Socialism and Education

Marx envisaged two lines of action to destroy the bourgeoise; one violent revolution, the other a slow increase in state power through extended social services, taxation, and regulation, to the point where a smooth transition could be effected from an individualist to a collectivist society. When ‘violent’ tyranny was the result. When ‘slow’ poverty and decline were the result.

In contrast, private property, production for profit and by private ownership and regulation by a free competitive economy, bring maximum prosperity and maximum freedom. No one can bring prosperity to himself without bringing it to others ( except where prosperity is due to government subvention).

Every day of this Obama administration, the goals of Marx’s silent revolution play out. The words of H.G. Wells sound out louder and louder: “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

The results of laissez-faire education (that is value-free), mis-education if you will, were exposed in the 1930’s already by Albert Jay Nock:
Nature takes her own time, sometimes a long time, about exacting her penalty- but exact it in the end she always does, and to the last penny. It would appear, then, that a society which takes no account of the educable person, makes no place for him, does nothing with him, is taking a considerable risk; so considerable that in the whole course of human experience, as far as our records go, no society ever yet has taken it without coming to disaster.

The key word here is ‘educable,’ meaning exposure to the contrast between socialism (Marxism) and individualism in a free-market society and the conclusion that the former is undesirable and a lie and the latter is the best truth possible for real living.