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.
They son’t?