The truth of socialism:
A pseudo-religion, grounded in pseudo-science, and enforced by political might...
Equality, for example - the most ludicrous concept in an attempt to push socialism.
"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself, on different days."
Sowell.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
Heraclitus.
....if these two very self evident, philosophical truths are to be accepted - then only only the true idiot (or the megalomaniac manipulator of men) would try to 'sell' the concept of 'equality' to people.
And only for nefarious purposes of controlling others.
That control over other, needs bureaucracy....
Socialism depends on bureaucracies.
It cannot function otherwise.
Bureaucracies are non productive entities that use up the resources from the productive elements in society.
They are by there very structure, parasitical in nature.
Socialism require's the bureaucracies to forcefully redistribute wealth - from the productive elements in society, to the non productive elements in society.
The parasitic class.
The decision making process of forced redistribution is thus enabled by centralized authorities.
As Hayek said:
"(central)...Planning always leads to dictatorship.”
This is without exception.
History shows this time and time, and time , again.
...From Lenin to Castro, promised basic freedoms such as free elections, a free press, free assembly, and religious freedom - none fulfilled these promises that were made before coming to power.
Why?
Because the very system of authoritarian, bureaucratic control, cannot allow for free thought and alternative perspectives!
Bureaucratic, centralized control, is a world without personal freedom or choice.
It is world of systems, of cold processes, one where the individual is NOT taken into account.
And the individual is the building block of society.
Without the individual first being recognized as being fundamentally, the most important part of the ecosystem - then collapse is sure to follow.
It is a society without real foundations.
Failed socialist experiments worldwide show this to be the case.
If a system cannot allow for the basic human rights of freedom of choice, to associate, to pursue better for themselves - then what kind of dystopian - unnatural - system, is it?
It's like creating a benevolent machine, that goes on to tell the creators of the said machine , how to then live...
That's called technocracy (communism by another name).
The basics of flawed thinking...
Socialism’s central philosophical weakness is that it depends on the intellectually lazy, (and economic parasite), Karl Marx.
Or so it would first appear at least....
My own thoughts....
My own, personal opinion, is that the third cousin to the banking giants - a family called the Rothschild's, was given enough money so as to be able to devote his time to writing (via Friedrich Engels , who was the son of a textile manufacturer).
Maybe.. just maybe ...
Marx was the intellectual giant that he's purported to be - and 'communism' was , in fact, the best intellectual lie that he could form into an ideology that the masses would swallow - one that would, inexorably, lead the world towards a one world - one bank - government - The Rothschild's...
End of my own thoughts concerning Karl Marx
Leaving aside my own skeptical view of Marx and his motives, lets continue....
Marx insisted that his version of the Hegelian dialectic—thesis, antithesis, synthesis - or cause - reaction solution - was purely scientific.
I.e A constant equation and without flaw.
He asserted that feudalism ( being replaced by capitalism) would be then replaced by socialism ,and then, ultimately - communism. He thought this to be an irreversible process. (yes, he really was that limited in his thinking if the narrative of his life's work is to believed).
He offered very little 'new' thinking, but he was excellent at intellectualizing and consolidating messy, ill formed concepts. (which fall to pieces under any kind of 'critical thinking' inspection).
...So, 200 years after the publication of “The Communist Manifesto,” capitalist systems are shown time and time again , to be the ones that succeed - albeit held back and corrupted by a century of the communist , Rothchild's, central banking system.
Imagine how the world would look without the decades of bureaucratic and wasteful corruption, of 'quasi communism' holding it back?
His 'Hegelian dialectic perspective' of the evolution in society was flawed - for one main reason.
....Quite a large flaw.
It did not encompass, and embrace, the human being, and all that goes with that.
...Such as ambition, caring, fortitude, and an inherent optimism towards life itself.
This is totally antithetical to communist dogma, which comprises of supporting uniformity, hailing the average, rewarding conformity, and a suppressing of the human spirit!
(Have you ever noticed how so many on 'the left' are nihilistic, negative, and pessimistic in their outlook?)