Got into a bit of a discussion with a Commie on X and it was interesting in illustrating just how miserably we’ve failed to tell the story of Communism. He was full of the usual “it wasn’t that bad and it was meant to be good and it was better than the Nazis and it is all the West’s fault blah blah blah”. Do have to hand it to the Commies – of all the inhuman things which have come up in modern times, it by far has had the best PR. Of course, they have been helped by the utter destruction of education in the West. Always good to keep that in mind – and you have to consider how truly educated you had to be to get into college unless Daddy was a benefactor or some such. Outside of that leverage, you have to be of a high intellectual level just to be there – but then starting, say, in the late 19th century, the standards were progressively dropped until here in 2026 college grads are barely literate and don’t know what, say, a modestly successful 8th grader might have known 100 years ago. Fertile grounds for Communism!
And that brings up another thing I saw on X a few days back – a young man lamenting the hostility to Communism. Don’t we hidebound geezers understand that sometimes people don’t want to work but want to merely cultivate their own garden in peace? I stayed away from pointing out – as most did – that under Communism you can’t have your “own garden” and instead opted to point out that we have here the primary appeal of Communism: the desire to not work. Somehow or another the Communists assume that “from each according to their ability” will always work out to someone else making sure food is on the table. Plenty of Third World Communist armies were fully staffed with the sons of farmers who’s dream was to be a clerk in an air conditioned office…putting in maybe two hours a day and evenings at a coffee shop discussing the evils of Capitalism and private property. Anything to get out of feeding the hogs, right? And going to Church on Sundays…
And that got me to realize that sloth is, next to pride, the worst sin. The desire to kick back and live on the labor of others – to steal your daily bread. Without even the labor (and danger) of actually robbing someone. Get in and get on is the watchword for humanity unless it is carefully trained out of us. To be decent, one must learn – eventually – that the only things you should have are those you earn. That to live off others – even if it is a freely offered gift – is dishonorable. Better to be the poor worker than the fat welfare bum. Work up a theory which somehow shows that you, the theorist, shouldn’t have to work. Doesn’t matter what you use to justify it as long as you can find and fix someone to take the blame for the fact that injustice exists in the world. All in all, this line of thinking has made me ever more convinced that we’re eventually going to have to create labor camps for the tens of millions who are part of the system of exploitation…real exploitation. Not the so-called Capitalist sort: the exploitation which has an oil field worker turning over 40% of his income so that welfare bums can eat cheetos and a government elite can live in carefully guarded, upscale communities. The HR director as well as the couch potato will benefit greatly spending a few years at hard labor – and we can use this labor to greatly beautify the public spaces of the United States. First by simply cleaning them up, and then by replacing the low-rent construction of roads and bridges with stuff that would make Romans envious. Imagine instead of black lines of asphalt crisscrossing America it was all done with locally obtained paving stones? Bridges made to last two thousand years out of stone rather than steel that rusts away after 100 years? It would be great. And the bums would come back from it healthy…and we would pay them, so they’d also know how truly valuable an earned dollar can be.
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