the others who once praised Pol Pot for his Communist convictions and the “just society” he despotically built, nor any of the ideologically bankrupt intellectuals explicitly calling for Communism today and telling us, as a “reminder,” that “Communism is good.” These people must be ideologically confronted and exposed and defeated — routed — on the battleground of ideas, because the truth is that when the facts are made clear and their philosophies presented in full, without their interminable equivocations, circumlocutions, obfuscations, and jargon, there is no argument — they don’t have one — and so they don’t stand a chance. And do you know why they don’t have an argument?
Because nobody has a right to the life or labor of any other individual human being.
If anyone ever tells you differently, ask them how. Ask them from where their edict and premise derive, and Karl Marx will no longer do — not that he ever did. Ask them by what natural order of affairs, what fact within nature — either human nature or nature apart from humans — do they propound such a doctrine and decree. Because in the history of the entire world, no good answer has ever been given to this question, and do you know why?
Because no good answer for it exists, or ever will.
The Cambodian Killing Fields should stand eternally as a horrific, monolithic, twisted moment to the philosophy of egalitarianism, and the human race should never forget that any minister of force preaching the egalitarian doctrine-of-envy — which is to say, anti-individualism — that person, that minister of force, is an ideological offspring and disciple of Pol Pot.
I am well aware that most people today espousing socialism and egalitarianism — especially those who’ve grown up in the first-world and take its comparative freedom for granted — are not despots-in-waiting, tyrants-to-be, or full-blown dictators of the blackest breed. But I know also that Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al, are exactly where and to what these politico-ethical-economic ideologies lead.
I know also that once a principle has been breeched, even to a small degree, it becomes increasingly easy — easy and then easier and easier and easier — for that principle to be breeched again and again, more and more. So that you soon hear people saying: “What do you mean, government can’t legitimately restrict an individual’s freedom of action, or expropriate her property? Certainly they can. Governments do it all the time, and they’ve been doing it for decades. Look at military conscription — the draft — or look at 1913, when the Federal Reserve was created and then, that same year, laws came into being which passed the national income tax, which is certainly a type of expropriation, and then Herbert Hoover and his passage of Smoot–Hawley, which of course paved way for the New Deal, with all its price and wage controls, and then Social Security, which was meant to be temporary, and then Medicare and Medicaid and then TARP, followed by Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar ‘stimulus,’ whose thousands of pages nobody read in full before it was rammed through and made into the law of the land, and then his taxpayer-funded bailouts and his taxpayer subsidizations of ‘renewables’ and then Obamacare. Why should Donald Trump’s new laws be any different?”
Thus are new laws endlessly enacted, and endlessly justified. And then one day, freedom is gone, and nobody quite knows how. Or cares.