Many respected national political commentators are breathless in their assessment of Marxism in all its forms as a national governing system. “It doesn’t work!” they say. When words fail, the mocking quips begin. The problem is, none of these commentators ever answer the logical question—“Why doesn’t socialism or communism, work?”
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Perhaps it is because the answer is complex. The answer requires a sophisticated understanding of human nature, including its odd affinity for attaining the best and then substituting it for the worst. Fortunately for America, the Founders did tackle deep questions. About human nature, they concluded that: human beings are both good and evil; human beings respond to authority closest to their existence; and human beings require time to develop their full potential.
Though relatively young, many of the Founders were well educated in ancient, medieval, and then-modern governance systems and were determined to avoid mistakes made by civilizations that eventually declined. The chief error, they concluded, was a misunderstanding of the nature of man. The Founders, therefore, created a defensive system of diffused bottom-up power that they hoped would help lessen human evil and incentivize human good. Put another way, instead of simply controlling human beings through homogenization and brute force, the system the Founders created grants human beings a conditional “Liberty to Become.”
A socialistic or communist system, for instance, would not have the patience or the interest in an Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960).
Otto was the son of German immigrants to America and grew up in Iowa. He went to public schools and enjoyed the normal Midwest family life. Otto apprenticed to become a jeweler, got married, had a family, and eventually owned three jewelry stores in Missouri. He was very financially successful. Yet Otto had a dream. Having watched his mother and his wife buy and slice loaves of bread, he decided he wanted to engineer a bread-slicing machine. He was middle-aged by this time. Selling his jewelry stores to fund his idea, Otto spent years initiating various experiments developing his machine.
Then the unthinkable occurred. The warehouse with all Otto’s blueprints and prototypes burned to the ground. Nothing could be saved. He started over. In 1927, he finally completed his slicing/wrapping machine and sold it to a Missouri bakery. By 1930, Wonder Bread was introduced and America, with thanks, turned to sliced white bread. It takes time and sometimes initial failure for many individuals to reach their full potential. America’s system provides the stable social order, liberty, and room to help make it happen for those willing to take risks.
The bottom line is that socialism and communism do not work because these systems eventually relegate the individual to dependency and the state to tyranny. Promises of material security represent mere bribes, wrapped in baubles of verbal glitter, meant to lure the unsuspecting into a life of controlled subsistence ruled over by an elite few with lethal weapons and cringy prisons.
Why then, with proof positive over 100 years of the failure of socialist and communist systems, are some Americans willing to scrap liberty for slavery and prosperity for poverty? The Founders would say it is the inexplicable vagaries of human nature. While human beings are both good and evil, respond to local authority, and need room to develop, they are also at times irrational, ungrateful, and easily manipulated. What may be unknown to many Americans is that the citizens rejected the Founding system in 1913. The following timeline helps explain.
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America signed on to global central banking in 1913. No audit of our central bank is allowed. Global bankers insisted America enter WWI to secure their war loans. Prior to 1913, America had rejected central banking as a transfer of financial authority and a weakening of national sovereignty. The political arm of global central banking is the United Nations.
Wall Street supported the Bolshevik revolution in Russia with many American academics romanticizing the communist system. Prominent international intellectuals wrote about subverting Western culture. The Soviet Union was recognized by the United States in 1933. America succumbed to Stalin’s war aims in an unnecessary WWII; Eastern Europe was enslaved.
Files released by the Soviet Union after its fall in 1992, the Venona files, reveal widespread communist influence in major arms of our federal government. America allowed China to become a communist state in 1949.
Communist Korea attacked the south in 1950. 36,000 Americans died. The Cold War became serious, but academic America began to slowly turn its intellectual power toward Marxist concepts, and today, the Founding system and its philosophical underpinnings are taught in only a few schools of higher education. Public primary and secondary education is now an indoctrination, not an education system.
In a final blow, Islamism was allowed to recover from WWI and is now attempting to subvert America from within and militarily control her allies from without. The solid institutions of American culture—the family, the church, the schools—that at one time kept the social order stable for the likes of an Otto Rohwedder have now been perverted, and the final stages of the Revolution of 1913 are upon us with otherwise sensible Americans voting for their own demise.
Why do human beings have an odd affinity for attaining the best and then substituting it for the worst? No one knows. What the Founders would say is that it is better to take a chance on the human ability to “figure it out and fast” even if humans don’t, than to deprive them of that chance. We came up with “sliced white bread” at the Constitutional Convention of 1787—if we can keep it.
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