Socialists may just be the most delusional faction of authoritarian fascists.
They always believe only the undeserving rich (apparently everyone with more money than they have) will be forced to give up their money and property. Envy is their entire ideology.
They say they are only calling for "fairness" and "sharing". Sharing means giving someone YOUR property, not the property you've stolen from others.
They say they're only "giving everyone food and healthcare". By forcing others to pay for it.
They believe they are the opposite of fascists. While they act completely fascistic.
One told me to read Marx's "Capital", and when I admitted that I had, I was called a liar, since I said it was nonsense and Marx was wrong. I was told I am too stupid to understand it. I'll admit, I don't remember much of it anymore, because it was too ridiculous and obviously wrong to bother to commit to memory.
I guess I'm just not envious enough to be a socialist. I don't want to steal your stuff or have a gang steal it from you on my behalf. Seems like this is getting to be a rare quality these days.
When reading fiction, one only has a good time if one can "suspend disbelief" in order to get into the story.
ReplyDelete"Capital" is fiction, and the only way to consider attain suspension of disbelief and convince one's self otherwise is to buy into its foundational fictional premise: The Labor Theory of Value. Every other element of his long, boring novel depends on that fictional premise.
A lot of Marx's writings are actually based on correct themes and plot elements ... because he cribbed them from Comte and Dunoyer's "libertarian class theory" before ruining them by changing the classes from "productive" versus "political" to "labor" versus "capital" to make them work with that idiotic theory of value.
I can only suspend disbelief to a point. I read a sci-fi novel a few years ago that hurt my head. The author got nearly everything wrong. It's as though he had no clue; no basis in reality to build his fictional world on. Nothing made sense enough to even be science fictiony. It was so bad it would have been funny, if it didn't hurt so much.
DeleteThat was similar to my experience of reading Marx.