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| The Ruling Elites Create an Orwellian Reinterpretation of Human Rights |
| 2024-09-18 |
| [MISES Wire] Ludwig von Mises depicts the aim of revolutionary socialism as: "to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating the old one." One of the main strategies in liquidating a civilization involves dismantling its legal and philosophical foundations. This role is fulfilled by activists who embark upon "sabotage and revolution" by subverting the meaning of words: "The socialists have engineered a semantic revolution in converting the meaning of terms into their opposite." George Orwell famously called this subversive language "Newspeak." Peter Foster describes Newspeak as "a sort of totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting, and manufacturing words." Mises explains that dictators express their ideas in Newspeak precisely because, if they did not, nobody would support their schemes: This reversal of the traditional connotation of all words of the political terminology is not merely a peculiarity of the language of the Russian Communists and their Fascist and Nazi disciples. The social order that in abolishing private property deprives the consumers of their autonomy and independence, and thereby subjects every man to the arbitrary discretion of the central planning board, could not win the support of the masses if they were not to camouflage its main character. The socialists would have never duped the voters if they had openly told them that their ultimate end is to cast them into bondage. (emphasis added) In the proliferation of Newspeak, the reinterpretation of "human rights" has proved to be one of the most powerful weapons of sabotage and revolution. Activists have seized control of a vast empire of international law, NGOs, and human rights charities with a global network of staff who monitor respect for "human rights." They wield their significant influence in the human rights industry to undermine human liberty by redefining the meaning of "human rights" to denote the antidiscrimination principle. Under the banner of equality and nondiscrimination, they restrict free speech and other human liberties. In other words, the doctrine of "human rights" now denotes the precise opposite: the destruction of human liberty. THE "HUMAN RIGHT" TO NON-DISCRIMINATION Human rights no longer mean what many might suppose: the right to life, liberty, and property. The vast corpus of human rights in international law has been categorized by Karel Vašák into three: civil-political, socio-economic, and collective-developmental. These categories are said to encompass negative rights (things the state must not do, such interfering with life, liberty, or property), positive rights (things the state must do, for example, provide citizens with food, shelter, education, healthcare, etc.), and rights of solidarity between citizens such as wealth redistribution through social welfare schemes and equal participation in economic progress through measures such as the minimum wage or equal pay. Human rights organizations monitor progress against these categories and ensure that the legal system works in favor of socialist goals and against liberty. For example, the United Nations human rights program educates the public on the need to eradicate "hate speech" and interprets "equal protection" of the law, as a fundamental human right, to mean protection from hate speech. The UN says: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 The “ideal” or “illusion” of democracy comes from widespread misconceptions about this political system, despite clear misgivings from the most illustrious political thinkers of the past. The most important misconceptions about democracy are that elected representatives are generally loyal and disinterested, and that the electorate is generally informed and rational with regard to politics. Yes, we've had that "Many ruled by the few" thing figured out for decades now. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-18 04:27 |