Socialism Always Leads to Totalitarian Tyranny
Posted by freedomforall 9 hours, 17 minutes ago to Philosophy
Excerpt:
" socialist plans can’t be confined just to organizing production like capitalist plans do. A prohibition of profit-making dictates that ordinary people can’t ever be permitted to independently plan or act for themselves, so the socialist dictator has to be deeply concerned about regulating everybody’s innermost thoughts and most intimate social interactions. Several well-known features of totalitarianism arise in all sincere attempts to implement and sustain a socialist system:
Surveillance—Every word and deed is scrutinized for signs of dissent or of insufficiently enthusiastic compliance. Privacy is compromised through monitoring of communications, parallel bureaucracies of political commissars and neighborhood watch committees, and recruitment of anonymous informants.
Punishment—Punishment is based on inquisitorial, secret police, and concentration camp methods, not just to deter willful disobedience, but also to terrify anyone displaying negative attitudes that might incite future disobedience. High-profile dissenters are subjected to show trials and public humiliations and presumptions of guilt are attributed to entire groups to heighten such terror.
Isolation—Insufficiently controlled and scripted social interactions are suppressed to prevent spontaneous outbreaks of unplanned deviancy and to diminish opportunities for propagating dissent. Isolation measures include censorship, internal passport controls, and dumbing-down of language.
Debilitation—Everyone is kept busy and exhausted with mind-numbing tasks, leaving no quiet time for formation of deviant thoughts or organization of conspiracies. Young males in particular are drafted into tightly-controlled group activities of this nature to thwart their natural rebelliousness.
Engagement—Everyone is saturated with propaganda promoting the values that inform the central plan, and must actively support this official ideology with loyalty oaths, ideological indoctrination and testing, self-criticisms, public humiliations of deviants, virtue signaling, etc.
Rectification—Historical memories and cultural norms embodying values conflicting with official values are altered or suppressed; any family structures, religious institutions, etc. that spontaneously propagate values are suppressed or brought under centralized control.
Synchronization—All institutions normally thought of as being non-economic are brought under centralized control too, as any organization capable of independent decision-making and joint action can pose a threat to the plan and maybe to the planner."
" socialist plans can’t be confined just to organizing production like capitalist plans do. A prohibition of profit-making dictates that ordinary people can’t ever be permitted to independently plan or act for themselves, so the socialist dictator has to be deeply concerned about regulating everybody’s innermost thoughts and most intimate social interactions. Several well-known features of totalitarianism arise in all sincere attempts to implement and sustain a socialist system:
Surveillance—Every word and deed is scrutinized for signs of dissent or of insufficiently enthusiastic compliance. Privacy is compromised through monitoring of communications, parallel bureaucracies of political commissars and neighborhood watch committees, and recruitment of anonymous informants.
Punishment—Punishment is based on inquisitorial, secret police, and concentration camp methods, not just to deter willful disobedience, but also to terrify anyone displaying negative attitudes that might incite future disobedience. High-profile dissenters are subjected to show trials and public humiliations and presumptions of guilt are attributed to entire groups to heighten such terror.
Isolation—Insufficiently controlled and scripted social interactions are suppressed to prevent spontaneous outbreaks of unplanned deviancy and to diminish opportunities for propagating dissent. Isolation measures include censorship, internal passport controls, and dumbing-down of language.
Debilitation—Everyone is kept busy and exhausted with mind-numbing tasks, leaving no quiet time for formation of deviant thoughts or organization of conspiracies. Young males in particular are drafted into tightly-controlled group activities of this nature to thwart their natural rebelliousness.
Engagement—Everyone is saturated with propaganda promoting the values that inform the central plan, and must actively support this official ideology with loyalty oaths, ideological indoctrination and testing, self-criticisms, public humiliations of deviants, virtue signaling, etc.
Rectification—Historical memories and cultural norms embodying values conflicting with official values are altered or suppressed; any family structures, religious institutions, etc. that spontaneously propagate values are suppressed or brought under centralized control.
Synchronization—All institutions normally thought of as being non-economic are brought under centralized control too, as any organization capable of independent decision-making and joint action can pose a threat to the plan and maybe to the planner."
