Posted on 07/27/2021 8:04:02 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Here's the problem with communism (and sometimes socialism). If you study these subjects, you will encounter lots of abstract theories about how best to organize society, money, property, and so on. Some ideas might sound appealing. But they have little to do with communism as this ideology has existed in the real world.
Better to think of these theories as maps and guidebooks for people who want to rule others. Communism appeals to dead souls hungry for power. These are not normal, healthy people. When they finally seize power, everyone else becomes a victim, even as never-ending propaganda promises the perfect society.
The last people you want in control of your life are control freaks eager to be your masters. They think it's natural they should dictate your activities. The word slave does not appear in the contract, but that is your job in their world.
Everyone should reflect on the bloody history of socialism and communism, so often with beautiful banners and abundant promises, but a decade later, most of the wannabe bosses are dead or missing in action, replaced by others like themselves. The smell of death hangs over this history. The bigger the government, the more power is taken from the people and given to commissars and bureaucrats. These people work to increase the concentration of power in fewer hands — their hands.
If you were a follower of Germany's Hitler, Russia's Stalin, Cambodia's Pol Pot, or China's Mao, you naturally expected to participate in their success. But these four visionaries killed people, including devoted followers, by the millions. Indeed, the real common denominator of the top socialists and communists is their extreme comfort level with imprisonment, suffering, and death.
Here is the essence of the matter.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Socialism is the true opiate of the masses and elites alike.
It offers something like Salvationist zeal with absolutely none of that repentance or (for the governing elites) self sacrifice guff. Had old Ahab taken Naboth’s vineyard claiming to do it to feed the poor of Samaria he’d be a hero of Socialism … even though he and his officials ended up eating most of the veggies.
I have wondered about that, I have looked back at civilizations thousands of years BC.
I have looked tribal type structures, I have looked at the animal kingdom
I think it is normal that sheep follow their god or their ‘strongman’
today most people are bred and indoctronated to be sheep.
If you are farming sheep you have to shear them once in a while or they become miserable.
First posted here 06/11/2021 (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3966890/posts) and again 07/15/2021 (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3976491/posts).
Here's the problem with communism (and sometimes socialism). If you study these subjects, you will encounter lots of abstract theories about how best to organize society, money, property, and so on. Some ideas might sound appealing. But they have little to do with communism as this ideology has existed in the real world. …Huh? The ten planks in the Manifesto are unambiguously clear, and all communist states have followed them as closely as possible, which causes the damage within so rapidly.
good catch.
They son’t?
Twice in two weeks by the same person - and author of the piece.
I son’t know what the OP is up to.
True...communism does not exist, but communists do, and that’s the problem!
Sorry, I didn’t see that somebody else had already posted the article.
Sorry, it was a mistake. If I realized the article has been posted, I wouldn’t want to repeat it.
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