Defenders of Capitalism never cease to try to “educate” socialists on the glories of Capitalism, as if socialists are merely uninformed. For example, check out What the Socialist Left Fails to Grasp about Wealth and Innovation in America by Preston Brashers of The Heritage Foundation. Writing for FEE, Brashers writes:
“We cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption have been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) once said. But when you consider the vital economic activities funded by billionaires, it becomes clear that it’s a society without billionaires that we can’t afford.
Not all Americans are rich. But all of them are more prosperous because they live in a society where great entrepreneurs can attain great wealth through their vision, innovation, and industriousness.
Brashers goes on the recount (for the umpteenth time) the great benefits driven by Capitalism’s liberated fortune builders. I agree the economic case for Capitalism is critically important and must be regularly reiterated. But does Brashers really believe that Senator Sanders doesn’t understand the economics of Capitalism, let alone its moral foundation?
Of course socialists understand. That's why they hate it. And want to seize the wealth and kill innovation. They hate the rational self-interest that drives Capitalism. They hate the justified economic inequality that freely flourishes under the freedom of Capitalism due to man's nature. They don't care about the truth. They are totalitarian power-lusters and egalitarian hate-mongers. After 200 years of socialist "experiments" in all its manifestations, from the voluntary socialisms documented by Charles Nordhoff in his The Communistic Societies of the United States; Harmony, Oneida, the Shakers, and Others and John Humphrey Noyes in his History of American Socialisms to the coercive kinds like theSouthern slave "beau ideals of communism" plantations defended by George Fitzhugh in his seminal pro-slavery anti-Capitalist Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society to the bloody 20th Century Nazi and Marxist horrors to today's Venezuela—how can they not grasp the glories of wealth, vision, innovation, and industriousness under the even limited freedom of modern mixed economy Capitalism?
So here’s a memo to Preston Bashers and his fellow pro-Capitalist socialist apologists:
To be a socialist today, In the face of the history of free market, individualist societies , is an unforgivable sin. Ignorance, to the extent it exists among the useful idiot followers of Sanders, AOC, and their ilk, is no excuse. Mistakes of this size are never made innocently. There are no innocent socialists. The author gives socialists a wholly unwarranted benefit of the doubt. We Capitalists must recognize that socialists are evil, and not be afraid to say so.
Related Reading:
Another Counter-Productive Attempt to Define Capitalism as Something it’s Obviously Not--Unselfish
Capitalism and the Moral High Ground by Craig Biddle
Why Capitalism Needs a Moral Sanction
Socialism's Totalitarian Nature Cannot Be Obscured by 'Democratic Socialism'
The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein
Criminal Socialism vs. a Free Society
What is Capitalism? by Ayn Rand
What is Socialism? by Robert Heilbroner
Why Capitalism is Selfish--and Why That’s Good
The Great Enrichment by Deirdre McCloskey
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Today is 7/19/24 and I am just now commenting on this post, after the attempted assassination of Trump.
The young are always innocent and must forever be taught, among everything else, about socialism and about capitalism and its source in law, unalienable individual rights. Even some adults who's lives today are products of socialism don't know it and are intellectually innocent of it. Teaching them will very often be futile, but it can sometimes be productive. But legions of other adults can't pretend to be ignorant of it. Many of them actively push socialism and many others support that effort. They deserve no benefit of any doubt if there even is any doubt. The active pushers are criminally guilty, and the supporters are accomplices at the least. These people include those occupying positions in government, both elected and appointed, who must be removed, elections not always being required to do so, even the recent Supreme Court ruling on immunity not with standing.
Talk of unity since the attempted assassination of Trump must take that in mind and keep it there. The law abiding, which by definition means in terms of unalienable individual rights, must maximally widen and deepen the gap between them and criminals, ESPECIALLY between them and those occupying positions in government. That's not a political division. It's a cultural division, between the law abiding (including politicians) and the criminal.
Committed socialists know what it's all about. They are criminals by their actions, not by their alleged beliefs, including those in positions in government who criminally act in official capacities. They must be chopped off and separated, between now and 11/5/24, then more between 11/5/24 and 1/20/25, then completely, after 1/20/25, for good. This assumes the republicans get what they need in the election. If they don't, the democrats will have more than they need to establish nationwide crime under a central criminal regime, where everything by everybody will be on the table.
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