Socialism: redistributing “poverty”

The old-times Nation States regimes have evolved in history growing grades of freedom from the central power and, in-so-doing, have rendered growingly acceptable and “liberal” the traditional top-down style of government. A style that characterizes all the old-Europe’s regimes in any stage of history from the Empire where the man-in-charge was assimilated to a “God”, through the Christian Emperor who’s role restricted to the civilian matters establishing aside of those the Pope as the authority in charge of ethical matters among which the “political correctness” of the Emperor’s behavior in ruling the civilian interests, up to the national Kingdoms where the King ruled “by God’s will” upon a geo-political scenario legitimated by the interests of the Nation that replaced the universal geo-political perception of the Emperor’s decisions, down to the age of the “liberal revolutions” where the Parliament gradually shrunk the “absolute power” owned by the King in the “ancién-régime”, til the “social-democracy” where the Parliament replaced integrally the King’s role in his “absolute power” of top-down government. 

The history of freedom has grown therefore “from within” the permanent concept of top-down ruling the general interests. The right to impose taxes was transferred from the King’s hands to the Parliament and it ensured the “subjects” a constantly expanding cluster of formal liberties if they acted within the legitimacy of the law. The Law was describing what can be done and whatever else could be considered illegitimate and therefore “criminal”. The concept of “government” didn’t change dramatically, only the characters in charge and their way of selection changed softening thereby the authoritarian character of the many types of regime that yet were inspired by the “absolute top-down” style. The growing amounts of freedom released to the “subjects” stimulated their entrepreneurship in any field of human endeavor, this generated growing exchanges of goods and information. The intrinsic synergy of information exchanges brought to a dramatic explosion of knowledge in academy, industrial applications and ultimately induced gradually an ultimate new power; the market. Once the economical, industrial interests expanded to include extra-national markets, its “lobbying” power exceeded the sectarian interests of the old-times Nation States and their top-down style of rule Parliaments. This started the age of the Mercantile Companies, of the Multinational Corporations and subtracted the financial markets from the capacity of control that once rested firmly in the Nation States’ rule. Namely the gradual release of freedoms to the ruled subjects was granted often in the old Nation States by means of “inflation” as the tool able to impose “social redistribution” of the available wealth against any resistance opposed by the old elites. Releasing equal services to all “subjects” was an attractive tool in order to collect wide consensus and the electoral majority but the cost implied exceeded the available resources. The centralized top-down criterion of rule in the old regimes allowed though the ruling majority to generate the huge debt legitimated by demagogy and that debt, in turn, forced the government to either drain from the market huge resources through taxation or print huge amounts of currency, inflating thereby its value. Authoritarian governments have tried in old-days’ Europe both approaches. Totalitarian socialism has enhanced “taxation” to the utmost level of “expropriation” of family goods and “re-education” of the “noble” or the “bourgeois” classes. Social-democratic regimes have instead merely impoverished their Country flattening the yearly incomes of their “subjects” and thereby reducing their motivations to commit their ingenuity to innovation and creativeness; the prerequisite to industrial competitiveness. Europe social-democracies have become less competitive on the world markets and the most self-motivated of its subjects flew abroad in Countries where personal avidity could legally be compensated.

In 1776 luckily enough an entire continent was opened to consistent immigration from old-day’s Europe and its pioneers didn’t find it reasonable to be taxed by a King whose “services” were totally missing the local demands. This started a more “revolutionary” reappraisal of the scopes and approach to the very concept of Government. Top down was considered un-reasonable and government was considered a necessity useful to compensate for possible failure of the pioneer to take care autonomously of his individual and collective needs as perceived locally by the producers of wealth. The market became the reality replacing the abstract parliamentary one. The pragmatic and easy to perceive reality of the market replaced in the political debate the intellectual and often demagogic debates among elected officers in the national Parliament whose task was reduced to “representing” the local needs at the national level of interests; leaving the “interest” concept to be shaped by the “local constituencies”. The prevalence of the “local” and of the “market” in the duty to define the general interests has characterized USA policies with pragmatism and business goals replacing so the influence of abstract ideologies nourished by the intellectual elites (consultants of the “king”) in the old-times top-down regimes. Inflation has been considered in the USA as the key-enemy of individual endeavor and public wealth. Public spending and “big state” programs legitimated by irresponsible, programs of the demagogical “welfare state” have always been considered as the tool for “pork-barrel-hooding” in politics. The “bubble-up” criterion of self-government has cancelled from the administrative reality the obligation to “be entitled” to settle on the territory. New communities can be born wherever free-citizens decide to reside and the costs of the newly formed “administration” shall be borne by the residents. The mayor is elected as well as the local judge and the sheriff. The assembly of residents evaluates what shall be done, the priorities and how much the residents are called to fund. This pragmatism and “peripheralism” has generated foreign policies inspired by business relations, peaceful international relations and the absence of colonialist and imperialist objectives. The absence of inflation and the attribution of the utmost responsibility in decision making have stimulated the highest pace of productivity, ingenuity, creativeness, industrial innovation and adaptive capacity and the overall highest competitiveness of the USA industrial system on the world market.

Now and thanks the irresistible pressure produced by the USA most competitive industrial system on the global market we have arrived to the unification of the industrial world-wide system. Against any possible resistance opposed by the national industrial protectionism by lobbying at their national Parliaments. Finally liberal-democracy has freed from the sectarian efforts to create sanctuaries of privileges by means of the old-days’ top-down regimes of the State Nations. The USA industrial and institutional system has proven both its superiority on the strict productive market and on the political scenario as well. The “moral hegemony” of the USA “revolution” in history is proven scientifically in the tests produced in the world-wide market. The capitalist-liberalism and its connected equipment of diffused individual responsibility in the decision-making processes has led to implement a political system based upon a subverted “bubble up” criterion and on a lobbying system free from protectionist conservatism. The world can benefit finally now of the unique political regime free from the old-days’ sectarianism of the Nation States’ industries and corporations and free from the top-down demagogical decision-making processes inspired by ideological tasks rather than by the mere pragmatic and liberal criteria measured on the economic convenience to invest the, always scarce, available resources in the benefit of maximizing the growth of the global wealth.

Producing higher levels of wealth is a more liberal prerequisite to distributing what is available and, besides, extending beyond any protectionism the right to participate to the production of wealth is a goal reached by the capitalist-liberal system based upon the USA “bubble up” regime against the resistances opposed by the old days’ Nation States and their corporative protectionist lobbies. Freedom can only be implemented under a “bubble up” regime inspired by the USA Constitution rather than under the old days’ “top down” regimes still conserving memory of the “king’s rule” or the “nobility privileges” (characters that in history have only changed name not substance in Europe or elsewhere in the globe).

Now we are assisting to the ultimate efforts produced by the “intellectual elites” (Hollywood, Media system, professional politicians) to try arresting the final worldwide expansion of our Western Civilization by trying to nullify the USA peculiarity in to-day’s institutional world. The uniqueness of the USA institutional system can easily be destroyed if only the concept of “irresponsible welfare state” can be injected in the USA system of industrial responsibility. Once the “big state welfare” should be injected in the USA public spending, then inevitably inflation of the US $ would result. Inflation would have the consequence of having apparently taken care of a “more equitable” redistribution of the present national wealth. While this would be easily discovered a fragile, void and merely apparent achievement the long-term impact upon the productivity, the innovativeness and the competitiveness of the USA industrial system would result strongly affected. The future would grant a lower rate of national growth of wealth and would “bring back” the USA political system to the traditional concept inspiring any of the traditional Nation States. This would eliminate any element of “moral” attractiveness of the USA as compared to any of the other Countries. The resulting lower growth of Gross National Product and the obliteration of the “revolutionary legitimacy” of its 1776 Charter would reduce any “moral superiority” of the USA political institutions. The result would be growth of mere protectionist conflicts among equal dignity Nation States with no attractiveness for the new immigrants.