It is a sad fact that the vast majority of people have no idea what either socialism or capitalism actually are. However despite this shortcoming, most have some vague association regarding the moral justification for each.
Generally, most associate socialism with an altruistic philosophy of caring for others, and capitalism with selfishness, greed, and exploitation of others. Both of these viewpoints are false, and both emanate from the ideology of the Left.
Just as most are unaware of the nature of either socialism or capitalism, they also are unaware of the person who was primarily responsible for creating their false conceptions of each: Karl Marx.
Karl Marx was a loser in regard to every aspect of what it means to be human. In his image, he created the religion of Marxism. “It’s crucial to see Marxism as a religious architecture, not an economic theory,” warns Professor James Lindsay. And as reported by TIKhistory, “Karl Marx was brought up in mainstream religion instilling him with an altruistic morality.”
Thanks to the altruistic ideology of Marx, socialism has has gained a wide following based on a belief that socialism is about caring for others and providing for the basic welfare of citizens.
Explaining why this is not so, philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand warned: “Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice – which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction – which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value – and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other that oneself, anything goes.”
This is precisely the false moral premise on which Western governments have unleashed an unprecedented flood of tyranny, from mandated ‘vaccines’ being justified to ‘protect granny’, to censorship being justified to ‘protect us from misinformation.’ For them, ‘anything goes.’
It is understandable to think that when things go wrong in a society, that it is caused by the practice of values regarded as evil. But as history has demonstrated, the startling reality is that things more often go wrong in a society because its people are pursuing values that they regard as good, but are in fact evil. Failing to define values in a way that is Just Right, it should not be surprising when things turn out just wrong.
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