Reject socialism, promote capitalism

This election year we are seeing an alarming increase in the support of those who espouse Marxist socialist views. With the Left having taken over much of the educational system and with the dominant media being nothing more than propaganda outlets for the Left, it’s important to get the word out wherever possible that socialism is not an acceptable political system for the United States of America. The key to America becoming the most prosperous and freedom-loving country in the world is our history of free-market capitalism and citizen-participatory limited government as outlined in our Constitution.

Marxists teach that socialism is the next step in societal development after capitalism. But Marx’s theories actually lead us back to a type of feudalism, with a centralized political structure controlling “the masses” in a serf-like fashion. Whether Lenin and Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, Kim Il-sung in North Korea, or Pol Pot in Cambodia, the path to a supposed classless communist state taken by these and all other Communist rulers never leads to utopia, but always to a tyrannical dictatorship that rules over people by fear, indoctrination, and murder. On the other hand, there were those who wrote about the political concepts of limited government, such as John Locke in the 1680s, whose writings were essential in the creation of our governmental blueprint, the Constitution. The development of our modern economic system called capitalism required a new political system that operated independently of the political system. Citizen participation in government was needed to keep the political system from simply being run by the richest, most powerful people. A system of limited government meant power could not be consolidated in one location, with decisions being made by only a few people. Representatives chosen by the citizenry would make the decisions on how the government would run.

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As the 19th century was concluding, Western civilization, particularly the US and Britain, were experiencing the most explosive technological and economic growth in human history. Railroads became history's first mode of land-based mass transportation, with wood-burning steam engines, soon followed by coal-burning. Ships powered by wind began to be replaced with wood, then coal-fired steam engines. Mass production of steel opened the way for bridge building so railroads could go over wide expanses and large multi-storied buildings could be built. Oil was discovered, with kerosene being its first primary byproduct for fueling lamps. Soon after that, methods of conveying electricity into every home and business were developed. Coal became a major fuel for railroads, ships, factories and homes heating. Automobiles and trucks, with their oil-based fuel began to multiply. For all of this to develop it required businesses to acquire large amounts of capital. While accumulation of wealth also meant accumulation of power and abuse of power, citizen participation in the political process would determine how much this abuse of power would work its way into government.

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Our Constitution was written with the express purpose of preventing centralization of power, to an extent never seen before in human history. But a political system designed for citizen participation requires its citizens to participate. And the United States is now at a point where the continued existence of our nation as a representative republic requires a never-before seen level of citizen participation. Marx saw capitalism in the feudal perspective of rigid class structure and incorrectly identified business owners as the ruling class and their employees the equivalent of a new peasant class. Using the philosophy of dialectic materialism, capitalists were the thesis, and workers were the antithesis that would eventually predominate and lead us into the synthesis, namely, the classless society called communism. Key Marxist writings about this were Lenin’s “On the Question of Dialectics” and Mao’s “On Contradiction. The flaw of this was that the capitalist entrepreneurs were not the ruling class. They were the wealth creators, the engines of economic growth, upon which various political structures were being built. Our Constitutional system of limited government, as long as there is extensive citizen participation in it, exists for all of us, not a particular economic class of people. The socialism and fascism of the 20th century are political systems used to centrally control the capitalist economic system of profit and loss, supply and demand, both requiring the restriction of freedom of their nation’s citizenry. As our capitalist economy grew, it led to concentration of power and abuse of that power. A certain amount of government regulation of business became necessary to help prevent this abuse of power, which meant there would be a growth of government as well. Dealing with issues such as stopping monopolistic business practices, labor laws to protect people from unsafe working conditions, or stopping improper disposal of industrial waste all became necessary. Yet Congress should have kept better oversight of agencies they created as lawmakers. The laws that created most of them should have more clearly limited their scope and duration. It's long overdue that the government bureaucracy should be trimmed back. Eliminating unnecessary departments and agencies is a basic function of representative government. Yet to the liberal big government types, the necessity of doing that is a debatable issue! We have gotten to the point where it’s crucial that we use our Constitutional amendment power to help bring back limited government, such as putting a time limit on an agencies existence and scope of power. And we can't wait for Congress to pass proposed Constitutional amendments to limit their power. We need 2/3 of the state legislatures to unite on passing specific proposed Amendments, according to Article V of the Constitution, that will bring Congress, the Executive branch, and the Judiciary under control of the people. If we don't, we're accepting that government continue to become more and more tyrannical. We need to be electing state legislators according to their willingness to take on the overreach of the federal government through the Article V amendment process. If we continue to allow business as usual to continue, state governments will become nothing more than managers of federal programs, effectively abolishing the 9th and 10th Amendments to our Constitution and ultimately leading to the end of every semblance of Constitutional government in our nation.