One of the Larger Lies That I've Seen Lately

   "CAPITALISM: The Extraordinary Idea That The Nastiest Of People, For The Nastiest Of Motives, Will Actually Work For The Common Good."

What a wealth (no pun intended) of INTENTIONAL DISHONESTY there is to be refuted in this Marxist bumper sticker! Where to begin??

I'll begin with a word whose use may produce confusion, EVEN IF no one is lying on purpose. The word "capitalism" is used sometimes to mean ALL privately-owned business on any scale, and sometimes to mean only really large corporations. But the very fact that HONEST uncertainty can arise with use of this word, can be to the advantage of leftwing liars. If confronted strongly over their desire to take ALL commerce out of the hands of individual citizens, totalitarian collectivists can look all innocent and croon: "Oh, no, you misunderstand! We don't want to take away neighborhood flower shops and marijuana dispensaries from their mom-and-pop owners; we ONLY wish to bring down those evil giant corporations that want to destroy the world!"

But in reality, Marxists wish to exert such total control that EVEN little street-corner shops can be confiscated from their owners (under the cover of the "You Didn't Build That" lie). They are against all free enterprise, because they are against freedom itself (except for the party elites, of course). This being understood, let us dissect the propaganda message piece by piece.

1) The loaded phrase "extraordinary idea" is used here as a salesmanship device, trying to get the reader or hearer on the side of the propagandist from the outset. "You and I understand how stupid it is to believe in free enterprise, don't we? Of course we do, because we're smart!" This tactic is borrowed FROM FREE ENTERPRISE; door-to-door salesmen refer to it as "assuming the sale." In today's dumbed-down society, a Marxist is often correct in assuming that he can "make the sale" with gullible Americans.

2) "Nastiest of people" is another presupposition which the propagandist expects the audience to swallow unquestioningly. Anyone who ISN'T enthusiastically in favor of collective farms and workers' self-criticism sessions is "obviously" a flunky of those evil corporations that create evil robots and zombies to kill us all. Hasn't the all-wise oracle of Hollywood been telling us as much for decades?

3) "Nastiest of motives" is a crucial part of the sales pitch. Using their mass-media advantages to define the terms of discussion, leftists try to convince us that "earning a profit" AUTOMATICALLY MEANS "gathering obscene amounts of wealth by means of robbery, fraud, slave labor, mass murder, and destroying the whole environment." (Of course, the propagandist can't afford to let us take notice of the colossal environmental damage done by COMMUNIST nations.)

4) Saying "work for the common good" is intended here to convince us that unless our every action is entirely oriented toward somehow benefitting EVERYONE IN THE WORLD simultaneously and equally, we are INJURING the world by running an independent business or project. We are expected to forget that separate families or separate associations can work for their own interests, yet reconcile separate interests through TRANSACTIONS between one independent group and another independent group.

The last of those components of the lying message is a good place to point out the perpetual self-contradiction practiced by leftists. When they concentrate on race-card playing, leftists POSITIVELY DESIRE to have racial and cultural groups competing with each other and excluding each other. But when faced with the terrible danger of a free-market economy proving its practical and moral superiority over totalitarianism, the same leftists will exclaim: "No! There can't be any competition! Everyone and everything must be united under the global system of oneness, oneness, oneness!"