Utopianism is the Impossible Pursuit of the New Eden
The ultimate impulse behind collectivism is discussed. Its necessary failure is always predictable.
Free Markets Make Free Men Stay Free
This is regardless of how each human attempt at a supposed heaven on earth leads, invariably, to a terrible hell on this planet. On a small scale it was, for instance, even attempted by the fanatical Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana in the 1970s. It remains to be seen how far and how fast most of the American people are willing to do down the (well-trodden) road to serfdom, as F. A. Hayek put it in that magnificent book with that same title. Historically speaking, only the attempt at preserving free markets has, over the long run, helped many more millions of people to live in freedom with prosperity than the many efforts to create collectivist-utopian regimes; it’s a trite and old, yet, true saying; but, free markets make free men stay free.
Free-market economics is not perfection on earth; it is only that all the other alternatives are worse; thus, to turn a phrase of Sir Winston Churchill (regarding democracy), a free-market economy is the worst kind of economy, except for all the rest. Note that capitalism is not what is needed; it is but the mirror image of socialism in that both are the two sides of the exactly same coin of modernity; both, in fact, want a secularized, hedonistic, nihilistic, and materialistic society and culture dedicated to atheistic humanism.
Both, in actual fact as to their interrelationships, want Big Government, Big Business and Big Labor, the Iron Triangle of power, in one form or another so that capitalism and socialism are in a mutual-symbiotic relationship; there is no supposed antagonism between the two, rather, a definite form of ideological reciprocity necessarily exists, as they are, therefore, functionally complementary forces with the same end in mind, as has been properly noted.
As demonstrated by writings of the Austrian School of Economics, only free-market economics, the maintenance of a free-enterprise economy, is the genuinely best alternative to any collectivism, to any social-market economy, real or even merely imagined as such. This is inclusive of any proposed New Eden in America or elsewhere.
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