New York socialists think they've won a big victory with Zohran Mamdani's win in the mayoral democrat primary, but it's not exactly a foretelling of things to come. As I wrote in my last VIP piece, Mamdani's win was, like AOC's before him, an isolated event. The man is no blueprint for future victories, it's just an indication that New York's Democrats have gotten simultaneously more ignorant and more radical.
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The thing is, Communism — the ultimate goal of socialism — might sell in those isolated areas, but it's not going much further than that. I predict even New York won't settle for it for long, either.
The thing is, communism won't work in the U.S. because it can't. We aren't the right species.
Communism requires things that run completely contrary to human nature, including the complete loss of ego and sacrificing the safety and well-being of the tribe.
This means that if your family has needs that require more attention, manpower, and resources, then the family members that live on those resources will have to suffer without them, and in cases of medical necessity, die.
Everything must be rationed including medicine, care, food, water, electricity, and close monitoring of systems is required to maintain the system's integrity and safety. The system is the chief concern in both socialist and communist systems, which means putting an individual before it is grounds for punishment. If you are a burden on the system in any way, you are either punished, abandoned, or eliminated.
Now, this is a great system to live and work by... if you're an ant.
Hive species don't have egos, an acute pack mentality, or even an overarching sense of self-preservation. They are born with the wiring to serve the hive to such extreme measures that the self is a tertiary concern. You are to begin working the moment you're able, and die the moment you can't. You will not be mourned. You will simply be replaced.
Humans don't work like this.
We are advanced apes with egos, a strong sense of independence, and a driving need to advance the self and the tribe. The "tribe" and the system aren't to be confused. The tribe can take multiple forms, such as a group of peers, friends, but the most common one is family — and the immediate family to be more specific.
Humans will happily sacrifice on behalf of their families, whether it's their time, resources, or their life if need be, but they're not so keen to do that in many other contexts. One could say a patriot is serving the system to the point of willing to give his life up for it, but what he or she is really doing is joining an outfit that becomes its own tribe in order to protect his tribe at home.
In order to force a person to act against the best interest of his tribe, fear and coercion has to be applied. The threat of harm to the self, especially to his tribe, is usually necessary to obtain his compliance. The threat of that kind of system being implemented over his tribe is enough to send him to war.
And many wars have been fought to stop that system from taking over various countries for just this reason. No matter how much flowery talk you put on socialism and communism, lethal enforcement is always the inevitable end. It requires continuous compliance that is not realistic to the human species unless it's done so at the end of a gun. In a communist system, protection of the tribe begins to revolve around submission to the system.
Capitalism works so well and results in such incredible advancements because it works with human nature, allowing the self and the tribe to take center stage. Capitalism seems messy and chaotic, even uncaring, but this is because it's a system that allows each ego to work for the betterment of individual parties all at once, not just one faceless, and cold system.
Moreover, you're far more likely to produce more for more benefit, allowing you to accumulate resources for yourself and your tribe, whereas all work in a communist system is owned by the system. Even if you work extra hard, you will reap no benefits, thus disincentivizing any desire to work more than you have to, and even encourages you to work less than you actually should since you're getting paid the same anyway.
Humans cannot operate safely or effectively in a socialist or communist system. Even socialist systems cannot operate in totality without either implementing capitalist standards of economic practice into its system, or outside help from systems that practice some form of capitalism. If they don't, millions of people die, as history has shown us.
People like AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Mamdani are asking dogs to quack and fish to climb trees. It's not in our nature to be communist or socialist. It is, however, in our nature to be capitalist, and I bet a lot of these so-called socialists and communists would agree the moment you tried to send them to a country that actually practices that kind of stupidity.
