Venezuelans sell sex in Colombia to survive

The worldwide experiment in socialism has been an abysmal failure throughout its sad history.

The reason it does not work, and cannot, is not because it has never been properly implemented.  It is because it seeks to control human nature in a way fundamentally at odds with its principles.  It rejects the idea that man is a moral being made in imago Dei, accountable to God, but fallen into sin.  It also attacks the legitimacy of the family as the core (and pre-political) social unit.

Socialism, wherever it is implemented, denies all notions of freedom to its ‘labour units’ – as it sees people – because the free conduct of individuals disrupts the work of its socialist system.

It fails economically because in order to achieve its goal, it must suppress free individual acts.  Thus it is utterly amoral in the way it implements its policies.  There are no rewards or incentives for productivity, and there are no punishments for failure. 

This failure to reward work is destructive enough on those within its own system, but it is also a mortal threat to countries outside its scope insofar as socialist countries recognize that their failure is in part because freedom exists outside the borders of its control.

Venezuela is an object lesson in the failures of socialism at the very time that it is being sought back-handedly through the Green movement.

As ever, it is those who are rendered most vulnerable by the breakdown of the family who suffer the most under its ‘egalitarian’ policies.

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