GenSeneca
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When I say Socialism is Evil.... I'm not attempting to demonize an opposing viewpoint - through the use of Hyperbole - in order to more easily dismiss the philosophy and teachings... I mean it as an empirical truth.
Socialism is Evil: The Empirical Evidence
Socialism seeks to redefine Reason to suit its goals. Logic is the process by which man Reasons for himself, to determine Reality. Logic is rejected and substituted with assertions of knowledge.
Reality is not compatible with Socialism, therefore, Logic and Reason must be tweaked to change ones perception of reality. How many times have you heard a politician say, "Perception is Reality"?
Reality, is Reality. Reality is Truth. Perception is based on Reality - Socialism seeks to reverse causality.
Natural Science, that of Reality, will have to be absorbed by the "Science of Man" in hopes of changing Reality by altering the Perception of it.
Socialism tells you that its your nature, by instinct, to live for the survival of others and not for your own survival, an attempt to negate reality and reverse Reality.
According to Socialism, its only by production that your life garners value.
I cannot stress enough, the importance of the above quote... Socialism teaches life without production has no value. While Socialists will adamantly deny this truth by pointing to their undying support for "Human Rights", this is a smokescreen by which Socialism seeks to abrogate private property rights. Property is not just Land...
Property is anything you possess of value to others and the only value Socialism places on you, is based on your ability to contribute Value to the Collective. Whether its your intelligence, labor or physical holdings, all is deemed property of the Collective and subject to their whims.
Did you catch that list of Targets for Corruption? He uses the word "precision" when talking about the need to inject the Socialist "Truth" (Perception of Reality) into the fields that will allow for a Socialist revolution:
Scientists and Laboratories (Gore didn't need to be a scientist to win a Nobel),
Colleges and Universities (Take your pick...),
Lawyers and Lawfirms (ACLU),
Politicians (Think of how many politicians went through those universities to become lawyers and went on to be politicians),
Religious Leaders and Institutions (Louis Farrakhan and Black Liberation Theology),
Artists (HollyWood),
Philosophic (MSM).
Here Marx is saying that all ideologies and forms of mans consciousness are not real, and must be altered to conform with the Socialist perception of Reality.
Basically like saying: I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Through class struggle, pitting the lower 4/5ths of society against the top 1/5th, Socialists have talked 4/5ths of society to reject the rights to their own property in order to acquire the property of the top 1/5th. Little by little our individual right to property is eroded until it is gone.
Contrary to popular opinion... Rich people, Politicians in particular, have something very special to gain from supporting Socialism in America - A chance for them, and their families, to be permanently cemented into the Ruling Class of society.
This superior ruling class decides what the Common Good is for everyone else. This class is the only class where individuals are held with inherent value to the Collective.
Socialism teaches that Private Property is slavery, and agitates for the lower 4/5ths of society to dissolve Private Property rights with the promise of obtaining property from the top 5th... Only to find, once having done so, that the top 1% is now the ruling class and above sacrifice for the Collective they rule.
By trying to sacrifice the rights of the top 5th for the Common Good, the bottom 4/5ths sacrifice themselves to slavery at the hands of the superior ruling class, who's rights they sought to destroy. Now slaves to the Common Good - defined for them by their rulers - individuals have no rights and no value beyond what their superiors dictate.
Socialism is Evil.
Socialism is Evil: The Empirical Evidence
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. --Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
Socialism seeks to redefine Reason to suit its goals. Logic is the process by which man Reasons for himself, to determine Reality. Logic is rejected and substituted with assertions of knowledge.
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. --Marx, German Ideology (1845)
Reality is not compatible with Socialism, therefore, Logic and Reason must be tweaked to change ones perception of reality. How many times have you heard a politician say, "Perception is Reality"?
Reality, is Reality. Reality is Truth. Perception is based on Reality - Socialism seeks to reverse causality.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. --Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844)
Natural Science, that of Reality, will have to be absorbed by the "Science of Man" in hopes of changing Reality by altering the Perception of it.
Man is directly a natural being.... A being which does not have its nature outside itself is not a natural being, and plays no part in the system of nature. A being which has no object outside itself is not an objective being. --Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in General (1844)
Socialism tells you that its your nature, by instinct, to live for the survival of others and not for your own survival, an attempt to negate reality and reverse Reality.
Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life. -- Marx, German Ideology (1845)
According to Socialism, its only by production that your life garners value.
Our mutual value is for us the value of our mutual objects.
Hence for us man himself is mutually of no value. --Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)
I cannot stress enough, the importance of the above quote... Socialism teaches life without production has no value. While Socialists will adamantly deny this truth by pointing to their undying support for "Human Rights", this is a smokescreen by which Socialism seeks to abrogate private property rights. Property is not just Land...
Under private property ... Each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering. --Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour (1844)
Property is anything you possess of value to others and the only value Socialism places on you, is based on your ability to contribute Value to the Collective. Whether its your intelligence, labor or physical holdings, all is deemed property of the Collective and subject to their whims.
In studying such transformations it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic or philosophic – in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. --Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Did you catch that list of Targets for Corruption? He uses the word "precision" when talking about the need to inject the Socialist "Truth" (Perception of Reality) into the fields that will allow for a Socialist revolution:
Scientists and Laboratories (Gore didn't need to be a scientist to win a Nobel),
Colleges and Universities (Take your pick...),
Lawyers and Lawfirms (ACLU),
Politicians (Think of how many politicians went through those universities to become lawyers and went on to be politicians),
Religious Leaders and Institutions (Louis Farrakhan and Black Liberation Theology),
Artists (HollyWood),
Philosophic (MSM).
Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. --Marx, German Ideology (1845)
Here Marx is saying that all ideologies and forms of mans consciousness are not real, and must be altered to conform with the Socialist perception of Reality.
Basically like saying: I reject your reality and substitute my own.
The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. -- Marx, Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 3 (1845)
Through class struggle, pitting the lower 4/5ths of society against the top 1/5th, Socialists have talked 4/5ths of society to reject the rights to their own property in order to acquire the property of the top 1/5th. Little by little our individual right to property is eroded until it is gone.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas. --Marx, German Ideology (1845)
Contrary to popular opinion... Rich people, Politicians in particular, have something very special to gain from supporting Socialism in America - A chance for them, and their families, to be permanently cemented into the Ruling Class of society.
The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. -- Marx, Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 3 (1845)
This superior ruling class decides what the Common Good is for everyone else. This class is the only class where individuals are held with inherent value to the Collective.
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general. -- Engels, Principles of Communism (1847)
Socialism teaches that Private Property is slavery, and agitates for the lower 4/5ths of society to dissolve Private Property rights with the promise of obtaining property from the top 5th... Only to find, once having done so, that the top 1% is now the ruling class and above sacrifice for the Collective they rule.
By trying to sacrifice the rights of the top 5th for the Common Good, the bottom 4/5ths sacrifice themselves to slavery at the hands of the superior ruling class, who's rights they sought to destroy. Now slaves to the Common Good - defined for them by their rulers - individuals have no rights and no value beyond what their superiors dictate.
Socialism is Evil.