fundamental falsehood instead of attacking those foundations.