All over the country, people are still reacting to Zohran Mamdani’s stunning inauguration speech, in which he embraced the idea of collectivism.
It seems as though he has finally, openly embraced the concepts of communism, a fact that the media has desperately tried to downplay and outright hide from the public for months now.
On Twitter/X, there is a video making the rounds which shows a young man from Romania reacting to Mamdani’s speech and saying that this is how communism came to his country. He then goes through a series of events related to collectivism. None of it is good.
Hi, my name is Bogdan and this is exactly how communism came to power in my country, Romania, via collectivism.
First, they confiscated private land. Then they used terror to enforce collectivism.
The regular Romanian citizens were arrested, beat up, humiliated publicly, left to rot in prison, and some even executed.
The next step for collectivism was destroying the independent farmer class.
These people were a threat to the regime because they were able to stay self-sufficient and did not rely on the state. Independence was, and still is, the biggest threat to communism. They made it in such a way that owning more than others was a crime.
Once all that happened, the communists started confiscating the food from farmers, leaving families to die.
They also confiscated the livestock raised by people. This resulted in famine, malnutrition, and the collapse of productivity.
Romania literally went from being the number one exporter of grain in Europe to chronic shortages of food. But that wasn’t enough.
The communists then banned free market. No free sale of crops, no private trades, no bargaining, classic socialist failure. But collectivism wasn’t just economic. It was cultural as well. In Romania, they attacked the church and religious people.
They replaced family authority with party authority, all with one goal in mind: replace faith and family with the state.
Ayn Rand was a controversial figure, but as someone who escaped the former Soviet Union, she knew a thing or two about the dangers of communism.
She was disliked by people on the left and the right because while she vehemently opposed communism, she was also a vocal atheist who disliked expressions of faith.
Most of all, Rand absolutely despised collectivism. She was a fierce defender of individual rights.
After Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural speech, in which he embraced collectivism, it is time to revisit Ayn Rand’s warnings on the topic.
This is from a 1959 interview she did with Mike Wallace, who was snide and condescending to her throughout the segment. Still, Rand held her own and made her points very well.
Transcript via PressBooks:
Mike Wallace: Let’s move ahead. How does your philosophy translate itself into the world of politics? Now one of the principle achievements of this country in the past 20 years, particularly, I think most people agree, is the gradual growth of social and protective legislation based on the principle that we are our brother’s keepers. How do you feel about the political trends of the United States, the Western world?
Ayn Rand: The way everybody feels, except more consciously. I feel that it is terrible, that you see destruction all around you, and that you are moving toward disaster until, and unless, all those welfare state conceptions have been reversed and rejected. It is precisely these trends which are bringing the world to disaster, because we are now moving towards complete collectivism, or socialism. A system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody, and we are moving that way only because of our altruist morality.
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