Socialist Appeal

Marx wrote the commercial and men like Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Castro, Hitler and Pol Pot actually made the product. As anybody who has been on this planet for more than a few years can attest, the difference between the commercial and the product is a given. Carl Marx did not have to deal with any real world conditions when he wrote the commercial. His only objective was to make the product look desirable. He does appear to have succeeded there.

Socialism is a vice that masquerades as a virtue. I have no doubt that its practitioners are honest in their belief that they are doing a great good for the whole world. They are saints in their own eyes. That belief is what makes them so strong and so dangerous. The argument always seems to turn back to doing socialism right since nobody has followed the blueprints of Carl Marx to this point in history.

Although Socialism pays lip service to community, its practice is atomic and utilitarian. Subjects of socialism are labor units called workers. A worker can never be promoted to the level of a slave. When a labor unit wears out, it can be discarded and replaced. The job and only the job has value.

I call the system atomic because, in order to capitalize on individual greed, it has to see society as a collection of individuals. The vast majority of us can be kept in a state of enduring misery as long as we can all be made to feel that nobody is getting ahead of us. That seems to be the biggest draw of socialism in practice. How are we going to help the poor with socialism? If we beat up the kid who broke the grade curve, then we get our due.

Amongst the vast portion of socialist subjects, nobody can be allowed to get ahead. This does not help anybody; however, it does prevent anybody from having a measure by which to quantify failure. Poverty, with no gap between the richest and poorest subject, may be absolute but there is nobody to be jealous of. Socialists judge all people as being cookie cutter drones absolutely equal in every way in order to justify their belief that nobody playing fair can ever beat anybody else.