Isaiah Roman

Tell It Like It Is

Socialism is slavery.

There it is, in one sentence, spelled out plainly. The initial premise of socialism is that you need to get everyone to share equally. People won’t do that on their own. The socialist thinks that’s because the individual has been conditioned by society to keep what they make, to not share out of some sense of nationality, or personal ownership. Thus, the populace needs to be retrained. It’s very simple; the socialist believes that the individual is naturally a caring, sharing individual who is willing to live and let live.

Thus, if you remove the “old” social paradigms of personal property and national boundaries you remove the restraints of sharing. Since people won’t do it on their own, because they’re simply to ignorant to understand, you have to encourage them to do it. You have to have a small elite group of dedicated persons who are willing to do the hard work of change.

When those people gain enough power, they begin to absorb everything; money, produce, industry… everything. The idea is that these elite will then begin to redistribute the money and produce and industry equally among the people. When those things are equally distributed, then everyone will begin to be free from the constraints of greed and personal ownership. This process will then make a new generation who sees the benefits of sharing and caring.

Yet, what do we call a social order that takes everything from you as an individual, and then gives a central authority the right of the redistribution of your things? The answer is self-evident.

Any “intelligent elite” person who believes that socialism is actually a step towards communist utopia is either insane, or not intelligent, or elite.

The leaders in Russia found out very quickly that their position brought them great wealth and privilege. They found out very quickly that once they had gained power, they could keep that power by simply making sure that there were no other candidates to run against them in their “free and democratic” elections.

Socialism is an easy install, because it relies upon the ignorance of the “masses.” It relies upon the nature of children. This is the irony of it all. While socialism pretends to promote freedom through equality, what it relies upon to gain power is the idea that you deserve what someone else has. It relies upon childish greed. The very thing that it pretends to try to overcome in society is the very thing it uses to destroy that society.

Communism, pure Marxism, comes from the concept that individuals need no central government. It comes from the concept that every person should be allowed to share equally in the benefits of being a part of the human community. Communism is based entirely on that era in history when the Jews lived in the Promised Land, before the kingdom era. They had no king. They designated a leader when it became necessary. When it was no longer necessary that leader stepped down. The people shared the land through a loose set of boundaries where each tribe maintained individual responsibility, yet there were no fixed national boundaries. The Levites had shared “reservations” in the forms of townships within each tribes lands. They were distinct in that they were the arbiters of law, as all law was religious in nature.

The one thing that Marx left out was the most important thing of all; God.

With God, there was already an authority, above the authority of men. With God, men rose as judges and stepped down from their position, because they knew that there was already an ultimate authority who ruled the people. When you take God out, who’s left?

When there is no God, men become gods, each fighting against each other for their place on top of Mt. Olympus. Where humanism, socialism, and communism fail is at their very heart; the heart of man.

The hedonists, the libertines, of the eighteenth century gave us the concept that humans are restricted by God, because they saw men as pretending the existence of God. They saw the Pope and the Roman Church, and Calvin and his Geneva Church as persons who sought authority for themselves. Whether true or not is immaterial; these men, these “free thinkers” saw the authority wielded by religion and they didn’t like it. They wanted what men have wanted since Cain killed Abel; the power to determine God, the ability to become gods.

Socialism is a lie. It is based on a false premise. At it’s core it is fundamentally broken. It is no wonder that people fall for the con. It offers them the one thing that they really want; freedom. The only problem is, that freedom is an enigmatic, amorphous concept when not bounded by the structures of law. The only structure of law that assures absolute freedom, is absolute law. This is the underlying truth that the “intelligent elite” fully understand, but which they never tell the “masses.”

The only question is, who writes those laws?