You know, David…I have pondered some of these questions recently as my country has been seized and propagandized …in the middle of a Socialist coup.
What separates Socialism, Communism and free market capitalism? I find the following items to be the clear bright lines of demarcation.
1)Treatment of the individual.
Socialists regard the individual left to his own instincts as “mean, lazy, soft, craven, racist, homophobic, warmongering, bitter, clinging to religion”…and therefore, must be indoctrinated to march in lockstep toward utopia. Totalitarian “do gooderism”, heavy handed, smug, pedantic, closed-minded and intolerant of dissent…or even debate.
Communists regard the individual as Worker Bees, emasculated drones that provide toil under the heavy thumb of a dictator, one party class. Socialism with muscle, violent, intolerant, repressive, crushing the spirit.
The free market loves the individual…and their freedoms. It will allow any dissent, will engage in any debate, and looks at the records set in the last race and wonders who will improve upon it. It exalts in the betterment through competition of all…by allowing the individual the freedom to challenge what exists and blaze the new path to greatness.
Socialism and Communism are afraid of the individual, afraid of free and unbridled competition, afraid of open debate, afraid of liberty, afraid of freedom. They must, therefore, exist upon the closed fists of dictatorship, blacklisting, totalitarianism, propaganda and slander.
They must hoax, con, distort, their way to prominence. They have to hide and disguise their true intentions. Socialists and Communists must seize power, not fairly compete for it. They must seize industries, seize wealth, seize education, seize pop culture…and strangle the voices of individuals who would not be ruled….and prefer to self-govern.
The seminal difference in Marxism vs. free market democracy is that in the former, the individual exists to serve the state so that the state can wield power, might and force. In this way, the state can dictate what is acceptable and more importantly…crush what it deems not acceptable.
And in the latter the state exists to preserve freedom so that the individual may achieve, surpass and explore all that is possible….while allowing free and open debate, to perpetually test the boundaries of its own greatness and expand them.
What is staggering is that the former is called “liberal, progressive, utopian” and the latter is called “conservative”.
This is the acme of the Inversion Narrative.
