Vol. 42, No. 09
The Siren Song of Socialism
- “We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens.”
- “We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).”
- “We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation.”
All three quotes above derive from the same source. Would you like to venture a guess as to who said them? U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), perhaps? Nope. The above quotes are from the 25-point program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as the Nazi Party.
Of course, the national socialists of Nazi Germany advocated a different variant of socialism than that of the international communists of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). But in both cases (and elsewhere, too), the socialists/communists who were able to seize absolute and complete control of the state used their newfound monopoly of political power to subjugate their own citizens rather than provide them with a better life.
And time and again, this monopoly of power has proven to be lethal. The late professor R.J. Rummel, who studied murder by government for decades, noted in his book Death by Government, “The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.”
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