ckaihatsu wrote:Again, you're thinking *Stalinism*, or bureaucratic elitism, which is *not* workers-of-the-world socialism.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels intended their system to be genocidally mass-murderous from the very start. For some details on that, see pp. 96-98 of my following article, particularly the footnotes therein:
* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708,
https://archive.org/download/ThePhysics ... of-God.pdf ,
https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god .
See also:
* Prof. Richard M. Ebeling, "Economic Ideas: Karl Marx, the Man Behind the Communist Revolution", Future of Freedom Foundation, Feb. 13, 2017,
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/art ... evolution/ ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20180616225 ... evolution/ ,
https://www.webcitation.org/71A3mGvp6 .
The horrors of all forms of socialism isn't an aberration of socialism, but rather its essence. Socialism is maximal slavery, whereby the government owns everything within a society, including people's bodies. Stating that socialism is the political system whereby the government owns (whether de facto or de jure) the means of production is just a roundabout way of saying that the government owns everything within said society, since humans can't live without either themselves engaging in production or being supported by another who engages in production. A government that controls production de facto controls everything.
Nor can this horror-show that is socialism be avoided, since the problem with socialism is government per se. Governments can only exist via the continual initiation of violence and threat thereof in order to maintain a coercive regional monopoly on ultimate control over the law (i.e., on the courts and police, etc.). This creates an unavoidable incentive-structure that rewards predation, since people are compelled by initiatory violence to be involved in the governmental system whether they want to be or not. That is, government is a species of rape: i.e., "The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery." (See Noah Porter [Ed.], Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language [Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913].)
What makes socialism the most mass-murderous philosophy ever conceived is precisely because it puts all power into the most mass-murderous organization to ever exist, i.e., the state. The liberal solution is to disempower the state, rather than empowering it as the collectivists do.
Below are vital articles concerning the nature of government, of liberty, and the free-market production of defense:
* Prof. Murray N. Rothbard, "The Anatomy of the State", Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1965), pp. 1-24,
https://cdn.mises.org/rampart_summer1965_2.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/6ZvAbaX8z ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1447053835DURFWXQOPM . Reprinted in a collection of some of Rothbard's articles, Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (Washington, DC: Libertarian Review Press, 1974),
https://cdn.mises.org/Egalitarianism%20 ... says_2.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/6XfwvbslB .
* Murray N. Rothbard, Ch. 1: "Defense Services on the Free Market", pp. 1-9 in id., Power and Market: Government and the Economy (Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1977; orig. pub. 1970),
https://web.archive.org/web/20040720094 ... market.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve3w5w9a ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1447054194BCBULVTSAX .
* Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "The Private Production of Defense", Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter 1998-1999), pp. 27-52,
https://cdn.mises.org/14_1_2_0.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve41VasQ .
* Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security", Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Winter 1989), pp. 27-46,
https://cdn.mises.org/9_1_2_0.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve485kNf .
* Prof. David D. Friedman, Ch. 29: "Police, Courts, and Laws--on the Market", pp. 114-120 in id., The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1989; orig. pub. 1971),
http://daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/M ... er_29.html ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve4A6KFZ ,
https://archive.is/I1mt4 .
Concerning the ethics of human rights, the below book is the best book on the subject:
* Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998; orig. pub. 1982),
https://web.archive.org/web/20131208015 ... ethics.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve4GO9l5 ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1447054928ZHDVKQZWOU .
If one desires a solid grounding in economics then one can do no better than with the below texts:
* Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Economic Science and the Austrian Method (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995),
https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Scienc ... thod_3.pdf ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20140426110 ... s/esam.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/63rQDYtj2 .
The above small book by Prof. Hoppe doesn't delve into political theory, but only concerns the methodological basis of economics (i.e., the epistemology of economics). I would recommend that everyone read this short book *first* if they're at all interested in economics. There exists much confusion as to what economics is and what it is not. This book is truly great in elucidating the nature of economics and its epistemic basis. If one were to read no other texts on economics, then this ought to be the economic text that one reads. Plus it doesn't take all that long to read it.
* Murray N. Rothbard, Ch. 17: "Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics", pp. 224-262 in Mary Sennholz (Ed.), On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises (Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1956),
https://cdn.mises.org/On%20Freedom%20an ... ises_2.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/6Xz9WebJ6 ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1447055623CLUDAZDSPR . Reprinted in Murray N. Rothbard, The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School (London, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 211-255.
* Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2nd ed., 2004; orig. pub. 1962),
https://cdn.mises.org/Man,%20Economy,%2 ... rket_2.pdf ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20180415041 ... rket_2.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/6Xfycj7zV .
* Murray N. Rothbard, Power and Market: Government and the Economy (Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1977; orig. pub. 1970),
https://web.archive.org/web/20040720094 ... market.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/5ve3w5w9a ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1447054194BCBULVTSAX .
These texts ought to be read in the order listed above. I would also add to the above list the below book:
* Murray N. Rothbard, America's Great Depression (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 5th ed., 2000; orig. pub. 1963),
https://cdn.mises.org/Americas%20Great% ... sion_3.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/6Xfyn2oXY .
The above book concerns how governments create depressions (i.e., panics; recessions) through credit expansion (i.e., fractional-reserve banking and/or fiat money).
On the matter of politics in relation to God, see my below article, which demonstrates the logically unavoidable anarchism of Jesus Christ's teachings as recorded in the New Testament (in addition to analyzing their context in relation to his actions, to the Tanakh, and to his apostles). It is logically complete on this subject, in the sense of its apodixis.
* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761,
https://archive.org/download/JesusIsAnA ... rchist.pdf ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20170721194 ... -jesus.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw .
See also my below article, which demonstrates the logically unavoidable correctness of the anarcho-capitalist theory of human rights. It doesn't derive an "ought" from an "is"--rather, it derives an "ought" from an "ought": an "ought" everyone must necessarily presuppose in order to even begin to deny it.
* James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733,
https://archive.org/download/Libertaria ... ianism.pdf ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20170721194 ... ianism.pdf ,
https://webcitation.org/63xyCLjLm .
For how physics allows unlimited progress by civilizations--to literally infinite intelligence and power--see my following article on physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by said known physical laws. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.
* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708,
https://archive.org/download/ThePhysics ... of-God.pdf ,
http://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god ,
https://webcitation.org/74HMsJGbP .
Additionally, in the below resource are five sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The sixth section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.
* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Apr. 18, 2019,
https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB ,
https://archive.is/uHEyL ,
https://megalodon.jp/2019-0423-0435-52/ ... m/6bZDc7rB .
I'd be glad to discuss the *politics* of such, here on a political discussion board.
One cannot understand the extreme schizophrenia and sadomasochistic psychopathy of mankind--and hence the appeal that socialism holds for many--without incorporating the crucial insight provided by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976). And here I'm not speaking of so-called "aberrant" human psychology, but rather simply standard human psychology that all humans are born with due to natural evolution.
Again, the demons are quite real. Anything one can interact with is real and exists--in some form or another. The interesting question centers around what is their actual ontological nature, i.e., in what form do they actually exist.
The veridical answer to that question is that the demons (and their updated edition for the modern era, the aliens) are particular naturally-evolved parts of our own mind, i.e., they are particular subsets of our own consciousness: mostly the demons/aliens/etc. exist in our subconscious, but the highest levels of the elite occult societies have figured out over the ages various mental techniques to bring the demons to the fore, to the conscious level. These demons are the gods of old, the ones that required human sacrifice.
For much more on what is going on with the demons/aliens/spirit-guides/etc., see my following article:
* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019,
https://archive.is/JPojL ,
https://megalodon.jp/2020-0325-0427-34/ ... n.450.html ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20200324192 ... n.450.html ,
http://www.freezepage.com/1585078048SAWDZFDONX .
Author of "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network, orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011 (since updated)