SOCIALISM: Dangers (Part 2)

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I’m Bub Kuns, and today we’re talking about socialism again.

John Lennon’s popular 1970s song, “Imagine,” paints a dreamy picture of a utopian, socialistic world where there are “no possessions,” “greed, or hunger” with everybody “Livin’ life in peace” — a “brotherhood of man.” Very pointedly, the song also tells us to imagine there’s “no heaven,” “no hell.” and “no religion.” The song seeks to remove God from the world assuming that humans can reach this state of utopia on their own — through something like socialism. But, is socialism really all that wonderful?

Well, as historian Lee Edwards points out, young people often fail to understand the destruction — specifically, the historical death toll — that socialism has left behind wherever it’s been dominant: “When asked how many people have died under communism [the militant version of socialism], only 31 percent of Americans could provide the correct answer— ‘Over 100 million.’”

There are a number of other problems with socialism and we’ll discuss them another time.

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