“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” George Orwell
One of the central purposes of this blog is to expose the progressive machine for what it really is: Statism. Socialism and Statism are two distinct political philosophies – Socialism is a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.1
Statism on the other hand is defined as ‘the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty’.2 This definition leads us to the conclusion that all progressives are statists. Furthermore, all statist policies and programs are funded by legal plunder, as the following example by Leonard Read demonstrates in his essay ‘Accent on the Right’:
