King-Panda
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The problem with communism is that in theory everyone is equal BUT the human race is selfish and there is always a natural leader. We can not survive without being ruled. Therefore communism does not work and no country is ever communist because there is alway a leader.
Basically, it means that doctors get paid the same as garbagemen. Who wants to go through 10 years of school to get paid what you can get for no education?
Communists have a history of legislating thought. Thoughts are the last unconquered vestige of human freedom. They steal people's religions from them and murder people almost at random. They have a hatred for well off people that exceeds by far what is deserved. They enslave people and micromanage every area of their lives. Communism is historically amongst the most evil and hateful of philosophies. Most support for it came from the struggling poor who were being used and looked down upon by greedy right wingers. Sometimes the cure is worse than the ill and communism in many cases has proved to be just that. This does not erase the veracity of the downtrodden's complaints against the robber barons of capitalism. Communism has been an overreaction filled with pride and hateful bigotry that has erased many of the revolutionaries higher moral ground they had when they first became angry at the economic inequalities of people. A balanced compassionate moderate approach to social justice is still in order while violent extremism and vise-like government intrusiveness continues to defame leftist thinking. That said, the right certainly has their fair share of fascism through domestic spying and highly selective opportunistic support for civil liberties.
“The Argument”
Money is power. If the government produces all the means for getting money or buying things, then it has all the power. It doesn’t matter what the law says, because that’s just a means of managing power in a society and it only works when there is incentive by those with power to do so–That is, checks and balances. In a society where the government has all the power, it has no incentive to check it’s own power, so the only means of the citizens getting change in their favor is for either their rulers to be benevolent, or outright revolution.
Capitalism allows for power to be distributed and for those checks and balances via laws to work, and it provides the means for regular citizens to gain power by converting it into cultural, symbolic, political or other forms of capital, which can get you more economic capital and so on. Laws and constitutions only work so long as the citizenry has both the means and the will to ensure that power is distributed and those with great power are kept in check, just as the Constitution was intended to do.
There. I just summed up the moral and intellectual argument the GOP should have been making in two paragraphs.
Admittedly, it’s wordier than a campaign slogan should be, but this isn’t a campaign slogan. This is an intellectual argument that anyone can use in a serious debate, that anyone can extrapolate and expand upon. And it’s the same thing we need to introduce everywhere. Our culture is saturated in an anti-capitalistic haze due to years of cultural warfare taking it’s toll. This simple argument can be turned into something far more effective by people much smarter than I am.
Sure, it’s not a call to become a precinct committeeman. It’s not money for a political campaign. It’s not even a sign on a poster at a rally.
But the Left has held dominion over academia for decades and it shows in our culture, and unless we can turn that around people like Obama will keep rising because of an uniformed, apathetic electorate.
So to do that, we must make the argument. The hardcore leftists will scream and try to hide it because they have nothing to use against it, but we MUST have the argument and keep making it until the radical Left is marginalized, out of power, and kept that way.
Money is power. If the government produces all the means for getting money or buying things, then it has all the power. It doesn’t matter what the law says, because that’s just a means of managing power in a society and it only works when there is incentive by those with power to do so–That is, checks and balances. In a society where the government has all the power, it has no incentive to check it’s own power, so the only means of the citizens getting change in their favor is for either their rulers to be benevolent, or outright revolution.
Capitalism allows for power to be distributed and for those checks and balances via laws to work, and it provides the means for regular citizens to gain power by converting it into cultural, symbolic, political or other forms of capital, which can get you more economic capital and so on. Laws and constitutions only work so long as the citizenry has both the means and the will to ensure that power is distributed and those with great power are kept in check, just as the Constitution was intended to do.
There. I just summed up the moral and intellectual argument the GOP should have been making in two paragraphs.
Admittedly, it’s wordier than a campaign slogan should be, but this isn’t a campaign slogan. This is an intellectual argument that anyone can use in a serious debate, that anyone can extrapolate and expand upon. And it’s the same thing we need to introduce everywhere. Our culture is saturated in an anti-capitalistic haze due to years of cultural warfare taking it’s toll. This simple argument can be turned into something far more effective by people much smarter than I am.
Sure, it’s not a call to become a precinct committeeman. It’s not money for a political campaign. It’s not even a sign on a poster at a rally.
But the Left has held dominion over academia for decades and it shows in our culture, and unless we can turn that around people like Obama will keep rising because of an uniformed, apathetic electorate.
So to do that, we must make the argument. The hardcore leftists will scream and try to hide it because they have nothing to use against it, but we MUST have the argument and keep making it until the radical Left is marginalized, out of power, and kept that way.
Edit: Hitler didn't want communism to spread, so doesn't USA (that's way they support North korea,etc)
