Get paid for doing nothing and work for free

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" Karl Marx

The Socialist ideal, or so they claim is that everyone lies around doing nothing whilst all the wealth is produced by people acting in the interests of others. On hearing about this scheme most people decide they would rather be in the receiving group and set about achieving that.

Socialism becomes a competition to avoid work and responsibility which is why Socialists often proclaim their personal virtues to people who have no choice but to listen. The principles of Socialism are a good idea for everyone else to follow, just not for me...

We (Socialists) imagine that our praise should be sufficient currency to motivate others to do as we would like.

The experience of history shows that when there is no reward for productivity, there is no productivity. Ants in a colony act out of self-interest not to serve the interests of a mythical group but to further their own genes... To act in the interests of the State is to act in the interests of an abstract idea. The State is not something who's wants can be known.

Communism is impossible without a centralised authority... without which to whom do the resources go before they are redistributed? It can only be totalitarianism.

Why would someone be willing or interested to advance the interests of the State, since it is nothing more than an idea, there is no reason why a person should have a bias in favour of it. If we must pay to be a member of a group, then we must pay often because we are members of may groups of different kinds. There is no non-arbitrary reason to reward the nation States that we find ourselves in... we could just as well pay money to all sorts of groups: why (do we need to) pay money to be near people?

The State does not have a right to claim jurisdiction of the land. You don't own this country and neither does the national Government.

Marxists: They think they own the place.


31st January 2009