Statism is built on contradictions.  It claims to protect, yet it destroys.  It claims to organize, yet it disorganizes.  At its root is the pretense that society can’t function without rulers.  If men can act rationally, then there is no need for overlords, no need for endless decrees, no need for the manufactured fear that keeps the system alive.  The entire edifice rests on the idea that we’re helpless, and they’re wise.

Statists resent what they can’t explain.  They see production as automatic, as though goods and services just appear, detached from the individual will that brings them into existence.  The producer is scorned as greedy for keeping what is his, while the looter is praised for demanding what isn’t his.  The perverse logic is that theft is virtue, and ownership is vice.  This isn’t reason—it’s parasitism dressed as morality.

Today the state has seeped into every corner of life.  The justification is always the same: you’re too incompetent to decide for yourself.  The “intellectuals” repeat this message, the “journalists” echo it, and the masses absorb it.  What’s called “progress” isn’t progress at all—it’s regression.  Each step forward for the state is a step backward for the individual.

A genuine society advances through voluntary exchange, through cooperation rooted in private property.  Statism replaces this with coercion.  It creates policies that enrich its favorites and crush its rivals.  It feeds off destruction and calls it stability.  It feeds off confiscation and calls it justice.  The racket is as clear as day: invent the problem, declare yourself the solution, confiscate more to confiscate again.

This is not governance—it’s the systematic destruction of the human spirit.  Statism weakens the will, erodes responsibility, and makes the masses pliable.  Once helpless, they’re easier to control.  The original promise was the defense of property.  The reality is the confiscation of property.  That’s the great confiscation, and it accelerates until nothing is left.

The only answer is private property, the foundation of freedom.  Yet property is the very thing most despised by the statist.  They’re comfortable defending their own, but never yours.  Overcoming this requires more than resistance, it requires ideas.  Propaganda must be met with truth.  Lies must be met with clarity.  Statism thrives on delusion, but ideas can shatter delusion.  When the ideas of liberty spread, the confiscation ends.

References

Ludwig von Mises; Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Friedrich Nietzsche; The Will To Power