George Orwell’s books (“Animal Farm,” “1984”) satirize the excesses to which “from each according to his ability” are carried. Yet many  of his descriptive accounts ring familiar: a media selling a singular political ideology, frequently at the expense of truth; an economic system wherein wages, profits and “fair outcomes” are directed, controlled and dictated by government authority; people trained to rat on one another for the least departure from Big Brother’s edicts; and children indoctrinated by the state, the parents essentially excluded.

Each of those abuses is currently evidenced or implicitly suggested by some in our own society. And while the term social justice has a pleasant sound, its  underlying thrust reduces to “from each according to his ability” via government control of  wages,  profit, behavior, thinking and individual outcome. Unfortunately, government-dictated goodness doesn’t reflect the individual pursuit of life, liberty and happiness as provided by our Constitution.

Marxism’s numerous failures suggest caution when relying upon goodness and virtue being imposed by politicians (or the so-called intelligentsia’ who cannot define the word woman).



FRANK GARDINER

North Provo, Utah 

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