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===As a social theory===

===As a social theory===

As a social theory, the modern [[United States|American]] [[Democratic Party]] uses [[identity politics]] to create a new "oppressed class" of victims which replaces the traditional worker/peasant/proletariat victims of the imaginary "oppressor class" - "the [[bourgeois]]".<ref>https://youtu.be/PkNzYttjSHE</ref> Socialism preys on people who fall victim to the [[sin]]s of [[envy]] and [[covet]]ousness, and raises [[Iconoclasm]], [[materialism]], and [[nihilism]] as exalted [[virtue]]s.  Left-wing professors and universities have played a large role in advancing socialist ideologies.<ref>Lott, Maxim (January 18, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-rising-universities-and-radical-profs-helping-steer-leftward-shift-in-politics Socialism rising: Universities and ‘radical’ profs helping steer leftward shift in politics, critics say]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 18, 2019.</ref>  Many individual socialists and groups display juvenile, adolescent, and cult-like behavior.

As a social theory, the modern [[United States|American]] [[Democratic Party]] uses [[identity politics]] to create a new "oppressed class" of victims which replaces the traditional worker/peasant/proletariat victims of the imaginary "oppressor class" - "the [[bourgeois]]".<ref>https://youtu.be/PkNzYttjSHE</ref> Socialism preys on people who fall victim to the [[sin]]s of [[envy]] and [[covet]]ousness, and raises [[Iconoclasm]], [[materialism]], and [[nihilism]] as exalted [[virtue]]s.  Left-wing professors and universities have played a large role in advancing socialist ideologies.<ref>Lott, Maxim (January 18, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-rising-universities-and-radical-profs-helping-steer-leftward-shift-in-politics Socialism rising: Universities and ‘radical’ profs helping steer leftward shift in politics, critics say]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 18, 2019.</ref>  Many individual socialists and groups display juvenile, adolescent, and cult-like behavior.

===As an economic theory===

===As an economic theory===

As an economic theory, socialism is an [[authoritarian]] system which advocates strict state [[economic planning|command and control]] of [[income]]s and distribution or rationing of goods and services, including food and healthcare. High taxation to expropriate wealth from the supposed "oppressor class" is common to all socialist regimes. Removal of incentives and demonizing the [[profit]] motive, while expecting common people to produce goods and services, and supply tax revenues to government, for little or no pay is a [[psychotic]] dream.  After exterminating "corporations" and "the rich," the cost burden of government - which controls everything - naturally falls to an impoverished working class, the unemployed, and homeless which previously paid no taxes. No one can retain anything for themselves because the profit motive is dis-incentivized or outlawed. Due to its core [[anti-democratic]] and authoritarian precepts, socialism is considered [[treason]]ous to [[America]]'s central ideal of [[liberty]].

As an economic theory, socialism is an [[authoritarian]] system which advocates strict state [[economic planning|command and control]] of [[income]]s and distribution or rationing of goods and services, including food and healthcare. High taxation to expropriate wealth from the supposed "oppressor class" is common to all socialist regimes. Removal of incentives and demonizing the [[profit]] motive, while expecting common people to produce goods and services, and supply tax revenues to government, for little or no pay is a [[psychotic]] dream.  After exterminating "corporations" and "the rich," the cost burden of government - which controls everything - naturally falls to an impoverished working class, the unemployed, and homeless which previously paid no taxes. No one can retain anything for themselves because the profit motive is dis-incentivized or outlawed. Due to its core [[anti-democratic]] and authoritarian precepts, socialism is considered [[treason]]ous to [[America]]'s central ideal of [[liberty]].

 

Socialism at all times has never amounted to more than a [[criminal]] cabal that enlists the aid of corrupt politicians and [[civil service system|civil servants]], [[monopolist]] [[oligarch]]s, academics, the disgruntled, naive youth, and remaining misfits of society against the ordinary worker or middle class.

Socialism at all times has never amounted to more than a [[criminal]] cabal that enlists the aid of corrupt politicians and [[civil service system|civil servants]], [[monopolist]] [[oligarch]]s, academics, the disgruntled, naive youth, and remaining misfits of society against the ordinary worker or middle class.

Through [[affirmative action]] programs, Nazism and Bolshevism granted workers and peasants access to educational and employment opportunities previously only available to the German and Russian bourgeois and [[nobility]] (the "oppressor class") at the price of membership and loyalty to the party.  The modern Chinese system is built upon the same model.

Through [[affirmative action]] programs, Nazism and Bolshevism granted workers and peasants access to educational and employment opportunities previously only available to the German and Russian bourgeois and [[nobility]] (the "oppressor class") at the price of membership and loyalty to the party.  The modern Chinese system is built upon the same model.

==Historic types==

==Historic types==