It seems to be the religion of the mentally ill.
Communism is intellectual cotton candy for people with childish minds. It’s economic junk food. Easy sell to people who possess no discipline at all.
It’s been cleverly positioned as the alternative to “capitalism”, the young want to believe, the indoctrination is pounded into the young, and colleges allow a cocoon for endless generations of such young to become “faculty” who never outgrow the belief.
A failing in human nature. Some people want to believe we can have Utopia here on Earth. When they have to opportunity (i.e. power) to create it per their beliefs, they create hell. In the twentieth century it happened over and over and over at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives.
But this time, we have the chance to do it the right way!
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So clearly inspired by Satan himself.......
Considering human nature, totalitarianism is the default setting for mankind.
Because a sucker is born every minute.
As long as there are pissed-off, spoiled brats running around unsupervised...
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Karl Marx
On the surface, that concept sounds nice and neighborly. So much so that it seduces many naive people. But hidden within that statement is a fatal flaw.
Who gets to decide what you will give, and what you will get? It won’t be you. It will be some committee somewhere. That committee might be right down the street. Or it might be located many miles away, in some far-off city.
And you must obey. The committee might decide that you will “give” by working as a laborer in a mill. But maybe you want to be a dentist instead. No matter. You must obey. Obey, or be punished as an enemy of the people.
Not so nice and neighborly after all.
Because it appeals to envy, sloth, etc.
Sounds like he is describing Bernie Sanders.
Communism promises an easier life than you can afford on your own. You don’t need to deal with your failings, when you can use society to lift you up.
marx and engles wrote in the communist manifesto “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs” but the Americanized version is “From those who can and do to those who could but won’t, why SHOULD they when they can employ the police power of government to TAKE IT from those who can and do then GIVE IT to those who could...but won’t”. remember folks...John Smith tried the collectivist approach in hopes it would feed the pilgrims in their new land but the lazy marxists(before marx was even a gleam) caused mass starvation because marxists NEVER EVER do their part for the “collective outside of their hot air, which requires no heavy lifting, yet demanded to be fed like everyone else who DID the heavy lifting. sort of like the current crop of campus protesters who only work at destroying things but still want someone else to provide their Starbucks and chipotle. no work=no food is how Real life works and when the rest of society stops allowing themselves to become “guilt trip recipients”, there will be a BIG change...but not until. let me ask you One question punk...are YOU feeling guilty today? well are you PUNK?
“Why and how did this angry, odious, insufferable fantasist become the intellectual lodestar for the global left?“
They are God-less. That empty space in them must be filled. They fill it with anger and moral outrage and so they become gods. You serve Heaven or you serve hell. There’s no inbetween.
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This is essentially the same green light given in Islam.
Many people are attracted to the idea of being able to do whatever they want, with hatred, jealousy, lust, greed, and vengeance as their motives, and feel morally justified while doing so.
Socialists today say "we'll do it right!". The hubris in assuming that you're brighter than everyone in the past two centuries seems dubious. US capitalism has lead to the highest standard of living anywhere in the world. Most of the illegals flooding into the US are from failed, semi-Socialistic countries. That in and of itself is enough to quash the bogus socialistic propaganda.