Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance.
Category: socialism
Capitalism vs. socialism
Capitalism makes. Socialism takes. Socialism spends the money that capitalism earns.
The bigger the front, the bigger the back
You can vote your way into socialism, but you must shoot your way out.
Systematically making us slaves
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.
Bi-partisan theft
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. … Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong — in effect, legalized theft.
Legal plunder
Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
Gratitude vs. entitlement
Capitalism teaches people to be grateful for what they’ve earned. Socialism teaches people to be entitled to what others produced. Socialism makes people selfish.
Vast left-wing conspiracy
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.
Continue reading “Vast left-wing conspiracy”Modern ‘progressivism’
Being a ‘progressive’ these days means 1) calling for the destruction of that which is known to work, in favor of that which is known not to work, and 2) normalizing the abnormal.
Socialism’s worst victims
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom — whether black or white — who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.