Fending Off the Egalitarian Impulses of the Socialist State
Folks, this is just preaching to the choir. You’re expecting leftists to run before they can walk. Take it from me, a leftist who despises socialism. Leftists adhere to socialism because they see it as the solution to the evils of capitalism. I stopped thinking this way for a number of reasons.
1. I saw these evils (unemployment, exploitation of the workers, the rich getting richer, and so on) emerge in an area that was pretty far from capitalism: academia. If capitalism caused those evils, then they shouldn’t have arisen outside of capitalism.
2. I saw leftist academics do nothing about these problems. In fact, some of them in 1995 actually thwarted a union of graduate students who were worried about unemployment.
3. In academia, I saw how leftists at the top actually behaved. Sure, they talked about a redistribution of wealth, but they didn’t want to do it themselves. They wanted other people to do it. The unemployment problem in academia could be alleviated if every tenured professor contributed to a fund to help the unemployed. They won’t do it.
4. I had to face the facts: leftist academics at the top were stingy. I will never again complain about greedy corporate bosses.
5. Leftists at the top of academia often came from wealthy backgrounds. They were stingy, and one way this came out was their reluctance to let in people from poorer backgrounds.
6. So, I concluded that socialists were either frauds or dupes. I used to be a dupe, but no longer. The frauds are those at the top who are actually going to get to run things once socialism is instituted. Their rule is this: No actual workers will be allowed to rule.
I could say a lot more, but I hope you get the picture.
