Envy needs an ideology, and socialism has always been happy to provide one. Mises wrote a whole book about this in 1956, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, and the diagnosis holds up: people who resent the outcomes of voluntary exchange will always search for a doctrine that transforms their resentment into virtue. The woke left found theirs.
Notice what wokeism and socialism share at the root. Both start from the premise that unequal outcomes prove injustice. You earned more than your neighbor? Exploitation. One group outperforms another in median income? Systemic oppression. Neither doctrine ever asks whether people made different choices, took different risks, or produced different value for others. Asking that question would ruin everything, because the entire project depends on assigning blame rather than understanding prices, profit, and loss.
Once you accept that unequal outcomes equal injustice, you need a corrector. Someone powerful. Someone with the authority to override contracts, seize property, and redistribute according to a moral hierarchy the planners themselves define. That job description has exactly one applicant: the state. This is why the woke activist and the socialist always arrive at the same policy desk, demanding rent control in New York, wealth taxes in Sacramento, hiring quotas in every HR department from Seattle to Brussels.
Marcuse and the Frankfurt School figured out decades ago that the Western worker refused to play his assigned role as revolutionary. He got rich instead. Capitalism handed him a car, a house, and air conditioning, and he stopped listening to men promising utopia through expropriation. The revolutionaries needed a new client base. Class became identity, but the machinery stayed identical: oppressor and oppressed, guilt and grievance, revolution and rule.
The love affair with socialism, then, follows logically. Wokeism supplies the moral demand for coercion; socialism supplies the economic apparatus of coercion. Neither can survive in a world of private property and voluntary exchange, because in that world you rise by serving customers, not by capturing committees. Venezuela ran this experiment from 1999 onward. The grocery shelves reported the results.
When I want to visit a first-world Western country, even for a week. I go through extensive Visa applications, interviews, and hours of paperwork. They do a background check on me, and I have to prove I have enough money in my bank account. The whole process sometimes takes months.
Yet, they welcome all criminals from across the world to just walk in without any paperwork, to live there indefinitely and even give them homes and shelter.
How does this make any sense? If you have an open border, why can't I come on holiday without a visa?
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How many more fucked up situations involving the juice, does the world need to see, in order to understand their insane levels of depravity?
And you have world leaders all over the globe, supporting, and aligning with these parasites.
In-fucking-sane.
Roelf Meyer wants to stop President Donald Trump’s Afrikaans refugee programme
Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, said he is working hard to get President Donald Trump’s executive order on South African refugees lifted.
He shared this information during the Clement Manyathela Show on Radio 702, where he discussed his work in the United States.
“The executive order issued by President Donald Trump in February 2025 still stands, and we have to find a way to get around it or at least try to get it revoked,” Meyer said.
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Feminism went off the rails when it started telling women that equality meant becoming the same as men.
Women are not inferior because we are different. Our femininity is not a weakness. Our unique strengths as mothers, wives, leaders, and builders of families are indispensable to a healthy society.
The greatest lie of modern feminism is that women must imitate men to be equal. We don't diminish ourselves by embracing who we are. We diminish ourselves when we pretend to be something we are not. | @ZubyMusic