By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh ——Bio and Archives--June 27, 2024
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As a tyrannical government takes more power, pushing socialism/communism as best alternatives to capitalism, citizens must stop and think rationally, how does all this free stuff they are promised work, and how does the “dictatorship of the proletariat” work in real life? They only need to look at history to find out.
Coined originally by Karl Marx, as an expression of the dictatorship of the majority class, the dictatorship of the proletariat uses violence, brutality, imprisonment, and abject fear to rule and to keep the disarmed masses into compliance and oppression.
The majority class was comprised of all the poor and downtrodden citizens who had to listen daily to lectures on the wonders of communism while their bellies gurgled from lack of nutritious food and sometimes any food at all.
The communists in the elite class who controlled the country had a strong grasp on everyone thanks to a huge and well-paid army, security police, regular police, economic police, central bank officers, and paid informers who wanted a few extra crumbs from their Communist Party handlers. The elites in control did not have the internet or social platforms to spy on their citizens, they really had to work hard to keep a close tab on them.
The Marxist government offered positions of influence to those who could trace their lineage two generations. For security personnel, a person of........