Stossel Exposes the Five Biggest Lies of Socialistic Slavery

Getting people to enslave themselves has always taken outright gaslighting and lies. John Stossel has the top five.

The year 2026 is shaping up to be an epic battle between the economic freedom of the free market and the societal slavery of socialism.

The left can never admit to this horrible truth, so their only choice is to lie through their teeth, because no one would ever buy into their socialist national agenda if that dark reality were known.

Getting ready for this epic battle means debunking these lies ahead of time, as in the accompanying John Stossel Video that eviscerates their top five.

He diplomatically uses the term “myths,” but we’re now talking about a battle between good and evil.

It is abundantly clear that socialism (collectivism, communism, fascism, Maoism, corporate statism, etc.) can never work without brute force, lies, and a mound of corpses, so we’re way beyond niceties at this point.

Socialistic slavery lie 1: “That wasn’t real socialism!”

This is the one we’re likely to hear the most next year, because the history of socialistic slavery is so devastating to the left. They can’t exactly deny reality, so they’ll have to admit the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U.S.S.R., as well as Red China’s socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Lying leftists (pardon the redundancy) have to somehow explain the epic failure of the first experiments in socialism 200 years ago in 1825 in New Harmony, Indiana, and similar communities at Yellow Springs, Ohio; at Nashoba, near Memphis; at Haverstraw and Coxsackie, New York, and in the Kendal Community at Canton, Ohio, and many others.

These ‘villages of co-operation’ were referred to in the first use of ‘socialist’ according to the Oxford English Dictionary in The Co-operative Magazine, London, November 1827.

Lying leftists can never admit that their ancient ideas don’t work, so they have to play games with the ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy, nitpick, and lie to exclude every socialist system.

Their problem is that there are many variations of collectivism that have all failed to work, and the OED definition of the word socialism is unambiguous:

A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Note the phrase: “owned or regulated by the community as a whole” with regard to the means of production being regulated by the community as a whole.

Socialistic slavery lie 2: Venezuela’s failure has little to do with socialism.

This, of course, could be applied to many of the aforementioned, including communist Cuba.

Lying leftists are forced to use these types of second-tier lies when some nations inconveniently identify themselves as socialist or communist slavery states.

A fallback position for the left in denying the abject failure of socialism – if they can’t play games with word definitions in the case of openly socialist national states, they distract with other reasons that socialism didn’t work.

The lies are that the drop in the price of oil and mismanagement caused all of Venezuela’s economic woes.

Note that other countries that depend on oil revenue didn’t experience it because they rely on centralized control rather than the pricing signals of the free market.

Socialistic slavery lie 3: Socialism is great, if it’s democratic socialism.

Except that when the government controls whether or not you eat, it can control your vote, and ‘democracy’ goes out the window. An economy based on force can never be ‘democratic,’ it only works for the first go around, then the government simply controls the vote, just like everything else.

It’s the old saying: socialism, one man, one vote, once.

Socialistic slavery lie 4: Socialism works in Scandinavia.

One problem with this one: Scandinavian countries are not socialist.

The heading should speak for itself, because over the years, this little chestnut has been debunked repeatedly.

Leftists are forever playing a shell game of denying that socialist regimes were socialist while claiming non-socialist regimes are socialist. In addition, they falsely ascribe anything the positive the government does as ‘socialism.’

Socialistic slavery lie 5: Socialism is completely different from fascism.

We’ve counted more than 50 ways the left is like the National Socialists. But mentioning this is the Lord Voldemort of political discourse, but it hasn’t always been this way.

As noted in the video, it was at least understood during the 1920s and 1930s, that while these two collectivist ideologies weren’t exactly the same, they had a lot in common.

For example, in 1927, the American Federation of Labor Denounced both the reds and the fascists and stood in opposition to both, as standing for autocracy, likening fascism to communism.

To the point that they used to say: Why is National Socialist Germany like a beefsteak? Answer: Because it is brown outside and red inside. And the common phrasing referred to the brown Bolshevism of the Third Reich, and the Red fascism of the U.S.S.R.

The April 1939 issue of The Atlantic had a long dissertation on Brown Bolshevism, emphasizing the point.

After WWII, it strangely became controversial to make these comparisons. Academic papers on red fascism and brown Bolshevism from the 1970s studied many of the newspapers of the pre-WWII time period, noting many common traits between the two, engendering quite a controversy in doing so.

The left has always perpetrated this false dichotomy because they want to pretend the conflict is between socialism and ‘fascism’ instead of the true comparison of socialistic slavery and economic freedom – for obvious reasons.

Originally published on the American Thinker.