Social Justice Primer

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Gandalin commenting to mentalblog.com: before cynicism prevailed:

"Social Justice" was the slogan of the leftist anti-semite Father Coughlin.

"Social Justice" is a slogan used by leftists who want to substitute their own narrischkeit for the wisdom of a free market.

The real justice is justice for individuals. It means that an individual has the freedom to make his own decisions about the direction of his life, and he has the freedom to keep the fruits of his endeavors.

And it is in the Anglo-American societies in which the free market had its greatest and freest development, that the greatest good for the greatest number of people has been in fact achieved.

Whereas in those socialist societies that proclaim their sanctimonious belief in "Social Justice," the result is invariably poverty, famine, tyranny, and war.

Before Stalinism was the murderous tyranny of Lenin, the vengeful and violent murderous tyranny of Trotsky contra Kronstadt, the murderous tyranny of the Reign of Terror, and the multiple crimes of socialist societies wherever they were established.

The Neviim NEVER argued that a tyrannical all-powerful state should provide "social justice" for poor widows and orphans. The Neviim demanded that INDIVIDUALS recognize their INDIVIDUAL responsibility to take care of their fellows. That is quite a different thing altogether. The message of the Prophets is not the precursor to socialism, it is socialism's antithesis -- under socialism, with faith in the "social justice" state, human compassion withers, and individuals no longer feel any real motivation to be their brother's keeper.