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The planners of the New World Order have a different concept. And they have a title for this new economic plan, called the “Redistribution of Wealth”. When fully implemented, this Redistribution of Wealth will impact us more terribly than any other single event in world history. However, we will also show that this redistribution has already begun, and we are the poorer for it.
Let us start with that all-important guru of the New Age, Alice Bailey, writing in her book, “The Externalisation of the Hierarchy”. Writing in November, 1939, Bailey’s Guiding Spirit began to address the “Economic Problem”. “There are adequate resources for the sustenance of human life, and these science can increase and develop… Man is the controller of it all, and they belong to everyone and are the property of no one group, nation, or race. It is solely due to man’s selfishness that…thousands are starving whilst food is rotting or destroyed; it is solely due to the grasping schemes and the financial injustices of man’s making that the resources of the planet are not universally available under some wise system of distribution.”
So far, we have little to fault Bailey in her description of the problem of hunger in the world, but Bailey is not discussing just the problem of hunger; rather, she is also talking about the distribution of all resources in this world, like minerals, oil, and natural deposits of all kinds. Further, Bailey’s euphemism, “grasping schemes” refers to our system of Capitalism and Private Property. The New World Order will abolish both of these “evils”.
But, Bailey continues with her solution to this problem. She says the nations must understand the need “for sharing, for a free circulation of all the essential commodities.” Those of you who are familiar with the principles of Communism will recognize this Bailey statement as being synonymous with the Communist doctrine, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. We should not be surprised, for we have shown that Communism is simply a cousin system to the New Age Movement.
Bailey continues to say that the solution is “right distribution” among the nations of the world. However, the individual nations of the world are individually sovereign and could decide not to share with their neighbors. Therefore Bailey proposes an “Economic League of Nations” which would force all nations to share with each other. Bailey complains, “Some nations have had too much, and have exploited their surplus; other nations have had too much…” This statement is too simplistic, since it does not allow for the reality that many of the nations which possess great wealth achieved this wealth the old fashioned way, by earning it and by handling their resources wisely. Conversely, she ignores the reality that many of the poor nations are poor because they do not have the work ethic of other nations, nor have their leaders wisely handled their national resources. No, this simplistic statement sweeps all these critical realities under the rug, and assumes that the mere possession of wealth and material things proves your selfishness and your guilt of “exploiting” the poor nations. And the solution is simple: Forcibly take your wealth away and give it to the poor. Again, this is Communism.
But, Bailey takes yet another turn in her tirade against the economic injustice of the world. She begins to advocate that every nation change to a new, simpler type of lifestyle, a lifestyle which will consume far less resources than at present. She calls for a benevolent dictatorship which will “wisely” and “humanely” distribute the necessities of life. And no one will be exempt. “This simplification and this wise distribution of the world’s resources must embrace the high and the low, the rich and the poor…serving all men alike.” Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like the prophecy in Revelation 13:16-17, “And he causeth all, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark…”
Bailey’s Guiding Spirit, Master D.K., wrote this Plan in November, 1939. Remember, the emphasis in this Plan is dual, embracing both individuals and nations. It literally calls for the forced redistribution of wealth from those nations who possessed it to those nations who did not. The practical application of this principle did not have to wait long to be implemented.
From 1939-1945, the major nations of the world were locked in the death struggle of World War II. Following the war, Europe lay in ruins, and once-proud people discovered themselves destitute. General George C. Marshall guided the reconstruction plan which would rebuild Europe completely, friend and foe alike. This plan, called the Marshall Plan, accomplished its high-minded goal of reestablishing Europe. However laudable the Marshall Plan was in its inception and in its results, the fact remains that New World Order leaders viewed this Plan as the first practical application of their “Redistribution Of Wealth”, the taking of the wealth of the nations which have it, and the giving of that wealth to the nations which do not have it. And, as is always the case, the first application of a New World Order principle was in an area about which everyone could agree concerning the need and it accomplished such success that no one could disagree too loudly. But, the stage was set for the next great Redistribution of Wealth plan, but this one would be domestic within the borders of the United States, not international as was the Marshall Plan.
This next redistribution plan occurred in the mid-1960’s under the guidance of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and was known as the Great Society Program. Again, the goals were lofty. President Johnson proposed this plan to eradicate poverty in America. No one could argue with that goal; however, the Great Society Program did not eradicate poverty because it did not change the hearts and minds of those people who did not want to work. Since the inception of this program, America has raised several generations of Welfare Families, families in which no parent had to work to support their children, families in which producing babies was the thing to do, since they received additional money for each new child. Johnson’s Great Society Program was nothing more than a gigantic domestic Redistribution of Wealth program.
And since it was created at the same time in which Johnson was committing America to a huge, hot war in Vietnam, the Great Society helped to fuel one of the greatest increases in the rate of inflation in our nation’s history. This, too, was a huge Redistribution of Wealth, and Johnson knew it would happen in precisely the way it did. His advisors told him that he had to place wartime controls on the economy or the combination of Great Society and war spending would dramatically boost spending to the point where great inflation would be triggered. And it triggered a round of inflation which did not subside until after the recession of 1982. Between the actual expenditure of monies under Great Society Programs and the spending on the Vietnam War, Americans saw their personal wealth plummet dramatically. The planned Redistribution of Wealth worked far too well.
But, redistribution of wealth worldwide was planned internationally as well, and it would further pick America’s pockets. In 1973, Arab leaders of oil rich countries very suddenly became bold and decided to dramatically raise the cost of oil. The impact was immediate and terrible. Billions of additional dollars flowed from the pockets of the consumers of America, Western Europe, and Japan. All the countries of the world went into an economic tailspin. While the cost of oil has subsided greatly from the tremendously high original levels of 1973, they are still more than double what they were prior to the increase.
But, redistribution of wealth continued in the form of hundreds of tax and spend bills passed by Congress during the administration of every President since Johnson. Have you ever wondered why Congress has consistently passed such frivolous laws as the one which studied why monkeys have sex? These type of laws were enacted because our New World Order Congress and supporting Presidents, were absolutely committed to redistributing our national wealth. They were preparing us to enter the New World Order. Remember that our leaders have been consistently supportive of the New World Order Plan since 1789, when Congress authorized the reverse side of our great Seal, the All-Seeing Eye atop the unfinished Pyramid, with the Latin phrase meaning New World Order printed in the ribbon below the pyramid.
The Redistribution of Wealth — a major plank in the New World Order.
Even Reagan got into the act by helping Congress raise taxes again in the mid-1980’s. Presidents Reagan and Bush have vetoed many spending bills, but enough spending legislation was passed to create huge Federal Government deficits. These planned deficits are nothing more than Redistribution of Wealth, your wealth.
And, the list goes on. ABC radio, New York City station reported on October 25, that a bill has been written, and temporarily tabled until after the election, which would dramatically raise taxes on the personal wealth left behind following a person’s death. House Bill, H.B. 4848, would levy taxes on all estates worth at least $200,000, at a rate as high as 55%. If you are thinking that most Americans would never leave behind $200,000 in assets, think again. If a person owns their own home, has a nest egg of any meaningful amount, and has a life insurance policy, they would easily leave behind $200,000. The widow and the family left behind would no longer be able to count on any more than approximately one-half of the assets their loved one had provided for them.
But, now the time has come for gears to be shifted into high gear as the world prepares to actually move into the New World Order. In 1981, New Age leader Jeremy Rifkin proposed a new level of wealth redistribution in a book entitled, “Entropy: A New World View”. In this book, Rifkin argues that the world is using too many resources to create too many material things. Even though the New Age believes that no energy is ever lost, that it is merely converted from one form of energy into another, Rifkin was proposing that when the energy is used the first time, it is weakened so that its subsequent use is less effective than the original use. Rifkin explains his view. “A human being, a skyscraper, an automobile, and a blade of grass all represent energy that has been transformed from one state to another…the energy they embody doesn’t disappear. It is merely transferred back somewhere else into the environment.” However, this transferred energy is weakened, Rifkin says, so that it is “no longer capable of conversion into work…Energy can only be transferred to a dissipated state.” Therefore, Rifkin believes the world is currently producing too many material things which originally use too many resources. If the world is not to soon find itself in a position of running out of usable energy, Rifkin proposes that we must change our lifestyle dramatically. We must move into a State run economy which would regulate the production of all material things so the world will not run out of usable energy.
This, says Rifkin, will require a radical “new world view”, and he urges draconian measures to achieve this new thinking. He says, “The radical change in world view required to make this transition will have to be accomplished overnight. There will be no time for polite debate, subtle compromise, or monetary equivocation. To succeed will require a zealous determination, a militancy, if you will, of Herculean proportions.” (Ibid, p.186, Emphasis added).
Did you catch the key words here?
- “Overnight” change
- No polite debate, subtle compromise, or monetary equivocation. We know now that Rifkin does not plan for Congress to be involved in this change. Indeed, many New Age leaders have repeatedly written that our Constitutional System of Government must be abolished and replaced by the “enlightened” dictatorship of the United Nations.
- Notice other key words: The leaders overseeing this dramatic change must be imbued with a “zealous determination” and a “militancy” of “Herculean proportions”.
These are strong words describing a political change to worldwide dictatorship. Rifkin continues, “Without a fundamental redistribution of wealth, all talk of lowering energy flow and heeding our planet’s biological limits will result in nothing but the rich locking the poor forever into their subservient status…If they do not voluntarily begin to make this economic adjustment, then others will make it for them.” Before you mistakenly believe that Rifkin is out on a limb with this view, without any strong supporters, think again. Rifkin is considered one of the premier New Age leaders. Furthermore, Rifkin is considered by many Christians to be one of their own. Pat Robertson has interviewed Rifkin on his “700 Club” TV show, and in 1980, Robertson praised Rifkin’s book which we just quoted above. And finally, Rifkin’s proposals have been rewritten in popular language from a most popular man, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, in his new book, “Earth In The Balance”. Gore simply presents Rifkin’s radical ideas in a plausible format. Make no mistake about it, Rifkin’s radical concepts are the heart and soul of the New World Order Plan.
But, finally, Rifkin reveals the true spiritual nature of the plan he is proposing. He says, “The traditional wisdom, as embodied in all the great world religions, has long taught that the ultimate purpose of human life is not the satisfaction of all material desires, but rather the experience of liberation that comes from being one with the universe…All of the great teachers of traditional wisdom have embraced the values inherent to a low-entropy life. Buddha, Jesus, Muhammed…all led exemplary lives of simplicity, voluntary poverty, and communal sharing.” (Ibid., p. 210).
Now, Rifkin has revealed the truth about the ultimate plans for the New World Order. You and your family have just been “volunteered” to change your lifestyle to simplicity, voluntary poverty, and communal sharing. Indeed, the New World Order envisions moving the world economy back to where it was 200 years ago. And, again, if you do think our current political leaders do not believe this, just read Gore’s book, “Earth In The Balance”, where Gore states that the internal combustion engine poses more of a threat to mankind than any weapon of war ever created (Page 325). Now ask yourself, what is the weapon which poses the greatest threat ever to mankind? Is it not the nuclear weapon? Of course it is, and Gore is saying that the internal combustion engine is a greater threat. What are the leaders of the United States and the former Soviet Union supposedly doing with our nuclear weapons? We are destroying them.
And this is precisely the plan to achieve this “new world view” of “voluntary” simplicity, poverty, and communal sharing. This view is echoed throughout New Age literature. The powerful Club of Rome lists one of its four plans for the future world in these words: “A new ethic in the use of material resources must be developed which will result in a style of life compatible with the coming age of scarcity.” (“Mankind At The Turning Point”, Mesarovic and Pestal, 1974, page 147, Emphasis added). And what does “Mankind At The Turning Point” propose as the solution? This book proposes to reorganize the world into 10 Super Nation-states, a plan we have repeatedly shared with you. This political national reorganization plan, when carried out, will fulfill the prophecy of Daniel’s 10 toes and 10 horns. Now you can see how very close we are to the end of the age. The new European Economic Community is Nation # 2 in this plan and Bush’s proposed North American Free Trade Zone will create Nation # 1. Remember that most current politicians from both parties are fully in support of this change to the New World Order. It hasn’t mattered who we elected President since Franklin Roosevelt.
How does the Plan propose to move into this new economic system? The demon Master D.K., writing through Bailey in “The Externalisation of the Hierarchy”, states, “Today we are watching the death of civilisation…In all fields of human expression…deterioration had set in. Worn-out religious dogmas..the grip of theology..Old political schools..the educational systems…there is everywhere a cry for change and for those new forms in the religious, political, educational, and economic life…which will allow freer and better spiritual expression.” So now we understand that this planned change will involve all areas of our lives and will result in the death of our current civilization. And Master D.K. notes that this change will not be easy, nor will it be readily accepted:
“Such a change is rapidly coming and is regarded by some as death — terrible and to be avoided if possible. It is indeed death, but it is benevolent and needed…For the progress of the soul of the individual and the soul of humanity, death is inevitable, good, and necessary.” (Pages 114-115). Now we feel better, don’t we? After all, if our civilization is to die, we will all volunteer to kill it or to be killed as long as we know it is for our overall good and will result in the establishment of “better” and “higher” values. Right? Not!!
Master D.K. further reveals on page 482 that the “Forces of Reconstruction” will rebuild the tangible world upon the new envisioned lines, but that, first, these forces must totally destroy the old system. He reiterates this theme on page 518, when he states, “…in the destruction of the form lies hid the secret of all evolutionary growth.”
It is very clear that the Plan for the New World Order envisions the total destruction of our current way of life, economically, politically, and spiritually. Thus, we hear repeated warnings about impending crises in all three of these areas:
- Environmental crises have been trumpeted since the mid-1970’s, and they have all supposedly been the result of our current technological way of life. Our technology is supposedly causing us to pollute our air, our rivers and streams, and our earth. We will die and die soon if we do not change our way of living. Gore’s thinly veiled threat to the auto industry is just the beginning.
- Consider our Government: We have all been witnesses to the self-destruction of our current elected officials as they have consistently and massively failed in carrying out their responsibilities. We are at the point now where Americans could conceivably support the destruction of our current Constitutional system of Government under the right circumstances and if the change is presented to us in the right manner and with high-sounding motives.
- Consider the Economy: We shudder at the enormous debt which our government has accumulated since 1960. This debt stands at $4 trillion and Christian author and economist, Larry Burkett emphatically states in his book, “The Coming Economic Earthquake”, that this economy will fail sometime in the mid-1990’s because we will then have to spend every tax-collected dollar just to service the debt. As we have stated before, our elected officials during these past 30 years have been very intelligent and educated men; and, they have persisted in accumulating this debt in the face of repeated opposition, an opposition which has accurately and loudly articulated their fears. But, if you understand the hidden agenda of the New World Order, you will understand that men who know how to run a Capitalist economy will also know how to subtly destroy one.
A planned crisis is brewing and will be deliberately triggered at the time in world history in which these occultists want to move the world into the final door of the New World Order. Of course, many of the planned actions to destroy the old system will wait until Maitreya the Christ arises, convincing the world that he is the super-naturally endued “Christ”.
The possible form which this planned crisis may take is described by author Bill Cooper, in his book, “Behold A Pale Horse”. On page 177, Cooper states, “It is true that without the population or the bomb problem, the elect would use some other excuse to bring about the New World Order. They have plans to bring about things like earthquakes, war, the Messiah, an extraterrestrial landing, and economic collapse. They might bring about all these things just to make…sure that it does work. They will do whatever is necessary to succeed. The Illuminati has all the bases covered…According to plans, many people are going to die between now and the year 2,000; but if these plans are not successful, the human race could become extinct.”
This is the core of the plan to convince a panicked public throughout the world, but especially in the United States, to allow terribly destructive measures to be enacted. We will be told that, if we do not act, mankind will perish; if we do carry out these terrible measures, mankind will not only survive, but will enter into a millennia of peace and safety.
And what does the Bible foretell? In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and in 5:1-6, the Apostle Paul is foretelling the Rapture of the Church and the coming of the judgmental Day of the Lord. In 5:2-3, Paul states, “..the day of the Lord will come as suddenly and unexpectedly as a thief in the night. When people are saying, ‘All is well and secure’, and ‘There is peace and safety’, then in a moment unforeseen destruction, ruin and death will come upon them suddenly… and they shall by no means escape…”
Peace and Safety are the repeated promises of the New World Order. Do not be deceived; prepare for the worst series of disasters and crises to ever fall upon mankind. These crises are apparently immediately ahead.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1051.html
http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/db118.html
“…the financial crisis will lead to the creation of a global central bank and a global single currency within 15 years.”[3] Stephen Gallo
“Once a nation parts with control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation’s laws.”[4] W.L. Mackenzie King [former Prime Minister of Canada]
During the Nazi occupation of Norway (1939-1945), my father joined the Norwegian resistance movement and was willing to die for his country. But when the post-war years brought creeping socialism, he became increasingly disillusioned. Finally he chose to immigrate to America, which shone like a beacon of freedom and opportunity across Europe’s war-torn lands.
Entering New York’s harbor some years later, we gazed in awe at the Statue of Liberty. But even as we ate our first hamburger soon afterwards, America was changing. Dwight D. Eisenhower, our war-time hero, was now president. John Foster Dulles — a founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) — was his Secretary of State.
Like most Americans, we had no idea what was happening “behind the scenes.” We didn’t know that Dulles had been a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation — or that he collaborated with Alger Hiss, an active member of the Communist Party, and had helped draft the preamble to the UN Charter back in 1945.[5]
Nor did we realize that our Secretary of State had chaired a 1942 Federal (later renamed National) Council of Churches conference. In an article titled Conforming the Church to the New Millennium, I summarized the conference report. While Hitler’s armies were ravaging Europe, the Council used that devastating crisis as an opportunity to promote its agenda:
- a world government of delegated powers
- immediate limitations on national sovereignty
- a [single] democratically controlled international bank
- a universal system of money
- worldwide freedom of immigration
- even distribution of the world’s natural wealth.[6]
Does that sound familiar? Apparently that last point didn’t originate with Obama! Even Time magazine was shocked! Here’s its summary of the report:
“Some of the conference’s economic opinions were almost as sensational as the extreme internationalism of its political program. It held that a ‘new order of economic life is both imminent and imperative‘ – a new order that is sure to come either ‘through voluntary cooperation within the framework of democracy or through explosive political revolution.’”[7]
Considering Alger Hiss’ influence within the Council of Churches and friendship with Dulles [See note], it shouldn’t surprise us. His Marxist goals fit right into a church establishment already infiltrated with socialist ideology.[8] In spite of his Marxist aims, he served President Roosevelt both in the State Department and as his adviser at the 1945 Yalta Peace Conference, where much of eastern Europe was handed over to Stalin. His leftist ideology may even have prompted his assignment as the Secretary General of the United Nations Charter Conference in 1945 — and, later, as president of the multimillion dollar Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[9] In our UN Chronology, you can follow the hidden threads toward world government. Notice that today’s radical “change” simply means that we are nearing the completion of goals set long ago. As President Thomas Jefferson said,
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”[10]
It’s true! Unscrupulous leaders have traded the solid guidelines of our Constitution for evolving laws that conform to global standards and human greed. Since the Constitution was written for a nation that valued God’s moral guidelines, it crumbled under the pressures of power-hungry globalists, financial transnationalists, and the deceptive promises of pragmatic socialists. They all saw God’s unchanging Truth as an obstacle to their success. To understand this radical shift, let’s take a closer look at the three sets of laws that have influenced this nation — both for good and evil.
1. Our Constitution with its Promise of Freedom Whether Christian or not, most of our nation’s founders based the Constitution on God’s moral law. They knew that freedom to follow God would be essential to future prosperity.
In his 1796 Farewell Address, George Washington exposed the main threats to the authority of the Constitution:
“Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion [i.e. Christianity] and Morality are indispensable supports. …[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”[11]
Washington concluded with warning about the “mischiefs of foreign intrigue,” the lure of “imaginary common interest,” and the consequences of failure to “prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations.” In other words, if we don’t follow God’s ways and guard the foundations of this nation, it will be destroyed — just like the Roman empire.
2. Evolving Laws and Global Treaties (See Total transformation)True to socialist ideology, our current administration seems determined to control every aspect of life: speech, beliefs and values, education, food, health care, money, the way we serve God or each other, etc. May we, like the early disciples, have the courage and strength to “obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) Most of us are familiar with the various new bills (omnibus, stimulus, budget, etc.) loaded with earmarks that Obama had promised to purge. Costing taxpayers trillions, they seemed designed to deepen, not resolve, the current financial crisis.
But that apparent fiasco fits the plans of socialist change agents such as Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. They — like Obama four decades later — knew how to engineer a crisis that would ‘force change through chaos.’[12] Former federal prosecutor James H. Walsh explains their Marxist manipulations:
“Cloward and Piven held that poor people can only advance when society is afraid of them…. Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary aims, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive [community] organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation’s wealth….. “On the horizon are proposed taxes led by the Obama-sponsored Global Poverty Act that would tax every U.S. man, woman, and child $2,500 for a total of $845 billion to help the United Nations eliminate global poverty. The goal remains the same, to redistribute the wealth of the nation.”[13]
“New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani called the Cloward-Piven Strategy ‘an effort at economic sabotage.’…. Cloward and Piven were joined over the years by nouveau billionaires led by George Soros. Through his Democracy Alliance, they funded ACORN…..
In other words, social engineering is changing America along with the rest of the world! For example, Obama’s Global Poverty Act calls for communitarian partnerships between the —
1. Public sector (government, which writes the laws and sets the standards)
2. Private sector (business, which supplies resources)
3. Social sector (civil society, especially churches, which provide human servers trained in political correctness).
This three-legged system would be governed by globalist elites. Unlike communism, such a communitarian system would allow people to “own” their property, but both ownership and ideology would be governed, assessed and tracked through laws and regulations based on unthinkable global standards aimed at worldwide social solidarity. After all, Obama has agreed to “stepped up US-UN cooperation.”[14] Our old Constitution-based laws are rapidly being replaced by new laws that end virtually every freedom that we have treasured. This transformational legal system fits the UN’s rising body of international laws as well as the 67-year-old vision of John Foster Dulles. But is this what Americans want? Or are most people too distracted by entertainment and Huxley’s “feelies” to notice? Take a look at the road ahead:
- a socialist world government to “coordinate” the crisis and guide the solution [See The emerging New World Order]
- drastic limitations on national sovereignty [UNESCO's War Against National Sovereignty]
- a [single] democratically controlled international bank and a universal system of money. [One World, One Money]
- open borders and global migration based on UN decrees. [The UN Plan for Global Migration]
- redistribution of the world’s wealth. [Smiling at Socialism & Scorning the Bible][15]
In this new system, “We, the people” of America will no longer count. Our government — elected to serve us — will become our ‘masters.’ Ashley Mote (an independent member of the European Parliament) shows us what happened in Europe, the model for the other planned “regions” under the UN:
“Even the EU’s public face – the unelected commission – is part of the charade. Power does not lie with them. It lies with the senior staff running their departments…. We do not know what their budgets are, how they are financed, or who approves their costs. Indeed, we do not even know what powers they have been given, nor by whom…. The other 24 commissioners, each appointed by the other member states… are figure-heads. They take the flak in the public arena, and make announcements decided for them by their senior staff, with the guidance of the secret committees…. “The European Parliament sits below this vast superstructure… designed to create an illusion of accountable democracy. A condescending pat on the head for voters held in contempt…. In effect, the left has said to the multinationals: you can have your markets stitched up for you, if we can indulge ourselves in endless social engineering. Big business has agreed. The result is a largely supportive parliament both from the left and right of the political divide. The ‘Americas’ is moving in the same direction!”[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
In the economic calculation debate, classical liberal Friedrich Hayek argued that a socialist command economy could not adequately transmit information about prices and productive quotas due to the lack of a price mechanism, and as a result it could not make rational economic decisions. Ludwig von Mises argued that a socialist economy was not possible at all, because of the impossibility of rational pricing of capital goods in a socialist economy since the state is the only owner of the capital goods. Hayek further argued that the social control over distribution of wealth and private property advocated by socialists cannot be achieved without reduced prosperity for the general populace, and a loss of political and economic freedoms.[90][91]
Hayek’s views were echoed by Winston Churchill in an electoral broadcast prior to the British general election of 1945:
. . . a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance”
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=598
Marx believed that the problem with the socialism of his day was that it did not deal with economic issues. He proposed that his new (communist) economic system, which called for redistribution of wealth, was more equitable. But it is clear that this system does not work either, at least in part because it requires people to be altruistic. Unfortunately, working for the benefit of others over the self is not in harmony with the current state of human nature. Marx advanced a secular solution to what is a spiritual problem. But by its very nature, a spiritual problem can be solved only at a spiritual level.
