Is Socialism the Same as Neighborliness?
Stealing From Your Neighbor Isn't Neighborliness
8/10/20243 min read
The main issue in present-day political struggles is whether society should be organized on the basis of private ownership of the means of production (capitalism, the market system) or on the basis of public control of the means of production (socialism, communism, planned economy). Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individual's life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management. There is no compromise possible between these two systems. Contrary to popular fallacy there is no middle way, no third system possible as a pattern of a permanent social order. The citizens must choose between capitalism and socialism or, as many Americans say, between the American and the Russian way of life.
– Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy [1944]
Tim Walz is the epitome of a corrupt, deceiving politician. Millions of people have bought into the proposition that the government will take care of them with lots of free goodies. It's never mentioned that government freebies come from the labor of others. And it's never mentioned that Tim Walz created a program that provides free, taxpayer-funded college and government-subsidized health insurance for illegal immigrants.
Once you give in to socialism, there is no limit to how much the politicians will steal or to whom the stolen money goes. The politicians will always get their cut, of course. I just find it amazing that voters prefer to destroy the country to get their slice of stolen money. We live in a nation of thieves.
I agree with author Devvy Kidd that Democrat voters want a communist America. I contend it already is and explained why on my Bolin's Ghost channel here.
After decades of propaganda and government handouts the alluring deception of something for nothing has taken root. Nowadays, the mindset of most Americans is that a little socialism is a good thing. In other words, voting for a politician who will steal on your behalf is a good thing.
Many years ago I dealt with a kindly printer named James Carroll in Knoxville, Tennessee. He self-published a little book titled The Philosophy of Mixturism: A Blueprint For The Betterment of Peoplekind. He spoke approvingly of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Michael Gorbachev. Both, he wrote, sought to combine the "best" of capitalism and socialism by means of what he termed "Mixturism."
But oil and water do not mix.
Nor does socialism exist for the betterment of mankind. It is what it always has been, a tool of oligarchs and dictators to buy votes and power. It ensures their rule by making people dependent on the government.
Ultimately it will fail, as it always does, when the inflationary money-printing bubble bursts. Socialism failed in Argentina, Venezuela, and elsewhere, and it will fail here. As Margaret Thatcher said “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”