Thanks to our schools skipping world history to ensure the kiddies have enough bandwidth to memorize the new pronoun dictionary, it seems like we’re going to give communism another test drive. Mayor Zohan Mamdani was elected by the people of New York to redistribute wealth until there isn’t any left, give away free stuff so destitution won’t hurt so bad, and seize enough private property to demonstrate the miracle of central planning.
Obviously, the strategy is for The Big Apple, to act as a kind of communist model home, to convince the rest of the country that personal freedom is overrated. Never mind that we’ve had a few socialist demos in the last century that didn’t turn out so well; but social justice warriors won’t let a little thing like reality get in the way of a good theory.
There’s just one thing I don’t understand. Why do the liberals, who claim that slavery was an unforgivable sin, demand a system of governance based on a two-caste system of masters (the government) and slaves (the citizens)?
Karl Marx was a Madison Avenue grade salesman and the original pitchman who hid human bondage behind a façade of equity. He even had a great tagline: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” That was even better than the 21st century version: “What’s in your wallet?” [Answer: nothing when the commies are done.]
Karl did such a great job of convincing people that communism would provide sunny skies and fair winds, that his ideology seemed to be catching on in the last century. Of course, that was because nobody who bought his pitch, bothered to understand what the 12 words of Marx’s slogan were actually offering.
Karl was saying that if we would only accept collective supremacy over personal liberty, we could have a new society in which we’d “labor for the collective, and the collective will let us live.” Not thrive, just live. But that doesn’t sound so “Garden of Edenish” does it? As I said, had Marx lived a century later, he could have sold a Bible to Madalyn O’Hair, while he was pitching servitude to humans.
I’d like to make one more observation about Karl’s slogan. The last word is “needs” not “wants.” That’s because what one “wants” is only relevant to free men. Slaves can only hope for their “needs,” as provided by their masters: food, shelter, and security. How is that any different from the slaves of the deep south, who worked the fields, and were provided food, shelter, and security (i.e. chains)?
Of course, the historically illiterate social justice warriors of the left will claim that U.S. slavery was something entirely different. U.S. slaves were held by brutal force, rather than offered accommodations in happy communes, where walls are used to keep laborers in, rather than the world’s refugees out. You know, like: The Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Who knows? Maybe fundamental human nature has changed since St. Obama told us that “At some point you’ve made enough.” Perhaps Americans have become less focused on personal prosperity and are considering giving up life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, to get a little peace and quiet.
But timing is everything. For the Democratic Socialists of America to make a convincing argument for a national roll-out, Zohan is going to have to pull off his economic revolution before running out of other people’s money. I figure that gives him about 4 years to end homelessness, crime, and destitution; by pampering criminals, seizing property, and giving stuff away.
This could be entertaining, but I think we should keep the experiment contained a bit better than a Wuhan lab contained COVID, at least until the theory is proven. Maybe Snake Pliskin could bid on a wall contract.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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