The argument for socialism goes against history and every attempt to make it work.
The argument for socialism goes against reason by appeals to emotion.
The argument for socialism goes against human nature and the quest for liberty and self responsibility.
The argument for socialism contains an inherent need for a powerful state apparatus acting as the nanny.
The argument for socialism demands conformity, uniformity, and regimentation. For needs to be fulfilled efficiently, needs must be homogenized and leveled.
The opposite of socialism is not capitalism, it is the free market model sans capitalization. It is unregulated trade.
Unregulated trade does not equate to unregulated products; safety, honest business practice, etc.
Unregulated trade in the free market need not necessarily lead to private ownership of utilities, and infrastructure. Local government has a place in such industries as; fire departments, police, water district, electricity, mass transport systems [bus or rail].
Unregulated trade need not embrace corporatism, the use of a fictitious entity can be regulated by statute, and charters limited.
The rise in corporatism in the US was a judicial slight of hand and unconstitutional, when corporations were granted “personhood” [Santa Clara v Southern Pacific]
Unregulated trade does not mean putting up with usury and the counterfeit “money” syndicate. It is the responsibility of Congress to regulate weights and measures of precious metals.
The government has no mandate to generate wealth under the Constitution, only the responsibility to create a level playing field free of criminal activity {malum in se}.
Central planning cannot be exacting to the needs for production. A national economy is overwhelmingly complex.
Profit is incentive, one that withers in a socialist regime.
Competition encourages innovation and ingenuity. Under socialism the only outlet for ingenuity is political intrigue.
In closing, Monopoly Capitalism is not a “free market”, the use of this term in a monopoly capitalist market is simply Newspeak. What has not been attempted since the end of the republic is actual free trade. Socialism has been tried countless times, in fact the present system in America today is a synthesis of corporatist monopoly socialism and communitarianism.
And this, is a police state.
A government given the responsibility to care for a peoples every vital need—MUST be given the power to carry such a task out, which means the power to rule your every vital action. This is the very definition of TYRANNY.
Originally published on my first blog, September 23, 2014: https://hybridrogue1.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/the-argument-for-socialism/
The Democrats have been converting Americans to socialist for about 50 years now there aren't many of us constitutionalists left.