My intent is simple: improvement is not equal to leveling. Improvement is not equal to making everyone the same. Entropy being what it is, socialism always amounts to the project of tearing (most of) the high and mighty down. Human nature being what it is, a class system is retained–one more rigid than the previous class system, and without any sense of noblesse oblige–and the whole thing justified through the very process of lies used to enact the system in the first place.
Consider this lyric: “tax the rich, feed the poor/ until there are no rich no more.” Even within the logic of the lyric, the money runs out before the poor become able to feed themselves well. Everyone knows this is how it REALLY works. They just have no alternative meaning system to substitute for impulses which in some respects are no different from those which led previous generations into wars.
Here is another good phrase: More community; less socialism. Socialism only builds meaningful solidarity within the ranks of the socialists themselves, who constitute a small elite. What it does to the mass of society one can readily see in Britain and France: it builds a sense of helplessness, despair, anger, depression, and self destructive rage.
That is because it is not founded on actual empathy, on actual caring.