Customer: How much for a dozen bananas?
Fruitseller: Twenty five rupees.
Customer:That’s too much, the neighbouring seller gives it for ten rupees a dozen.
Fruitseller: Why dont you buy it from him then.
Customer: Well he is out of bananas.
Fruitseller: When I’m out of bananas, I sell them for six rupees a dozen.
That’s
the leftist utopia of socialism in brief. Where whatever is missing is
promised for practically free. But when the promisors are in power and
the promised thing is available, it is either reserved for the select
few or it is exorbitantly out of reach. And the reason is always blamed
on the divisive forces and the enemy of the people. It is blamed on
everyone and everything except the peoples representatives. They can do
no wrong.
Where
it is hammered in our minds that we must follow them , without
question, in anything and everything, that their decided path will get
us the perfect future they have promised for us , and for that perfect
future, we must bear the brunt of an impoverished and insulting present
without complaint. But it turns out that all life goes in that
impoverished and insulting present and the perfect future never comes
up. Because stupidity and entitlement reigns, and instead of creating
leaders who can make the society worthwhile, charlatans are made leaders
who spend precious resources giving freebies and useless subsidies and
then recover it tenfold when in power. Hence all the schools, hospitals,
institutions, employment etc remains merely on paper, because the
resources that could have built and sustained them have already been
squandered on populist measures, freebies, subsidies, kleptocracy and
nepotism.
Socialism spawns from one simple twisted thought: Hate everyone whos doing better than you.
If someone is doing much better than you, its not your fault but his,
that the fact that anyone else can have a better life than you is
injustice to you. You must rise and tear apart anything good that comes
of such people, and strive to destroy such people
themselves. Everything must have state intervention, everything must be
dictated by the nanny state. Individual thought is a crime. Go with the
mob. The mob can do no evil. Arson, strikes, murders etc are all
justifiable if they are done for ‘peoples’ good and if it can usher in a
new revolution. Discourage private ownership and entrepreneurship.
Encourage nationalisation.
Socialism’s
two most grotesque spawns have been Communism (International Socialism)
and Fascism /Nazism (National Socialism). Communism goes a step further
and does away with private property all together and brings in
collectivisation. It does away with national sentiments and rules that
the ‘revolution’ must be exported to all parts of the world. National
Socialism brings ethnicity into the equation and does away with the
collectivisation. Its puts fear into its followers that unless they
stick by the ideology they will be destroyed by the ‘enemy’, who is
racially or nationally different from them.
Communism
certainly isn’t the force which once it used to be, but the source
behind it still stands strong today, with its ever clichéd but sadly
always successful disguise of ‘greater good’ and ‘equality’ and ‘social
justice’.
Socialism
succeeded in ruining the world by convincing the gullible masses and
educated fools that the existence of rich in the world is a crime and
that all economic woes can be corrected by taking from the rich and
giving to the poor. People like Indians who are bred on socialist style
economy and education system never tried to understand that wealth cant
be distributed without being creating . Money is not unlimited. That
there are very few sources of money and there is only a limit till where
they can be exploited. Today in most countries in the world, media,
academia and performing arts are in the vice like grip of the west. And
these being the three most decisive elements to form opinions of the
present and future generations, they have brainwashed subsequent
generations to believe in and vote such elements to power,leaving them
with no capacity to understand that they are voting their own misery to
power.
Creation
of wealth is a rare skill, its rarer than being able to score a goal or
paint or drive a racing car or act. Making money is difficult, keeping
it and multiplying it is even more difficult. Very few people can manage
that, thats why they are wealthy, because they know how to make their
money work hard for them. Others (Middle class and Working class)
squander it away. Thats why most game contest and lottery winners end up
way worse than they were before, because they didnt know what to do
with their newfound riches. The same why most sportspersons and artistes
end up penniless in their later days.
No
school ever teaches money management or entrepreneurship. Its not
because they have missed the plot, its because its meant to be that way
to start the whole cycle all over again. Because that is the plan, to
continue the status quo of having the working and the middle class toil
day and night just to save a little above starvation, and to have them
so busy that they do not have even a moments time to think of anything
beyond their own sustenance. This is the design by which the real owners
of any country (the politicians are there to give us an illusion of
choice) maintain rule by having a population just smart enough to run
their machinery but too dumb to be able of critical thinking. Leftists
will be quick to call this the evil of capitalism, but capitalism is not
at fault here, the fault lies with what has been done to it. Evil
though capitalism may sound today, it remains the only alternative and
hope for a society which wants atleast a fighting chance to have a good
living they dreamt of, which socialism kills at the very onset with its
forced notion of equality which instead of justice, kills anything
resembling talent in a society, thereby forcing everyone with the least
bit of ability to find footing in another land.
Socialism
produces nothing, it milks others for its own benefits and enforces the
view that doing so is its birthright. The genius of the left lies in
using the anguish of fringe groups for its own benefit. It utilizes the
minorities against the majority. The best example is the Bolshevik
revolution, where except one or two, the entire politburo had no ethnic
Russians. And they all killed ethnic Russians by hundreds of thousands
over the years. After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1918 (hijacking the
October revolution of 1917 ), instead of trying to put the huge
landmass of Russia and Central Asian states in order, they fought a
brutal civil war of three years (1918-21) against the white army (Tsar
loyalists) and green army which laid the entire region to waste , to
consolidate their hold on power. After the USSR was finally established,
they put down the same minorites that they claimed to love with the
most brutal force. The socialist utopia was a giant slave labour camp ,
where everyone spied on everyone and dissenters disappeared without a
trace.
The
over 150000 nobles and officials of the Tsarist regime were replaced by
commissars and the party officials. Revolution is just the name of
replacing a tyrant with a much worse tyrant. Revolution is never
spontaneous, it is manufactured carefully over an extended period of
time, to be unleashed at the right moment. And they did export this
"revolution", to China and then to the entire eastern Europe.
In
India too, we see how CPI and a troupe of progressive writers and
novelists leave no stone unturned to portray Maoists as the champions
fighting for poor. They will always try to demean and degrade the
country's defence forces , because a strong military is the biggest
hurdle for communists to seize power. The second biggest hurdle for them
is development and prosperity. Just see how these people are up in a
flash to oppose any major development project as "anti poor", "anti
environment" and sadly, being successful in derailing it most of the
times. Maoists make it a point to uproot power lines and railway
tracks, bomb clinics and schools in the areas they operate, in short,
blow away any signs of civilization, along with sporadic violence
against the populace. Chaos make the people disoriented and willing to
submit to anyone who looks like being able to restore order. And then
these "champions of the poor" magically appear on the horizon, as the
saviours of the population that submits to them. This is the model which
Bolsheviks followed, which Mao followed, which Pol Pot followed.
Disintegration
of the society is done by the left via academia and media where they
are not in a position of waging an armed people's war. Its nothing but
criminal on the part of most of the western nations as well as
developing nations to leave its media and academia in leftist hands.
With
all its talk of tolerance and diversity, the left ironically does not
even try to celebrate differences that make the human society beautiful
and instead tries to destroy every diversity by mixing everything in the
same cauldron.The left hates anyone who is in majority in a given
place. It can happen that it hates the same group for being majority in a
given country but then allies with it for being a minority in another.
Instead of asking the proletariat to unite the world, they ask the
proletariat to unite to bring their dictatorship, turning them into
gangsters and rabble rousers. And when their representatives
dictatorship finally comes, they find out that they have been worse than
ever before, not even able to voice their dissent. They discover the
hard way that revolution is merely a process of replacing a tyrant with a
worse tyrant. Their masters have changed, from the princes/nobles
earlier to the ‘peoples representatives’ at present. Dragging everyone
down to the same abysmal level never helps.
Socialism
is a totalitarian ideology which brilliantly masks itself as
liberalism. Totalitarian ideologies look superb on paper and speeches,
they are almost sexually arousing to all the not so good thinkers who
form the mob that become its grassroot enforcers. Someone else's lands,
houses, fields and women in your pocket, what could be more tempting to
fight for? No master to serve, but the one above us all, whether
almighty or the great leader who will make bounties and goodness rain on
us. The Utopia that we dreamed of. And whats a few skulls to be smashed
if thats what it takes?
But
when their beloved ideology is finally implemented, they realise that
they were never the ones chosen to enjoy the spoils (the spoils are
meant for the ideologues and the poster hero leaders) , but meant to be
robots fighting 24/7 to enforce the ideology on others, dying
unglamorous and miserable deaths, with fake medals and passages to fake
heaven with non existent bounties. And they are bigger slaves than one
when they started, as they find that their own kids will rat them out
because they have been totally brainwashed by their once beloved
ideology. So they live out their lives like robots, dying namelessly and
in squalor (while the leaders names are grafted in gold). Afterall, its
preferable to being beheaded/burned publicly or ending in a torture
chamber and six feet deep minus limbs. The quest for utopia brings the
greatest dystopia. Every time.
They
want nothing between the elite and the hungry poor. Middle class
decimation serves them well. Denial of private property or ensuring it
at a minimum means that the populace is reduced to spending all their
time ecking out a life on the edge and votes for anyone who gives them
some hope at the end of every poll term. And ironically, with education
firmly in their hands, the middle class too grows up as their
sympathisers. There is absolutely no effort made to make an environment
conducive for innovation, skill imparting or business for one simple
reason:- Hard work and innovation is hated by the ruling class in a
socialist economy characterised by cronyism and nepotism ,
because masses will respect for the hard working, and the rulers do not
want masses respecting anybody other than themselves. Because those who
have something good to respect, are not servile to anybody, least of
all tinpot leaders who buy votes. Communism goes further in this regard,
it has children spying over their parents, students on their teachers
and for that matter , everyone on everyone, so that nobody has respect
for anybody except the state.
Socialism
rules that no matter who creates the wealth, it belongs to everybody,
and that rewards should be equal, and not according to ones
capabilities. There is therefore no inspiration to do anything good, but
all the inspiration for demanding and entitlement. The rights and
entitlements which give a citizen right over the money of his fellow
citizen for which the fellow citizen has worked hard are not rights and
entitlements but collectivisation of incomes. This is not just
unconstitutional but inhumane. And that is why the socialist regimes are
quick to make private property into a legal right instead of
fundamental right, a legal right which can be waived when the
regime deems fit. And since no business activity of any quality or
meaning can be sustained under such a regime, all sorts of fraudulent
economic programmes are started to show people as employed. Jobs are a
byproduct of economic activities like business, industry, and trade.
They are a derivative, not the main underlying thing itself. No economic
activity can be undertaken just to provide jobs to anybody. It is a
waste of public money and a fraud on the taxpayer. Public money is
meant to be spent for the expenditure of government and PWD, not for
forcefully creating ‘jobs’ that result in nothing. Once the people bred
on freeloading and sops realise that they can live and vote themselves
to power on other people’s money, democracy becomes a mobocracy where
51% kill the rights of the remaining 49%. The only leaders that can be
elected then are the ones who can promise ever more transfers of money
by dipping their claws into the pockets of the others who are powerless
to stop them. And because elections happen after a fixed term of every
few years, and the vision of the politicians doesn’t extend beyond the
next election, it does not take long for the sops and welfare
expenditure to spiral out of control, bankrupting the country.
Free
market economy in contrast, believes that if people if human beings
are set free to achieve their own potential , with laws to keep society
in order, the world would be a better place, and the society will get
prosperous with time as the security of private property is guaranteed
and contracts are enforced; citizens trade on mutually agreeable terms,
exchanging value for value. Because some people are more skilful,
talented or clever than the rest of the lot, they get more prosperous
than them. They are the target of envy, hatred and resentment of the
others, but in a free market society , such resentments are addressed
and as a result of larger economic activities, the benefits are trickled
down in a better manner to the less fortunate sections of the society.
In a society where leftists gain an upper hand, they nurture these
nascent resentments to grow them into rabid hatred which ends up
killing the hens that lay golden eggs. Leftists are masters in
manipulating the disgruntled sections of society into their lynch mobs
so that they can attack the rich, anyone doing better than them, or
eliminate their opponents in order to them into power. The leftist
dreamworld is to turn the whole of humanity into a zoo or a civilised
labour camp where they will labour like animals for hours and queue up
for their daily evening rations before disappearing into the hovels
allotted to them. Free men are not equal, equal men are not free.
Generations brainwashed by the left controlled education fail to grasp
all this and continue to see them as justice warriors and saviours.
Once
socialism takes root in a society, the so called rightwing parties, to
win elections, are reduced to claiming that they would run the socialist
state better than the socialists themselves. Not only that, once in
power, they actually try to outdo the socialists in "Welfare measures."
Once a dole is rolled out, no one who wants to come to power can dare to
roll it back. And therefore, setting things right becomes impossible
before the total collapse of the economy. And leftists have even taken
the control of language and not just education, they mutilate the
language as per their pleasure in order to confuse the ordinary mortals
as well as their opponent as to what they are at. Eg The word communal
means shared, but it has been made to mean ‘religious fanatic’ in India.
By
this measure, the very word ‘right’ , ‘right wing’ has become
synonymous with with murderous mobs of religious fanatics baying for
the blood of unbelievers and rooted in medieval times. Intellectualism
by default comes to mean leftist ideology. And anyone who disagrees is
shouted down and shamed. The only right to free speech lies with the
leftists.
Leftists
lord over others by royally declaring-“Let them produce, but we will
collectivise the incomes and redistribute according to needs. And to
ensure that producers do not get too uppity, we will also lord over them
as regulators.” This failed in USSR, China, Vietnam or any place
communism took root. And today as well, it produces the same results,
the only difference being that the speed of decimation societies,
businesses, and commerce is too slow for any alarm.
Corruption
is the first inevitable consequence of socialism: Production is
limited, therefore prosperity comes to a halt at the very onset. There
are many hungry mouths for a limited number of goods, and the only way
that a desperate consumer is going to have more of his share or a
businessman is going to have more of his share of production is by
bribing the right persons, or getting into the good books of the petty
officials or the elected representatives, as per what an individual’s
reach may be. And when the populace is certain that everything is going
down the drain and that no efficiency is ever going to be rewarded, they
start stealing for themselves as they know that if they don’t, the
entire thing will go into the pockets of the corrupt public officials
and politicians. Everyone takes out as much as they can while putting
back virtually nothing at all. Socialism thrives because the bureaucracy
finds a rich career of loot and embezzlement in their so called social
programmes. The interests of the socialist govt and the bureaucracy
always coincide, because in a socialist set up, only these two
components make the most of it. This is the reason why bureaucratic
machinery always opposes economic reforms & downsizing government. Bureaucracy
always finds socialism to be the most beneficial for growing stronger
and wealthier. The more the means of production are in the state's hand,
the stronger the bureaucrat grows. Thats why we will never see any
bureaucrat advocating free market economy, because in it, he cannot
control nor extract his pound of flesh. Each
and every one of socialist programmes means massive bribes and power
for the bureaucrats, and because an increasing number of bureaucrats are
needed to administer and run all these programmes, it gives them ever
available career avenues and riches and palatial homes.
Inefficiency and stagnation is therefore the second inevitable consequence.
"That’s
the typical mindset in Socialist countries. The average Russian stole
as much as he could under Communism because the entire system was built
on theft. Much of Greece dodges taxes because they’re certainly that the
money will just go to corrupt public officials. And they’re usually
right. When everyone is convinced that the system is corrupt, they take
out as much as they can while putting back in as little as they can.
That’s true in Greece, in the old USSR and in Obama’s America.”- Daniel
Greenfield.
The
third inevitable consequence is total collapse. The best leave the
shores for somewhere their talent will be rewarded, no businesses of any
value can come up thanks to the red tape stromtroopers and people are
left to live a subhuman existence. Socialism destroys the society it
claims to be the saviour of over the year, by slowly making every source
of revenue generation defunct, destroying the working spirit and
innovation in the populace and turning them into entitled vicitimhood
glorifying zombies. And when everything is down, the great saviours of
the poor sell the public enterprises to whichever capitalist they had
abused to get to power in order to buy a few more years of time.
Freedom
is described in so many words, but one definition that’s cent per cent
true is seldom mentioned:- Freedom means prosperity. The ultimate
freedom you can give anybody is to give them an environment where they
can be what they want to be, it’s a different matter if they succeed or
fail, but to give them a shot at it is very vital. And to give them a
right to enjoy the fruits of their just labour is even more vital.
