Comprehensive Democracy is Socialism
July 6, 2008 by Capt. Karl
the anti Dean Yeeeaaah said:
To Capt. KarlI did not want my original point to be lost. To call the enemies of Liberty Liberals is politically destructive to the party that really believes in liberty. A confused electorate will usually vote for the party that is promising free stuff rather than self sufficiency.
But, your point that Socialism or Communism is democracy, is a misinterpretation, comprehensive or not. Democracy is simply majority rule, nothing else. The majority may rule for Socialism or Communism or Freedom or whatever. A Republic is essentially the same as a Democracy. It is simply a practical adaptation of democracy mindful that all of the voters cannot be well informed enough to vote on all individual matters and therefore a specialist is employed.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson
As great as our founding fathers were, not every quote is a divine jewel. Thomas Jefferson’s quote is just plain stupid because the alternative to democracy, or majority rule, is minority rule. The majority may or may not take the rights of the minority but the well informed majority is more likely to bring about the best form of government which is minimal government. This is why Socialists seek to control news media and impose the Fairness Doctrine.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. – Thomas Jefferson This one is a great quote.
Which brings me back to my original point. We need a well informed electorate. The false label, Liberal, serves the Socialist cause by deceiving voters. Republicans have foolishly fallen into the trap of adopting the Left’s dishonest terminology.
Of course, we are both on the side of freedom, and you are right, once talk radio falls, forums and any other political speech will not be far behind. I apologize if I sound confrontational because I am in agreement with the bulk of your post.
As part of this turning, James Madison presented an argument refuting Montesquieu and establishing representative government as a preferable form. Madison’s argument, presented in “Federalist No. 10,” defended representative government precisely because of the buffer it created between the people and the laws that governed them. The grave threat to government was “factions,” groups of citizens, whether a “majority or a minority of the whole,” animated and organized against the “permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” Direct democracies ensured that these factions would dominate, but representative government, however, especially over a large territory and population, would remove such a threat.
Democracy And Socialism
Democracy means the rule of the people. Hence the rule of the people is not established until they get equal political, social and economic rights.
In the west, what is publicized as democracy is not more than a limited social and political democracy with different phases from country to country. In these countries more money can buy more “democracy”.
Anyone who can pay for the expensive election’s propaganda costs, can candidate herself or himself for different levels of the governing bodies. Once they have succeeded, they will enjoy the benefits of these “democracies”.
The same conditions are true for the pro-capital parties and organizations. Those which receive more money from corporations and rich people, are able to advertise vastly, play tricks and become victorious. It is obvious that these organizations have to serve for the benefits of those companies and not the people.
In another example, those who can afford to spend more money, can hire better lawyers, bring justice to their side and enjoy the social aspects of these “democracies”.
Better services of healthcare, education, and housing … are available only with more money. These differences which are rapidly and constantly widening during imperialism’s era are more apparent in the United States of America, the paradise of capitalists.
The pride of these “democracies” is the right to vote, which not only is continuously rigged, but due to the increasing indifference of people and the inaccessibility to many of them, does not reflect the will of the majority.
In other hand, what was in place in the ex-Socialist camp represented a relatively established social and economic democracy. It is now evident that in the absence of political democracy in those countries – whatever was the cause – opportunism and corruption flourished and eventually led to the dismantlement of those systems.
The lessons we learned from those experiences are that: socialism is not achievable anywhere in the absence of political democracy. And democracy is not established without implementation of full political, social and economic democracies.
As this equation shows:
Political + Social + Economic democracies <=> socialism.
See the fact is that a “true” democracy is Socialism or Communism. There is no way around the fact that 51% of the people control the other 49%. Which is the very reason we do not have a democracy but rather a representative government. You wouldn’t want a democracy because it leads to “equality” where no matter how little you work or how hard you work, you can never get ahead anyway, so to work hard is only a fools errand. Why would anybody be so stupid to work hard, work long hours, or take a risk investing money and time in a business if government would take so much of the money earned and redistribute it to the rest of the population to “equalize” prosperity, to the point that you wouldn’t have any more than anybody else.This is why capitalism and the “Free” (from Government) enterprise system works so much better than Socialism or Communism which is democracy, which is where 51% of the population gets to vote their desires and wants on and OVER the other 49%. If you read anything at all about the founding of our County you will find that this was the “specific” reason our founding fathers gave us a representative style government rather than a democracy. The other reason is that democracies always self corrupt with in their governments due the massive power it takes to “control” the people to “comply” with the laws that must be in command of them to prevent them from doing the things that they would otherwise wish to do in the INDIVIDUAL sovereignty of FREEDOM (from Government), which would be to try to get financially “ahead” of everybody else by working as hard, as best, and taking some risk that others are not willing and/or able to do. This is what “USED TO” make and has made America GREAT! This is what we have to return to. This is FREEDOM (from Government – help, taxation, and redistribution).It should be up to the people themselves and the charitable organizations we create in righteousness to help and assist people in need. Just like we used to do in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and nearly half of the 1900s, when it started to fade with the COLOSSAL failure of the “War on Poverty” which only resulted in significantly more poverty and nothing short of MASSIVE loss of wealth to not only our nation as a whole but to all Americans individually. This is historical fact.Freedom (from Government) is Godly. It creates in men’s hearts the desire to help and love their fellow man. Democracy (otherwise known as that where 51% control the other 49% which yields Socialism or Communism), conversely, results in cruel immorality where man states “The Government” will take care of them and turns his head. And, “Government” is the coldest entity ever created by man, which in essence is a monster that only cares about itself and its ravenous never ending appetite for taxing man; there by destroying all that is good.
