> Contrary to the popular platitudes that socialism and communism are about achieving equality for all, going so far to prescribe absurdities like “equality of

> Contrary to the popular platitudes that socialism and communism are about achieving equality for all, going so far to prescribe absurdities like “equality of outcome”. The reality, documented by the likes of Dr. Kristian Niemietz in his “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”, is that the only equality brought about by collectivism is where everybody beneath the thin scab of elites and their apparatchiks are equally mired in poverty and servitude. That needs to be repeated. People think that inequality is when someone can buy a 300 foot yacht, or a $100 million mansion. True and brutal inequality is when someone can kill you in daylight and walk away with it. In countries like the US or Weastern Europe you may get away with murder (like O.J. Simpson), but that's not guaranteed at all. In communist countries if you were very high in the political apparatus, then you could literally kill someone with witnesses, and walk free. Without a trial. I suspect things like that happen in other countries too, where the rule of law is weak. For example in Mexico (where the cartels kill left and right, and people know who ordered what murders). There some people are above the law. That's true inequality.