OnlySubs Episode 112: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms:
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Socialism doesn’t work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society. Everyone has to put everyone else’s needs ahead of their own. There’s effectively no worse way to organize a social or economic system. In this quirky episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I talk about how complex and impossible such an arrangement of mutual reciprocal submission is in what I think might be a tangible way. Join me and check it out.
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Socialism, like the other three expressions of Statism–communism, fascism, and theocracy–is based upon the denial of private property rights and, by logical extension, the denial of all other legitimate individual rights: self-ownership and bodily autonomy; personal liberty; privacy; self-defense; the keeping and bearing of firearms and any other type and quantity of weapons; freedom of speech and conscience; freedom of association; freedom of non-association, including peaceful discrimination against others for any reason whatsoever; and freedom of contract. Without private property rights, there is no way whatsoever that one can physically implement these other individual rights.
This denial is advocated by the Statist’s moral code of altruism, i.e. self-sacrifice to a collector of the sacrifices, whether a deity (e.g. a supernatural being; or The Earth), or some collective (e.g. “The People”; “The Nation”; “The State”; “The Race”; “The Common Good”; “Society as a Whole”).
Socialism, in theory and practice, means enslavement of each to each, each to all, and all to government and its operators–sociopaths and psychopaths all.
I just watched a video where author Clara Mattei talked about austerity as a step to fascism. I wonder, are her ideas Marxist/Socialist and worth rebutting?