Want to raise the red flag, literally as well as figuratively?  Want to warn America that it's headed toward the most failed economic system in world history, the one with the worst human rights record of all time?  So do I.

 

But these warnings will ALWAYS fail if Conservatives don"t learn the difference between Marxist socialism and the rest of socialism. 

 

Marx proposed the confiscation of all property related to production or exchange for profit.  Euro-Socialism doesn't.  It proposes the continuation of non-free-enterprise capitalism under the oversight and regulation of a federal government with the authority to intervene in virtually any aspect of life it thinks is worth its while.

 

Marx proposed the "withering away" of government.  Euro-Socialism doesn't.  It proposes the the establishment of a stable relationship between labor and capital with a permanent and potentially all-powerful government as planner and referee.

 

Post-Leninist, "dictatorships of the proletariat", were socialist, not communist governments.  Through revolution they took socialism to its eventual conclusion in the hopes that they could build upon that the "uplifting of human poitical sophistication necessary to support a true communist society."  No "communist" country has claimed to have achieved communism.  All of them have claimed to be, "working toward" communism.

 

As often as we correctly point out that Liberals are socialists they will always blunt that identification by pointing out, "I'm not opposed to capitalism.  I support capitalism."  

 

The truth is, communism, as every good Conservative knows, won't work.  It not only won't work, it cannot be achieved.  We allied with "socialists" against the "communists" in the Cold War.  But there never were any communists, only socialists working toward achieving communism.  We allied with one branch of socialism to combat another branch of socialism, but communism was never and will never be the threat.  Since the fall of the aristocracies the real enemy of freedom has always been socialism, (period).

 

Socialism is NOT a more moderate version of communism.  Socialism is a more moderate version of the aristocracy.  Instead of claiming rule by right of birth, socialists claim rule by right of "greater enlightenment."  The goal and methods of the socialists and aristocrats are the same - to establish a wise and benevolent parental state that will rule over and provide for the needs and wants of the people.  Instead of Nobles oblige they give us "a government that cares about its people."  And, JUST LIKE the aristocrats, the socialists will grant the people all of the freedoms they ask for so long as those freedoms don't interfere with the government's ability to rule as it sees fit. 

 

The only modern exception to this agenda has been provided by the Federalist system of limited government under a fixed Constitution.  This is not the only system to provide freedoms, but it is the only system to prevent government from gaining the power to take those freedoms away from the people. 

 

We are now in the process of losing the only real nation-wide system to protect individual freedom humanity has known since the anarchistic tribes of primitive pre-civilization.  Those who want to return to the comfort of the parental state have done their work well.  If we lose America it won't be the end.  Someday in the future, some other group will realize that just as children must grow up and become independent of the rule of their parents, so must humanity some day grow up and leave the rule of the parental government.  But it would be far better for the world if we don't lose this struggle and we do find a way to re-assert the principals of the Federalist system.

 

To do that we must become smarter than the socialists.  We must learn to label their programs and candidates, not as just "socialist", but as non-Marxist socialist.  We must take the, "I'm not a communist," argument away from them.  We must stop letting them claim to be some moderate "third-way."  They are a reversion to the old order our ancestors rebelled against.  They've just pasted a temporary smiley-face of democracy over the authoritarian rule of a yet to be established upper class.

 

There are two other foundations of modern authoritarianism/socialism that we must expose and take away from the socialists.  The two legs of their dominance of academia and their false pretense of intellectual superiority.  I'll name them now, Positivism and Sociology, but I'll have to expose them in another essay.