Tocqueville, Novak, and the Challenge of Socialism
Few scholars have articulated such profound insights into the nature and destiny of America as the nineteenth century French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville and the twentieth century American theologian Michael Novak. Each man also had much to say about the rise and popularity of an idea that has regained great traction in America today, especially among young Americans – Socialism. The reflections of Tocqueville and Novak about the character of Socialism are deeply relevant for understanding why people, both in their time and in ours, are attracted to an economic system – whether of the command economy or social democratic variety – that has inflicted enormous political and economic damage on entire societies.
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Too bad the USSA is a usurer controlled plutocracy and not capitalist.
I am taken with the idea of Socialism being very like ones family, in the mind of our young. The Adults decide for the children, they also give up much to give to there family most of their time and wealth. Fairness is attempted and very little evil is the experience of most. As they are still being cared for and helped to make good decisions, they feel comfortable in thinking of Government as just another Family. The idea of the unfreedom of childhood never occurs to these children. Earlier children were working and on their own much earlier. So, they had already accepted the realities of the world, and were able to accept the rigor of Freedom.
Time for US to go socialism because the greedy rich had sucked up almost 85 to 90% of the country's wealth and leaving the poor with nothing. Furthermore, White House and Congress are both trying to reduce the taxes from the rich and both applied more taxes on the poor. More factories are closing and workers are layoff every month because the rich are moving the factories overseas to avoid the higher wage of the US workers.
New generations are not reading history, and so are not learning about the destruction and poverty, the massive famines and gulags and repression of socialism that some generations before them knew very well. It´s sad to see a resurgence of dogmatic socialist principles. People seem to blame free markets and capitalism for all their problems, but are keen to ignore the tragedy socialism represented in the history of humanity.
Just where did they find this dinosaur…???
Isn’t it ingrained into the theory of capital in general, to seek ways to circumvent or at least divert prevailing systems of profit? Are socialists the greatest capitalists in this regard?