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“That which is voted on and adopted is not a set of intentions but a set of words…the starting point for the principle of a clause is language.”---P. Brest
Words have meanings, they define ideas; they are expressed in language.
An organization is always an entity controlled by a person or persons, but every organization reflects the intentions of the person or persons who have the power to control it. One way of concealing ideological personal preference is to use notions of public good, to bridge the gap between conventional and or legal understandings and the desired for a predetermined outcome.
Government, as an organization, operates with a system. Systems deliver what they are designed to provide, which does NOT always equal what they are intended to achieve.
Collectivism is a set of principles for a system of ownership and control of the rule, regulation, means of production and distribution intended to be by and for the people collectively, under the control of a government. But even in the best of circumstances, collective action is problematic and the outcomes in particular cases are indeterminate. If policy of position is indeterminate then there isn’t even a vocabulary left in which to defend any decision.
2 basic versions of collectivism are:
fascism: leaders make the rules and regulations as they desire and allow the business to keep the means of its production, the factories or farms, but government takes the output (profit). The horrors of the nazis of 1930's Germany was a form of fascism. “nazi” is an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The end result is control of the government for those with power.
communism: leaders make the rules and regulations as they desire and take both the means of production and the output. The horrors of the communist Party ruled the ussr until its economy failed in the 1980's.
Both imply that the individual has no rights, no individualism, or no freedom since the state cannot obtain control of everything without intervening in its population’s private and economic lives. Since the design is that the state is all, there can be no individual and therefore no right to ownership. The state will regulate everything; tax all; and live, for a short time, off the steadily declining capital of the few remaining individuals. The state here will always mean the leaders with power. Their intent is: “Together.” But their design can only be: “Give me everything or you and even your family and friends, will be punished, maybe murdered.”
socialism (aka communism-lite) is the gateway to either fascism or communism, the midpoint between freedom and serfdom to convince the ignorant and arrogant (aka neo-liberal) that if they give up, always falsely alleged greedy, individual ways, and worship a government; a government will take care of them. socialism starts the population down the path of believing that contrived problems are so great (i.e. climate change, pandemics, inflation, recession) that they need a greater entity to step in. That greater entity is the state and it overwhelming bureaucracy with the power to coerce, force, punish and destroy.
A marxist system has a built-in resistance to reform, hence an insatiable need to blame others, increasingly and more aggressively, as it fails more and more, because since its beginning, it has justified the means it uses on the claim it is error-free. A system claiming perfection has little need for a confession, contrition, reform and the possibility of redemption. Therefore, repression is the only way to rule when the promised end doesn't occur. No free market economic philosophy survives communism, fascism, or socialism. When any of the aforementioned fail, and they eventually always do, they revert to Capitalism for rescue.
Capitalism, in its true form under a representative republic--which is a version of democracy designed to avoid mob-rule--is enlightened (aka moral) self-interest. It recognizes the basic, eternal tenet of the sanctity of the individual. Capitalism implies the inalienable right, and responsibility, under the rule-of-law, of every individual to ownership, of body and mind, then of property. Capitalism is the natural system that springs from individual freedom and responsibility, which respects human nature/behavior and requires checks and balances.
Both the US and the ussr were been born in revolution. The American 1 reflected a deep distrust of concentrated authority. Its founders believed that liberty and justice would come only through constraining power. Despite imperfections the US could possibly claim to live in the free of society on the face of the earth. In contrast the bolshevik Revolution involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a means of overthrowing class enemies and consolidating a base from which a proletarian revolution would spread throughout the world by seizing control of Russia and imposing marxism on it. stalin implemented marxist ideology into Russia, with the required forcing of a largely agrarian nation to become a heavily industrialized, one that required no liberty at all, arguably the most authoritarian society on earth.
Our nation’s Constitution and Bill of Rights instead started with the foundational concept of the importance of the individual, put into writing. These documents provide a roadmap for protecting the inalienable rights of the citizen: life, liberty and ownership. Our legal foundations were designed on the several premises. Premises that were in essence what James Buchanan defines as relatively absolute absolutes. That, as minimal as possible, should be negative, describing what we cannot do rather than what we are allowed or must do. That they should be general and unchanging, known in advance, not ex post facto and be applicable to all. The goal is to preserve individual freedom and limit sovereign power.
Our nation’s Constitution and Bill of Rights instead started with the foundational concept of the importance of the individual, put into writing. These documents provide a roadmap for protecting the inalienable rights of the citizen: life, liberty and ownership. Our legal foundations were designed on the several premises. Premises that were in essence what James Buchanan defines as relatively absolute absolutes. That, as minimal as possible, should be negative, describing what we cannot do rather than what we are allowed or must do. That they should be general and unchanging, known in advance, not ex post facto and be applicable to all. The goal is to preserve individual freedom and limit sovereign power.
"It can be said of capitalism what Winston Churchill once said of democracy—it is the worst possible system, except for all the others."--Robert J. Samuelson
Supplemental info:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-leftist-billionaire-vowed-to-reimagine-capitalism-then-he-colonized-a-federal-agency
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/11/how-california-became-a-warning-to-the-world/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/11/how-california-became-a-warning-to-the-world/
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