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To the editor:
Our upcoming elections are exposing a trend that should concern anyone who values their freedom. Across the country, self-described socialists have won Democratic primaries, and if they win in the general, they will be much better positioned to advocate and implement their policies. But what is the end goal?
The clearest indication can be seen in the writings of Soviet leader Lenin in his 1917 work "The State and Revolution." On page 65 Lenin states " … having in view such a social order usually called socialism but termed by Marx the first phase of communism."
Page 55 indicates the true socialist view of self-government by stating that "under socialism all democracy will wither away." Page 58 assures us that "in striving for socialism, however, we are convinced that it will develop into communism." On page 66 Lenin indicates the gradual nature of the process "in the first phase of communist society (usually called socialism) bourgeois law is not abolished in its entirety but only in part only in proportion to economic revolution so far attained."
The specifics of this radical transformation can be found in the Communist Manifesto, where Marxm calls for the abolition of "all religion and all morality"," private property and the family. He said this can be attained by such policies as the creation of a central bank, a heavily progressive income tax and free education for all.
The result of this transformation is the worst human rights record of any political or religious philosophy in human history. An estimated 100 million human beings have been murdered by communist governments, including 40 million by Mao alone in his Cultural Revolution and an additional 10 million Ukrainians starved to death by Stalin
The left tries to justify all of the horrors of socialism and communism by claiming "the good of society." The best response was offered by C.S. Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia."
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth."
As we consider our choices of who will govern us, will we be wise or foolish?
Wayne Wolf
Farnhamville