Category: Socialism

Fidel Castro at 100: Ask Whether the Children Still Play

The Children have to dance — YNOT! Fidel Castro would have turned one hundred years old this week, and I see people here and there celebrating the occasion. Celebrate him if you wish. I prefer to remember what he cost everyone, especially the Children of Cuba. The Picture above is not Cuba. If you want to see Cuban Children go to the bottom of this post. History has a peculiar habit of admiring revolutionaries from a comfortable distance. A man gives a long speech, grows a beard, waves a flag, promises equality, and fifty years later somebody prints his … Continue readingFidel Castro at 100: Ask Whether the Children Still Play

WHY SOCIALISM IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM

If you have two children and one learns faster than the other, you don’t make the smarter child learn less. You push both children to become the best they can be. Equality isn’t making everyone the same—it is giving everyone the opportunity to become better. –YNOT! There is an enormously important difference between helping people at the bottom and requiring everyone to finish at the same place. Those two ideas are constantly confused. I believe society should help people who genuinely need help. Feed the hungry. Treat the sick. Educate children. Help the disabled. Give people opportunities to climb. Build a floor beneath … Continue readingWHY SOCIALISM IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM

THE GOLDEN GOOSE- Why Free Societies Keep Winning—and Why Closed Systems Eventually Lose

Free societies survive because they can admit they were wrong. Tyrannies collapse because they punish anyone who says so. –YNOT! Every civilization eventually confronts the same question: Why do some societies continually invent, build, grow, correct their mistakes, and improve the lives of ordinary people—while others remain poor, stagnant, and angry despite possessing intelligent citizens, fertile land, valuable resources, and leaders who promise paradise? People usually answer with one word. Capitalism. Democracy. Education. Technology. Natural resources. Geography. Culture. All of those things matter, but none of them fully explains the difference. The real dividing line is much simpler. Successful societies, … Continue readingTHE GOLDEN GOOSE- Why Free Societies Keep Winning—and Why Closed Systems Eventually Lose

Che Guevara: Revolutionary Soldier, Executioner, Architect of Violence and Death

Ernesto “Che” Guevara is often presented as a romantic rebel: the bearded doctor who abandoned comfort to fight injustice, became a commander in the Cuban Revolution, and died attempting to spread revolution abroad. That image leaves out the central fact of his adult life. Che Guevara was a professional revolutionary who believed political violence was not merely unavoidable but necessary. He fought as a guerrilla commander, imposed severe discipline on his own men, participated in executions during the insurgency, supervised revolutionary tribunals after victory, and spent his final years trying to create new wars in Africa and Latin America. … Continue readingChe Guevara: Revolutionary Soldier, Executioner, Architect of Violence and Death

Why Che and Cuba Still Matter to America 60 Years Later

The Guerrilla War Failed. The Ideological War Did Not. Che lovers still get together to celebrate his “triumphs” –YNOT! Most Americans think Che Guevara is ancient history. And after 60 years it should be. He is the face on an old T-shirt, a college dormitory poster, a coffee mug, or a faded symbol from another political era. Millions recognize the image, but comparatively few know much about the man, his failed military campaigns, or the international propaganda operation that transformed him from a defeated guerrilla into one of the most powerful political symbols in modern history. Che’s final revolutionary … Continue readingWhy Che and Cuba Still Matter to America 60 Years Later

SWEDEN THREW AWAY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY – It is now the most Capitalist Country in the World

If you still describe Sweden as the model of old-fashioned Nordic socialism, you are not looking at modern Sweden—you are repeating old propaganda. Sweden is no longer what you think it is. — YNOT! The Nordic Model Didn’t Work—So Sweden Quietly Rebuilt Itself For decades, American progressives have pointed to Sweden as proof that democratic socialism works. Whenever politicians propose universal childcare, government-run transportation, rent controls, municipal supermarkets, expanded welfare programs, or higher taxes on wealth, Sweden is usually presented as the model. Look at Sweden, they say. Sweden has high taxes. Sweden has a large welfare state. Sweden has universal … Continue readingSWEDEN THREW AWAY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY – It is now the most Capitalist Country in the World

How to turn a Nation Into a Mortuary and how to escape.

A regime can imprison the body, starve the home, and silence the street — but its final victory only comes when it captures the mind. Free the mind, and the chains have already begun to break. –YNOT! Cuba was not destroyed in one day. It was not one speech, one law, one prison, one firing squad, one ration card, one exile boat, or one family split across the ocean. It was a system. That is the part people need to understand. A bad government can rob your wallet. A totalitarian government tries to rob your memory, your language, your faith, … Continue readingHow to turn a Nation Into a Mortuary and how to escape.

The People’s Waffle House

The planners had theories.  Joe had waffles.  — YNOT!   Every few years someone comes along and says, “Socialism will work this time.” Fine. Let’s run a little experiment. Take a Waffle House and turn it into a worker-owned collective in the glorious Socialist Communist City of Dreamlandia. At first everyone is excited. There are meetings about equality. Meetings about inclusion. Meetings about meetings. Then reality arrives. Someone eats half the waffles before they ever reach a customer. Someone else helps themselves to the cash register because, after all, private property is oppression. Nobody cleans the bathrooms because cleaning … Continue readingThe People’s Waffle House

How Socialism Really Works in Cuba — And How Did Raul Castro End Up Owning the Country? GAESA

Socialism in Cuba did not eliminate the rich — it simply replaced businessmen with generals, and called the new monopoly ‘the people.’ Meanwhile, the people stood in line for bread while the revolution built luxury hotels. — YNOT! People imagine socialism as a system where “the people” own everything together. That sounds noble right up until you ask the obvious question nobody likes to answer: Who actually controls “the people’s stuff”? Because in Cuba, it turned out the answer was not “the workers.” It was not “the farmers.” It was not “the revolution.” It was a military business empire … Continue readingHow Socialism Really Works in Cuba — And How Did Raul Castro End Up Owning the Country? GAESA

Take All the Money… And Then What? The Day after tomorrow?

You can confiscate wealth once. But prosperity only survives when someone still knows how to create it tomorrow. –YNOT! Every few years, somebody rediscovers the same magical idea: “If we just take all the rich people’s money, all our problems disappear.” It sounds wonderful right up until mathematics shows up. The entire federal government now spends around seven trillion dollars a year. That is not “a lot of money.” That is civilization-scale money. That is an empire consuming mountains of cash every sunrise before breakfast. So people point at billionaires. “Take it all!” Fine. Let’s play the game. Take … Continue readingTake All the Money… And Then What? The Day after tomorrow?

Why Socialism Sounds So Attractive in America -— While People in Socialist Countries Dream of Freedom

“Most folks think the grass is greener on the Neighbor’s yard. Half the time, it’s just growing over the septic tank.” — YNOT! There is a strange little trick the human mind plays on itself. The people who live inside a hard system dream of escape. The people who live outside that system dream of the story. That is the riddle of socialism in the modern world. In America, where shelves are full, businesses open every day, and a man can still become rich selling dog food, software, roofing, sermons, or lies, there are millions who speak warmly of … Continue readingWhy Socialism Sounds So Attractive in America -— While People in Socialist Countries Dream of Freedom

Why Are People So Desperate to Control Everything?

Have you ever noticed that the things minding their own business usually scare people more than the things actually causing trouble? I will tell you all a raccoon story. I live in the city, but in one of those older areas where somebody once remembered that human beings might enjoy a little space. There is a nearby forest, canals, big backyards, and long stretches of connected green behind the houses, like neighborhoods used to be before every home got turned into a glorified storage box with a mailbox attached. Because of that, we still have wildlife. Ducks, foxes, coyotes, … Continue readingWhy Are People So Desperate to Control Everything?

Cuba Is Falling, and the Left Can Feel the Floor Moving

“Communism begins with speeches about dignity and ends with people standing in the dark surrounded by garbage wondering where the food went.” –YNOT! There are moments in history when a lie grows old all at once. For years, Cuba has been one of those grand political frauds the world was told to admire from a safe distance. Intellectuals toasted it. radicals romanticized it. professors explained it. journalists excused it. And the people trapped inside it paid the bill in hunger, darkness, fear, and silence. That is the way of bad ideas. The wealthy praise them. The powerful enforce them. … Continue readingCuba Is Falling, and the Left Can Feel the Floor Moving

Is Socialism Really a Cult in Disguise?

“If you want to measure how successful socialism has been in practice, don’t follow the slogans — follow the cemeteries.” — YNOT! There’s something peculiar that happens when a grand theory crashes into reality. Most ideas, when they fail, get revised. A bridge collapses? You don’t blame gravity — you fix the math. But some ideas don’t bend. They double down. And that’s where things get interesting. The Prediction That Didn’t Happen The Communist Manifesto wasn’t written as poetry. It was written as “science.” Karl Marx called it scientific socialism — history reduced to equations. Capitalists compete. Wages fall. … Continue readingIs Socialism Really a Cult in Disguise?

What If “Soylent Green Is People” Wasn’t the Scariest Part of the Story?

“If it is Free then you are the product – But Eventually you really are the product, rebranded of course.” –YNOT The most famous line in Soylent Green isn’t subtle. It never was. “Soylent Green is people.” People shout it, meme it, laugh nervously about it at dinner parties while eating something that came from a box. But here’s the uncomfortable truth most folks miss: that line is not the warning — it’s the punchline. The real horror of Soylent Green isn’t cannibalism. It’s what happens when systems fail slowly, politely, and with paperwork. The Quiet Math Behind the … Continue readingWhat If “Soylent Green Is People” Wasn’t the Scariest Part of the Story?

Are You Tired of Freedom, or Do You Just Not Know It?

Have You Considered New York City, or Are You Still Clinging to Comfort? Hello, friends — Zohran here — and let me personally invite you to New York City, where ambition ages poorly, rent ferments aggressively, and individuality is finally distilled down to its purest form: compliance. Come to NYC, where you won’t be burdened by excess square footage, unnecessary silence, or the dangerous illusion that your paycheck belongs to you. Here, we believe in community — especially when sharing walls, elevators, buses, and disappointment with millions of strangers who all voted for the same promises. New York is … Continue readingAre You Tired of Freedom, or Do You Just Not Know It?