The Execution of Nikolai Bukharin

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For the young Millennials who are "feeling the Bern" and for the old drug-addled hippies who long for a collectivist state to give them what they refuse to earn, this anniversary of Nikolai Bukharin's execution should be a poignant reminder of what Socialism brings. But it won't. The two groups are too ignorant of history or too far down the rabbit hole of their own failure to abandon the fantasy that gives them false hope. For that matter, this article is too long for them to read. Anything longer than a 140 character Tweet is a burden too hard to bear.

Socialism’s Bloody History Shows Millennials Should Think Twice Before Supporting It

Socialism demands that we place blind trust in whoever takes the power to distribute society’s goods and services. History shows those who have this power abuse it in horrific ways.

"We need to remember that, when soft socialism with its siren song of “equality” is left to its own devices, it takes ever more rigid forms. The political hubris of “progressives” who know better than you and me—and with such utter certainty—always leads to central control, corruption, cronyism, censorship, and abject conformity."



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Anyone who suggests that Bern's social market democratic economy is the slippery road to communism is a goof ball who is using an example of the USSR in 1938 that has no historic parallel to the USA today.
 
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Why anyone would want to give up their life altering decisions to a ruling elite is beyond me. These kids and old hippie "bern outs" don't know what they're asking for just like they won't miss what they've lost until they've lost it.

From the article:

Socialism and communism both involve ceding to the state control over the distribution of goods and services for the masses. This involves giving up individual rights, and giving the state a good measure of control over our personal lives. This road always leads to tyranny, no matter what you pave it with, and no matter what you name it.

Socialism requires a power clique—or, as Lenin put it, an elite ‘vanguard’—in order to pretend to function.
Socialism requires a power clique—or, as Lenin put it, an elite “vanguard”—in order to pretend to function. This means going heavy on executive power and rubber-stamp light on the legislative. Socialism demands that we place blind trust in whoever takes the reins of power to distribute society’s goods and services. This tiny elite, by the way, typically enjoys enormous privileges and a much higher standard of living than the hoi polloi, simply by being a part of the elite “
nomenklatura.”
 
Show us how, williepete our American social market democracy is socialism as you describe it.

Be specific.
 
Anyone who suggests that Bern's social market democratic economy is the slippery road to communism is a goof ball who is using an example of the USSR in 1938 that has no historic parallel to the USA today.
says the guy with a brown shirt avatar...
 
The current rhetoric of bernies isn't very radical. However, his past is filled with radicalism. He knew that shit wouldn't get him out of the local spotlight.
 
It all starts with giving up control to what Lenin called the vanguards. The top elite who will divide up the spoils of society. Due to human nature, it quickly goes down hill from there. Bernie is a kindly old grandfather figure but the revolution he calls for and the system he wants to put into place fails every time at the cost of human lives.

From the article:

Socialism, by the way, is just such a system. This is the case whether you call it by any other name, whether communism, utopianism, or collectivism. Oh, go ahead and slap some lipstick on that pig and call it “democratic” socialism or “progressivism” or “communitarianism.”

Lenin and his gang all started out calling themselves socialists. Social democrats, to be exact. So the fact remains: the path of socialism is ultimately paved with coercion, censorship, and, yes, terror. Does stating this make me an alarmist? No. It makes me a realist.

Socialism Is a Bait-and-Switch Scheme
Socialism and communism both involve ceding to the state control over the distribution of goods and services for the masses. This involves giving up individual rights, and giving the state a good measure of control over our personal lives. This road always leads to tyranny, no matter what you pave it with, and no matter what you name it.
 
williepete cannot tie eighty years ago to our culture, society, politics, government, and economy today.
 

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