MARXISM 101: AMERICA BEWARE

By Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. Neo Traditionalist

Our U.S. of A is flirting with becoming a centralized economy directed from Washington, D.C.’s bureaucrats and their corporate bigwig buddies. The corporate heads donate the money and congressmen bail them out with OUR money when they run their businesses into the ground. Our government is rewarding corrupt and wasteful business practices by not accepting corporate failures. Without inefficient corporations being replaced by more efficient ones, competition is eliminated and so is our free market economy.

These Marxist notions being practiced in Washington, D.C. and being sold in our educational institutions have been implemented in actual countries and were miserable failures. North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Columbia, Laos, Cambodia have faltered and even imploded. The reason for these failures is simple. Marxist ideas sound great but they go against human nature.

People will work harder for their own self-interest, including family, than for the collective good of others.  When individuals see concrete gains in their standard of living they are motivated to work harder.  Increases in material wealth and power help people to make more independent choices to become happier and freer.

“To each according to his needs from each according to his ability” may sound great on the surface to the arrogance of youth. Students and the poor who have nothing to lose and everything to gain from receiving something for nothing have little reason to question the fairness and impact of this practice. The segment of the population that has inherited their wealth or has recently gained a large amount of money by underhanded means are more cavalier about the government taking their money because it soothes their guilty consciences. The people who take offense at the government redistributing their money are those who have accumulated assets through their own mental and physical effort. They are still the majority.

The unwillingness of the best and the brightest to labor for the governmental power elite’s sake leads to a downturn in the vibrancy of the economy. This process saps the opportunities and enthusiasm of its people to put forth sustained physical and mental effort to improve existing conditions. The entire society sinks to the lowest common level.

The average man’s resistance to work for the interest of the power elite has led to dictatorial societies. The elite’s response to the natural urge of man to satisfy his own interest is to force utopian propaganda down their throats through “re-education.” This is done by politically correct thinking spread by the media as well as educational institutions in an attempt to stifle human nature. In reality this re-education results in an initial totalitarian phase. No Marxist nation has ever moved beyond this first stage.

Government’s centralized control and handouts eventually strip people of their personal responsibilities making them zombies dependent on the state. The inherent problem of centralized controlled society’s displays of power is the cost to individual freedom and unintended consequences of having bureaucrats make the decisions. Innovation comes from the free spirit of people who have personal incentive to do something better.

Americans must stop going down the path of giving hard earned wealth from one citizen to one who has done nothing for it, and from government to companies that have failed, or we might never be able to return to a free society. In Eastern Europe after 40 years of communism there are many citizens who prefer the state of dependency from cradle to grave rather than self-reliance and freedom. At this moment in the USA, over 40% of the population does not pay any income tax. Once a nation’s people and corporations feel entitled to government handouts, which means taking from others to give to them, the freedom of the society is doomed.

In “Marxism 101,” the acceptance of robbing Peter to pay Paul will cause Peter to stop producing and everyone will experience a dull, oppressive life. Only the powerful, politically connected will have real choices and therefore, freedom. The majority of citizens of a centrally controlled society will witness continual “five-year-plan” fiascos making their lives more and more impoverished- spiritually as well as materially.

In a free society, citizens make decisions more efficiently and effectively creating a more balanced and healthy society. Capitalist society’s change comes from the grassroots up not by governmental change from the top down. Failure has to exist to measure success in a capitalist system. Bailouts and entitlements eliminate the competition essential to capitalism. People who take risks and work hard have a right to be protected not robbed by the government taking their earnings.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting.  He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

Visit: www.drmaglio.com.