THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM

Recently two men died. One promoted Liberty and the other Despotism. One was mourned by people of conscience and the other justly descended into Hades. Unfortunately many Liberals and Socialists, unable to distinguish between good and evil, attacked the light and justified the darkness.

Consider first Neil Clark writing in the UK Guardian, who informs us regarding Vaclav Havel’s good struggle for freedom:

“No one questions that Havel, who went to prison twice, was a brave man who had the courage to stand up for his views. Yet the question which needs to be asked is whether his political campaigning made his country, and the world, a better place. Havel’s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgment of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women’s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still a system which put the economic needs of the majority first.”

These comments are, of course, repulsive beyond belief, in addition to being historically illiterate, but as far as Clark is concerned, no good will come of Havel’s death if people like Clark cannot use it to lie about history.

In praise of evil, Kim Jung Il, the morally blind Simon Winchester says of the evil North Korean dictator:

“The State’s founder, Kim Il Sung, claimed that all he wanted for North Korea was to be socialist, and to be left alone. In that regard, the national philosophy of self-reliance known in North Korea as “Juche” is little different from India’s Gandhian version known as “swadeshi”. Just let us get on with it, they said, and without interference, please. India’s attempt to go it alone failed. So, it seems, has Burma’s. Perhaps inevitably, North Korea’s attempt appears to be tottering. But seeing how South Korea has turned out — its Koreanness utterly submerged in neon, hip-hop and every imaginable American influence, a romantic can allow himself a small measure of melancholy: North Korea, for all its faults, is undeniably still Korea, a place uniquely representative of an ancient and rather remarkable Asian culture. And that, in a world otherwise rendered so bland, is perhaps no bad thing.”

Let’s give the mike to Brian Micklethwait, for a reply. “No bad thing? Competition for commenters: concoct morally disgusting sentences which begin with ‘For all its faults …’. You’ll struggle to top that one.”

As I interpret, at least tyrant Kim saved the Korean people from Wal-Mart by starving them to death. As Liberalism and Socialism proudly proclaim, ‘Let us all be poor together.’