Airforceone wrote:
Will you stop the BS about Socialism explain to me what you think the diffinition of socialism is.
"Will you stop the BS about Socialism explain to me what you think the diffinition of socialism is."
Here is something for you to chew on, Airforceone;
This was a period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism.
As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared.. He explained how socialism would inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore him.
Just as those do today do, by ignoring the few that try to warn us.
IMO - The best rational explanation of socialism vs liberty ever written is Frederic Bastiat's 'The Law'.
If America and Europe would have followed the wisdom in his pamphlet (published in June, 1850 at the time of the French Revolution); America would have never declined to this decay.
For anyone that has not read it; and appreciates pure rational wisdom, I recommend it. I just read it again after over 30 years.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/89275.Fr_d_ric_Bastiat 96 quotes from Frédéric Bastiat: 'Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a……
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
“The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religions, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their moralizations, and their equalization by taxation! And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and try of liberty — liberty, which is an act of faith in God and in His work”
― Frédéric Bastiat 'The Law' published in 1850 leading up to the French Revolution. He was ignored.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89275.Fr_d_ric_Bastiat 96 quotes from Frédéric Bastiat: 'Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a……