Apparently in our current political climate "socialism" has become a word that does not convey the horror it actually represents. It has become common and thus meaningless beyond the idea of "sharing" and "taking care of the poor".
People, especially among the ignorant—particularly the college educated—seem proud to call themselves "Socialists" today. And the supremely ignorant—our politicians—go a step further, and celebrate the word "Progressive" as though it had a glorious and honorable meaning and history.
I refuse to allow "Socialism" and "Progressivism" to be understood as benign, helpful, caring, sharing, as another way of saying "The Brotherhood of Man".
Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism.
When I work, I use up hours of my life...my limited, mortal, physical life. The money I am paid represents the life I expended to earn it. My pay—my wealth—is my labor, is the expenditure of some of my body's short, precious life on earth.
So when someone takes my money, they take my life, my hours of labor, the work of my body and mind. They consume not only the fruits of my labor, but my labor itself, and my labor is the very expenditure of my life.
When someone loots and consumes the money I have earned, they consume my life.
What is that but cannibalism? A selfishness so profound, so inhuman, so greedy, so barbaric that it encourages and celebrates—and seeks to legally require— the consuming of the life's blood of one human by another.
That is the vicious reality of Socialism.
CANNIBALISM.
Don't let the bastards call it anything else.
The Gunslinger
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
3 months ago
Funny,I've always called them "Legalized Thieves"...
ReplyDeleteCarol, what you failed to mention is that, when the government takes your money (i.e., part of your life) without your permission, you are being enslaved by the government. "Slavery" is the mot juste here.
ReplyDeleteYes,you are right, I also think that we Americans are all slaves of the f***ing Social Security; we have to pay in exchange for our freedom. Didn't Lincoln free the slaves in 1865? So why are we all slaves now?
ReplyDeleteWell have a nice time in some farcical state of nature, because all of those arguments could be used against any government, all of which require some degree of 'collective' use of labor (or 'lifeblood' as you prefer it, though that's vampires not cannibals) and a legal authority which has the power to 'loot' it from them. Any government has the legal right to levy taxes and the authority to enforce the law, and while it is possible to come up with an intelligent argument for a line between a specific vision of legitimate government and socialism, waxing unpoetic about how progressive taxation or a 4% tax increase or whatever actual issue you're on about is the barbaric, cannibalistic, and inhuman steal-looting of your precious life-hours doesn't quite get your foot in the door.
ReplyDeleteEdit: And on a purely stylistic note, you use words with negative connotation to invoke a judgment, but it reads very forced. The measure of a good writer would be the ability to construct a situation which makes the point the writer has in mind without overtly or covertly telling the reader how to react. Show, don't tell. On a related note, your metaphors are a little over-wrought. You can certainly feel the emotion behind the words, but it comes off histrionic. Rather than bludgeoning your reader with your emotional conclusions, making your point in an understated way would be much more effective. As for the work at large, it might play well to a sympathetic audience tolerant of the pretense of your being a visionary-artiste substituted for a real sense of voice, but a lot of serious revision will be required before you have anything of real artistic or intellectual quality.
David: "Slavery" is a related, but different matter. I refer specifically to the consumption of the fruit of my life's labor by those who have not earned it, not just the confiscation of my labor/life by the State.
ReplyDeleteCritic: Taxes for the Constitutionally permitted government functions is one thing. Taxes to support the "needs" of the parasites is another. Perhaps you are unable to distinguish between them. If this is so, you were born to be food, and why you are unable to call evil evil. It is a common malady in our culture.
You find my choice of words offensive. I find cannibalism offensive. We are of different worlds, you and I. I do not seek to convince food to be anything else. They cannot be helped. I only try to describe, as clearly as I can, reality for those who have ears to hear.
Moderation is denial. To compromise with evil is for evil to triumph. To call evil by another name to please those who refuse to see it for what it is, is abdication of truth for popularity or approval.
But I don't seek the approval of food. Only the awakening of Men.
You made a superb reply to Critic.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that Critic didn't include a rant about how the Presidency was stolen from Al Gore.