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By J.T. Young
3.13.13
The Lefts inherent challenge is justifying their claim to what others own. This challenge arises from the contradiction between the Lefts motivating ideology and the failure of its economic application. Understanding this inevitable contradiction and the necessity it creates enables us to understand everything else the Left think, say, and do.
Nowhere is the hypocrisy of accusing others of ones own greatest fault clearer than with the Left. The accusation in question is materialism the charge with which they seek to indict capitalism. Yet, it is the Left themselves who are utterly captivated and defined by material production.
If there is a political embodiment of the ethos of greed, it is not capitalism, but socialism, where everything is reduced to no more than a means to that societys self-professed end: material production. While Marx explicitly made this the basis of everything not only in socialist and communist societies, but all human history it is no less the implicit motivator of the rest of the Left.
However it is perhaps historys greatest irony that the Left consciously choose to eschew capitalism historys most efficient means of producing the material resources they require. The Left deny the equity of any distribution of resources that they do not control. Capitalism is therefore the most egregious violation of their sense of fairness, because it is premised on a lack of control i.e., a free market.
As a result all Leftist systems are rooted in a profound and insoluble contradiction: an ideology of producing a materially superior society that is doomed in practice to be a materially inferior one.
In order to compensate for their innate material deficiency, all Leftist systems must have two things: access to others resources and a means of enforcing others to participate in a suboptimal economic system. As history has repeatedly shown, people will not acquiesce to either willingly for long.
The necessity to enforce participation requires a strong state. Again, in contradiction to Marxs assertion that under communism society would be classless and the need for a state to enforce class rule would disappear, just the opposite occurs. The Leftist system can only exist be force.
Because the disparity between its economic systems failure and capitalisms success grows, the Leftist state must expropriate at increasing rates.
Read more:
The American Spectator : Understanding the Left's Demands on What Others Own
3.13.13
What it cant control the left will call unfair and undemocratic.
The Lefts inherent challenge is justifying their claim to what others own. This challenge arises from the contradiction between the Lefts motivating ideology and the failure of its economic application. Understanding this inevitable contradiction and the necessity it creates enables us to understand everything else the Left think, say, and do.
Nowhere is the hypocrisy of accusing others of ones own greatest fault clearer than with the Left. The accusation in question is materialism the charge with which they seek to indict capitalism. Yet, it is the Left themselves who are utterly captivated and defined by material production.
If there is a political embodiment of the ethos of greed, it is not capitalism, but socialism, where everything is reduced to no more than a means to that societys self-professed end: material production. While Marx explicitly made this the basis of everything not only in socialist and communist societies, but all human history it is no less the implicit motivator of the rest of the Left.
However it is perhaps historys greatest irony that the Left consciously choose to eschew capitalism historys most efficient means of producing the material resources they require. The Left deny the equity of any distribution of resources that they do not control. Capitalism is therefore the most egregious violation of their sense of fairness, because it is premised on a lack of control i.e., a free market.
As a result all Leftist systems are rooted in a profound and insoluble contradiction: an ideology of producing a materially superior society that is doomed in practice to be a materially inferior one.
In order to compensate for their innate material deficiency, all Leftist systems must have two things: access to others resources and a means of enforcing others to participate in a suboptimal economic system. As history has repeatedly shown, people will not acquiesce to either willingly for long.
The necessity to enforce participation requires a strong state. Again, in contradiction to Marxs assertion that under communism society would be classless and the need for a state to enforce class rule would disappear, just the opposite occurs. The Leftist system can only exist be force.
Because the disparity between its economic systems failure and capitalisms success grows, the Leftist state must expropriate at increasing rates.
Read more:
The American Spectator : Understanding the Left's Demands on What Others Own
