A collection of arguments for and against socialism
In Prior Analytics, Aristotle explicitly described an argument in terms of premsies and conclusions. He defines a deduction (syllogism) as:
"speech in which, certain things having been supposed, something different from those supposed results of necessity because of their being so."
In other words, if you assume certain starting statements (premises), then necessarily a new statement (the conclusion) follows. He clarifies that "each of the 'things supposed' is a premise… and what 'results of necessity' is the conclusion."[1]
Our goal here is to craft arguments that are not only valid, sound, and enduring, but are also memetic. The foundational belief is that socialism is rooted in untrue assertions about history, economics, and human nature, and that false foundation is why socialism has invariably led to impoverishment, strife, national decay, and genocide. I assert that the solution to socialism is to pose arguments that demonstrate not only that these socialist foundations are invalid, but that the systems that socailism demonizes, in particular classical liberalism and capitalism, are the systems which generate the most life, liberty, happiness and economic prosperity for the bottom 30% of people, and for everyone else too.