Socialism's Unbroken Trail of Failure
"Socialism will work if the right people are in charge." This fallacious assertion is an attempt to explain away socialism's unbroken trail of failure. The scourge of socialism has never created a single free and prosperous society, but has destroyed every functioning society where it was allowed to metastasize. One hundred percent of those who think socialism will work if the "right people" are in charge are referred to as useful idiots, a class of gullible citizens duped to believe that the universally failed theories of Marx and Lenin are the answer to wealth and income disparity.
Having left an unbroken trail of failure in its wake, socialism is
doomed to fail wherever it's tried, because it is in eternal mortal conflict
with the basic human instinct that those who work hard, pursue advanced
education, employ their ingenuity, or risk their capital have an inborn
expectation to do significantly better than those who don't. As 18th century
Scottish economist Adam Smith put it, "it is not from the benevolence of
the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their
regard to their own self-interest." Stated differently, every
socialist who works for a living does so not out of altruistic instincts, but
to feather his own financial nest. That, too, will never change.