Socialism was born due to the unethical development of the industrial capitalism:
In 1827, the cooperative movement was born and it was comprised of two parallel branches: syndicalism (professional movement) and political (of socialist inspiration).
Syndicalism aimed at reducing the working time, increasing salaries, improving hygienic conditions and security. But they also had a dream: to transform society, and to prepare the advent of a more just social order (for society as a whole [called the messianism of the working class]). Syndicalism defended that the worker was not to trust the bourgeois; he was to completely trust in the cooperative movement only.
The initial spirit of socialism was, in my point of view, correct and just.
The industrial revolution was one of the best periods in human history (in terms of creativity), but it was also a period of unethical capitalist behaviour (workers were severely exploited; thus disrespected, humiliated and unvalued [when they were the main asset of any business: industrial, agricultural etc]).
Socialism helped improving the working conditions worldwide, and we can never forget that; however, after accomplishing all that they have, why do they keep having that silly anti-rich rhetoric, when socialist parties are mainly comprised by rich people (the “Gauche-caviar” [French for “Left-Caviar”]) that call themselves socialist in order to draw votes, and once in power they implement right-wing policies (except for national security issues & Patriotic pride)?
Communism: the deadliest plague of them all, thanks to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
These German philosophers had a dream: that socialism would replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society baptised as pure communism.
The very definition of communism (a set of economic and political ideals, in addition to social movements, “related to the establishment of an egalitarian, classless and stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property, in general” [Source: Wikipedia]) is an illusion and, when implemented it becomes, an attack to individuality, to creativity, to personal ambition, to freedom.
When implemented, communism is not about egalitarianism (which can be reached by any political system if/when we start respecting each other as human beings; and communism never achieved this because it respects not: it oppresses and represses), it is about the search for the absolute power for a restricted group (that would end up by becoming a corrupt political group in absolute); it is not about a classless society (because two classes, under this regime, still exist: the people and the regime’s pack); and it is certainly not about a stateless society (for the state remains existent: the communist government that controls and owns everything, including the life and minds of people).
Communism is far worse than capitalism; for the latter creates, builds, develops, invests, enriches; whereas the first narrows the mind, brainwashes, castrates, censors, persecutes, imprisons, tortures, violates human freedoms, destroys and impoverishes.
- Extremely harsh work conditions
- Exploitation of women and children (15-16 hours/day of working time and they were paid 30%-60% less than men).
- Salary injustice (salaries were paid either in money or in groceries; they were decreased if the volume of business was low and, if the worker got late to work, or damaged any machinery, he/she’d pay a heavy fine).
- Squalor (industrial workers lived poorly in apartments, provided by their employers, without potable water nor sewage system – subjected, thus, to diseases of all sorts).
In 1827, the cooperative movement was born and it was comprised of two parallel branches: syndicalism (professional movement) and political (of socialist inspiration).
Syndicalism aimed at reducing the working time, increasing salaries, improving hygienic conditions and security. But they also had a dream: to transform society, and to prepare the advent of a more just social order (for society as a whole [called the messianism of the working class]). Syndicalism defended that the worker was not to trust the bourgeois; he was to completely trust in the cooperative movement only.
The initial spirit of socialism was, in my point of view, correct and just.
The industrial revolution was one of the best periods in human history (in terms of creativity), but it was also a period of unethical capitalist behaviour (workers were severely exploited; thus disrespected, humiliated and unvalued [when they were the main asset of any business: industrial, agricultural etc]).
Socialism helped improving the working conditions worldwide, and we can never forget that; however, after accomplishing all that they have, why do they keep having that silly anti-rich rhetoric, when socialist parties are mainly comprised by rich people (the “Gauche-caviar” [French for “Left-Caviar”]) that call themselves socialist in order to draw votes, and once in power they implement right-wing policies (except for national security issues & Patriotic pride)?
Communism: the deadliest plague of them all, thanks to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
These German philosophers had a dream: that socialism would replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society baptised as pure communism.
The very definition of communism (a set of economic and political ideals, in addition to social movements, “related to the establishment of an egalitarian, classless and stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property, in general” [Source: Wikipedia]) is an illusion and, when implemented it becomes, an attack to individuality, to creativity, to personal ambition, to freedom.
When implemented, communism is not about egalitarianism (which can be reached by any political system if/when we start respecting each other as human beings; and communism never achieved this because it respects not: it oppresses and represses), it is about the search for the absolute power for a restricted group (that would end up by becoming a corrupt political group in absolute); it is not about a classless society (because two classes, under this regime, still exist: the people and the regime’s pack); and it is certainly not about a stateless society (for the state remains existent: the communist government that controls and owns everything, including the life and minds of people).
Communism is far worse than capitalism; for the latter creates, builds, develops, invests, enriches; whereas the first narrows the mind, brainwashes, castrates, censors, persecutes, imprisons, tortures, violates human freedoms, destroys and impoverishes.
A successful socialist and/or communist regime is a complete reverie: wake up!
I strongly encourage you to read my co-graffiter's (LS) point of view: Here
