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>Well, my first issue is your saying that the odd man out will be simply
>ostricized. That isn't really socialism. You're not providing for all
>citizens in that case.This is really socialism. True socialism demands and ostracizes more than any other political theory.
Socialism is often defined as equal distribution of goods, which is only half way correct. It is also equal distribution of work (people are forced to work, example Gulags and labor camps in SU). Unemployment rates in USSR were 1-2% and at any time were lower than anywhere else in western europe. This is confirmed by americans who interviewed jewish immigrants from USSR. European welfare states is something completely different...
True socialism places the individual as second, below the primary, organic, collective reality. Individuals are only details, serially stamped products. The society is not built from these parts, i.e. does not rely on them, but creates them and establishes them as a continuation of itself as something secondary...
The bourgeois philosophy on the other hand puts the individual in center, and all forms of organizations are considered as products of atomic agglomeration of individuals. Hence the idea of a nation, a state,or a country as something bureaucratic, a paper contract or an agreement.
In socialism, terror is an essential right of the society to be executed upon each of its individuals who refuse to recognize themselves as part of it. In other words, socialist terror is directed not against some random groups in general, but against autonomous individuals who have deviated from the colony. A perfect socialist society is a coherent living organism, a human ant colony which never dies. Only its parts, individuals replace themselves from time to time. Sometimes the society gradually adapts and changes itself in this process, but as a whole it is eternal.
"The problem that I set here is not what shall replace mankind in the order of living creatures (--man is an end--): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future.
This more valuable type has appeared often enough in the past: but always as a happy accident, as an exception, never as deliberately willed. Very often it has been precisely the most feared; hitherto it has been almost the terror of terrors ;--and out of that terror the contrary type has been willed, cultivated and attained: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick brute-man--the Christian..."
Friedrich Nietzsche