Dear Friends,
It seems to me… results speak for themselves. When something succeeds that success testifies to it’s superiority. When a thing fails it fails because that thing is inferior. This is common sense. Moreover, we want to emulate success, never failure. This is because emulating failure is a sub optimal path to success. It is however, an unsurpassed means to misery, poverty and suffering. Since most people would rather a long healthy happy life, we are attracted to success and repulsed by failure. Yet… we see a failed system being implemented over and over, and failing ever more spectacularly every time. With failures so impressive, they have led to the deaths of, by today’s count, well over a hundred million people. Has anything ever failed that badly before? That failed system is socialism.
Karl Marx himself told the story of Capitalism’s success. He admitted the free market had lifted the lot of Mankind to a level never seen before. Free enterprise had changed the world, and by Marx’ estimate, for the better. Capitalism’s successes, according to Marx, was that it had changed the means of production, by industrializing it. Which led to his conclusions, that capitalism and those that owned the means of production, the bourgeoisie, had built a system that the Marxists could use to finally win the historic “class struggle,” in favor of the workers, the proletariat. This would lead to an evolution of human beings themselves, living in the rarefied air of socialism, without the alienation of work, where they would gladly evolve into ants. So even Marx himself sung the praises of Capitalism’s successes.
The French first implemented atheist socialist ideals during the French Revolution. We all should know what happened there, but sadly, most don’t. The French Revolution ushered in a junta of bloodthirsty atheists, intent on rebuilding France modeled on Thomas Moore’s Utopia. Rivers of blood flowed. They wore out guillotines… that device was so overworked. Guillotine blade manufacturing became a cutting edge investment though. The junta launched a war of conquest, to “liberate” Europe from monarchy. As war usually does, it led to untold bloodshed and suffering, in the name of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. In the end the French revolution betrayed every ideal they had stood for. They became despots that bankrupted France and created nothing but enmity. A complete failure by any measure.
Since then the failures have been epic. The storied atrocities of Lenin and Stalin are the stuff of legends. Villains of such magnitude are generally seen only a few times a millennium, but the twentieth century saw many scoundrels of that magnitude, enabled by socialism. After Lenin had done unspeakable horrors to human beings to consolidate power. Stalin intentionally exterminated the Kulaks by starvation, committed genocide against the Ukrainians by government induced famine, and then by his stupidity, stumbled into a war that killed thirty million of his subjects. Mao slaughtered tens of millions of his subjects by famine, classicide and Cultural Revolution. Pol Pot slaughtered so many of his subjects he ran out of bullets, and so used bats and bread bags, to keep up the killing. Epic!
Perhaps, that is why history is not taught, and the news that calls itself unbiased never tells the whole truth. Since we are attracted to success and repulsed by failure, for self interested reasons, if all of us knew the historically fantastic failures of socialism, we would laugh at anyone who claimed to be a proponent. That so many do claim to be socialists… is a testament to how zealous progressives cling to their religion. Our collective ignorance of Mao’s famines, The Killing Fields, the Cultural Revolution, Idi Amin or even Stalin’s extermination of the Kulaks, shows our education system either under the control of progressives, else run by idiots. Unless we want to emulate failure and the catastrophic results of socialism, we must educate those around us to it’s failures, and capitalism’s successes.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
