Socialism Led to the Murder of 100 Million Victims, Part 1

         As Lemmings follow one another off a cliff, naïve throngs today race toward their doom!

            By adding the suffix "ism" to the word "social," socialism perverts the innocent concept of an appreciation of people, by identifying a regime that robs every person of all of their rights, property, and security.  Yet mounting numbers today are clamoring for this very prospect.  

Socialism (SOC), by definition, stands in stark contrast to capitalist (CAP) economics as embraced by the United States Constitution.  SOC subjugates its people top-downward, while U.S. principles by contrast entail a “we the people” concept of a bottoms-up method of social oversight.  Please be aware that assessing the ramifications of these choices by ignoring the actual fallout from SOC, can easily obscure the magnitude of damage that is sure to follow any vision which portends to secure equity by way of brute force.  Although SOCs are quick to point out the poverty that likewise exists under CAP, SOCs fail to acknowledge that it is SOC alone which excludes the possibility escaping the poverty that pervades SOC virtually universally.  

            In addition to imposing top-downward force by the “governors” onto the “governed,” Socialism imposes further strictures on the latter that deprive them of rewards for their labors.  The slogan, “From each according to his ability to each according to their needs” may, on the one hand, seduce any who seek to evade work, but on the other hand it necessarily withholds motivated people from the financial benefits of their labor, as well as depriving innovators of their organic successes, and also artisans from seeing their foresights unfold into actuality.  The fallout from these deprivations can be illustrated by observing two failed socialist states to the south of us including firstly Cuba.  Cuba early on thrived in prosperity; yet irreversibly has slid into chronic privation.  Likewise, in recent decades Venezuela fell from its status as economic leader of South America only to recently drop to the bottom, as socialistic overhaul predicts.

            These deprivations both inhibit peace within individuals and arouse conflict between neighbors.  Clearly, members of the human race are NOT uniformly driven by identical stimuli.  Viewed then solely under rational terms, it is not difficult to anticipate that enforced Socialism brings a death-knell to any notion of free self-determination for a vast portion of any population.  Not only is it statistically clear that socialistic economics does not  produce its goals, but they cannot possibly do so in spite of credibly threatening to punish all who resist the iron will of the state.  Such indeed is the socialistic rationale for the murder of both intel-lectually and financially-driven people by Socialist regimes.  So much as a hint of an internal independence of spirit, targets them as potential threats since they put to the lie the fable that untethered Socialism inspires loyalty to the state.  Pol Pot’s agenda indeed proves this principle by the cruelties and torturous deaths the educated class faced under his regime.  Such patterns of resistance, whether real or merely imagined by the "authorities," underscores the logical fallout of any governance that insists for all practical purposes on blind compliance by the masses to orders that are enforced from "the barrel of a gun."

To be continued...

             You may read the rest of this article found at  www.christianityontheoffense.com/articles.  There you will also find my numerous footnotes.  

 

Exposing the Intellectual Fraud of Marxist Socialism

 “’But [the Emperor] hasn’t got any clothes,’ said the little boy. ‘He’s all bare.’” (Hans Christian Anderson’s, The Emperor’s New Clothes) 

               The largest stars that scientists have discovered are so much bigger than our Sun that if one of them, say, Stephenson 2-18 (S-2-18), replaced it, Saturn’s orbit would occur inside it (8:52, 9:43).[1]  By comparison, our Sun is as small as “a grain of dust.” (9:22).  S-2-18 could easily impress us by its size.  Yet only a much smaller Sun like our own has the capacity to provide the very conditions we earthlings need in order to exist and indeed thrive.[2]  By contrast, “supergiant star,” S-2-18 is on its “death-bed.”  Having consumed most all of its gas, it lacks the gravity needed to keep holding its’ remains together.  So it will soon collapse into a “supernova” explosion that will blow its’ remains out into space.  No more S-2-18!

               Similarly, Marxist Socialism (MS) today in America is parading itself as an ominous force for cultural overthrow that is accelerating with apparently unstoppable momentum.  Despite the 20^th  Cen-tury’s track record of failure across Asia (which todays “academics” suppress),[3] socialism is capturing the hearts of 40% of Americans aged 20 to 40.  Nevertheless, the alleged gravitas behind that boast-filled parade, is illusory.  MS dogma is no more substantial than a house of cards for the reason that it is actually NOT premised on a body of facts, but on assumptions of flawed “dead white men” (Rousseau, Hegel, Marx…)[4] that were based on now-discredited science (see below).  To give examples, three of its vulnerabilities include first its dogmatic commitment to philosophical materialism.  This faith position insists that reality consists only of physical entities.  That is, there is no God or gods, angels, demons, or souls.[5]  Yet this worldview is refuted in part by the scientific discovery that the universe began out of nothing from the Big Bang (BB).[6]  So only God could have cause it!  Second, MS judges that Darwinian evolutionary progress (DEP) is the very means by which nature progresses toward completion.  Yet DEP DEP can only possibly work within the context of matter and living creatures that already exist!  For this reason, it cannot explain progress prior to the first life, which in itself is unexplained.[7]  Third, this DEP paradigm also assumes that humans will ultimately be perfected whenever the elusive state of utopia is reached.  Yet I must simply reply that, looking back on the last hundred years, its’ landslide of historical evidence utterly refutes that naïve belief that human nature is progressing ever closer to perfection.[8] 

The failure of the above dogmas highlight straight-forward rebuttals to MS theory.  To make matters worse, the strategies I list below even further betray MS as an intellectual fraud.  For these reasons, their only means for MS to stave off structural toppling is to impose the following measures:

·        Restrict media and news content

·        Censor both “unacceptable” points of view and events that damage its cause

·        Buffer State leaders from scrutiny

·        Refuse debate over opposing views

·        Enforce the State as "moral" authority

·        Enforce a materialist worldview

·        Enforce propagandistic rhetoric  

·        Resist scrutiny of government schemes

·        Severely punish dissidents

Although MS’s momentum could imply that their ideas are superior; it is only due to intellectual fraud.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnSDifDSxQ

[2] Hugh Ross. The Creator and the Cosmos. (RTB, 2018), pp. 207-8.

[3] Mark Levin. American Marxism. (Threshold Editions, 2021), pp. 10, 260.

[4] Mark K=Levin cites these three, Ibid., pp., 18f.

[5] See my paper, “The Case for the Soul,” at my website, www.christianityontheoffense.com/articles.

[6] See my papers, “Was the Big Bang the Big Beginning?,” “What Atheism Cannot Explain,” and “God’s Prints are Everywhere,” Ibid.

[7] Fuzale Rana. “What is Chemical Evolution?” Thinking about Evolution. (RTB, 2020), Ch. 6.

[8] See my paper, “Socialism Led to the Murder of One Hundred Million Captives.” Op.cit. (5).