Socialism by its very nature, at its heart and core, is a system of lies. That society will have more equality is a lie, that the economy will grow faster and be give the average worker more prosperity is a lie. That government will be competent, efficient, evenhanded and careful to obey all of its laws and regulations is a lie.
In order for the socialist society to function, it must create and support a myriad of overlapping lies.
But it is true for all societies that each government imposes a type of morality on its citizens.
This is not my own theory, but comes from someone who lived it.
Václav Havel was a playwright, author, the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003) after the Czech–Slovak split. He wrote a famous essay, The Power of the Powerless on the social and spiritual consequences of socialism.
"The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth," Havel warned, noting that socialist regimes create and enforce their own truth to maintain power. As time goes on, this truth diverges from factual truth and it increasingly forces those who support and depend upon the power of the regime to corrupt themselves to sustain the artificial truth."
In the end, people not only lie to each other, but they start to lie to themselves.
Read more at Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless
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capitalism, the system of the few for the few.
If you play the capitalists' own game they'll close your positions, ban you from having a job, buying food, having healthcare and travel, call you a nazi, and send the antifa hordes to your door.
Capitalism the system that can buy influence by making "donations" to governments and institutions so that they peddle and enforce the doomsday propaganda of multi billionaires for them to control every aspect of our lives.
Capitalism the system that enslaves entire countries and several generations into debt slavery.
Capitalism, the system that made possible to buy countries piecemeal with "foreign investment"
Capitalism, the system that destroyed small businesses and the middle class all over the world but made a select group of multi billionaire insiders duplicate their fortunes in less than a year by pushing into the market untested gene therapy disguised a vaccine, which kills people and the ones who aren't killed are left impaired or sterile.
Capitalism the system that destroyed American jobs and sent military secrets to China.
Capitalism the system that empowered the communists, made China great and the No.1 economic and military world power.
Thank Capitalism for pushing the world into a totalitarian communist dystopia.
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