Posted on 09/16/2020 4:32:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is a latent and relatively unknown element of socialism we've all been living through during the coronavirus lockdowns: independence from all forms of social attachment.
To properly identify this tenet of socialism, we must understand how socialism came to exist in both its modern iterations and its ideological inception. We must look at the work and thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau is the godfather and patron saint of not just socialism, but all liberalism.
In his most celebrated work, The Social Contract (1762), Rousseau outlined his plan for the best method of governing human beings. The name he gave his form of government is "the general will." The general will is Rousseau's nomenclature for big government.
One of Rousseau's goals in crafting the general will was not just dependence on the government, but independence from our fellow man. In one of the most famous passages of The Social Contract, Rousseau wrote:
In order that the social contract shall be no empty formula it tacitly implies that obligation which alone can give force to all the others: namely that anyone who refuses obedience to the General Will is forced to do it by the whole body. This means nothing less than he will be forced to be free. For this is the condition which, by giving each citizen to his countrymen secures him against all personal dependence.
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Their utopia is our distopia,
“This means nothing less than he will be forced to be free.”
Probably makes more sense in French.
The left is always backwards. To them FREE means SLAVE TO THE STATE.
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