Statism aims at the substitution of the rational for the irrational.  If calculation were possible, we wouldn’t need overlords to direct us, and we wouldn’t need an endless stream of fear mongering to convince us we need our overlords.  They want us to think we would be helpless without them.  Haven’t you heard?  They are wise and we are dumb, they are ethical and we are not.  However, they are humans just like the rest of us.  There is no sobriety in statism.

The statist just resent what they do not understand.  Everything in their lives they owe to interhuman relations.  As long as goods and services are produced, it is blissfully assumed everything is great, and the producers are greedy for wanting to keep their own property.  Somehow wanting to take someone else’s property is not.  This doesn’t make any sense to me.  The statist will want to make you feel bad for even thinking about this.  Taking other people’s property is parasitic greed.

Now, the state has nonsensically entered into all areas.  Of course, they will say, it’s for our own good because we are too dumb to make our own decisions.  The “intellectuals” and “journalists” do their job to tell us we are too dumb—engage in the national swindle.  Meanwhile, the masses are suffering.  Progress is not a given, be on your guard anytime you hear a “representative” talk about progress.  They don’t mean progress for the masses, they mean progress for them.  When they speak of progress, it’s actually a backwards movement.

Society can advance to a higher stage, or progress, but this is not the same when a political goal is trying to be accomplished.  They are just trying to further the national swindle.  Statism is rushing blindly toward destruction.  At the same time, large companies take part in destruction so the state can keep their competitors out.  This might be called “economic policy,” but it destroys economic life.  In the free market, a company and an individual participate in mutually beneficial exchange.  In statism, the exchange benefits only the statist.

Statism is the destruction of the human.  Statism corrupts and destroys the will.  By weakening and destroying society, the masses are helpless.  The state can then step in to “correct” a problem they created.  Isn’t this called a racket?  The initial aim was the protection of private property, today it’s the confiscation of private property.  Not only is property confiscated, it’s confiscated to confiscate more property.  These contradictions must be eradicated, or society will be destroyed.

How can we overcome statism?  Private property.  That’s an easy answer, there is an epidemic of hysteria, so how do we protect private property?  That’s a little more complicated because most statists want to aggress against private property, so long as it is not theirs.  There are many emotions that control actions.  However, it is ideas and only ideas that can overcome statism.  The situation appears bleak at the moment, but ideas have changed in the past and they can change in the future.  We have to counter the statist propaganda with truth.

P.S.: The article name sounded familiar.  I did some searching, and it was the subtitle for Marxism Unmasked.

References

Ludwig von Mises; Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Friedrich Nietzsche; The Will To Power