Brendan King has sent me this timely “top ten”, which I thought I’d share with Ink Deskers:

 

Brendan King has sent me this timely “top ten”, which I thought I’d share with Ink Deskers:Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Socialism.

By Brendan D. King.

10. Its tendency to create a dictatorship by one political party.

9. The fact that the ruling party will call itself a “Government of Workers and Peasants,” without any mandate or oversight by the real workers and peasants.

8. The belief that the ends of building Socialism sanctify any crime, however black.

7. The fact that it leads to ruthless war, not only against inherited wealth, but also against small businesses and family owned farms.

6. The belief that everyone should follow their basest instincts if it feels good at the time.

5. The mass  execution of religious believers which it has caused in Mexico, China, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, and Ethiopia.

4. Its tendency to slaughter the very people who have brought it to power, as in Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge or Mao tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution.

3. Socialist destruction of the arts by demanding the caricaturization of people based on their place in the class system.

2. The paranoid conspiracy theories which are blindly accepted by its followers.

And, last but not least:

1. The fact that 100 million people have been murdered in the name of building it.