November 14, 2018
Dear Friends and Family,
This is the introduction to segment 2 of the series on Socialism. It focuses on “Understanding Socialism” its appeal, its mechanics, and if you’re not careful how you can vote your rights away in your quest for or your ambivalence to other’s quest for Socialism.
My Takeaways:
In my judgment, the most profound excerpt in this segment is: “Throughout history there has been a class of certain educated individuals who believe that direct control over individuals is the sure path to peace and prosperity.” That was seemingly the intent of Marx and Engels, the founders of socialism, in the Communist Manifesto (Segment 13). All attempts were driven by the desire to reduce income inequality, and all had/have to amass power and control to do so.
The second most profound excerpt followed the first: “Those who have not delved into history of such control don’t realize it won’t work, it hasn’t worked, and by its very nature, it can never work.”
In the Mechanics of Socialism section of the attached, it states there are two ways to put themselves in charge. The first is via revolution and the second is by convincing people to vote, and often unknowingly in doing so, to abandon some of their rights. The excerpts provide some insight on how the second way is accomplished, e.g. stirring up feelings of greed, envy, jealousy, arrogance, or compassion.
As we learned from President Emmanuel Macron of France in his Patriotism vs. Nationalism speech at the 100 year anniversary of World War I this past week the United States is a major obstacle in the Global Socialist’s New World Order desires. The U.S. with our economy, military strength, coupled with our Constitution and strong sovereign feelings; present formidable barriers to the New World Order. This is evidenced again and again in the 46 Goals of International Socialism which is outlined in the excerpts. Interestingly most of America would view patriotism as similar to nationalism. Macron’s definitions of the two words are much different. Macron seemingly defines patriotism as globalism (i.e. patriotic to the world vs. country) – and globalism as fundamentally International Socialism. Nationalism is seemingly defined by Macron as loyalty and devotion to one country with an attempt to force its values on others. Net, per Macron, patriotism is good and nationalism (being the opposite) is bad.
At any rate, the learning for me is that International Socialism is not a far-out concept, it is very real and there are efforts afoot to promote it widely with attempts to implement many of its goals.
Next:
With the understanding of socialism derived from the attached excerpts, we next turn to some data on the successes and failures of socialism throughout the world, which is the next segment. That will be followed by Segment 4 which provides some reasoning as to why socialism has experience failure so often to date.
Happy Learning,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
This is the introduction to segment 2 of the series on Socialism. It focuses on “Understanding Socialism” its appeal, its mechanics, and if you’re not careful how you can vote your rights away in your quest for or your ambivalence to other’s quest for Socialism.
My Takeaways:
In my judgment, the most profound excerpt in this segment is: “Throughout history there has been a class of certain educated individuals who believe that direct control over individuals is the sure path to peace and prosperity.” That was seemingly the intent of Marx and Engels, the founders of socialism, in the Communist Manifesto (Segment 13). All attempts were driven by the desire to reduce income inequality, and all had/have to amass power and control to do so.
The second most profound excerpt followed the first: “Those who have not delved into history of such control don’t realize it won’t work, it hasn’t worked, and by its very nature, it can never work.”
In the Mechanics of Socialism section of the attached, it states there are two ways to put themselves in charge. The first is via revolution and the second is by convincing people to vote, and often unknowingly in doing so, to abandon some of their rights. The excerpts provide some insight on how the second way is accomplished, e.g. stirring up feelings of greed, envy, jealousy, arrogance, or compassion.
As we learned from President Emmanuel Macron of France in his Patriotism vs. Nationalism speech at the 100 year anniversary of World War I this past week the United States is a major obstacle in the Global Socialist’s New World Order desires. The U.S. with our economy, military strength, coupled with our Constitution and strong sovereign feelings; present formidable barriers to the New World Order. This is evidenced again and again in the 46 Goals of International Socialism which is outlined in the excerpts. Interestingly most of America would view patriotism as similar to nationalism. Macron’s definitions of the two words are much different. Macron seemingly defines patriotism as globalism (i.e. patriotic to the world vs. country) – and globalism as fundamentally International Socialism. Nationalism is seemingly defined by Macron as loyalty and devotion to one country with an attempt to force its values on others. Net, per Macron, patriotism is good and nationalism (being the opposite) is bad.
At any rate, the learning for me is that International Socialism is not a far-out concept, it is very real and there are efforts afoot to promote it widely with attempts to implement many of its goals.
Next:
With the understanding of socialism derived from the attached excerpts, we next turn to some data on the successes and failures of socialism throughout the world, which is the next segment. That will be followed by Segment 4 which provides some reasoning as to why socialism has experience failure so often to date.
Happy Learning,
Harley
SOCIALISM – SEGMENT 2
UNDERSTANDING SOCIALISM – EXCERPTS
NOTE: ALL OF THE EXCERPTS IN THIS SEGMENT ARE FROM THE NAKED SOCIALIST by Paul B. Skousen
THE APPEAL OF SOCIALISM: The appeal of socialism is not just the many things that socialist are against (unfairness, inequality, etc.) but is also about those things for which they stand, the things they promise. Throughout history there has been a class of certain educated individuals who believe that direct control over individuals and human nature is the sure path to peace and prosperity. Those who have not delved into history of such control don’t realize it won’t work, it hasn’t worked, and by its very nature, it can never work. Nevertheless, socialism’s many promises are deliciously tempting.
THE MECHANICS OF SOCIALISM: Socialists have just one main goal: putting themselves in charge. There are two ways to achieve this.
VOTE AWAY PROTECTED RIGHTS: Socialism is a blatant contradiction. It sets out to accuse the world of inequality, injustice, and lack of freedom. Yet history shows, once socialism is put in place, it imposes a far greater inequality, injustice, and lack of freedom than that which existed before – all in the name of fairness. To achieve fairness, socialists must crush the human attributes that create inequality. One way they achieve this is by appealing to the most basic and common human weaknesses of envy and force – an appeal to the primitive state that smothers the highest ideals, the most sophisticated and multifaceted human qualities of choice, compassion, and innovation. Calling on envy is an easy sell for most people. Envy appeals to the brutish attributes of the “natural man.” Stirring up feelings of greed, envy, jealousy, and arrogance is the socialist’s main tool for proselytizing.
TO REFUSE TO CHALLENGE THE LOSS OF A RIGHT: There are eight basic rights or categories of rights. All eight are necessary for freedom. Remove any one of them, and the remainder quickly fall. Socialism cannot take control of a society where these personal rights are protected.
Right #1 – INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS. The individual is a sovereign, self-standing unit of creation with unalienable rights to his own life. Socialism degrades the human to an anonymous faceless being dependent on the edicts of the community to survive. This is why communist leaders care so little about human life.
Right #2 – CHOICE. By definition, an independent entity has free will – he or she is capable of making choices. There are always consequences for choices, and avoiding negative consequences is everyone’s constant challenge. Under Socialism all choices are controlled so that they will benefit the rulers and keep the peoples will checked and under control.
Right #3 – PROPERTY. A person’s body is his or her first piece of wholly owned and controlled property. A person must work to support his existence, and that labor produces private property. Deny people their property, and you deny them their lives. Without property, there can be no freedom. Private property is how individuals expressed their choice. Socialists believe property is the root of all human problems. They deny people the freedom to own property, and claim it for themselves, to distribute according to their wise and wonderful plan of equality and fairness.
Right #4 – ASSOCIATION. Freedom of association means that people may join together with others to promote, defend, study, and express those interests. The Founders believed this freedom was the strongest prevention of centralized power.
Right #5 – EQUALITY. Equal rights must not be confused with equal opportunity, equal outcome, or equal things. Opportunities are not equal for everyone, and the outcome of fruits of one’s labor are never guaranteed. Socialists promise equal things for all, but this is impossible in every way.
Right #6 – DEFENSE. The right of self-defense is the unalienable right to defend your own life and property, or that of other people. Socialism must deny the right of defense because it allows a person to act in opposition to the rulers. Socialists strive to remove all means of self-defense from the people as a means to stay in control.
Right #7 – COMPASSION. Compassion is the cornerstone of human action. It separates humans from animals. Socialism destroys compassion by forcing people to pay welfare by taking more taxes, and people naturally avoid taxes at all costs. This is not compassion. People forced to pay for welfare eventually turn their backs on those in need, thinking that some agency or shelter will “handle it.” It dulls people’s sense of caring for others.
Right #8 – FAILURE. Real freedom means the freedom to fail. Failure is life’s greatest teacher. Failure is a necessary part of innovation and creation. It teaches people tenacity and perseverance. Socialism seeks to eliminate failure by building safety nets at every level of society. It answers the call of pain and misery with massive tax-funded supports. These government-supplied safety nets always thwart the natural consequences of life. A class of dependency is created, and no economy in the world can sustain entitlements for very many decades before running out of money, creativity, and bailouts.
THE SEVEN PILLARS OF SOCIALISM: There are seven goals or processes used to socialize a nation. Knowing what these are will forewarn wise people and prepare them to recognize socialism as it develops so they may take preventive action. We call these characteristics the Seven Pillars of Socialism.
Pillar #1 – ALL POWERFUL RULER. With a fistful of utopian plans, the new ruler feels empowered to change things his way. This is why the socialists’ first and most important goal is to enthrone their choice as the all-powerful ruler. This can be an individual or a group.
Pillar #2 – CASTES OR CLASSES. Under socialism, society must be divided into classes. The upper class consists of the party members who receive special privileges as a reward for their loyalty. The middle class is usually a massive bureaucracy of well-paid enforcers – an overlapping maze of rulers, guards and spies who are dispatched to all levels of society. At the bottom are the most abused and least privileged of all: the workers, the peasants, the serfs.
Pillar #3 – THINGS IN COMMON. Basic socialist doctrine teaches that the ownership of property is the cause of all discord and envy. Therefore, they say all things must be made equal. But that is not all. Private ownership must eventually be eliminated altogether. When government imposes graduated taxes, nationalizes basic services, confiscates property for the common good, continually raises taxes, gives away entitlements, and invents other creative ways to take from the “haves” and give to the “have nots,” this is a sign that socialism has started, and Pillar #3 is underway.
Pillar #4 – REGULATION. Total control requires total regulation. When government can impose laws without the legislature or the people involved and sues States or other subordinate governments to get its way, that means socialism has stated and Pillar #4 is heavily underway.
Pillar #5 – FORCE. When government begins using force to violate basic rights of property, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness, and the people are powerless to stop it, then Pillar #5 is underway.
Pillar #6 – INFORMATION CONTROL. Information is a powerful weapon for social control. It is used to win support from the masses, to teach them that the old way is bad, and the new way is good, and to bolster claims that the regime is doing a good job.
Pillar #7 – VESTED RIGHTS. It is important for socialism’s success to eliminate any ideas about natural rights, to jeer and ridicule them out of existence. When a government selectively protects some rights and ignores others, especially property rights then socialism has started, and Pillar #7 is underway.
Net, socialism is government force to control and change society.
THE 46 GOALS OF SOCIALISM: Western culture has been adopting socialist thinking for a very long time – but not in a vacuum. Guiding it along have been a number of objectives, targets and goals. They come in the form of friendly solutions that play on our natural human weaknesses. They promise something for nothing – an easier life, all the benefits without the cost, a fix for all things, fairness, and social justice – just give socialism a try. These objectives and goals have great world-wide following. Most people don’t realize that these goals are designed to soften them up, to prepare them for the final collapse of freedom and the birth of global Ruler’s law, international socialism, a new world order. For lack of understanding, many loyal followers of freedom are supporting these goals. The goals in the following list are derived from the vast collection of writings from reformers and dreamers throughout history.
1. Promote Socialism, Demean Capitalism
2. Promote the U.N. Rewrite its charter so it can establish a single global democracy with its own independent military force.
3. No National Boundaries. Eliminate all borders and national sovereignty.
4. Instill Environmental Rulers. Support U.S. acceptance of a “global green economy” and the U.N.’s World Summit on Sustainable Development.
5. One-world Currency. To be managed by a “Global Reserve Bank.”
6. Control the Internet. Form an agency of the U.N. to regulate all Internet traffic, prices, and taxes – and censor content according to the ever-changing mandates from U.N. charter nations
7. Establish Economic Rulers. Use the European Union model to create a super-legislature under the auspices of the U.N.’s economic development and social councils.
8. Economic Equality. Force all nations to guarantee employment protection, participation and uniform labor practices.
9. Ruler’s Law. Legalize the general use of dictatorial powers by rulers and bypass national or constitutional law without check and balance interference from congress, parliaments, assemblies or a supreme court.
10. Render Congress Irrelevant (U.S.)
11. Subordinate Local Government
12. Destroy Representation (World). Resist any attempt to allow free elections that dethrone ruling parties
13. Uphold 17th Amendment (U.S.) Keep this link of representation severed because it otherwise brings too much control over the federal governments
14. Deflate Constitutional Convention (U.S.) Hide the mechanics of protection the Founders gave to this act of last resort.
15. Regulate all Transportation. Nationalize the transportation industries.
16. Regulate all Energy. Nationalize energy production and prices.
17. Eliminate Private Property. Adopt the U.N.’s land policy (1976), “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.”
18. Destroy Family Culture. Encourage the collapse of ties between husband and wife, children and parents, people and church.
19. Redefine, Normal and Healthy. Present degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy.
20. Destroy the Sacrament of Marriage. In the name of equality, remove all authority from church marriages.
21. Discredit the Traditional Family. Dilute the natural family structure.
22. Destroy Gender Distinctions
23. Universal Access to Abortion
24. Limit Family Size. Promote “responsible” family planning to reduce the world population
25. Replace God-centered Religion with Humanist Religion. Infiltrate the pulpits to create a “social religion” that promotes social and political agendas.
26. Destroy Church Economics. Eliminate tax-exempt status for church properties.
27. Eliminate Cash in the Market Place. Expand electronic banking into every nation allowing centralized electronic records, accessible to appropriate authorities as needed.
28. International Health Care. Nationalize health care in every nation and place it under an international board of control.
29. Supreme World Court. Expand the international role of a world court system with power to bypass state and national laws and constitutions.
30. Create One-World Super-Legislature over the environment
31. Environmental Rights Supersede Human Rights. Lift environmental issues to a level that is equivalent or higher than human rights. Put forward the claim that preservation of the environment for the good of all living things must take priority over human needs.
32. Nationalize All Natural Resources. Assume ownership and regulatory power over all national resources regardless of who owns the property on which the resource is found.
33. Unilaterally Destroy Nuclear Weapons
34. Neutralize Israel. Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian issue by U.N. fiat and force Israel to surrender all disputed lands, including half or more of Jerusalem, to the Palestinians.
35. Nationalize All Industry
36. Sync Animal Rights with Human Rights. Legislate human rights in animals. Tax meat out of the marketplace. Prohibit all medical testing of animals and human use of animal products.
37. Infiltrate and Regulate Education. Promote socialism’s goals and ideologies.
38. Control Information. Infiltrate the media. Ridicule the old order, celebrate the new, hide the excess of the ruling class.
39. Infiltrate and Regulate Labor. Unionize all labor at all levels and rule them by an international body of regulators. Install overseers to ensure that government mandates are obeyed.
40. Uphold All Labor as Optional. Make labor voluntary by providing financial safety nets for unemployment, illness, and retirement.
41. Discredit the U.S. Constitution
42. Discredit Freedom Heroes. Cast America’s Founding Fathers as elitist whose selfish desires left them no concern for “the little people.”
43. Rewrite History to Discredit American Culture.
44. Promote All-powerful Government Regulation. Support any movement that seeks government control over education, welfare, mental health clinics, social agencies, etc.
45. Install Socialism Everywhere. For any emerging nation, move quickly to install socialism. Promote it as the most efficient model to achieve political and economic stability.
46. Legislate by Crisis. Trigger widespread disorder to justify massive changes in the governments of the world. Use periodic chaos as the means to expand top-down control.
THE FOUNDER’S BRILLIANCE: One of the brilliant contributions by America’s Founding Fathers was a new way of looking at political power. Their idea can be illustrated with a yardstick serving as a scale of political power. To the far left they put Ruler’s Law, or all political power – complete control. On the opposite end, to the far right, they put anarchy, or too little government power, no law, total anarchy, and mob rule – no control at all.
The perfect center or balancing point between all force and no force is difficult to achieve. The best solution ever invented is the U.S. Constitution. It gave Americans a carefully crafted system of bottom-to-top representation, checks and balances, and strict control over the government’s use of force. The Constitution as not only protected the people’s unalienable right, but it allowed for maximum expression of their freedoms inside a structure of brilliantly placed boundaries.
Source: The Naked Socialist by Paul Skousen
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
UNDERSTANDING SOCIALISM – EXCERPTS
NOTE: ALL OF THE EXCERPTS IN THIS SEGMENT ARE FROM THE NAKED SOCIALIST by Paul B. Skousen
THE APPEAL OF SOCIALISM: The appeal of socialism is not just the many things that socialist are against (unfairness, inequality, etc.) but is also about those things for which they stand, the things they promise. Throughout history there has been a class of certain educated individuals who believe that direct control over individuals and human nature is the sure path to peace and prosperity. Those who have not delved into history of such control don’t realize it won’t work, it hasn’t worked, and by its very nature, it can never work. Nevertheless, socialism’s many promises are deliciously tempting.
THE MECHANICS OF SOCIALISM: Socialists have just one main goal: putting themselves in charge. There are two ways to achieve this.
- The first is to quickly wipe out an existing culture with a revolution or a civil war.
- The second is by convincing the people to vote away protected rights, or at least refuse to challenge the loss of a right. In that process, those who claim to know best ultimately take final control. Either way, the end goal of socialism remains the same: control.
VOTE AWAY PROTECTED RIGHTS: Socialism is a blatant contradiction. It sets out to accuse the world of inequality, injustice, and lack of freedom. Yet history shows, once socialism is put in place, it imposes a far greater inequality, injustice, and lack of freedom than that which existed before – all in the name of fairness. To achieve fairness, socialists must crush the human attributes that create inequality. One way they achieve this is by appealing to the most basic and common human weaknesses of envy and force – an appeal to the primitive state that smothers the highest ideals, the most sophisticated and multifaceted human qualities of choice, compassion, and innovation. Calling on envy is an easy sell for most people. Envy appeals to the brutish attributes of the “natural man.” Stirring up feelings of greed, envy, jealousy, and arrogance is the socialist’s main tool for proselytizing.
TO REFUSE TO CHALLENGE THE LOSS OF A RIGHT: There are eight basic rights or categories of rights. All eight are necessary for freedom. Remove any one of them, and the remainder quickly fall. Socialism cannot take control of a society where these personal rights are protected.
Right #1 – INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS. The individual is a sovereign, self-standing unit of creation with unalienable rights to his own life. Socialism degrades the human to an anonymous faceless being dependent on the edicts of the community to survive. This is why communist leaders care so little about human life.
Right #2 – CHOICE. By definition, an independent entity has free will – he or she is capable of making choices. There are always consequences for choices, and avoiding negative consequences is everyone’s constant challenge. Under Socialism all choices are controlled so that they will benefit the rulers and keep the peoples will checked and under control.
Right #3 – PROPERTY. A person’s body is his or her first piece of wholly owned and controlled property. A person must work to support his existence, and that labor produces private property. Deny people their property, and you deny them their lives. Without property, there can be no freedom. Private property is how individuals expressed their choice. Socialists believe property is the root of all human problems. They deny people the freedom to own property, and claim it for themselves, to distribute according to their wise and wonderful plan of equality and fairness.
Right #4 – ASSOCIATION. Freedom of association means that people may join together with others to promote, defend, study, and express those interests. The Founders believed this freedom was the strongest prevention of centralized power.
Right #5 – EQUALITY. Equal rights must not be confused with equal opportunity, equal outcome, or equal things. Opportunities are not equal for everyone, and the outcome of fruits of one’s labor are never guaranteed. Socialists promise equal things for all, but this is impossible in every way.
Right #6 – DEFENSE. The right of self-defense is the unalienable right to defend your own life and property, or that of other people. Socialism must deny the right of defense because it allows a person to act in opposition to the rulers. Socialists strive to remove all means of self-defense from the people as a means to stay in control.
Right #7 – COMPASSION. Compassion is the cornerstone of human action. It separates humans from animals. Socialism destroys compassion by forcing people to pay welfare by taking more taxes, and people naturally avoid taxes at all costs. This is not compassion. People forced to pay for welfare eventually turn their backs on those in need, thinking that some agency or shelter will “handle it.” It dulls people’s sense of caring for others.
Right #8 – FAILURE. Real freedom means the freedom to fail. Failure is life’s greatest teacher. Failure is a necessary part of innovation and creation. It teaches people tenacity and perseverance. Socialism seeks to eliminate failure by building safety nets at every level of society. It answers the call of pain and misery with massive tax-funded supports. These government-supplied safety nets always thwart the natural consequences of life. A class of dependency is created, and no economy in the world can sustain entitlements for very many decades before running out of money, creativity, and bailouts.
THE SEVEN PILLARS OF SOCIALISM: There are seven goals or processes used to socialize a nation. Knowing what these are will forewarn wise people and prepare them to recognize socialism as it develops so they may take preventive action. We call these characteristics the Seven Pillars of Socialism.
Pillar #1 – ALL POWERFUL RULER. With a fistful of utopian plans, the new ruler feels empowered to change things his way. This is why the socialists’ first and most important goal is to enthrone their choice as the all-powerful ruler. This can be an individual or a group.
Pillar #2 – CASTES OR CLASSES. Under socialism, society must be divided into classes. The upper class consists of the party members who receive special privileges as a reward for their loyalty. The middle class is usually a massive bureaucracy of well-paid enforcers – an overlapping maze of rulers, guards and spies who are dispatched to all levels of society. At the bottom are the most abused and least privileged of all: the workers, the peasants, the serfs.
Pillar #3 – THINGS IN COMMON. Basic socialist doctrine teaches that the ownership of property is the cause of all discord and envy. Therefore, they say all things must be made equal. But that is not all. Private ownership must eventually be eliminated altogether. When government imposes graduated taxes, nationalizes basic services, confiscates property for the common good, continually raises taxes, gives away entitlements, and invents other creative ways to take from the “haves” and give to the “have nots,” this is a sign that socialism has started, and Pillar #3 is underway.
Pillar #4 – REGULATION. Total control requires total regulation. When government can impose laws without the legislature or the people involved and sues States or other subordinate governments to get its way, that means socialism has stated and Pillar #4 is heavily underway.
Pillar #5 – FORCE. When government begins using force to violate basic rights of property, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness, and the people are powerless to stop it, then Pillar #5 is underway.
Pillar #6 – INFORMATION CONTROL. Information is a powerful weapon for social control. It is used to win support from the masses, to teach them that the old way is bad, and the new way is good, and to bolster claims that the regime is doing a good job.
Pillar #7 – VESTED RIGHTS. It is important for socialism’s success to eliminate any ideas about natural rights, to jeer and ridicule them out of existence. When a government selectively protects some rights and ignores others, especially property rights then socialism has started, and Pillar #7 is underway.
Net, socialism is government force to control and change society.
THE 46 GOALS OF SOCIALISM: Western culture has been adopting socialist thinking for a very long time – but not in a vacuum. Guiding it along have been a number of objectives, targets and goals. They come in the form of friendly solutions that play on our natural human weaknesses. They promise something for nothing – an easier life, all the benefits without the cost, a fix for all things, fairness, and social justice – just give socialism a try. These objectives and goals have great world-wide following. Most people don’t realize that these goals are designed to soften them up, to prepare them for the final collapse of freedom and the birth of global Ruler’s law, international socialism, a new world order. For lack of understanding, many loyal followers of freedom are supporting these goals. The goals in the following list are derived from the vast collection of writings from reformers and dreamers throughout history.
1. Promote Socialism, Demean Capitalism
2. Promote the U.N. Rewrite its charter so it can establish a single global democracy with its own independent military force.
3. No National Boundaries. Eliminate all borders and national sovereignty.
4. Instill Environmental Rulers. Support U.S. acceptance of a “global green economy” and the U.N.’s World Summit on Sustainable Development.
5. One-world Currency. To be managed by a “Global Reserve Bank.”
6. Control the Internet. Form an agency of the U.N. to regulate all Internet traffic, prices, and taxes – and censor content according to the ever-changing mandates from U.N. charter nations
7. Establish Economic Rulers. Use the European Union model to create a super-legislature under the auspices of the U.N.’s economic development and social councils.
8. Economic Equality. Force all nations to guarantee employment protection, participation and uniform labor practices.
9. Ruler’s Law. Legalize the general use of dictatorial powers by rulers and bypass national or constitutional law without check and balance interference from congress, parliaments, assemblies or a supreme court.
10. Render Congress Irrelevant (U.S.)
11. Subordinate Local Government
12. Destroy Representation (World). Resist any attempt to allow free elections that dethrone ruling parties
13. Uphold 17th Amendment (U.S.) Keep this link of representation severed because it otherwise brings too much control over the federal governments
14. Deflate Constitutional Convention (U.S.) Hide the mechanics of protection the Founders gave to this act of last resort.
15. Regulate all Transportation. Nationalize the transportation industries.
16. Regulate all Energy. Nationalize energy production and prices.
17. Eliminate Private Property. Adopt the U.N.’s land policy (1976), “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.”
18. Destroy Family Culture. Encourage the collapse of ties between husband and wife, children and parents, people and church.
19. Redefine, Normal and Healthy. Present degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy.
20. Destroy the Sacrament of Marriage. In the name of equality, remove all authority from church marriages.
21. Discredit the Traditional Family. Dilute the natural family structure.
22. Destroy Gender Distinctions
23. Universal Access to Abortion
24. Limit Family Size. Promote “responsible” family planning to reduce the world population
25. Replace God-centered Religion with Humanist Religion. Infiltrate the pulpits to create a “social religion” that promotes social and political agendas.
26. Destroy Church Economics. Eliminate tax-exempt status for church properties.
27. Eliminate Cash in the Market Place. Expand electronic banking into every nation allowing centralized electronic records, accessible to appropriate authorities as needed.
28. International Health Care. Nationalize health care in every nation and place it under an international board of control.
29. Supreme World Court. Expand the international role of a world court system with power to bypass state and national laws and constitutions.
30. Create One-World Super-Legislature over the environment
31. Environmental Rights Supersede Human Rights. Lift environmental issues to a level that is equivalent or higher than human rights. Put forward the claim that preservation of the environment for the good of all living things must take priority over human needs.
32. Nationalize All Natural Resources. Assume ownership and regulatory power over all national resources regardless of who owns the property on which the resource is found.
33. Unilaterally Destroy Nuclear Weapons
34. Neutralize Israel. Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian issue by U.N. fiat and force Israel to surrender all disputed lands, including half or more of Jerusalem, to the Palestinians.
35. Nationalize All Industry
36. Sync Animal Rights with Human Rights. Legislate human rights in animals. Tax meat out of the marketplace. Prohibit all medical testing of animals and human use of animal products.
37. Infiltrate and Regulate Education. Promote socialism’s goals and ideologies.
38. Control Information. Infiltrate the media. Ridicule the old order, celebrate the new, hide the excess of the ruling class.
39. Infiltrate and Regulate Labor. Unionize all labor at all levels and rule them by an international body of regulators. Install overseers to ensure that government mandates are obeyed.
40. Uphold All Labor as Optional. Make labor voluntary by providing financial safety nets for unemployment, illness, and retirement.
41. Discredit the U.S. Constitution
42. Discredit Freedom Heroes. Cast America’s Founding Fathers as elitist whose selfish desires left them no concern for “the little people.”
43. Rewrite History to Discredit American Culture.
44. Promote All-powerful Government Regulation. Support any movement that seeks government control over education, welfare, mental health clinics, social agencies, etc.
45. Install Socialism Everywhere. For any emerging nation, move quickly to install socialism. Promote it as the most efficient model to achieve political and economic stability.
46. Legislate by Crisis. Trigger widespread disorder to justify massive changes in the governments of the world. Use periodic chaos as the means to expand top-down control.
THE FOUNDER’S BRILLIANCE: One of the brilliant contributions by America’s Founding Fathers was a new way of looking at political power. Their idea can be illustrated with a yardstick serving as a scale of political power. To the far left they put Ruler’s Law, or all political power – complete control. On the opposite end, to the far right, they put anarchy, or too little government power, no law, total anarchy, and mob rule – no control at all.
The perfect center or balancing point between all force and no force is difficult to achieve. The best solution ever invented is the U.S. Constitution. It gave Americans a carefully crafted system of bottom-to-top representation, checks and balances, and strict control over the government’s use of force. The Constitution as not only protected the people’s unalienable right, but it allowed for maximum expression of their freedoms inside a structure of brilliantly placed boundaries.
Source: The Naked Socialist by Paul Skousen
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
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