Understanding the Socialist Delusion

BehaviorPaul Murphy – Democrats are nuts, and their violence will get worse – but to help them back to sanity we must understand what’s going on with them.

We can observe the left’s behavior without understanding or judging it. In general that behavior can be summarized as a collective response to two conflicting imperatives: shout allegiance to basic Christian, and thus American, values; act at every opportunity in opposition to those values. That’s insane, but it is happening all around us, every day — ask any of the screaming harridans who protested the Kavanaugh confirmation and they’ll tell you they’re committed to the ideals of freedom, human rights, truth, and the rule of law — and yet their actions showed them spitting in the face of all they believe in, all that’s good about the American judicial and political system. Continue reading

Democratic Socialism: A Myth and an Oxymoron

socialismGeoffrey P. Hunt – Except for the stubbornly ignorant, led by U.S. senator Bernie Sanders and his fashionista acolyte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, the rest of us understand that socialism is an abomination.

What is not well understood is how the social construct of a pure democracy cannot redeem any feature of socialism.  Instead, it would hasten the arrival of collective totalitarianism.

Before Karl Marx, from Robert Owens’s utopian experiment to the early 19th-century musings of French intellectuals, notably Charles Fourier, was the promise of a pure economic democracy, where the means of production are owned and managed by “the people.”  Marx was purposely ambiguous about who would own the means of production once the class struggle displaced the bourgeoisie.  In the Communist Manifesto, the people foment the uprising, but the state eventually displaces the people.  Das Kapital sidestepped the issue completely. Continue reading