12/5/2016, 6:59 pm
Obviously
Comrades, this year marks a momentous occasion. Its been (at least) 500 years since the expression of the basic ideas of socialism [that's ½ a millennium for you youngsters].
Some have said that these ideas have been around since the beginning of recorded history. They were voiced in Plato's Republic and recently (In a relative sense of the word) in Thomas More's Utopia published in 1516, and thus 500 years.
But don't take our word for it, we have it from the horse's… mouth that their ideology originated (at least) 500 years ago and has been on a losing streak ever since:
“The first theoretical expression of a genuinely socialist position came in Thomas More's Utopia, written in the early years of the 16th Century.”
The left's socialist ideas are as old as dirt (but not worth as much) and contrary to one of their more pernicious lies their ideas have been tried and failed down through the centuries, such as with the ‘new world' in the 1600's:
America's Socialist Origins
See How Socialism Nearly Destroyed the Pilgrims as well as other failed implementations of these concepts.
Again from one of the left's orifices of collective… thought on the early history of socialism:
[The digger movement took place in England in 1649–50]
There are multiple sources on this early history of socialism and in the spirit of brevity, we will just list out links for these sources at the bottom of this piece.
These facts highlight one of the more ubiquitous and prevalent lies of the socialist left of any nation is that it's ideas are fresh and new and thus untested in the unforgiving crucible of reality. Leftists love to foster the myth that the underlying concepts of their base ideology are brand new. They are supposedly revolutionary in character that can work because they are new and untested.
This incessant failure of their base ideology has necessitated them to create a multitude of synonyms for essentially the same ideas over and over again:
Anarcho-syndicalism, Bolshevism, Castroism, centralism, commonweal, communism, common ownership collectivism, cooperative society, collective ownership, communalism, Fabianism, fascism, guild socialism, heteronomy, kolkhoz, Leninism, liberalism, managed economy, Maoism, Marxism, Marxist-Leninism, national socialism, neofascism, ochlocracy, phalansterism, public ownership, rule of the proletariat, social justice, Stalinism, statism, state ownership, syndicalism, totalitarianism, Trotskyism, utopian socialism.
The left is intellectually bankrupt because its foundational concepts have failed to work for at least ½ a millennium. It's almost become redundant to refer to Lying leftists – and to quote a certain commercial refrain “It's what they do”.
And strangely enough, their recent electoral trouncing has made them double down on their insanity. In a manner of speaking, this should be good news for all, for instead of renouncing what has been 500 years of failure they are now going to marginalise themselves even more.
It's failure is at such a point that it must arbitrarily change the meaning of common words to alter the reality of it's existence. These definitional lies are almost a cottage industry on the left starting with the meaning of the word ‘socialism'. They've vaguely defined words that imply a positive intent and turned them into meaningless gibberish.
Their self labeling as “Progressive” is virtually meaningless.
Webster definition: Progressive: One believing in moderate political change and especially social improvement by governmental action.
The history of socialism is one of the same basic concepts failing to work time after time down through the centuries with each new iteration being labeled with another term to hide this failure.
Each time someone conceptualizes the same soul crushing collectivist ideas they are said to be fresh and on the cutting edge. The nation's Socialists on the left love to perpetuate the this myth because these brand new theories are outside the realm of accountability. But each new version of the same very old ideas has the same deadly result of abject failure, leaving the leftists with the only option of lying through their teeth on just about everything connected to their base ideology.
References:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/socialism
https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_socialism.html
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Socialism
