By Junius Tian
“This is not real socialism; true socialism has never been tried.”
As a person of color from a socialist country, the first time I heard a white person say this to me in the real world, I felt an unprecedented sense of sadness, anger, and despair. As a person of color in a white-dominated society, I may never have the courage to openly challenge those elegant socialist youths: Why is it that a generation of all-day faineant Western millennials like you who enjoy the utmost individual freedom and Humane law achievable in human history but fantasize about the socialist ideology as a great ideology even though it always brings violence, totalitarianism, and poverty in historical practice?
When someone tells me that China is not a real socialist country, I always tell them this: ‘It is socialism.’ China is a socialist country, the Soviet Union was a socialist country, and the Third Reich was also a socialist country. Despite sympathizers of the first two always trying to distance themselves from sympathizers of the Third Reich, even though their socialist theories may have different names, they all operate on the same logic and expect to build a society on a foundation of hatred and lies.
The admission ticket of becoming a socialist is possessing a soul marked by arrogance and an unrestrained desire for power, and it is also why even supporters of socialism often harbor mutual animosity towards each other. The animosity between National Socialists and Scientific Socialists is fundamentally nothing different from the conflict between Stalinists and Trotskyists, and it’s a purge initiated by power-hungry individuals in authority against their smart-ass comrades who are not in power, as well as a natural unremitting hatred from smart-ass arrogant toward their competitors that is difficult to heal.
Fortunately, Western socialists have not yet attained the absolute power that their comrades currently hold in China. Even so, their pampered successors already have eagerly and impatiently established various ideologically similar Marxist clubs within Western universities even in the same one, then established multiple positions for self-proclaimed Politburo and committee. If these middle-class rich kids merely confine their commie great leader make-believe games to this extent, then everything doesn’t seem all that bad. But socialists are power-driven animals; they will utilize all the resources at their disposal to satisfy their desire for power and the urge to struggle. When they are unable to impose tyranny on everyone, they resort to spreading their lies and hatred throughout society as much as they can.
The scientific socialists and their national socialist comrades are seasoned players in Goebbels-style lies, while they all understand the importance of propaganda for subsequent political actions.
First, they advocate for an ideology of extreme exclusivity that guides people on what to think and how to act through a paranoid, radical political ideology.
Secondly, they will frame a narrative structure of altruism to describe a future promise with an extreme egoist core that deceives the people into believing a story of a future utopian society with substantial benefits without hard work.
Then, they simplify viewpoints into abstract yet impractical political slogans, constructing a binary opposition framework for resorting to demonizing and symbolizing individuals with opposing political views through the Reductio ad Hitlerum (such as labeling all opponents of Marxism as fascists).
Finally, scientific socialists will use all available propaganda resources to alter the public’s general view on lifestyles and moral concepts and promote their core demand with verbal fallacies: “The Third Reich, the Soviet Union, and China were not real socialism. What we advocate now is real socialism. Everyone should allow us to experiment once more, even at the cost of countless lives, and then we will establish a real socialist state in the free world.” However, when you criticize the Soviet Union or China in front of them, they will tell you that these socialist countries never have a chance for more time to further development, which often makes it very challenging to discern where their real viewpoints and positions really lie. These verbal fallacies without any logic are always repeatedly elaborated upon by lengthy academic bullshit from academic authorities who are engrossed in postmodernist philosophy, also spread widely by all-day faineant, privileged petite bourgeois Marxist students through contaminated academic sources and cognitive channels. Ironically, such a group Machiavellian as scientific socialists, who habitually lie and lack logic but often have the word “truth” on their lips, on shameless they are indeed no less evident than their national socialist comrades.
Another shared characteristic between state socialists and scientific socialists is their hatred toward capitalism and the inherent natural rights of every individual. Although today’s Western socialists often describe a state that fully nationalizes private property and even citizens themselves as state capitalism, the fundamental definition of capitalism is the sanctity and inviolability of individual private property in the face of government and bureaucratic entities. Centuries ago, William Pitt, leader of the Whig Party in the UK, emphasized this in one of his speeches:
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Since the fundamental definition of capitalism revolves around the sanctity of individual private property, how can a state that recklessly infringes on citizen’s private property be called a capitalist state? It’s akin to those Marxist politicians who dub themselves “democratic” socialists and swear to build a socialist society while upholding the existing constitutional democratic system made me cringe.
Throughout history, there hasn’t been an example of a coexistence between a socialist society and a liberal democratic system. However, numerous socialist politicians ascend to power through free elections yet continually erode constitutional principles. From the National Socialist Adolf Hitler to the scientific socialist Hugo Chávez, each of them exploited the majority’s resentment and bias against the minority to gain power, subsequently spreading xenophobic narratives to pave the way for distorting constitutional principles. Those tedious constitutional principles may seem dull and fogyish, but it is once people destroy these old-fashioned articles — They’ll realize that they are facing the same trouble as the ancient Romans that they find Octavian is the only name left on the candidate list for the next election day. As Padmé Amidala said in that Star Wars movie: “So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.”
As property and freedoms, these natural rights, are erased from society one after another by socialists, people will eventually find that even the right to life will no longer belong to themselves but to the state or some symbolized concept. Scientific socialists are much like their national socialist comrades in that they can’t tolerate the existence of any diverse groups within society. The socialist Gulags and purges have not only been for freedom fighters who stood up to them but also for all differentiator or those who do not conform to their ideological standard within society. Their ideology wants a world with no individualism and free will anymore, where those who are different from the masses will get erased, and diverse groups will become one group until everyone becomes uniform and willingly sacrifices everything unconditionally for the great ideal of socialism.
However, what makes scientific socialists more successful than their national socialist comrades should be thanks to their excellent skills in public opinion manipulation. When Marxists carry out genocide and persecution against certain specific groups, they never openly issue a statement similar to their national socialist comrades, such as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Just like the Marxists today always use ambiguous terms like anti-Zionism or Islamophobia to openly portray their great ideals of genocide, the soviet Marxists also favored labeling the people they persecuted as “individuals without nationality and tribe” or “bourgeois internationalists,” using vague terms to cloak genuine systemic racial extermination and persecution in an inconspicuous facade. If Hitler were to ask Stalin, “Hey buddy, do you also hate Jews?” our astute comrade Stalin would sit up straight and respond, “No, we are eliminating some of the exploiting class who don’t believe in atheism, for support the oppressed classes of the Middle East against the oppression of the Zionist colonialists!”
Today’s scientific socialists still emulate their predecessors and prefer to carefully disguise themselves as allies of the oppressed to conceal the ideological core of their genocide and elimination of diversity. The Marxist regime in China builds concentration camps for genocide in East Turkestan but claims they are just running some re-education schools. They actively enforce assimilation policies in Hong Kong and Cantonia but declare they are combating so-called pro-colonialists. They advocate traditional culture demanding women to return to the home while manipulating pro-CCP pseudo-feminists to sow mutual hatred and societal division among people in the free world. They commit countless crimes against Chinese dissenters and the most vulnerable groups in society, yet they say that Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, which promotes social justice, legalization of same-sex marriage, and protects indigenous rights, is a neo-fascist party.
The supporters of the Chinese Communist Party in the West don’t perform much worse than their comrades. Since they cannot physically eliminate their opponents in democratic societies, they resort to another strategy. They use the freedom granted by the democratic system and all available propaganda channels to attempt to eradicate the public opinion environment that nurtures dissenters. That is commonly known as political correctness. They’ve used cancel culture to cancel the original definition of freedom of speech and have redefined its meaning again; They‘ve reinterpreted founders of the modern West from centuries ago through a contemporary lens as racists but remain indifferent to hate speech from contemporary individuals like Jeremy Corbyn; They’ve labeled American patriots who oppose Marxism and are faithful to classical liberalism as fascists. However, these Marxists who are full of critical spirit have a miraculous fondness for terrorist organizations like Hamas, despite these terrorists having blood on their hands from countless children, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and innocent civilians. Why do Western Marxists never seem to see the suffering of humanity? Is it because the souls of these people are the same as Karl Marx and Marxism comes into the world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt?
Therefore, compared to choosing to believe in Marxist scholars who confine themselves in ivory towers and repeatedly propagate through academic bullshit they made within universities and academic institutions, I choose to trust the experiential judgment way from ordinary people.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
What is socialism? National socialism is socialism, scientific socialism is socialism, and the Nazis, the Soviet Union, the China, they all socialism. And I, here, for calling an international capitalist revolution to overthrow socialism.
