The false hope of socialism: Why it can never succeed. No government initiative that defies one of God’s Ten Commandments can endure

Christian Post ^ | 09/08/2020 | Rev. Mark H. Creech

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In her Princeton undergraduate thesis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan wrote ten years ago:

“Through its own internal feuding…the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than a half-century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.”

Since he was elected Mayor of New York in 2014, Bill DeBlasio has kept hope alive for socialists. In a recent radio interview, DeBlasio, a socialist himself, made an earnest appeal to his audience, “Help me tax the wealthy. Help me redistribute wealth…If you just talk about it and feel self-satisfied, God bless you. That’s not actually going to change things. What changes things is the redistribution of wealth. Tax the wealthy at a much higher level.”

But DeBlasio’s socialistic policies are not working out well for the Big Apple. According to RedState, New Yorkers “are fleeing the dystopian nightmare DeBlasio has created in record numbers…Elite Moving & Storing in Yonkers,” says that “People are fleeing the City in droves. The statistics are mind-boggling.”

“If the current trend continues,” says RedState, “DeBlasio’s wealth redistributionist scheme will fail worse than his pathetic presidential run in 2019.”

It appears one doesn’t have to look to the more than two dozen places around the globe where socialism was tried and failed to see it doesn’t work. Just take a look at what’s happening in New York. The circumstances have become unbearable, and New Yorkers are bailing on the City.

Why is it that socialism fails? It does not and cannot succeed because it defies the law of God, “Thou shalt not steal.”

In the Eighth Commandment, God asserts the right to private property. It is an inviolable command. Since God made man in his image and gave him dominion over the earth, anyone who steals his property instead of receiving it as a gift or purchasing or trading for it has desecrated the individual’s personhood and violated his dominion. This is a serious injustice, which God has authorized and obligated the government to judge.

Proponents of socialism are always claiming its primary objective is justice for everyone. But “It is Robin Hood’s justice, in which the rich are robbed and the poor share in the loot,” wrote T. Robert Ingram in The World Under God’s Law. “That keeps the poor off the robber’s back and stops the crowd from attacking him. Whom else would anyone rob but the rich?”

Frederic Bastiat, a French economist, and statesman wrote a little book in 1850 titled The Law. The book was penned only two years after Karl Marx published his Manifesto. Bastiat analyzed the evils of socialism in terms of the law against stealing.

Socialists desire to practice a legal form of plunder wrote Bastiat.

“Socialists, like all 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,” he said.

Bastiat added:

“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it – without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud – to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.

“I say that this act is exactly what the law is supposed to suppress, always and everywhere. When the law itself commits this act that it is supposed to suppress, I say that plunder is still committed, and I add that from the point of view of society and welfare, this aggression against rights is even worse. In this case of legal plunder, however, the person who receives the benefits is not responsible for the act of plundering. The responsibility for this legal plunder rests with the law, the legislator, and society itself. Therein lies the political danger.”

The hope of socialism continues not only in De Blasio’s New York, but rises across America. It has even hijacked a major political party, which is every day pushing the country closer to fully embracing it. Despite its profoundly failed track record, it marches onward, surviving all empirical refutation.

As Dinesh D’Souza says in The United States of Socialism, another go at it here in the U.S. “feels like Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth marriage, a triumph of hope over experience.”

It’s time to put away all illusions of grandeur; socialism is a false hope, a mirage at best. As D’Souza says, it’s “the ideology of thieves,” and those who fall for it become “connivers attracted by the rip-off scheme.”

Socialism doesn’t work. It can never succeed because no government initiative that defies one of God’s Ten Commandments can endure a Sovereign God’s disapproval and the withdrawal of his blessing. It doesn’t matter the amount of hope placed in it, or how many times its tried, or how many tweaks are made to it, it is destined for utter failure.

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[Brian Griffin]

We’ve had large scale socialist public schooling for 180 years.

We’ve had a socialist army since 1776.

[Brian Griffin]

Americans love stuff others pay for.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: We’ve had a socialist army since 1776.

Can you elaborate?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Why it can never succeed:

1: There's nothing positive about it. All its advocates are just anti-capitalism, with no plan on what to realistically replace it with once it's destroyed.

2: No safety checks on government power. No restraints, no checks and balances. In fact it relies on government having total power, while ignoring the proven rule that power corrupts.

3: It's contrary to human nature. Humans are hunter-gatherers by nature; they want to own things for their own security. You can't just erase basic instincts.

[Amendment10]

Socialism is flunky, bully politicians lying to the voters about their “promised land” socialist utopia in order to get elected, and then ignoring the people and partying on taxpayer dollars after getting elected. (What’s worse, the lying politicians, or the people who unthinkingly drink their Kool-Aid?)

Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.

I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.

Insights welcome.

• "The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to party with Uncle Sam's "unlimited credit card."" —me

• "The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.

• "The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me

  • "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

  • "13th Amendment, Section 1:

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

  • "16th Amendment:

    The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

  • "It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me

  • "The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me

• "The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me

  "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• "The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me

• "Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me

• "The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me

• "Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me

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He’s forgetting the equally important other commandment that Socialism defies: “Thou shalt not covet!”

That commandment is at the root of Socialism. The stealing part is the action proceeding the coveting.

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It is amazing how many collectivist true believers there are, even apparachiks who have seen how the system really works. A fascinating example is found in “A Viet Cong Memoir’ by the man who was a committed NLF operator since about 1945. After the communist victory in 1975, this man had risen to the post of NLF Justice Minister, and he was genuinely shocked (no BS) that Lao Dong ignored all the promises that had been made for decades that the two Viet Nams would be allowed to develop on tandem track recognizing and respecting the unique aspects of the southern Annam and Cochin China and that eventual unification would come only after a lengthy period of adjustment. The shotgun marriage of the north and south so upset him along with the mass arrests and establishment of ‘reeducation camps’ for tens of thousands Cochinese
that he and his wife undertook a perilous flight and became boat people. Finally back in Paris he meditates on the lessons of his past and still doesn't get that all total states are first and last power oriented.

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The Ten Commandments are designed to keep individuals, and ultimately nations, from digging a hole and falling into it. The Proverbs are the key to staying out of the hole and climbing back out if we do fall in.

We have rejected both.