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- Free healthcare, free education,
guaranteed jobs and zero poverty.
Man, it sounds good.
That's what socialism promises to deliver.
Now, a growing number ofpeople are believing the lie.
The reality, everywhere it's been tried,
socialism has failed formore than 2000 years.
Take a look.
- [Narrator] The idea of a society
where the wealth is sharedby all goes all the way back
to 380 BC and the Greekphilosopher, Plato.
And for more than 2000 years,
everywhere socialism hasbeen tried, it has failed.
An often forgotten example from history
is the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony.
The settlement was initiallybuilt on a socialist model
based on the writings of Plato.
The colony's bylaws said all such persons
as are of this colonyare to have their meat,
drink, apparel and all provision
out of ye common stock and goods.
A few years later, the colonywas on the brink of starvation
and Governor William Bradford declared
the communal experimenta complete failure.
Only after Bradfordassigned a private parcel
to each family did thecolony begin to thrive
to the point of being able to share food
with native Americans.
In a new book, "Socialism,the Real History
from Plato to the Present",historian William Federer
recounts this and many other examples
of how socialism hasfailed time after time,
and why, despite its dismal track record,
many still want to turnAmerica into a socialist state.
- I read this book.
I thought, man, this is so good.
"Socialism, a Real Historyfrom Plato to the Present".
It is so excellent.
I thought that William Federer should come
and tell us more about it.
He joins us now and, Bill,how many people don't realize
that socialism and communismhave a long history
all the way back to theGreek philosopher Plato?
Tell us about him.
- Well, Plato said thatthe chief characteristic
of democracy is tolerance.
Everybody tolerates each other.
It's wonderful.
Then they tolerate peoplethat are a little bit off,
and then they toleratepeople that are a lot off,
till finally they'retolerating crooks and crime
in broad daylight, looting of stores
and criminals are justwandering the streets.
This insecurity causespeople to panic and say,
can't someone comealong and fix this mess?
Then some mayor or governorsays, "I can fix it.
I just need some emergency powers."
They finally stand in the chariot of state
holding the reins ofpower, and they're revealed
as the tyrant.
This tyrant is the head of gold,
and his party membersare the arms and chest
of silver and gold.
They are the ruling class,and the ruling class
gets special treatment.
Everyone else is in the ruled class.
They are the abdomen of iron and bronze,
and the ruled class own no property,
their children are takenaway and raised by the state
and indoctrinated with noble lies.
The state even decideswho gets to have children.
This is socialism, a structured society
ruled by a deep state ruling class,
and then everyone elsewho has no property.
Now, fast forward 2000 years, and you have
Columbus discoveringAmerica, and Sir Thomas Moore
writes "Island of Utopia",a fictitious island
discovered off the coast of South America.
On this island, it's a structured society.
The word utopia, bythe way, means nowhere.
The book is written as a dialogue
with someone named Highland Deus,
which means peddler of nonsense.
So this island of Utopia,a structured society
of a ruling class and everyone else,
and they live in identicalthree-story houses.
They wear identical clothes,they eat an identical,
communal, like a monastery, their meals.
They own no property,they have no privacy.
Their children are taken away
and the government chooses their careers
and everyone is trackedeverywhere they go.
If you're caught without your papers,
it's a lifetime of slavery.
This is Utopia.
This is socialism, this structured society
of a ruling class and a ruled class.
Then a century later, Sir Francis Bacon
writes a similar storycalled "The New Atlantis".
It's an island in the South Pacific.
Somebody is washed up on it.
It's a structured society,a little more scientific
because of the scientific revolution.
Someone wrote a farce on itcalled "Gulliver's Travels".
A guy's washed up on this island.
There's this ridiculous rulingclass and everybody else.
Why is this important?
Well, as it was said, thepilgrims had a company colony
with bylaws written byinvestors that looked back
to Plato, Sir ThomasMoore, Sir Francis Bacon,
and yes, everything was owned in common.
William Bradford said that this was tried
by well-meaning people,but it proved the emptiness
of the theory of Plato that theowning of property in common
would somehow make men happy,
as if they were wiser than God.
The young men objected todoing twice as much work
as the old guy, but theydidn't get any more.
The old guy objected tobeing classed in labor
with the young men andconsidered it an indignity,
and women objected to havingto wash other men's clothes.
William Bradford said,after much discussion,
it was decided that every family would get
their own plot of land.
This made all hands more industrious.
The women now wentwillingly into the field
and took their little ones with them,
where before they would allege weakness.
- Bill, I want to ask youabout some of these people
who have written about it.
You had something about Machiavelli.
The whole idea is to keepthe people uninformed.
I mean, "1984" is another book about this.
Tell us about the lies thathave been told about this.
- In order for people togive up their freedoms,
they need to be in fear.
Machiavelli lived 500 years ago in Italy.
Italy was a bunch ofcity states that fought,
Naples, Vienna and so forth.
He thought, well, if aprince conquers them,
they would hate the prince.
But if the prince payscriminals to kill cows,
burn barns, smash windows,the people will panic,
they'll cry out for help.
The prince will come in andget rid of the very people
he paid to create the crisis.
No one will know the better for it,
and everyone will praisethe prince as a hero.
So it's good marketing.
You create the need and fill it.
You go around the back ofthe house, set it on fire.
Then you go around the front of the house
and sell them a fire extinguisher.
They'll pay anything for it,
and even thank you for being there.
It's called Machiavellianism,where you create
or capitalize on a crisesto consolidate control.
More recently, it's worded
never let a good crisis go to waste.
This is an opportunity to pushyour big government agenda.
- Well, Bill, I think yourbook is just tremendous
because, ladies and gentlemen,
it lays it out in great detail.
We're going to talk toMr. Federer tomorrow too
about what they're doing today.
The book is called"Socialism, the Real History,
from Plato to the Present",and it's available
wherever books are sold.
On tomorrow's 700 Club,Bill's going to talk about
why so many young people in America
are captivated by a socialist ideology,
which never has workedany time in history,
but it's being taught byMachiavellian type people
to sell it, and they'relying to you and me.
Bill Federer, thanks for being with us.
Terry.
- Thank you.
