Socialism and its harmful effect on society

Socialism is perhaps a trend for moderation of extremely exploitative existing social

relations. If one considers the enlightenment era of Europe following the revolution
of 1688, perhaps including the work of the half century before such as that of John
Locke, it is easy enough to discern a trend away from the concentration of power
and leadership by kings. Nobles took power from the royals and eventually lost
power to the state. The practice of parle ments or talking at general councils of
regional leaders became a broad practice that supported a synthetic refoprmation
within more modern democratic government formations along withe the example of
the ancient Greek and Roman efforts at repubolicanism. Socialism is a continuation
of the historical trend toward the enfranchisement of the masses with actual equal
political and economic rights

Political philosophy does not always provide models that are selected by voters democratically
before selection and implementation as a prevailinbg fact of governance in a nation. Genmerally
the actual nprevailing concentration of political and economic power is somewhat disperssed
through various popular reforms or radical revolutionary transitions, yet the concentration of
power within the hands of elites is a prevailing fact i n virtuql any political social structure.
Socialism is the movement to return power to the masses.
In that regard socialism may be at odds with state socialism. A popular rural socialization of
produce nat be offset by the feudal taxation of goods. Often socialism is a response of collective
action to a particular political oppressor or challenge. In that regard socialism is something like
corporatism that builds up power to address larger economic challenges of either a natural
resource production challenge or political consolidatio of power issue versus the mkasses or a
state.
Socialism in various phases of actualization may oppress individual rights. It is reasonable to say
that almost any form of government may oppress individualrights, and that crimes may oppresss
individuals even in the abcense of a governemnt authority. Fundamnetally the central issue for
socialism and for democracy is about how to assure that individual rights are best defenbded
against minority tyranny; how elites of na communist party, of corporatist global boards, of
fascissm or other statists organizations might be kept from reducing the massess to waage slave,
serf, peon or social zombie status. The propaganda of the
concentrated wealth and power may be extreme, intelligent and controlling. They may own the
broaqdecast media annd determine who can be elected through political contributions and other
financial supports. The masses may be daft and entranced by television and entertainment-
socialism would be an effort to rectify the situtation and return individual and egalitarian
prospects for free enterprise to a good condition with reduced power for the financialelites.
Obviously there are many status' and conditions, forms and roles for socialism to play in
returning political and economic power to the individual and out of the hands of mass corporate
organizational control. Socialism may be takenn over by bureaucratic elites that are simply daft
themselves and inclined to repress individual effort and ownership of private property. The best
role for corpraism today is to be a fair arbitrator of social enviromental vital interests and to
assure in each nation that the economic effects of corporations and of individiuals do not in a
mass concatentation destroy the prospects for environmental health or for the well being of the
preponderance of citizens of a nation. Socialist readjustment of tax and inheritance rates, of how
much preal estate anyone may own and so forth could be part of a reformation of economics
from a thermodynamically profligate basis to one of an ecologicalo economic criterion.
The essential problem with npartial socialist tools of go9verning is of coursse in determining
what methods, what quantity of material change, and how to protect free enterprise individually
owned with direct economic social goals ought to be formed. SOcialism is a tool for mass social
action to better the well being of any society. Like any governmment it is phenomenal and
should be just another way to optimalize the efficeincy and happibess of individuals.
Paradoxically socialism becomes most oppressive when it becomes most persistent as a statist
power illiberally repressing individual self-determination within basic and rational, equal
economic parameters suitable for the modern world. Corporatism and other forms of de facto
social control are less liberal than nominal socialism, and repress individual freedom for political
dissent, expressions of opinions and innovation, invention and so forth.