Burying Communism

 I would like to see it, if it were possible to Bury Communism for Good, as D. Parker suggests at the American Thinker. But, spoiler alert, all of the forms of collectivism, whether communism, socialism, progressivism, fascism, or some other name yet to be invented, partake of the worst instincts of mankind, namely envy. They all propose to give men something for nothing. All you have to do is put the "right people" in power. Unfortunately, there have never been the "right people."

It’s always been a perennial lie of the political left to falsely claim they’re all about fresh ideas, bringing in “new” winds of change, and that communism has never really been tried before. Anyone with a passing familiarity with history knows that’s a colossal pile of B.S., but if they can bluff their way along, they can hawk their societal slavery once again. The strains of collectivist control of the economy were in the cards in the last election, and if they had won, they would be crowing about how we’re all commies now.

Thankfully they lost, and they lost “bigly,” given the long odds with the national socialist media and every leftist celebrity on their side, so now is the time to take a good hard look at the damage their genocidal dreams have wrought upon humanity over 400 years finally declare enough is enough. It’s time to make the case for burying these collective ideologies for good.

I encourage gentle readers to read all of D. Parker's piece, for he makes a good case that we should indeed bury it once and for all. But we will never get rid of it entirely. Until Jesus comes again to rule in true justice, we are stuck with fallen people who will prefer envy to actual work. Still, there are things we can do. We can use the media and entertainment to make heroes out of people who work hard and succeed. We can also stop lionizing communist leaders and instead demonize these people. After all, they didn't become communist out of altruism, they did it to gain power and wealth at the expense of the everyday people. They were sure THEY knew how others should live, but not themselves.

We now know that history isn’t on their side, we also know that there is a very high cost to humanity with their Utopian fantasies. Fantasies that can never work, but always end with a mountain of corpses.

If there is one common thread running through collectivist thought down through the millennia, it’s an upper-crust, self-styled intellectual authority class that appears to think it knows better than the rest of humanity, and thus should rule over them. Thus, this intellectual authority class develops collectivist systems to control everyone else and bring about a perfect Utopia — at least, that’s been the sales pitch for the past 2,000 years.

One of the things about all collectivist systems is the utter misery imposed on the working people, for their own good, of course. And when they don't go along with being immiserated, then there are the "re-education camps" and gulags, and sadly the executions. Millions of executions, because when people don't "think correctly," they must be eliminated.

Force is the primary differentiating factor between communistic (or whatever) systems and those based on economic liberty. It's the only way those systems can work, and it’s the reason they need to finally be on the ash heap of history. Because in the 400 years of failure from the concepts that ‘have never really been tried before’ billions of people have been oppressed, and untold millions (we know that at least over 100 million) have been thrown into cattle cars, shipped to concentration camps and gulags, and murdered.

We also need to emphasize this aspect of collectivist systems. They inevibably mean the murder of people on an industrial scale.