Socialism demands that we place blind trust in whoever takes the power
to distribute society’s goods and services. History shows those who have
this power abuse it in horrific ways.
"Nikolai Bukharin was executed by
shooting in Moscow on March 15, 1938. He had been revered as a giant of
the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, as one who even worked side by side
with Vladimir Lenin himself. Alas, Bukharin’s Marxist chickens had come
home to roost by the time he was shot like a dog during Josef Stalin’s reign of terror. His execution marked the pinnacle of Stalin’s show trials of high-level officials.
You see, Bukharin invested in building a political system that
inevitably puts the reins of power into the hands of just a few
strongmen who end up calling all the shots. It’s a system in which
suspicion and the smell of treason tend to hang in the air.
Socialism, by the way, is just such a system. This is the case
whether you call it by any other name, whether communism, utopianism, or
collectivism. Oh, go ahead and slap some lipstick on that pig and call
it “democratic” socialism or “progressivism” or “communitarianism.”
Lenin and his gang all started out calling themselves socialists. Social democrats, to be exact. So the fact remains: the path of socialism is ultimately paved with coercion, censorship, and, yes, terror."
[The Federalist]
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