Socialist Dehumanization

Now that Sanders has taken the lead among Democrats, and he is a socialist, we are bound to be exposed to more socialist propaganda. And it is persuasive. The core of it is that no human being should be “left behind” in a basic sense. That is, no one should be without shelter, clothing, food, medical care, education and a job.

The socialist teaching is familiar because America has already gone down that road ever since the New Deal of the 1930s and even before. The democracy that’s our lot has strong socialist elements in it already, and everything that may be said against socialism may also be said against many laws passed under the rubric of democracy.

The socialist program is sold under the heading of justice or social justice. The socialist enterprise has a charitable ring to it, a do-good ring to it. How can anyone be against helping others, the less fortunate, as Christian morality asks? Socialism sounds Christian and it feeds off of the charitable impulse and Christian teaching, or parts of it.

Yet socialism is godless. It pretends to aim for the dignity of every person, through supplying a minimum standard of living for everyone. But where is the bounty to come from that’s being distributed to all? It must come from those who produce it. Socialism forces producers to give up goods. Socialism is not a voluntary endeavor, and that alone makes it the antithesis of a Christian charity.

It is not enough to judge the morality of a philosophy by its intended goals. Stalin and Mao and Castro all had goals they judged as good, and goals that Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez approve of; but if mass killing, mass indoctrination, mass suffering, mass penalties, mass imprisonment and mass theft are used, effectively or ineffectively, to attain these goals, are we entitled to ignore these immoral means? If social justice, as defined by socialists, and which is not necessarily social justice at all, is bought at the price of suppressing the humanity or human endeavors of persons, it’s the antithesis of Christianity. The latter is profoundly a religion of freedom and of individual personality. The Kingdom of God is pursued by changes within a person, not by means of power enforcing human slavery.

Socialism supplies assistance, all right, but that assistance involves goods and goods do not spring up of their own accord. They must be produced. If the producers engage in voluntary charity, which is consistent with Christian teaching, socialism and its use of force are absent. If the charity does not rise to a level or a standard that someone or some group prefers, the use of force does not become either necessary or justifiable. If you as an individual are not entitled to steal a coat from a merchant in order to provide it to a coat-less man, then neither can be a group of people, neither can be a majority of voters, and neither can be a government. Theft occurs against someone’s will; no one volunteers to be robbed. Hence, there is no way for one group of people to authorize theft against another group and make it right. Socialism claims that such theft is right, or, more accurately, altogether ignores that theft is its philosophy and acts as if it’s right to take goods away from some people and give them to others. In contrast, Christian teaching does not approve of theft, and neither does Judaism.

These days there is much more to the socialist goals. One should not have student debt. No one should have to be satisfied with their sex. No one should be referred to by pronouns they do not prefer. No one should utter speech that someone else regards as hateful. Everyone should be equal along any number of dimensions. No one should have to put up with what are termed “micro-aggressions”. Other groups should not be allowed to speak in public if they expound racist ideas or nationalist ideas or fascist ideas or, indeed, any ideas that might be anti-socialist, and this includes Christian ideas. The scope of socialist goals has expanded, and the aim is that everyone be a socialist or endorse socialist thinking. A supporter of Bernie Sanders was caught on video calling for concentration camps to re-educate people. Greta was caught suggesting that people be taken to the wall who do not go along with her climate views.

If everyone is by force made equal, not only in goods but also in the reduction of their freedom of conscience and thought, as socialism aims for, then what appears to be a philosophy that is humane and aims for humane results and justice turns out to be a philosophy that is utterly inhumane and dehumanizes the human being. Socialism consciously dehumanizes in its quest for equality. It’s proud of it and advertises it as a great virtue and plus for socialism. The human being is reduced to a number and a real ID. Everyone is forced to conform to the same systems, like single-payer Medicare for All.

Socialist propaganda hides their anti-humanity behind such slogans as equality and social justice. These are for the gullible.

Sometimes socialism is promoted as a remedy for a fascist government or a system of privileged rule. However, socialists who manage to overturn such bad government systems do not then build free societies and institute governments that promote freedom. They replace the previous governments by their own forms of autocratic rule. They build socialist systems.

In reality, the socialists who build a socialist society necessarily employ force pervasively and force everyone to conform, at least on the surface. They dwell on the material trappings of one’s life, and yet ironically it turns out that their systems cannot even compete with free systems in producing material goods.

The ruling socialists are entirely uninterested in the individual person and the freedom of that person. They are entirely anti-spiritual and godless. They are not at all interested in a person’s real spiritual being and act as if it doesn’t exist. Although promising otherwise, socialism actually aims to dehumanize the human being.

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10:43 am on January 26, 2020