Socialism always leads to authoritarianism. Let me expand on this. We live in an age where it is hard to know what is worth doing. Our historical culture and its ideals have been attacked effectively, and confusion fomented. This makes maturing harder, which is to say it makes true psychological individuation harder. This leads to a default condition of physically adult humans who feel and act as children. They do not want to take responsibility for their lives.
Socialists, for their part, are happy to assume the codependent and utterly unhealthy role of parents. They promise to provide for their “children” in exchange for their obedience. Since they start out kind and decent, this deal is easily made. Has been made in Europe. Was made in Venezuela.
But if you allow others to do for you, to do for you what you could and should have done for yourself, you become both weak, and dependent. You grow quickly to NEED the parents.
Any rudimentary study of history will show that over some time period power aggregated WILL be abused. That is the whole point of our Constitution: to prevent a concentration of power. Once you let the government provide your health care, your education, and God forbid your very job, they have you by the short hairs, don’t they? If you decide you don’t like them, well fuck you, you stupid son of a bitch. It’s too fucking late now.
Every Fascist of the 20th century promised to make the trains run on time and to be more efficient that a legislative system. They fixed some things, but overall made the people their thralls.
Fascism is a socialism which focuses on war, and war emblems, and national identity, while protecting relative economic liberty for a handful of large corporations run by people who cooperate with the government. It is opposed to truly free markets, since the government reserves the right to interfere at will and for any reason in all economic activity, and property rights do not exist except at the sufferance of the political class.
Communism is a socialism which takes the bad ideas and bad people to the next level by not only rejecting property rights, but rejecting the right to property outright, and rejecting the idea of a private domain.
When Obama shook the hand of and sort of bowed to the Vietnamese dictator–his name doesn’t matter, since his kind are a dime a dozen, but let’s call him Ho, Jr.–what I think people need to grasp is that in all likelihood he is the sort of hypersensitive kid you knew in high school who was upset about everything, always resenting someone, who didn’t know how to tell a joke, and who didn’t like people or fun. If you take that person, that nerd, that loser, and put them in charge of a country, and give them the power of life and death, the right to torture and imprison anyone at will, you have a snapshot of what Communism is.
It is a sickening creed, palatable only to disgusting people. It’s sheer ugliness outweighs the worse abuses of Capitalism so much as to rank them by comparison no crimes at all.
Me personally I can’t get the image out of my mind of the millions of people who were locked in tiny boxes for long periods of time for crimes as small as reporting government corruption. This is what these foolish children need to see, who think themselves clever for having learned to repeat Communist propaganda.
This whole world is insane. Truth is rare, and hard to find. I grew up in a home where lies were the stuff of the day, the currency of mutual coexistence, and I will grant that comforting delusions are hard to give up. But there is no other good way to life. A life of lies is a half life: no, it is no life at all. It is a death.
Imagine a nation of such living dead, as imagined in Wrinkle in Time, or the Ministry under Voldemort, or the rule of Sauron. Such are the Cubans, the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the North Koreans. Horror on horror, called truth, called salvation, called honor, called anything but what it is.
Here is a good article: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262988/obama-and-ho-chi-minh-embracing-evil-daniel-greenfield
Obama’s trip to Vietnam is not a mere strategic journey, but yet another opportunity for him to remind us that the left has not repented or recanted of its solidarity and support of Communist terror, whether in Cuba, Vietnam, or anywhere else. It still sees every Communist dictator as a role model worth emulating, and every Communist mass grave as the price that must be paid for a better world.
This is batshit insane. There is no moral excuse for it, and grotesque psychopathology can be the only explanation. Our worst people embrace this doctrine, and produce the predictable results.