Socialism is Always a Move Towards Communism -- with the Same Results

Communism and socialism have terrible records. To understand what Mamdani calls "The warmth of collectivism" study the Holodomor.

Mark Landsbaum - American Thinker  

"[British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher] no doubt agreed with Williams when he wrote, “I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you -- and why?”

"Tragically, we face today burgeoning support for socialism, largely because the U.S. socialist-inspired public schools have intentionally avoided teaching the system’s evil ways and disastrous results everywhere on earth it’s ever been attempted. As red flags go, they don’t come much bigger. Or redder.

"I have a long-time family friend, who should know better. He’s a lifelong business journalist who even for a while wrote for the conservative Wall Street Journal. Nevertheless, my buddy insists “socialism” is quite different from communism, and that in fact many socialist countries, such as in Scandinavia, are quite happy with the “benefits” of socialism.

"He may be right that many people are happy in Sweden, whose major political party is the Swedish Social Democratic Party. But the happy faces in Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors can be explained by the fact that many people find pleasure in receiving benefits paid for by other people. As U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher so coyly noted in 1976 before she became prime minister, “The problem with socialism is that eventually they run out of other people’s money.”

"The difference between those happy-faced socialists and actual communists is just a matter of degree. As those benefitting from seizing other people’s wealth and income taste the fruits of their government-enabled theft, their appetite only grows for more. When was the last time you heard a socialist demanding less of other people’s money?

"As Karl Marx, the unemployed German who came up with the idea of communism, spelled out in detail in his Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto, and other writings, socialism is not a goal. It is an essential step toward the goal.

"That means even those enjoying short-term benefits by living off the sweat of others, in fact are nudging their nations closer and closer to the communist goal, whether they realize it or not. Today’s socialist is tomorrow’s communist; that’s the plan. Don’t think otherwise."... More...

Historical Photographs of the Holodomor - HREC Education  . . . 'For more information about some of these photos please visit the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv, Ukraine web pages. These photos may be viewed on their gallery pages. We cannot grant permission to use any of these photographs, they are not ours."

Hidden camera showed the victims of Stalin's "collectivism" 

. . . "Stalin had imposed collectivization, which replaced individually owned and operated farms with big state-run collectives." . . .

1930s; dead child in Ukraine.

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