Our World In Conflict
by Martin A. Larsen
(Reprinted from Spotlight, Nov 15, 1993)

Government Tyranny
As Thomas Jefferson sagely observed, it is the nature of every
central government to become an all-powerful tyranny if it can.
The means and methods employed are to involve the nation in war,
create an ever increasing bureaucracy, load more and more taxes
upon the producers and assume total control over every aspect of
life. Only a large and well informed middle class can establish
and maintain a true republic, such as that established by our
Founding Fathers.
I would say three principal stages may be expected to develop in
this decline which reduces this free type of responsible government
to consolidation of power in the central government. First, we
have the pre socialistic type; second, fully established
socialism; and third, the ultimate communal state, which is the
ideal of all bureaucracies.
We can say with assurance the United States is now closely
involved in phase one of this development. We still enjoy several
of the values and elements which comprise the true republic, such
as private property, the possibility of individual economic
success, comparative freedom of the press, state officials elected
by the people and at least the vestiges of Constitutional rights
and processes.
EVER INCREASING CENTRAL POWER
On the other hand, we have an ever increasing central power which
assumes more and greater control over the people, proceeding, step
by step, in the direction of full scale socialism and the
elimination of private property in the means of production; we
have an ever increasing national debt, the interest on which is one
of the principal elements in the national budget; we have also the
welfare state, which seeks to perpetuate itself by bribing a large
portion of the population to vote for its continuance.
Taxes are extorted from the producers, especially the
middle class earners, so heavy they can barely afford children of
their own. In the meantime, the present state does everything in
its power to encourage the birth of illegitimate children who are
supported by the taxpayers and may become so numerous they will, by
their votes, establish the full socialist state.
Were it not for the welfare state, and the money disbursed as
political bribes, the present government would collapse overnight.
I do not see how there can be any doubt that those in control of
the present government are doing everything they can to prepare
for the advent of full scale socialism. Taxes and the falling
birthrate among the middle class are indications of this trend. In
order to accomplish this objective, the number of entrepreneurs
must be reduced; the number of persons supported by, or receiving
benefits from, the government must be increased.
THE NEXT STEP
Thus the federal colossus will be ready for the next step: i.e.,
the seizure of all utilities and large manufacturing corporations
and their operation by a heavily increased bureaucracy. This will
be fully operational socialism.
However, even under this system, the people will still retain some
rights such as the vote and freedom of religion as well as the
right to express opinions orally or in writing. However, those
employed by the government or receiving benefits from it will
outnumber the useful producers to such an extent the wishes of the
latter can be ignored by the bureaucracy.
However, this situation will bring into full play the fatal flaw
inseparable from the bureaucracy. Since producers will become an
ever decreasing element in the population, their taxes will become
so onerous continuation becomes literally impossible. More and
more of them, therefore, will seek either to become government
employees or to live on welfare.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
The result is an inevitable economic collapse; since bureaucrats
and their wards produce nothing but seek to consume as much as
possible, in due course the system results in starvation and chaos.
In this situation, a people is ready for communism, with its
glowing promises  the state in which producers have no rights and
the bureaucracy is utterly supreme. During a crisis, the leaders
of this movement seize power, as they did in Russia in 1917 and as
they have done in various other countries.
They understand that with the total elimination of the business
class and an iron fisted rule, they can maintain themselves in
power indefinitely, no matter how disillusioned or angry the
people become.
Under communism, the suppression of all civil rights as known in
America is absolutely necessary. If there were freedom of the
press, the right to engage in private enterprise and to retain the
earnings therefrom, the bureaucracy could not remain in power. In
the meantime, the top bureaucrats live like the princes of the
middle ages; a large standing army, whose members are well fed and
clothed without productive labor, is essential to defeat any
attempt at reform; more and more parasites are therefore necessary
to maintain the status quo.
Under these conditions, there is little or no unemployment, such
as we find in capitalist countries, the reason being that the wage
earners carry on their silent rebellion by doing as little work as
possible. As a result, production falls drastically, and a country
rich in farmland and natural resources such as Russia is unable to
feed itself, but must import vast quantities of grain to prevent
actual starvation.
HUMANITY CANNOT BE DENIED
Yet, even so, humanity cannot be denied forever. The rulers cannot
permit the producers to starve for this would eliminate the only
source of wealth and would probably cause them to rise in
desperation to overthrow the tyranny. Is it not possible that the
reforms advocated by Mikhail Gorbachev were the result of powerful
pressure from the masses--and, if this is so, perhaps it may lead
to a better life and a new revolution in Russia.
The student demonstrations in Red China may be a similar
phenomenon. Perhaps there is still a basis for hope and optimism
and for reforms that will transform the great communist countries
of the world into much freer and easier systems of life.

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