Socialism: The Real History from Plato to the Present: How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control

ISBN: 0989649180

Author: Federer, William J

Condition: New

SOCIALISM: THE DREAM OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY? Is it a wonderful "utopia" or a totalitarian nightmare? Will everything be free or will deep-state bureaucrats decide who gets what? Did Plato, Thomas More, & Francis Bacon propose social ownership of property? Is there a difference between socialism and communism? Did Pilgrims attempt "a communistic plan of life"? What happened? How did the Pilgrims covenant under God become the Age of Enlightenments social contract with a distant God, become the French Revolutions social contract with no god, become Marxisms "the state is god"? "If the state gives rights, it can, and inevitably will, take away those rights"-Eisenhower. Was Frances Reign of Terror a model for future socialist revolutions? The Bible talks about private property, yet Marx wrote: "The theory of the communists may be summed up...Abolition of private property." Coolidge wrote "It does not follow that because something ought to be done, the national government ought to do it."