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Thursday, September 26, 2024
COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM ARE JUST WEASEL WORDS FOR SLAVERY
Socialism And Communism Are Just Weasel Words For Slavery
BY: STELLA MORABITO
JULY 03, 2024
Communism is clearly a modern form of slavery, as Ill explain below. Yet
recent opinion polls show that communism is ridiculously popular with
younger generations of Americans, especially when its presented as
socialism.
In 2020, 49 percent of Gen Z and 47 percent of Millennials said they viewed
socialism favorably, numbers that dipped slightly in 2022. That same year,
58 percent of young Democrats said they had a positive view of socialism
(compared with only 29 percent who had a positive view of capitalism). These
numbers are all the more horrifying when you consider what communism
actually demands of us.
Communism is slavery that poses as justice. This has been proven over 100
years of history and by at least 100 million murders at the hands of
communist regimes treating their human subjects as chattel. Socialism is the
weasel word that paves the path to the slavery we politely call communism or
Marxism.
Ive grown frustrated with well-meaning people who bend over backward to try
to explain how Marxism doesnt work or how capitalism is so much better for
a healthy economy. These perfectly reasonable arguments fall flat because
theyre incomprehensible to the vast majority of Americans today.
We occasionally see statements that compare slavery and communism. Theyve
come from a survivor of Maoist China, a public intellectual, the Victims of
Communism Foundation, a 19th-century political philosopher, and even First
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. But it simply isnt enough.
The similarity between Marxism and slavery must be shouted from the
rooftops, not reduced to an academic argument. We must build on the
emotional understanding people already have of slaverys evils if we hope to
escape the bondage of communism.
Globalist Marxism Takes Slavery to Its Ultimate Level
The hour is late. Along with governments worldwide, America is sliding hard
into socialism. Our overlords are fast eroding freedom under the guise of
justice. Communism is designed to centralize the power of a small vanguard
over the vast majority. If this process continues, people inevitably end up
reduced to chattel controlled by one central master. Today thats made up of
an oligarchy of billionaires, politicians, corporate CEOs, and technocrats.
This collective master is not hiding its intention to control the entire
means of production, the food supply, education, employment, transportation,
information, pop culture, sports, medicine, and, ultimately, your personal
life and relationships.
The self-appointed benefactors in communist societies intend to distribute
goods and services according to a social credit system modeled on Chinas.
Your access to goods and services will depend on your political compliance.
The Covid mandates served as a test run to check our levels of compliance.
Your job is to have nothing, obey orders, and, of course, be happy in your
slavery.
To better understand the urgency, lets take a quick look at some of the key
features of communism, how they are reflected in slavery, and how chillingly
close we have already come to losing our freedom in America.
There are four areas in particular where government is moving toward such
total control that it reflects a master-slave relationship: communication,
property rights, due process, and private life.
Slavery Cannot Tolerate Free Speech
Communism is profoundly anti-thought and anti-speech.
Communist regimes outlaw any perspectives other than their own. Speech and
reading are confined to propaganda only. During the Bolshevik Revolution in
Russia in 1917, Vladimir Lenin quickly decreed the takeover of all media
outlets. Shutting down free expression is key to all totalitarian
governments from Nazi Germany to Communist China.
Communist regimes also require you to accept absurdities, such as the slogan
Freedom is Slavery! of Orwells novel 1984. Compelled speech,
self-censorship, and cancel culture are all elements central to communism.
In 1860, abolitionist Frederick Douglass emphasized that free speech is the
right which they [tyrants] first of all strike down.
Slavery cannot
tolerate free speech. Laws prohibited slaves from learning how to read so
they were kept isolated, ignorant, and compliant. Slaves who didnt
adequately self-censor were whipped, sold, or even killed.
And in America today? We see constant government and Big Tech attempts to
silence dissent under the guise of protecting us from disinformation. The
goal is to enforce the propagandistic narrative in all institutions,
particularly in education and media. Censorship is also corrupting medicine,
sports, finance, and the military.
Americans are quickly learning they have no right to speak their mind on
obvious questions such as, How did a female-identifying male swimmer move
from a ranking of No. 554 to No. 1? without risking social punishment.
New absurdities emerging in America today include asserting that speech is
violence, compelling speech through gender identity laws that require
pronoun protocols, and referring to pregnant women as womb-havers.
End of Property Rights: Own Nothing and Be Happy
Personal ownership of land, a business, or anything of value is particularly
hateful to communists.
Likewise, slaves were expected to own nothing and be happy.
And just as a master who buys and sells human beings feels justified
entering slave quarters at any time, so the communist dictator sends his
thugs to conduct politicized raids in homes. This is a feature of all
totalitarian systems.
And where are we now? This exact communism-slavery sentiment Youll own
nothing. And youll be happy was central to the 2016 World Economic Forum
promotional video 8 Predictions for the World in 2030.
The goal is always total dependence on the master regime. We long ago
reached the tipping point of over 50 percent of Americans dependent upon
government aid, which doesnt even account for the benefits showered on
illegal aliens.
For decades, the government has been federalizing huge swaths of land over
which it controls access and entry. It uses taxation accelerated by the
desolation imposed during the Covid era to shut down businesses and
home-buying.
We see law enforcement conducting politically motivated raids of private
residences, often warrantless. Federal agents raid Amish farms. The FBI
seizes the contents of countless safe deposit boxes without cause.
Politically incorrect Americans are de-banked and targeted by the IRS.
Due Process and Rule of Law Dont Exist in Communism or Slavery
Pre-dawn raids were a specialty in Stalinist Russia, a clear indicator that
due process does not exist in communist regimes. Show me the man and Ill
show you the crime, bragged Stalins Chief of Secret Police Lavrenty Beria.
Show trials in kangaroo courts followed by quick execution of the accused
were standard practice in all radical utopian revolutions from the French
Revolution to Maos China and beyond.
Slaves are treated no differently. The master did as he pleased to slaves,
and the law was silent.
Were moving toward this scenario with the erosion of rule of law and due
process in America. Diversity, equity, and inclusion tribunals in all of our
institutions can use anonymous bias response reports to punish any accused
offender.
Officially sanctioned virtual lynchings are fast replacing due process.
Any fair-minded person can see that the recent show trial of Donald Trump
was meant to dispose of a political opponent. The charges and timing were
obviously contrived and politically motivated. The same goes for the
hundreds of protesters on Jan. 6 who believed they were simply exercising
their First Amendment right to petition their grievances but ended up thrown
in jail and even solitary confinement without a trial date.
Ten years ago, Wisconsin district attorneys ordered raids on the homes of
Gov. Scott Walkers supporters. Today, the FBI conducts political raids on
homes from President Donald Trumps residence down to those of unknown
pro-life activists.
Family Separation and Invasion of Private Life
Communist regimes also impose cruel isolation from loved ones, often by
inciting political hostilities where hostilities never existed before.
Consider Stalinist Russia, where 13-year-old Pavlik Morozov became a
national hero for essentially snitching on his fathers political
incorrectness, leading to his fathers execution. Soviet schoolchildren were
taught they must emulate Pavlik if they wanted to be socially accepted. All
such communist systems teach children that their first loyalty must be to
the master state.
Likewise, slaves were sold on the auction block, brutally separated from
loved ones.
Americas move toward socialism comes with many indicators that were losing
the right to family cohesion and the right to bring up our own children.
Family breakdown seems to have been designed by our political overlords,
whose power grows when people are isolated. Covid mandates even forced our
loved ones to die in isolation.
We have an education system that mind-rapes children under the banner of
social and emotional learning. We see states promote abortion for minors and
the social and surgical transing of children without parental knowledge.
We are also losing our right to defend ourselves, our families, or even
strangers in distress. Consider the case of Daniel Penny, who was charged
with murder for trying to protect himself and other New York subway riders
from being attacked. We are also quickly losing our right to refuse untested
injections into our bodies.
So lets dispense with the formalities. Nobody needs to hear a dissertation
on Marxism versus capitalism to understand that Marxism is literally
slavery. Lets say it every chance we get: As America moves toward
communism, it moves toward slavery. But we abolished slavery once in this
country. We can do it again.
Stella Morabito is a senior contributor at The Federalist. She is author of
"The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to
Silence, Divide, and Conquer." Her essays have appeared in various
publications, including the Washington Examiner, American Greatness,
Townhall, Public Discourse, and The Human Life Review. In her previous work
as an intelligence analyst, Morabito focused on various aspects of Russian
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