Truth or Liberalism

"Concealment of the historical truth is a crime against the people," wrote a General from the USSR in 1975. He ought to know, but liberals do not, cannot, deal with reality due to their upended world view in which America is the enemy of the world. Socialism for liberals would save mankind. With historical truth slapping them on both cheeks, liberals still deny him his due. I cite two different approaches to the solution of socialism. Christian missionaries in South America employ the idea of socialism when they require natives to produce goods which are then sold through a cooperative for community credit so that a new commodity such as a motor can be owned by the whole village regardless of who does the productive work. Socialism won’t work because some workers will be unequal to others and jealousy and sabotage will intervene. A liberal, academic, anthropologist, do-goober wants to buy the motor for the native villagers (like a government intervention) but when the missionaries say no, he compromises, not by forgetting the donation, but by depositing $500 into the communal account, the balance to be earned by the natives for the motor. Socialism doesn’t work because natives just whittle away the credit on purchases of gasoline to take pleasure trips in their boats or boats borrowed from neighbors. Capitalism would work if a $500 prize were offered to the villager who invents an improved method of production after which he could be additionally entrepreneurial by renting out his award-winning motor. Ingenuity and individualism have advanced civilization unlike retarded, tribal customs. This is historical truth. It would be a crime against reasonableness to conceal data that inspires achievement. Yet liberals who buy into socialism and equalization of income and intellectual achievement, disserve the people they hope to help. Any history textbook re-written from a liberal, anti-American, pro-socialistic point of view is a downer. It disserves our rational selves because truth is a terrible thing to waste.