Liberalism vs Socialism
In this post we will see how liberalism criticizes socialism.
Socialism is a political ideology that wants to socialize private property. In other words, he wants to eliminate it, in order to eliminate some material inequalities between people. Therefore, we can say that socialism defends material equality for everyone and blames private property, especially the means of production, for being the culprit for this not happening. Its purpose is to convert private property to social or communal property.
“Today's private property, bourgeois property, is the last and most perfect expression of the mode of production and appropriation based on the antagonisms of the classes, on the exploitation of one by the other. In this sense, the communists can summarize their theory in this unique formula: the abolition of private property "
Marx and Engels (1848 [2000]: 51)
Socialism defends the expression "everything belongs to everyone." The abolition of private property and the subordination of all the vital plans of any individual to the arbitrary will of those who exercise power over forced communal property, is a direct attack on the freedom of the person.
“In your society, private property is abolished for nine-tenths of its members. Precisely because it does not exist for those nine-tenths, it exists for you "
Marx and Engels (1848 [2000]: 55)
That is, Marx said that 90 percent of the population lacked any type of property and was unable to get any. But the truth is that today, 65 percent of American families and 75 percent of Spanish families own their homes. Also, 65 percent of the world's richest people (over $ 30 million) created that fortune on their own. More than 20 percent with the help of their inheritance and only 11 percent inherited it.
Source: The 10 basic principles of the liberal political order. Juan Ramón Rallo.
