Violence Has Many Names

Regardless of the label, and irrespective of the means to the end, be the means "democratic" as in socialism or revolutionary as in Russian Communism, the end, in each instance, is always the state ownership and control of the means of production. One other characteristic these isms and deals have in common: They are all parasitical as dis tinguished from productive devices. One never heard of a society or nation of any account getting its start, for ex ample, in socialism. The reason is that in the first instance 18 there is nothing to loot or to prey upon. Communalization by violence presupposes the existence of a healthy econ omy precisely as mistletoe presupposes the existence of a live tree. As a tree can stand a small bunch of mistletoe, so can a healthy economy stand instances of socialism. But as mistletoe could spread and destroy the tree on which it feeds, so can communalization by violence expand and destroy the society from which it derives its parasitical existence.