The Real Hidden Dangers of Socialism

As much as I am an advocate for Canadian-style Health-Care in the United States (as a Religious Conservative as informed by Roman Catholic Social Teaching), there are, however, serious hidden dangers involved.

First, whenever the 'state' is the primary source of hope, the human soul (psyche in Greek) withers, and is in a state of depression.

Second, socialism, although at times necessary for maintaining basic infrastructure, to include, at times, even housing, the bus system, power companies and public libraries, still results in a dampening of the human spirit.

Third, from a religious perspective socialism is not anti-thetical to Christianity, and in fact, is largely the secularized version of the original Christian emphasis upon the communal sharing of resources as found in the ideal early Christian community as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.

Finally, although acceptable in some measure (Canada, parts of Western Europe), socialistic thinking always runs the danger of slipping into a form of communism. Socialistic thinking mixed with a political coup is all that it would take to turn a Great Britain into a Soviet Union or China. Pretty scary actually . . .

But, having stated these hidden dangers of socialism (dangers to the soul, dangers of becoming a form of state-enforced communism as opposed to a Mennonite or Amish-style communitarianism!), some forms of governmental socialism are acceptable, and within the context of the U.S., socialized medicine may, in fact, be one of these acceptable forms.

Blessings in Jesus,
Rob J. King, Health Care advocate :-)