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How the 'New' Socialism Falls Apart
There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation.
How the 'New' Socialism Falls Apart
There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation.
here is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. The updated addition to the socialist dogma is tinged with what is called the Me-First perspective, the current rallying cry for a new batch of socialists attempting to upset the economic apple cart. This latest flavor is not too far from the traditional utopian idea that socialism could work somehow if all that is tweaked are price controls, the elimination of private ownership, slowing down market forces, and stifling entrepreneurial incentive and motivation. In other words, the new age socialists' prevailing cry for a socialist fix to the economy is to upset the apple cart for their own subsidization and effectively taxing everyone else. Put another way, it is about satisfying their wants using your means. Why do they use capitalist means of production to establish a socialist economy? Why doesn’t the new age socialist have a socialist means of production?
The problem with the Gen Z new age socialist frame of thought is that they have no means of production of their own. Put plainly, there are no such things as socialist means of production or economic market tools; if so, what are they? To Gen Z, putting private property in someone else's hands and tweaking the economy to their benefit sounds workable, but the basic reality is very scary: they are under the impression that a socialist economy will solve their problems, and everyone else's for that matter, because in their minds all you have to do is control prices, increase minimums, put a cap on this, overtax the other, overregulate this and that, confiscate wealth, and so on. Yet here is the red pill: the previously listed points are capitalist means of production for a market economy; without a socialist means of production, none of the utopian ideas are workable.
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The reality is stranger than fiction. What makes the third party less human than anyone else who wants economic ease and prosperity? Would the third-party economic controller want to eat filet mignon instead of chuck steak every night for dinner? Absolutely. And, yes, they want to pay chuck steak prices for filet mignon; who would not? Who does not prefer being subsidized rather than taxed to death? No one. Here is the kicker: in a capitalist system, prime ribs are produced, yes, at a higher price; in a socialist economy, filet mignon would not be considered a real option.
Commentary:
Socialism in America has failed ever since the Virginia Colony and the Pilgrims landing in Massachusetts but the Leftist clowns are stuck on stupid. No better than every generation of Marxist Socialists before, the Gen Z Socialists believe they are the chosen one who will make it work.
The main problem with Socialism remains the same, it runs contrary to human nature and human nature is immutable.
Present day Cain’s will always be jealous of Abel. Sodom and Gomorrah cities are blue without any red blooded followers of the Bible.
To Democrat/Socialists' the jealousy of capitalists, and the jealousy of the Biblical members of society are rampant.
“Liberty, once lost, is never regained.” John Adams.
