I’ve always heard that the LA Times was a liberal newspaper, but I was still shocked to read the Marxist ideals featured at the front of today’s LA Times “Current” (editorial) section.

The theme of one article was that the “super-rich” are not giving away enough of their wealth (complete with typical cartoon caricatures of fat disgusting rich people). I suppose a Marxist doesn’t believe that people should “own” anything and that other people in power should decide on their sustenance. Given this false ideal, it logically follows that rich people are, by definition, stealing from those who deserve it (those whose only qualification is that they didn’t create the wealth that they consume).

In the real world, people have free will and choice. People can choose to focus, read books, save money, become wiser, create more wealth, and invest in other wealth-creating entities. Just as easily, people can choose to unfocus, drink beer, play video games, spend more than they make, and have children while being financially destitute.

To a Marxist, the people who choose the lazy path are more deserving of wealth than those who create it. Furthermore, those who create the wealth deserve to be forced to work more, and have more stolen away. It’s no wonder that the Soviet Union was such an abysmal wasteland.

In a society, people can deal with one another by voluntary choice and free trade (capitalism) or force (fascism, Marxism, socialism, etc.). The proponents of Marxism in particular believe that those in power should control (force) who works in what profession and how much wealth these people deserve to keep according to their twisted anti-reality morals. In practice, this ideology has always lead to misery and purges.

In a just system, people should be allowed to keep that which they created. For without them, their hard work and choices, the wealth would not exist in the first place.

Once again, North Korea has threatened people outside of its borders with nuclear death, and in exchange, received treasures and booty. Where do these rewards come from? You and I– taxes that are STOLEN/EXTORTED from us to pay this dictator to NOT kill us. Why would anyone doubt that this scenario will play out again in 5-10 years when North Korea wants more “aid”? We’ve already seen several rounds of this. Why would anyone believe that other aspiring dictators in the world are not adding this to their playbooks?

Socialism and all forms of slavery government collapse if left alone. Humans are not very inspired to work for brother love (in spite of what Jesus or Kant or Marx tells you), and central economic planning is no match for large numbers of distributed INDIVIDUALS solving economic problems. No economic system except the free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism is sustainable for very long.

This is one reason why dictators tend to threaten others. Free people living by voluntary free trade (capitalism) generally have no need to steal from others. Dictators must invade/threaten/kill in order to keep their regimes from collapsing.

However, the free world should have known better than to feed the fire. So instead of some military clean up of North Korea that would end this once and for all, we’re now feeding and aiding the very regime that would/will kill us. In the next round, they’ll already have the nukes they developed this round if they haven’t already sold them to some doomsday cult.

Is this justice, or even sanity? Shame on the leaders of the free world.