Socialism, Theft, and the Original Sin
"When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand... not before that."
-Yuri Bezmenov (taken from an interview that can be viewed here)
Ah, Utopia! A place where the tables are always full, everyone shares everything, the days are idyllic, and people are free to be who and what they are meant to be. You pick the fruit, but someone else snatches it from your hand and eats it because 'fruit belongs to everybody'. You go into your backyard, only to find someone else in your garden patch, plucking the ripe tomato you'd so carefully tended and been saving for your special supper! The person just shrugs and says, 'It comes from the land, and all that comes from the land belongs to everyone.' An hour later, you see the same person manning a stand on the street-corner, selling your tomato for a profit! When you finally decide to lay yourself down to rest on your comfortable bed, you find someone else already sleeping in it... .
You planted, and did not eat. You harvested and had the food snatched from your hand. You built your house, and someone else lived in it. A light-bulb suddenly goes on in your mind, and you awake to the realization that you've been mugged, robbed, and subjected to a home-invasion! This isn't what you signed on for! But, wait, there is more on the way... .
You see a person living on the street, and you are moved to sympathy. You take the time to speak the him/her, to learn what caused him/her to be in such straits. He/she tells you that he/she worked at Sears for thirty years, and was looking forward to retirement when the company went bankrupt. His/her pension disappeared because the company pension fund had been drained. You feel sorry for the person, and hand him/her a fiver to buy some food, and head off. You glance over your shoulder as you cross the street, only to see the person having the money ripped out of his/her hand by the same person who stole the fruit from your hand, robbed your garden, and invaded your home and slept in your bed!
It doesn't end there, though. There is more. You see the coat you gave to a charity for people in distress on the back of someone who most definitely should not be wearing it. The person is not an abused woman (or man) escaping a battering spouse, or a person struggling to overcome an addiction. The person in what was once your coat, looks remarkably healthy and unbattered. In fact, he/she looks exactly like the person who robbed you of your fruit, stole from your garden, invaded your home, and mugged the Sears pensioner!
You head home, intent on reporting these indignities to your local commissar. Along the way, however, you stop at one of the few remaining bookstores and head for the section that stocks dictionaries. You quickly thumb through one, until you find the listing for 'socialism'. Your eyeballs nearly pop out! Socialism is defined as a system where social rights outweigh property rights. Your dreams of Nirvana come crashing down around you. In the glorious system you helped to build, it is perfectly acceptable for someone to come along and snatch your pizza out of your hand while it is mid-way to your mouth! You can work all day, and someone else can come along and claim your pay-packet. All that person has to do is claim that they need it more than you do! The last lines in the dictionary entry under 'socialism' is a particularly hard kick in the gut. It reads: 'The state owns everything, and the state is run by people who are richer and more powerful than you will ever be permitted to be. Eat that, sucker!'
Property rights are an inherent part of nature. You pluck the fruit, and it is your right to eat it. You grow the tomato, and it is yours to serve for supper, give to someone else, or leave to rot on the vine in order to have seed for next year's sowing. Animals will fight to defend the food they've hunted or gathered, so why should humans simply surrender theirs? It isn't natural. In nature, animals do form societies, however these societies are generally extended families such as packs and herds. It is natural for these large family groups to work together for a common good, but beware the stranger who tries to infiltrate them! The common good is measured in what is good for the pack of herd. Different packs, or herds, stick to their own territories - and that is good for everyone involved.
Many people make the mistake of believing that property rights relate only to inanimate possessions, and thus fail to see another danger in the concept of 'a system where social rights outweigh property rights'. Imagine a society where you have to sleep with whomever demands it of you. Oh, sorry, we already have that don't we? If a dude dares say that he isn't interested in 'women' with penises, he's called a 'transphobe' and social pressure is brought to bear on him until he cracks and gives in to getting humped by she-males. Social rights outweigh property rights, remember? The poor guy doesn't have the right to refuse his body to whomever demands it.
Remember the days when kids were taught how to 'stay safe' by their teachers at school? How they were encouraged to run like hell from any potential perverts? How they were taught 'my body belongs to me, and no one has the right to touch it'? How parents could opt their children out of sex-ed classes, and how sex-ed classes mainly consisted of explanations about the female menstrual cycle, and how a boy's plumbing worked? Now it is all about how to enjoy anal and oral sex, how you can have two mothers or fathers, and how Joey should wear a dress and use the girl's bathroom if he wants to.
'All the better to soften you up for pedophile and pedarstes,' said the grinning wolf in Grannie's nightdress. Teach the child he/she doesn't have property rights over his/her own body, and you've got your next slave-class a-forming. Your body now belongs to the collective, and you'll do what you're told.
Breaking the normal family unit is essential to breaking the clan (or herd, or pack), Breaking the clan is a necessary precursor to breaking all concept of personal property. Breaking the concept of personal property is necessary when someone wants to return us to a feudal society where the land belongs to the rulers, and so do the people on it.
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Throughout the ages, people have engaged in debate about what the 'original sin' (as depicted in the biblical story of Adam and Eve) actually was. What was the fruit that Adam and Eve ate of? Was it an apple? Was it sex? What the hell was it?
As I've pointed out in previous posts, the story of Adam and Eve is just a rip-off of an older tale wherein a pair of humans steal an object from a sacred grove. That said, what did Adam and Eve actually do? They took something that they were forbidden to take. In other words, they stole. Theft was the original sin. They took the personal property of their own God. What they took isn't important. The fact that they took it, is.
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Now, what is going to happen to all the fanatics that jumped on board the socialist train when it finally reaches the station? Yuri Bezmenov described it quite succinctly. All the useful idiots, that is, those people who thought it would guarantee their lifestyles and the victory of their political agenda, will be the first lined up in front of the firing squad. They're now nothing more than a useless liability. The next will be the dissenters and the disillusioned.
'O see ye not yon narrow road,
So thick beset wi' thorns and briers?
That is the Path of Righteousness,
Though after it but few inquires.'And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
That lies across the lily leven?
That is the Path of Wickedness,
Though some call it the Road to Heaven.'From 'Thomas the Rhymer' (anonymous 17th century English poem)
Is this the anti-communist manifesto? :D
It's a caricature of sorts, as you're probably aware. It's not exactly a fair criticism I think!
Let's consider the opposite, capitalism, and the extreme discrepancies of wealth that it creates that, I assume, you'd consider fair (because who is unaware that Kim Kardashian worked much harder than Einstein or Philip K Dick who had to sustain himself with dogfood, and therefore deserves her money?)
So, what is capitalism? Perfect competition?
Are there any examples of perfect competition in nature so we can compare them to capitalism?
Oh, wait, natural selection is such an example!
Ever seen a lion kill a deer and carry it back to its warehouse where it stacks it alongside the other 1000 gazelles that it's killed, that could feed an entire forest, while other lions starve to death? No? Neither have I.
In nature, perfect and fair competition means that the difference between the successful lion and the lion that starves to death, is that the successful lion gets to starve one day longer. The successful lion manages to catch its prey just days before it finds itself on the brink of death. There's no rich lions. Just lions that are dead and lions that are not dead yet.
So when one human owns an island and another human doesn't know if he'll have enough money to feed his children tomorrow, I know something's wrong. I know capitalism isn't what it's pretending to be. It's not perfect competition, for sure. It favors only some kinds of traits (possibly psychopathic ones), and ignores others.
In general, there's only one thing that concerns me personally: under which system do the geniuses do better? We know some people are better than others - we just do. The question is, which system rewards actual worth and effort better?
I myself am not a communist, but I'm more liberal-leaning from what I can tell.
I like your interpretation of the apple of Eden story!
You are making the mistake of assuming because I criticize something I have to automatically be on the other side of the issue. I think you are missing quite a number of the points that I made, such as people stealing charity out of the hands of those for whom the charity was intended. If I give a coat to someone who needs it because they've had problems in their life that have brought them to a bad state, I want that person to be the one who gets it - not someone who just comes along, who is probably not even in as bad a state as that person is, but who feels that he has the right to take it just because he has less than a wealthy person. If I give money to a beggar on the street, no one else has the right to take it from that person because they believe that they need it more (even though they don't).
If you checked the links, you would be aware of the fact that this is what is happening in this city. It is not the wealthy who are suffering and having their precious resources sucked away, but the people who are already most in need in our city. This is because people who don't believe in property rights are not the ones who are having their shelters and food taken away from them.
It is too bad that you jumped to the wrong conclusions about the right to own property. It doesn't mean capitalism and conglomerates, and all of that other nonsense. If you take that knee-jerk reaction, you cannot see the bigger picture. If you look closely enough, corporations are just huge co-operatives, the military is the biggest government welfare system that exists, and property rights are nonexistent.
Property means you own your business, you own your own house, you own your own body. You are nobody's slave. It doesn't mean huge conglomerates that are owned by distant shareholders. People have their own land, and we take care of the people who need help - but without the restrictions of wage-slavery (as some people call it), very few people would need it. If you look closely, all those 'psychopathic' individuals you mention are not even owners in the companies they run, but workers lording it over other workers.
Neither communism nor capitalism offer freedom to do what you were meant to do, nor the opportunity to find out what that is. In the end, communism is pretty much the same as capitalism, that is, all the available resources concentrated in the hands of one small group of people.
BTW, I spent most of my life quite enamored of communism. I still see the educational opportunities to be far superior - but I never lived in the communist Soviet Union. From the people I have met who actually did live there, and came here after it crashed, life there was not as the propaganda made it out to be, and I am not a person to tell them that they are wrong when they actually lived it.
I have to add that I did see extreme socialism in Norway, and the effect that it had on the family. I think I have mentioned in other posts that I spent considerable time there, with a certain friend who has passed on. I saw how 'the state' was expected to do everything for him when he fell ill, how his family believed 'the sate' should arrange to help him move, how they believed 'the state' was the one who should look after him, etc... . It made me sick to see how little responsibility they took for their own son. They just threw up their hands and said, 'It's not our responsibility'. There were plenty of flaws in the Norwegian system, and his parents' attitude was only part of it. In the end, this is what socialism looks like in an advanced state, and the breakdown of the most important relationships - that between parent and child - is very real. What is going now over there is just the evolution of those policies, though Norway seems to have a bit more spunk than poor Sweden. Socialism didn't help my friend at all. It cast him completely adrift at a time when he needed an anchor. It enabled his parents to unload him and f-off to another country when he was a teenager, and then say that the state had to take responsibility for the behavioral problems that resulted. This is socialism. It pissed me off.
Thanks for your reply, it certainly casts a different light on the post. I now understand better what you meant.
As someone who is half Russian, I had relatives who lived during those Soviet years and they always told me it was better than it is now. I don't know, maybe they were the lucky ones, lived in a richer part of the country, or whatever, but it's certainly something to take into consideration.
I don't know as much about politics and economics as I'd like to, but I probably agree that both communism and capitalism are not the answer. Maybe science is? Just leaving each issue to its experts? Who am I to vote on climate change for instance? Who am I to decide about education?
I still think though that it's the state, or some impersonal entity, that should care for the citizens. Because otherwise, if a person has no family, or he happens to have a family that sucks, does that mean he'll have to depend on the kindness of strangers? If I'm a beggar and you come along and help me out, am I supposed to appreciate it and bow down in thanks? If doing what you did is the right thing, then it's your responsibility to do it, not your choice. But you'd argue it's your choice. I definitely don't want welfare to depend on choice. I don't want a cute freckled redhaired ponytailed girl to take precedence over my ugly darkhaired son (I don't have children, just an example) in the surgery room cos the doctors or benefactors are more aroused by her than by him. I'm exaggerating, but you get my point. I don't want to feel beholden to anyone. I don't even like the term charity. It's not charity. It's an obligation. Otherwise it's just like buying flowers. It just so happens that you get a bigger kick our of helping someone cos it makes you feel more superior and you can flaunt it to others or to yourself.
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