Socialism

Socialism has been the most tried, and most failed government system, next to it's older brother (Tyranny).

Socialism has been the most tried, and most failed government system, next to it's older brother (Tyranny). There have been many, many communes (cults, utopias). Some were small (like Zoar, Ohio), others were large (USSR, China, Nazi Germany, etc). Virtually all of them ended poorly.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2017-10-26

Socialism - the left ignores that Socialism usually ends in misery or violent revolution and murdered over 100M people in the 20th century. It is a philosophy of envy and greed (convincing the many to rob from the few). It puts the collective stupidity above individuals and exceptionalism. It is 3 horny Men and a Woman voting on who she will have sex with (and taking away her right to say "no"). It teaches culture to fight to be on the bottom (the biggest victims) to get the most reward. It destroys individuals, economies and cultures. But other than that...

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Socialism is great, just look at Nordic countries.	Nordic countries aren't socialist, they are having major problems, and if you look at all the Socialist countries around the globe (North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba), and throughout history (Cambodia, Vietnam, China, USSR, etc), there are those that sucked, and those that are going to suck. Cherry picking is great for pies, but lousy for learning from life.

History[edit | edit source]

Socialism was founded and is rooted deep in envy, hate and control -- all primal emotions, which is why it is hard to combat with reason, facts or evidence.

While Socialism has always been around, it's current resurgence started in the 1800's while industrialization was starting in Europe. Workers had a choice: (a) live in rural farms, scraping by as indentured servants to the land-owners (b) move to the cities and do factory work and have higher incomes, live in slightly less squalor and have slightly better conditions. Many were choosing (b).

Socialists knew that while these people's conditions were better than the alternative, that many weren't getting ahead as fast as they would have liked, and there was abuse. So they preyed upon that frustration, greed, and envy at those more successful they are. And Marx and Engles came along and codified these old ideas into a collection of fables called the Communist Manifesto. And they invented bullshit anti-economics, that have all been disproven, like their ideas that economics is a fixed pie, thus the owner and worker are always at odds over "surplus value". The opposite is actually true: a thriving company is creating new value and sharing it with their employees -- and without the employer the people aren't better off, they're unemployed. But alas, if Socialists could learn, they would have gone extinct long ago.

In the end, Socialism can only work for short periods of time, and if you have nothing to compare it to. It is basically the idea that you should punish those who work the hardest and succeed the most, and reward the most, those that do the opposite (and live off everyone else). When you first eat the rich, and redistribute what is theirs, it is tasty, and the lower people are better off. Then over time, innovation slows, bureaucracy takes over, performance declines as the disincentives take root. Then your culture learns the futility of effort, the rewards in cheating the system, resentment at the system and others for their miserable existence, and you get a malaise. Atlas shrugs. The hard working leave, or go where they will be rewarded: criminal enterprise or party politics. Both are parasites on innovation and growth, and the economy may perform in spite of it, but it performs less than the alternative. This is why every socialist system collapses, the only question is how slow will that society mature and grow past it?

There are three forms of Socialism: Democratic Socialism, Revolutionary Socialism (Marxism/Communism), and Corporate Socialism (Fascism or Capitalistic Socialism).

Examples[edit | edit source]

Here's just a few examples of when Socialism was tired, and it ended poorly:

American Socialism - There's a fiction that "Real Socialism" hasn't been tried. And when that's disproven by history, the American Socialists often fall back to, "well it hasn't been tried here", which shows even more ignorance. Here's a few examples of American Socialist Communes that were tried and failed.
Communism - Communism is just Revolutionary or Radical Socialism. Fascism is just Socialism with indirect control over the means of production. (E.g. businesses are proxies for the party, as long as they remain compliant). But they're all implementations of socialism.
Democratic National Socialism - Babylon Bee hits the satire out of the park by claiming the Nazi's want to be called the Democratic Nazi's now, as if the word democratic makes it all better. Democratic Racism, Democratic Censorship, Democratic Genocide, Democratic Rape, which of those things is made better by putting Democratic in front of it?
Democratic Socialism - The Democratic Socialists had their convention, and people were getting triggered by the use of gendered pronouns, and the "tactical" use of the term "democratic" as a way to market the socialist ideology to Americans. Yet no one objected to use of the term "comrade", despite those most associated with the term having killed 50 million people last century.
Denmark and Socialism - PragerU's Otto Brons-Petersen vivisects the leftist delusion that Denmark is socialist with facts like they are one of the free'est market economies in the world with less taxes/regulations on business than the U.S., and so on. Social Programs are not the same as controlling the means of production, but they are collectivist.
Fascism - Fascism the left believes that while the National Socialists Workers Party contained Socialism in the name, thought and deed, they all came from Socialism, Stalin thought they were socialists, that doesn't mean they were real socialists. (The no true Scotsman fallacy). And if they weren't Socialists, then they must be "right wing".
Great Awokening - The rise of the progressive left socialists under Obama is called "the Great Awokening", the sheeple horde. It's when Obama shed his facade of being a moderate and both fueled and followed the left's Occupy, BLM, Antifa, Intersectional Marxists and Democratic Socialists, after decades of miseducation in indoctrination camps known as Schools and Universities.
How to prove Socialist don't believe in Socialism - If Socialists believed in the people (and the power of the collective and Socialism), they would trust the people to opt-in to giving. That they want to do everything by force of Law, and Law Enforcement, proves they don't believe in Socialism, they believe in Authoritarianism for getting their Socialist agendas.
Real Socialism - Three most common quotes by Socialists: (a) That's not REAL Socialism! (b) REAL Socialism has never been tried! (c) This time it will be different! It won't.
Road to Serfdom - Nobel Economist details the origins of leftist movements: what motivates them, and how does it play out. More sterile and academic than Orwell's 1984, but also looking at causes and methods more than just outcomes. A must read for anyone wanting to have an informed opinion on the topic of Capitalism or the leftist ideologies (Communism, Socialism, Fascism).
Socialists - This is a list of a few people who are Socialists. You can look for commonality or not (that's human nature).
Socialized Medicine - These are articles on Socialized Medicine.
Venezuela - Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) was everything that Hollywood, Michael Moore, Sean Penn and other limousine Socialists wanted: they nationalized the oil, redistributed the wealth, created education and social programs... until the wealth ran out. Then Venezuela went from a capital of growth and industry, to a collapsed country with rampant poverty, crime and refugees.

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Communism - Communism is just Revolutionary or Radical Socialism. They are flavors of the same thing.
Fascism - Fascism came from Socialism, called themselves socialists, and acted like Socialists. Some pretend they are "right wing".
Socialism - Socialism has been the most tried, and most failed government system, next to it's older brother (Tyranny).
Socialists - This is a list of a few people who are Socialists.

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