Dear Friends,
It seems to me, no nation or people has done more to discredit socialism, than China and the CCP. The Communist Party exists, supposedly, to usher in the socialist revolution, eliminating all private capital, money, evolving humanity away from individualist to the Socialist Man, and creating a worker’s paradise. Instead, whenever socialism was the economic model, tens of millions died of famine and political repression, useless products were produced, while important products were not. Every socialist experiment ushered in environmental catastrophe after disaster. Like the death of all the honeybees in parts of China and toxic lake. Only the adoption of free market capitalism, of a sort, saved the Chinese economy. Yet the CCP remains? Showing it is not about communism… but power.
The “Raison De Etre” of socialism, the mission statement if you will… is to make a system where everyone is equal. Along the lines of Thomas Moore’s Utopia. Where there are no rich, no poor, no rulers and no ruled. No hierarchy, no racism, a place where work is not alienating because people evolve to a higher state of being. Where we no longer are self interested but group interested. Like an ant, if we are marching along and there is a gully, we happily throw our bodies into it, to level the ground for the rest. Being trampled to death to such a person would be the ultimate ecstasy. That person, or rather, not person, but something else, something less, would revel in the group’s pleasure at walking over even ground, rather than it’s own suffering at being crushed to death. Such is utopia.
If we accept the mission statement of socialism then, we must examine the results of past experiments in socialism, against these goals. Because if the stated goals are really the goals, any experiment should bring humanity closer to that goal, not further away from it. When we examine the results, every socialist revolution has not only fallen short of the stated raison de etre, but has moved humanity in many respects, in exactly the opposite direction. Pol Pot, it could be argued, made the most progress towards evolving people from individuals to ants, by slaughtering most of the people in Cambodia, with bullets, until he ran out… then by bread bag and club. The argument is that initially there needs to be a strongman to force socialism on the unwilling elements. That was Pol Pot’s role.
Don’t the results of every socialist experiment suggest their goals are misstated, else the means to those goals used in the past, are counter productive. Yet we see that today’s socialist, of every bent, from Maoist, Progressive, national socialist, Marxist and democratic socialist, all continue to use the same tactics as in the past? Tactics that resulted in the opposite of what they claimed to want. A people, who are not, nor do they need to be ruled, where everyone is equal, not where some are more equal than others, where everything is owned in common, not where a despot owns everything and everyone. If socialists then want the goals, they are going about it the wrong way, unless their stated goals are mere subterfuge. That there is something else they want. By looking at the results we should glean what it is.
I think we can see in the Chinese Communist Party, what they want… absolute power. The CCP proves it every day in everything they do. Who can argue China today under the CCP is anything like the mission statement of Communism. It is the polar opposite, and continues to go further away, faster and faster. A fool can see that utopia is not the goal. When they saw that the socialist economic model was a failure they adopted a capitalist one. Showing they cared nothing for the mission statement… only the power to implement it. Power, for it’s own sake is the true raison de etre of socialism, it’s not some pie in the sky utopia, that is made clear by the CCP…. it is unlimited power to do whatever they want to us. Like involuntarily harvesting organs from the politically disfavored. You know…the less equal.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
