Death to Communist, Socialist, and Collectivist Ideologies

To the U.S. Political Left: Your Grievances are Rooted in Political Corruption. It's Time for You to Stop Blaming Capitalism for Everything. You Look Like an Imbecile and an Ideologue.

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A Eulogy to Communist, Socialist, & Collectivist Ideology.

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During my naive and idealistic youth, I dabbled around with socialist and communist ideology for about a year. That is, until my economics education started to take an effect on me and the way I approach understanding and making sense of the world. Since then, I’ve pivoted to a highly pro-capitalism economic philosophy for the past several years.

I’ve read the Communist Manifesto. I’ve read Marx & Engels’ work. I’ve read modern communist work. I’m far from ignorant about socialist and communists ideas, ideologies, and philosophy on political economy. And at this point, I’ve additionally read an ungodly amount of economic theory, research, literature, and history.

I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but communism and socialism is fundamentally flawed in the naive assumptions that the philosophy is built on. It assumes that everyone is altruistic and puts the interests of the whole above the interests of the individual. This is simply not realistic. There are many, many individuals in the world who are not altruistic, and rather they are motivated only by self-interest. This fact alone is precisely why communism and socialism fundamentally require an authoritarian and fascist political system in order to work.