George Orwell understood Marxist Socialism better than anyone, except of course for those in the Inner Party – the “Priests of Power.” The whole “equality” and “social justice” rhetoric of the Left is a lie; they are not interested in either. The Marxist Left uses “class struggle” (excessive taxation of the middle class for the benefit of tax-eating Marxist ruling and proletariat classes) in order to make people think utopian “social justice” and “equality” (of outcome) are at hand, but it is a sick joke – they bring the opposite. Once firmly in power the Marxist ruling class has no more need for “class struggle” “equality” or “social justice;” these are merely temporary tools which are required to achieve oligarchic power.
“It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called “abolition of private property”… meant in effect the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before… It had always been assumed that if the Capitalist Class were expropriated Socialism must follow; and unquestionably the Capitalists had been expropriated. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport, everything had been taken away from them; and since these things were no longer private property it followed that they must be public property. Ingsoc (Socialist Principles of Oceania), which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist program with the result; foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.” George Orwell – 1984
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others… We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we’re doing… Power is not a means, it is an end… The object of power is power… Always there will be the intoxication of power… We are the priests of power.” George Orwell – 1984
