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>>19050930
>socialism is a very complicated subject

A gang of power-mad thieves with some overarching, psuedo-utopian vision for 'society' utilizing the all-powerful private corporation of the State to violently seize the liberty and property of their subjects as mere means to the final, self-interested realization of their bizarre, crackpot dream commune in an authoritarian terror the Czar of Russia himself could never imagine.

The tyrants hide behind the façade of 'socialism', the moniker of 'socialists', that elaborately constructed brand identity they have built up over the centuries, because otherwise Aristotle would lay them bare :

>there are three objects which a tyranny has in view; one of which is, that the citizens should be of poor abject dispositions; for such men never propose to conspire against any one ... The second is, that they should have no confidence in each other; for while they have not this, the tyrant is safe enough from destruction ... The third is, that they shall be totally without the means of doing anything; for no one undertakes what is impossible for him to perform: so that without power a tyranny can never be destroyed.

What system sounds to you more likely to fulfill these ends?

(1) A system of free-market capitalism, where men are free to do as they will while respecting the person and property of others, keep the vast majority of their wages through low taxes, and enjoy certain natural and inalienable rights, free to make change as they please w/ private orgs. they fund voluntarily

(2) A system of 'socialism', where all are subject to the whims of an all-powerful bureaucracy, each action checked and restricted as that bureaucratic apparatus desires, and it seizes up to 50% of their wages, rendering them wholly dependent upon benefits and pensions controlled by itself, checking all their liberties as it deems necessary, & all change must be done through the party system controlled by the State, etc., etc.