They intend to build a technocratic planet, in which planned societies are the foundation. Citizens are "data-points" to be inserted into slots, from cradle to grave, as a worldwide system is constructed.
Notions of fairness, equality, and other terms of socialism are deployed as a front for this massive operation.
Some might say this version of Brave New World/1984 bears no resemblance to socialism.
But they would be wrong. This version is perfect socialism, once you realize the whole socialist "political philosophy" was never anything more than paper-thin propaganda.
It was a nothing made into something.
It falls apart and blows away, and the skull-grin of control comes into view. The same grin existed in the medieval Roman Church, in the ancient Roman emperorship, in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, in Babylonia, in Sumer, in Mayan and Aztec civilizations, in tribes and clans long buried and forgotten.
Only the language of the sellers to the buyers has changed.
Mao Zedong (aka Mao Tse-tung), founding father and ruler of Communist China, openly declared: "Socialism...must have a dictatorship, it will not work without it." Mao didn't beat around the bush. In maintaining his dictatorship, he discovered he might have a problem with between 40 and 70 million of his own people. So, just to make sure, he killed them.
But don't worry, be happy. Less violent socialisms exist in the world -- as long as citizens willingly give up their independence.
For example, you could opt for Tony Blair's vision. Tony is an accused war criminal (Iraq/2003, between 100,000 and million dead), but on the bright side, he didn't massacre huge numbers of his own people. In 1983, Tony stated:
"I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly."
I'll let you try to translate that generalized gibberish. Take the words "rational," "moral," "co-operation," "fellowship," "equality in our economic circumstances," and run them to ground. Attempt to apply them to actual life. Determine what actual policies and regulations would flow from them.
Tony is one of the deans of the Academy of Great Generalities. He knows how to shovel it on wide and deep. His one skill is appearing earnest and sincere.
He shares that attribute with many of his socialist colleagues. They've learned their tricks at the feet of mentors, and you can trace the line all the way back to Plato.
"We're not Stalin, we're not Mao. Honest. We want to do good. Help us help you. We're all in this together. There's a bright day ahead. Just let us do our work."
Or as Bill Clinton famously put it, "I feel your pain."
No one heard him say, under his breath, "Of course, I pay no attention to feelings."
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