Ok, here goes...
This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
This is what happens when you give the state too much power.
1911 Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1929 The Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1935 China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1938 Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 6 to 7 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and 12 million Christians who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1956 Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1964 Guatemala established gun control. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1970 Uganda established gun control. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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The idea that communism or socialism "takes on corporations", is flawed. Socialism and communism is, or at least, leads to corporatism, wipes out the middle class and makes the poor poorer. When a centralised government manages the economy it bails out large corporations, banks etc when they get into trouble or gives them preferential treatment with government contracts etc. This wipes out competition.
An example off the top of my head is merk drug company who murdered 100,000 american citizens when they knew their viox was faulty. There were lawsuits which knocked down the company. The gov's response was to do favours for them by rescuing them. They started pushing the HPV vaccine for children and pushed it through the school system as mandatory. This is socialism where the gov looks after the economy and corporations. Of course people cry but that is not what socialism is meant to be, and I cry on paper and theory or in practice?
Socialist labour came to power in britain taking power from the conservatives. Now there are 4 times more millionaires and billionaires than ever before, the middle class is getting wiped out. The corporations and bureaucracies are doing fantastically well however under the more socialist system in the UK.
China as we all know got took over by the communist party who we all know now completely manage the country and it is now totalitarian. Communism promised equality and justice but people got tyranny. Now out of communism has emerged a corporate system with the country and quality of life poor. In china now you have the corporate elite realing in a fortune functioning as corporate capitalism for a tiny percent of the country and communism for the remaining 99.9% of the population.
Limited central government takes gov out of managing the economy and ruling people's lives. This gives true competition against corporations, freedom of the press and so on... If a corporation behaves badly it is punished and may very well go out of business because it is punished by the consumer who stops buying and investing etc. Free market capitalism therefore the antidote for corporatism.
People sadly confuse socialism/communism capitalism (which equals corporate capitalism) with free market capitalism and then start begging for more government interference to fix the problems caused by government. Nothing ever changes though.
Things like the EU, WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and so on although they increase trade, they only increase trade for corporations and not for small businesses etc so the poor and middle class continue to get poorer.
Also private central banks play a major role in taking from the poor and middle class because under a socialist or communist central government they can just get these banks to print money out of thin air which devalues the currency because pumping extra money out of thin air to fund wars, corporations or bureaucracies etc. Inflation then devalues the money owned by small businesses, savings of the poor and middle class and so on. However big bureaucracies and government favoured corporations again do fantastically well because they get to use the extra money that has been printed out of thin air first before the effects of inflation set it. Also socialism and communism is very prone for reasons explained above to fraud, corruption of the money supply with the people as slaves.
Some people argue that some of the principles of libertarian socialism or libertarian left is not prone or as prone to the problems explained above. I prefer libertarian right though. I could be swayed on some of the principles of libertarian left but for now I think Ron Paul has the answers and his message and platform is the best that I have heard from a politician.
I hope this post helps explain what I meant and believe.
