OurCivicDuty.com: Civics: Socialism

Last Updated: Apr 23, 2007.

Socialism | Democracy | A Republic | Fascism

"[Welfare] is a concept that emphasizes human needs while neglecting human capacities. It stresses individual helplessness and weakness, undermining the sense of personal responsibility. It justifies ever greater concentrations of power in the hands of the state, leaving people each day more powerless to effect and improve their own condition. This bad concept leads to institutions and policies that disable individual initiative, motivation, and creativity. Faced with political and social structures that embody the assumption of individual impotence, individuals acquire the passive habits and expectations that go with it."

- Alan Keyes

Socialism

Socialism can be disturbingly seductive. It warps the noble ideals of equality and responsibility into a faulty, but sometimes appealing, social system. This system can be effortlessly hidden in a patriotic package and then sold to an unsuspecting nation by sly politicians piece by piece. A trusting American public is excited to learn that the "government" is willing to support the elderly, disabled, and unemployed because it, at first, appears to remove our moral responsibility to do such things. Variations of this perversion of responsibility have been increasingly implemented throughout the past century and have gained acceptance as a new and better policy. FDR is now praised for his "New Deal" which was essentially the large-scale implementation of socialism. This enormous social transformation has produced disastrous programs such as Social Security, and what is commonly referred to as the "welfare state" is also evidence of how socialism is a part of every American's life. These systems are based on an unsound philosophy that is incompatible with true American principles and because of this it fails both in theory and practice.

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

Misplaced Responsibility

The sovereign nature of every person requires that each be responsible for their own actions. As a citizen of the United States, we also have a responsibility to preserve the system that respects this sovereignty. Any law or system that attempts to enforce the idea that we are responsible for anything else is unjust as it inevitably seeks to erode the paramount concept of the individual's sovereignty. It is true that there exists a moral responsibility to fulfill various other social needs, but no just system can ever require such action from citizens or government. More information on the purpose of government can be found here that helps to clarify the government's role.

"The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed."

- Alan Keyes

Servitude

Transferring any citizen's own responsibilities to the government causes the government to expand to fulfill the needs and more often the desires of others. Other citizens are forced to relinquish their property to the government which then distributes this property among the people. Those forced to give up property (virtually everyone) are turned into slaves. The fruits of our labor are stolen and given to others under the guise of social responsibility.

Conclusion

Socialism has failed in the past, and its many variations are destined to fail in the future. Despite the broad influence of socialism in our country, fascism is likely our greatest threat. Corp. U.S. favors socialism as a means to usurp property as it bends the system towards full-blown fascism.

Alan Keyes

Quotes by Alan Keyes are featured on this page because he is a man who understands liberty as it was understood by the founding fathers. Because of this, he rejects every form of socialism that has been implemented in this country including the income tax and favors a restoration of the values upon which the country was founded and of the original Constitution.

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