Posted on 01/25/2020 5:44:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Humberto throws yet another Kleig light on pure and dangerous idiocy.
The natural need for natural rights such as property rights are validated through the combination of observation and reason (process of reduction).
Man has a nature.Unlike animals, man does not survive by adjusting to the given. His life has requirements, which includes the need for productiveness as a cardinal virtue, which leads to the right to keep, use, and dispose of the things he has produced (private property).
The person who presumes to be able to create a new man is, regrettably, only too much an “old” man. Wildly arrogant, and manifesting a lust for power.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
The conceit that the government is able to make virtuous people (“the new man”) is naive. The " total eradication of private property” creates, not a “new man” of superior virtue but an enslaved and degraded population :Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. — Theodore DalrympleFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and [already in 1939!] it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’ — Peter DruckerThe statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals [i.e., “private property”], would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter II
Why socialists need capitalismHave you heard of the shocking and terrifying diaper gap that is now dividing this nation? It is said to be so dire that the White House is urging immediate government assistance to buy baby diapers. Philosophically, this puts disposable plastic consumer products in the category of inalienable rights guaranteed by the government: among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Diapers.In short, “socialism” - actually governmentism - is a parasitic drag on society.When I lived in the USSR, our Soviet Constitution also guaranteed that our basic needs be provided to us by the caring socialist government. As a result, most basic items were in shortage, let alone such luxury items as coffee or toilet paper. Needless to say, we never even heard of disposable diapers. For our three children, we used pieces of cloth which we washed regularly. We didn't complain or feel disadvantaged because -- I repeat -- we had no idea there was such a thing as disposable diapers. Those only existed in the decadent West, where greedy corporations created such a product to boost their capitalist profits. But we were blocked from this information by the Iron Curtain, and what we didn't know couldn't hurt us.
Now I live in America, where the decadent capitalist diapers are about to become a basic "human right" guaranteed by the federal government.
About twenty years ago no one used cell phones because they hadn't yet been created by greedy capitalist corporations, who have since covered the planet with a network of cellular towers. Now free cell phones -- known as Obamaphones -- have become a "human right" guaranteed by the government.
Internet service didn't exist either, until greedy capitalist corporations surrounded the world with cables and satellites. Now Internet service has become a "human right" provided by the U.S. government to the needy.
Condoms, birth control pills, and other modern contraceptives also didn't exist until they were invented, researched, and mass-produced by greedy capitalist corporations. Now they have become a basic "human right" guaranteed and provided by the government.
Vaccines for Ebola and other exotic diseases didn't exist until they were developed by greedy capitalist corporations and almost immediately declared a "human right" for anyone in the Third World.
Healthcare with all its modern diagnostic equipment, appliances, treatments, and a vast array of pharmaceuticals, from Tylenol to Viagra, also didn't exist until greedy capitalist corporations...
And so on and so forth.
Capitalism just keeps churning out all these new products, which our increasingly socialist government then declares "human rights" and taxes these very producers in order to provide their products to the people for free.
. . . This leads us to the following conclusions, which socialists can't refute because it correlates with their own logic:
- The longer socialists wait to take over the power, the more technologically advanced society they will get to conserve.
- It is more beneficial for the people of all classes, including socialists, to delay the socialist revolution indefinitely.
- To delay the socialist takeover is also better for the environment because only capitalism has the power of innovation and the resources to create less polluting technologies, materials, and alternative energy sources. To impose socialism right away would mean to put the planet at risk of never resolving the environmental problems we face today.
- Since capitalism generates goods and services that socialists later designate as "human rights," it is also in the interest of human rights to keep capitalism around indefinitely.
Socialists often describe the world as if it has always been as it exists today, leaving out the dimension of time. But time is a major factor because the world has never been static -- and that includes nations, cultures, ethnicities, technologies, sciences, and popular perceptions, such as human rights. The main question that needs to be answered, therefore, is not as much who, where, and how -- but "when?”
“His life has requirements, which includes the need for productiveness as a cardinal virtue, which leads to the right to keep, use, and dispose of the things he has produced (private property). “
Don’t pay your property taxes and see how much “private property “ you own.
‘Unlike animals, man does not survive by adjusting to the given’
it is widely know that animals adjust to a given of scarce supplies by massive migrations..
We are in actuality in lifelong set vhf or use to the government . Property taxes is just one aspect but it does put the lie to “private property”.
Bernie and the AOC bots still think Cuba's health care system is a model for the U.S.
“We are in actuality in lifelong set vhf or use to the government . Property taxes is just one aspect but it does put the lie to “private property”.”
One part of the definition of private property:
“Private property can be transferred only with its owner’s consent, and by due process such as sale or gift.”
The government does not need your consent to take your property if you don’t pay your taxes. I don’t know what your first sentence means.
Hipster socialism is a contradiction because you can’t get fashionable over priced lattes in Cuba — there are no coffee shops with exorbitant prices for the “bearded” chic and “tight pants” gauche who want to flaunt their cash to have people gawk and fawn over them.
Servitude.
Autocorrect and autospell made garbage of my sentence.
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Cuba... what our Demonrat masters want America to aspire to.
So the real threat is Hipsterism...
It’s freeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Just like contracting syphilus, getting arrested, and getting beat to death in an alley by a junky for not having money to rob.
That was a unique auto-mangle, to be sure!
“...Socialism as Popular as Capitalism Among Young Adults in U.S...”
What these “young adults” fail to realize is that us “older adults” who worked all our lives for OUR money, OUR property, and to build OUR lives, aren’t going to just roll over and hand it all to them. Many many of us - the ast majority are armed to the teeth, and with a lot of nasty skillsets.
This ain’t Europe. And we aren’t playing games. My family crossed an ocean to destroy that ideology; sure as HELL ain’t going to let it set up shop here.
hipster socialism is just another shade of red lipstick applied to the pig of communism...
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