Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the xenophobic attacks that are happening across South Africa are the result of socialist economic policies, not actual xenophobia. The news has been all agog about the attacks against foreigners in South Africa by poor South Africans, creating the conditions where the government has to crack down on those caught beating up foreigners. It has got so bad many governments have recalled their citizens in an attempt to protect them from being the victims of those attacks. Everyone is looking at the symptoms, the attacks, but not the illness, socialism. Any doctor will tell you that treating the symptom and not the disease is a recipe for the death of the patient. In the case of socialism, it is the disease that no one dare speak it’s name, else face the wrath of the new class elite who worship at the feet of Marx. The reason this story is so important for the world, and is the same reason the illness is being overlooked, is that when socialism is finally fully enacted everywhere… the results will be the same.
The government of South Africa has embraced Marxism. It has the Constitution Ruth Bader Ginsburg said new republics should follow. The hammer and sickle adorn the tee shirts of the ANC and even Nelson Mandela wore a hammer and sickle shirt at many rallies. They have enacted socialism throughout the nation and economy. I am certain they planned on creating an economy where everyone would be equal and prosperous, but while a laudable goal, the results, as they always are, have gone the other way. First the economy crumbles, then the government must resort to greater and greater authoritarian means to maintain stability, until by gradations, it has become despotic. That has been the end of every nation that has taken that path.
People become angry when their economic circumstances diminish. It is mere human nature. We become angrier and angrier requiring an outlet. When people have no job, no hope of a job and a foreigner has a job, especially a good job, that anger gets focused on the foreigner. No one wants to blame themselves for their circumstances so the other becomes the target. As the economy rots away, anger gets more heated until it flares up as violence. During the 1920’s in the US the KKK almost disappeared, because everyone had a job, how can you maintain hate in your heart if your life circumstances are going well? Where do you have time to burn a cross on someone’s lawn when there is unlimited overtime? Once the progressive Herbert Hoover destroyed the economy with Smoot Hawley the KKK was reborn. FDR’s new deal cinched the deal and the KKK became a power to be reckoned with through most of the twentieth century. The same thing holds true in South Africa.
South Africa should be a paradigm of wealth and prosperity. It has enormous natural resources, it is the darling of the world community, it’s infrastructure is still pretty good, it’s farmland is amazingly productive and it has a great deal of well educated people. These are the basic inputs for a good economy, yet South Africa’s economy is pathetic. Huge amounts of people are unemployed and cannot find jobs, the farms are becoming less and less productive as they are seized from the farmers and redistributed to poor South Africans, while the infrastructure crumbling. The debt is growing fast, as is anger in the streets… at the results if not the policies that led to those results.
The violence we are seeing in South Africa is the direct result of socialist economic policies. They are failing there as they have failed everywhere they have been tried. This example will be ignored, explained away and apologized for, by the new class elite, as have every other catastrophe visited on mankind by socialism in the last two hundred years. The people need a villain and foreigners are a handy scapegoat. It cannot be, the people voted for a party that has destroyed the economy, that would require taking responsibility for one’s own actions! Now the government is clamping down, else the teetering economy will be utterly razed, when all the foreigners flee the violence, and the results of the policies of the ANC are exposed for everyone to see. This same play will be shown to everyone in any nation that travels the same road… economic collapse, anger from that collapse turning to violence, government crackdowns and eventually tyranny. The road to Rome always leads to Rome… no matter where you enter it or how fast you travel down it.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
