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Socialism is not an economic theory that failed. It is a technique of power that works. The economics always fails. The rhetoric never does – on those easiest to manipulate, and for those who rise by manipulating them. Socialism has never delivered what it says. It has always delivered what it is for: power.
What Socialism Is. Socialism is not a real model to be applied in the world – it is a contradictory rhetoric used to gain power over people, by manipulating those who are easiest to manipulate. It is anti-life, because it contradicts reality. Its contradictions stay harmless only as long as it stays on paper. Try to implement it, and they come due. It postulates equality – and produces the most unequal societies of all: the nomenklatura in its special shops, everyone else in the queue. It says it frees the workers – and in 1980, ten million Polish workers had to rise up against the workers' state. It postulates abundance – and gets rid of the people who produce it. Venezuela, sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, watched its people lose an average of eleven kilos in a single year. It says the state will wither away – and builds the biggest state in history. It postulates peace – and needs an enemy for every failure. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Needs, of course, especially of the immoral, are unlimited. Ability is punished. Someone has to resolve these contradictions. In socialism, that someone is the police, by force. When the theory says one thing and reality another, it is never the theory that gets arrested. That is why it is anti-life. Life works by getting reality right: every living thing survives because it reads the world correctly. Socialism switches off the instruments – prices that say what is scarce, profits and losses that say what works, free speech that says what is wrong. A society that can no longer see where it is going ends up where socialist societies always end up: first the queue, then the famine and the camp. And yet it keeps coming back. Why? Because socialism is not an economic theory that failed. It is a technique of power that works. The economics always fails. The rhetoric never does – on those easiest to manipulate, and for those who rise by manipulating them. Socialism has never delivered what it says. It has always delivered what it is for: power.
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Florida early vote is basically tied a week out: 1.20M Republican, 1.18M Democratic ballots. The "R+8" going around counts in-person only. Mail flips it back. A week out in past years: 2016: R+20K → Trump +1.2 2018: R+54K → DeSantis +0.4 2020: D+299K → Trump +3.4 2022: R+137K → DeSantis +19 2024: R+370K → Trump +13 Expect the GOP lead to grow. It has the last 3 cycles. Republicans vote late and on Election Day. The catch: the GOP has 1.5M more registered voters. In 2018, Democrats had more. A tie now means Dems are voting above their weight. This looks more like 2018 than 2022.
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Socialism is the belief that Amazon workers would have spontaneously created Amazon if Jeff Bezos didn't exist.
“Socialism never works.” Well, it never works to bring prosperity, peace or liberty. But it does work to bring a lot of power and prestige to a very few politicians and bureaucrats.
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Capitalism is fucked up because why do I have to EARN a living?
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The only axis that matters: Freedom vs Central Planning. Gives us a much better gauge of left (central planning) vs Right (free markets). Nazism and socialism fail for the same reasons.
Replying to @ChuckieFFS
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks. Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine. What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support. Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner. Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture. Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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Capitalism is the only economic system founded on the recognition of individual rights, including the right to life. What socialists seem to oppose isn't working to live. It's having to work to live while demanding that others be forced to work so they can live. Or perhaps they imagine abolishing capitalism will somehow abolish reality itself, ushering in a magical world where consumption no longer requires production. Someone must produce what you consume. Capitalism allows them to do so voluntarily. Socialism claims the authority to compel them. The difference isn't whether people must work. It's whether they own their lives and labor.
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It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons. So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once. Topic closed. Next.
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New York froze rents on about a million apartments. The rent board's own index found building costs rose 5.3%. Here's where that gap goes.
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Richer, but not happier?
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What changed China in 1978? It started with 18 farmers and a secret contract.
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Why doesn't voting fix socialism? A vote changes who runs the factory, not what the manager gets paid for.
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What actually got worse in America?
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"That wasn't real communism." It was tried in more than 25 countries, on every continent, for a century. At some point the pattern is the system.
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Venezuela voted for it in 1998. Then the checks came apart: the court in 2004, term limits in 2009.
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The best argument against the new student loan rule: won't it make shortages of counselors and social workers worse? It's a fair question. Here's the case at full strength, and how it weighs up.
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The U.S. spends nearly twice what other rich countries do on health care per person. Americans live 3.7 years less. Source: Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
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Soviet families could farm tiny private plots, about 3% of the land. They grew 64% of the potatoes. Same farmers, same soil.
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Take away the owner and the price. What gets rewarded then? Soviet managers found out.
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Why does communism always fail?
72 heures. Des milliers de gauchistes en PLS dans mes réponses. Des pavés, des captures d'écran, des « inculte », des « révisionniste ». Aujourd'hui, je vous refais la démonstration. Lentement. Assez simple pour qu'un gars à 80 de QI, avec trois photos de foot dans sa bio, puisse suivre jusqu'au bout. Masterclass, acte II. D'abord, le nerf de la guerre. Ce n'est ni la morale, ni les symboles, ni le vocabulaire. C'est l'économie. Toute société doit répondre à une seule question : qui décide de ce qu'on produit, de ce qu'on possède, de ce qu'on échange ? Celui qui contrôle l'économie contrôle tout le reste. Ton salaire, ton logement, ton journal, ton école, ce que tu as le droit de dire. Un régime qui tient l'économie n'a même pas besoin de te mettre en prison : il lui suffit de te couper les vivres. Donc pour classer un régime, on ne regarde pas ses drapeaux. On regarde qui tient l'économie. Il n'y a que deux réponses. Soit les individus décident : propriété, contrat, marché, responsabilité. Soit un centre décide pour eux, au nom d'un collectif. Ça a un nom : le collectivisme. Et le collectivisme, c'est la gauche. Ce n'est pas une caricature, c'est sa propre définition. Planification, redistribution, primauté du groupe sur l'individu, méfiance envers la propriété et le marché. La gauche, c'est le camp qui veut que l'État décide à ta place. Le camp du contrôle. Maintenant, mettez Hitler dans cette grille. Syndicats dissous et remplacés par le Front allemand du travail, aux ordres du parti. Prix bloqués par décret en 1936. Plan de quatre ans confié à Göring. Contrôle des changes, investissements dirigés, autarcie. Le patron gardait le titre de propriété. L'État gardait les décisions. Ludwig von Mises appelait ça le socialisme « de type allemand ». Friedrich Hayek a consacré un chapitre entier aux « racines socialistes du nazisme ». Et la haine des Juifs ? Elle s'emboîte parfaitement dans la machine. Le collectivisme a toujours besoin d'un coupable : un groupe accusé de voler le peuple. Le koulak pour Staline. Le bourgeois pour Mao. Le Juif pour Hitler, qui opposait le capital « créateur », allemand, au capital « rapace », juif. Même scénario à chaque fois : ton malheur vient d'un groupe parasite, et l'État va s'en occuper. Alors pourquoi on vous apprend depuis l'enfance que Hitler était d'extrême droite ? Parce que cette étiquette a été construite. Par la gauche. 1935, congrès de l'Internationale communiste. Dimitrov définit officiellement le fascisme comme la dictature du capital financier. Donc, par décret, à droite. Le régime qui avait le plus intérêt à ce que Hitler ne soit jamais rangé à côté de Staline a écrit lui-même la définition. Ensuite, Gramsci. Cofondateur du Parti communiste italien, emprisonné par Mussolini. Dans sa cellule, il comprend que la révolution ne gagnera pas en Occident par les armes. Il faut d'abord conquérir l'hégémonie culturelle : l'école, l'université, la presse, l'édition. Le pouvoir politique suivra. La gauche européenne a appliqué ce plan à la lettre. Elle a écrit les manuels. Et quand tu écris les manuels, c'est toi qui choisis où ranger les cadavres. Même Orwell, socialiste convaincu, le constatait dès 1946 : le mot « fasciste » ne voulait déjà plus dire grand-chose, à part « quelque chose qu'on n'aime pas ». Résultat en 2026 : est « fasciste » quiconque défend la propriété, les frontières ou la baisse des impôts. Et le parti qui s'appelait « national-socialiste des travailleurs » est classé à droite. Le plus beau tour de magie du siècle. Maintenant, il faut dire la vérité. Les grands charniers du XXe siècle ont été creusés par le camp du contrôle. Staline : famines organisées, Goulag, Grande Terreur. Selon les estimations des historiens, de 6 à 20 millions de morts. Mao : Grand Bond en avant, Révolution culturelle. De 40 à 70 millions de morts. Pol Pot : près d'un quart de la population du Cambodge, 1,5 à 2 millions de morts en moins de quatre ans. Hitler : 6 millions de Juifs exterminés, des millions d'autres victimes de la persécution nazie, et une guerre mondiale qui a coûté des dizaines de millions de vies. Mussolini : ancien dirigeant socialiste, ancien directeur de l'Avanti!, auteur de la formule « tout dans l'État, rien hors de l'État, rien contre l'État ». Et la liste continue : la Corée du Nord des Kim, l'Éthiopie de Mengistu, Cuba. Le Livre noir du communisme, en 1997, avançait le chiffre de près de 100 millions de morts pour le seul communisme. Avant qu'on me sorte Franco et Pinochet : des dictatures, oui, à condamner sans réserve. Et sur mon axe, elles tombent du côté du contrôle. Mais regardez l'échelle. Des milliers à des centaines de milliers de morts d'un côté. Des dizaines de millions de l'autre. Alors la prochaine fois que vous voyez quelqu'un hurler au fascisme en réclamant plus d'État, plus de contrôle, plus de censure, et un groupe à désigner comme coupable, demandez-vous qui, dans la pièce, ressemble le plus aux années 30. La fracture n'a jamais été gauche contre droite. C'est contrôle contre liberté. CQFD, acte II.
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