Thursday, February 26, 2009

Waiter, There's a Dictator in my soup!

Most people condemn the horror of Stalin and the Soviet Union i.e. planned starvation of millions in the Ukraine, murder, secret police, food shortages, propaganda, censorship, gulags, torture and suppression of spiritual practice among other horrors and affronts to freedom.

Yet people don't make the connection that these outrages are a direct result of the economic system of state/central planning in communism and socialism as opposed to the free market of individual planning.

State planning can never be perfect because people are just not smart and moral enough to handle the incredible complexity. Even with the most sophisticated supercomputers, we can't predict the weather so how will a few Politicians do better with a much more complex economy?

With imperfect planning comes inequities in wages, shortages of needed goods and services and wasteful surpluses of unneeded goods and services.

Why bake bread or raise cattle or farm when you will lose money on it due to low pricing?

State planned economies must force you to work and pacify you with propaganda and censorship to believe it is right to conform to the state plan.
You are treated as a cog not as a person.
Unrest leads to further controls by police, prison and torture. The fear and helplessness leads to drinking, drugs, apathy, misery and total collapse.

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