Torah Judaism on Socialism – From 1980!!

I posted this two years ago on Facebook.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller is considered one of the Great Torah Sages of the 20th Century.
He spoke much about contemporary life in the 70’s and 80’s, taking the portion of the Torah that we read each week and showing how it applies now, to This World…
(Kis Sisa, which is also the portion of the Torah that we read now, this coming week, in 2021, tells of the sin of the Golden Calf…)

 

This is a brief excerpt from Toras Avigdor; Parshas Ki Sisa; by Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZTz”L – WRITTEN IN 1980.

Rabbi Miller was not writing about politics – he was writing about the Jewish People and the sin of the Golden Calf but – he was not a man to mince words about the reality of anything.

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It’s like telling a liberal today that private property is a sacred concept. Let’s say he’s been reading Karl Marx. He’s been considering the “problems” with capitalism; he’s studying other kinds of societies to understand socialism. Or today he can even study American society to study socialism. The government today is engaged in a great socialistic activity. It’s soaking the rich in order to give to the poor. That’s what’s happening now. It’s a slow form of socialism. It’s gradual, but there’s been a big revolution in the last fifty years. (this was said in 1980) They’re taking from the rich and so all incentive is taken away from making big money. The incentive to build businesses and to propel the economy here in America is being whittled away by the liberals. Many people are retiring because what’s the purpose of earning money if it all goes to the government! And who’s going to get your hard earned money anyway? Vagrants, people who don’t want to work.

Entire populations of loafers are being maintained in the big cities; shiftless people, some of them are criminals – a big percentage are criminals – and they don’t want to work. It doesn’t pay for them to work. Why should they bother going to work if they can sit home and government money supports them? And therefore there’s a great wave of socialism today. Everything is now based on this idea. Of course they wouldn’t admit it’s Karl Marx, because they know that his name reminds people of the false promises of the past, but there’s no question it’s a socialistic attitude.

LAW ABIDING GANGSTERS

Of course some people might smile when they hear this. But they’re naive, that’s all. They don’t realize that they’ve been hoodwinked gradually over a long period of time. The prevailing idea is to soak the rich in order to distribute it to the poor, and they’re so accustomed to it that if you tell them today there’s such a thing as private property, and that private property and a person’s hard earned money is sacred, that concept is alien to their minds today. The fact that a man has amassed fortune – he has a lot of land and he has a lot of money in the bank, and you’d like to have some of it, that doesn’t mean you have a right to take it. Even if you do it by means of the rule of law, it means it’s brigandage by law. If the law would give you the right to take a gun and make a holdup, that’s no excuse. And that’s what the law does today. It actually does that.

But if you try to tell that to a college student today, he would laugh at you. Their minds have been made so crooked by their professors that they cringe when they hear you mention private property, or capitalism. Because their minds have already been sold on foolishness. It’s very difficult for him to subject his mind to the truth, once he’s been sold on socialism. And therefore when they hear you explain the wickedness of their ideals, they object and it’s difficult for them to accept what you’re saying.

THE ICE CREAM OF THE COLLEGES

But that’s only today when people are weak-minded and shallow; and stupid people can be sold stupid ideas like socialism. Today’s youth are so crooked that a professor can feed them lies like socialism, evolution and atheism, and they think that they’ve found gold! It’s like a man who is eating manure and he tells you it’s ice-cream! And he believes it! What can you do with a person so crooked?!…..”