Socialism & Human Nature
Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 by Tommy Newberry in Socialism
In opposition to the Bible, the socialist believes that human nature can be changed. To the socialist, human beings act the way that they do because of their surroundings. More precisely, in socialist reality, people are basically good, but do bad things or counterproductive things only because of external forces that act upon them. For example, because of capitalism, poverty, racism, sexism, and bad parents and so on, individuals should not have to answer for their choices. Socialist policies inevitably put this theory to the test and impose enormous strains on human nature. If we act in a negative way, it is because we are a victim of our environment. If we act in a positive way, we are simply the beneficiary of our environment. In other words, our conduct is not the result of our character but of our habitat.
We are not self-determined but circumstance-determined. This is the notion that the outside world determines the inside person, that circumstances create character as opposed to character creating circumstances. Socialists believe that human nature is plastic and can be twisted, fashioned, shaped and molded by an improved environment. They seek to shape individuals into their idea of what people should be like. All that is needed to make this happen is the loving guidance of an all-wise political clique.
With this supposition in tow, the socialist seeks to accumulate enough power to change the environment for the most number of people. Socialists believe they can make people happy and contented in an efficient, uniform way by supplying them with the customary collection of material goods and entitlements. Of course, “changing the environment” means taking, by force or coercion if necessary, the property of one who has earned it and giving it to another who has not earned it for the purpose of improving their environment.
No doubt, this also solidifies the power base of the one leading the taking. The major aim is achieving a voting majority who don’t pay taxes. This strategy could work for decades until total burnout manifest in the productive minority. How long the tax-paying segment of the United States will continue to be a doormat for lustful politicians and indolent citizens remains to be seen.
However, the socialist believes that if this tactic is repeated on a large enough scale, it could eliminate the naughty downside of our nature. But socialism, wherever it is tried, is bound to fail because it neuters the best elements in human nature yet panders to the worst. Socialists believe that the real problems in society are rooted not in man, but in the conditions surrounding man. They suggest that human nature would change if only society could be restructured with the perfect recipe of ingredients for paradise and delight.
But where has this ever been successfully implemented?
It hasn’t.
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The War on Success
Fred Fnord
22. Jul, 2011
Wow. I feel kind of sorry for you. All this effort, all this incredible amount of work (and it was clearly huge) trying to come up with effective propaganda that you can sell to the simple, and nobody’s even listening.
Or, at least, in the last month, you’ve gotten five comments:
– Two consist entirely of an equals sign.
– One is spam.
– One tells you you’re full of shit.
– And one agrees with you.
Doesn’t it make you a little depressed?
Markus Friemann
10. Sep, 2011
Thank you for this!
Never saw socialism that way, but it is true! We are not simply products of our environment, we are responsible and society can only work if we accept individual responsibility. Thank you very much for this clear message!
greetz from Germany!