A Pyrrhic Victory:
The altruist collectivists have destroyed, or distorted our founding principles. And with them our prosperity and security.
“Americas founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more--and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism.” [“A Preview,” ARL, I, 24, 5.]
“America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to “the common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance—and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” [“What Is Capitalism?” CUI, 29.]
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
Bear in mind that the right to property is aright to action, like all the others: it is not the right o an object. It is not a guarantee that the man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.” [Man’s Rights,” VOS, 125; pb 94.]
“Tyranny is any political system (whether absolute monarchy or fascism or communism) that does not recognize individual rights (which necessarily include property rights). The overthrow of a political system by force is justified only when it is directed against tyranny; it is an act of self-defense against those who rule by force. For example, the American Revolution.” [From a Symposium,” NL, 96.]
“Politically, mass civil disobedience is appropriate only as a prelude to civil war—as the declaration of a total break with a country’s political institutions.” [The Cashing-In: The Student ‘rebellion,’ ” CUI, 256.]
Our govt. has crossed the line, has made a complete break from our founding principles, our traditional view and the confines of our Constitution in regard to our political institutions. It is not we who have done this. They have declared war upon us in evading the inconveniences of our limited govt. origin. The original intent to limit the govt. has been replaced with confiscatory limits to our property rights, liberty and freedom. Many people think we are safe and secure in our present state, but they are ignorant of history. They believe we can go on this way indefinitely but they are wrong. They believe civil war will never come to this country but they are forgetting it has already occurred here once before. They think the govt. while evading basic economics will be able to make things alright again, that they can fix the economy without total collapse, but they forget about the great depression. It is the impetus for civil conflagration that they force upon us! The civil war, according to many, was fought to free the slaves. Today the slaves are the productive forced to feed the beast. Where is our Lincoln? We need a real life Galt.
So, have the altruist, collectivist, statists won? No. They have won a pyrrhic victory. You can’t fight basic economics. We will change course or become the next Weimar Republic. With or without a “revolution” the upheaval will come. Then we will start again. It is the history of the world…
Respectfully,
O.A.