Socialism, Communism, Fascism, etc. are all “Statist” governments
Unfortunately, for over one hundred years and countless millions around the world, nothing could be farther from the truth. Socialism has
always worked.
Socialism, Communism, Fascism, etc. are all “Statist” governments where the State maintains an enormous level of power and control over the individual and his and her daily lives. Although there are supposed differences in the aforementioned “isms”, the similarities in the control of the lives of the individuals so governed are much greater than are the differences. In all cases the State tells the people what they can, can’t and must do and backs those orders with force and the threat, thereof. Therefore, given the close similarities and for the sake of simplicity, the author has chosen to use the name “Socialism” in referring to all types of Statist government. Also, for a number of years, now, the “Mainstream Media” has all but stopped using the term “Communism” when referring to such regimes. Ask yourself when was the last time that the brutal Communist dictatorship of Venezuela was called anything but Socialism by said media.
Totally counter to the claim that “Socialism has never worked wherever it has been tried”, the fact is that Socialism has virtually always worked exactly as had been intended by those who promote, institute and maintain such systems. Socialism’s leaders have
always gotten exactly what they were after: power and money for themselves and a relatively small group of their followers while everyone else pays the price in loss of freedom, low productivity and confiscated wealth. Anyone today who believes that Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, etc., etc. ever had the slightest interest in the welfare of the subjects that they ruled is every bit as naive as the “Fellow Travelers” that helped those monsters achieve power. Socialism was never anything but a very deadly “scam” then, just as it is today.
The claim that one person’s need is somehow a valid claim against the product of another person’s effort is as false today as it has always been
Far too many moderate and even politically conservative individuals base their argument against Socialism on the pragmatic position that it “just
hasn’t worked”. Such an argument has virtually no strength in opposing Socialism philosophically as it is, in effect, saying that socialism would be “good” if only it could be made to “work”. That is the outright lie that the proponents of Socialism have gotten away with using for generations with each successive proponent claiming, of course, that
they knew how to make it “work”.
Those promoting Socialistic systems often begin by “selling” the claim that “We must help the poor, the unemployed, the under employed, the disenfranchised, etc., etc.” which is nothing but claiming that one person’s need is somehow a claim against the product of another person’s
effort. Their “pitch” has typically begun with claiming that the “rich” have somehow accumulated an
unfair amount of wealth a lot of which the “state” needs to appropriate and
redistribute to “those in need”. Of course the “state” that they are talking about is them and “those in need” are those who support them politically. The “rich”, whose property needs to be “appropriated and redistributed”, always turns out to be those who work for what they have, as the “truly rich” generally have learned how to bribe those running the “state” in order to keep most of what they have. It is also common for the lion’s share of that which is “appropriated by the state” to remain in the hands of those who make up the “state” with only a limited portion actually going to the “poor, the unemployed, the under employed, the disenfranchised, etc., etc.”
The claim that one person’s
need is somehow a valid
claim against the product of another person’s
effort is as false today as it has always been. While it is true that many human beings may feel compassion for other human beings who they see as being in need and may freely
choose to help them, but that should be done as a matter of choice. When the “state” steps in and uses force to accomplish such an exchange it is neither valid nor compassionate.
Those whose property has been taken from them by force, of course, suffer that loss. Those who allow themselves to be bribed with the property of others suffer even greater harm. They are literally turned from individuals with the freedom to make their own way into a gang of
parasites in order to control them politically. Both are
crimes against citizens and those crimes are precisely what Socialism commits wherever and whenever it has been imposed. The only ones that benefit from such a system are and always have been the bosses at the top and the thugs and goons that help them get and stay there.
For them
“Socialism has always worked” exactly as it was intended!
Since the fall of the Soviet system in Russia, countless individuals on America’s political Right have stated and restated the claim that “Socialism has never worked wherever it has been tried” and used that as an argument against that form of government. We hear that same claim being made today as a counter to those in the Democrat party, including a recent Presidential candidate, that are now openly advocating Socialism for America. 
