March 5 2002



PROTECTING PRIVATE PROPERTY IS A CRIME IN SOCIALIST FINLAND



FINLAND - When Police has stolen your heritage property, you naturally would like them to be prosecuted for the crime.

Sounds like Finland is a quasi-Soviet style state-run capitalist monopoly. If everything is owned by the state, this is what you get. This is not Socialism. Socialism, in fact, has never actually been attempted. An economy Democratically owned and run by the working class as an equal partnership is Socialism, in a nutshell.

While Finland is bad enough, you definately don't want to live in America if you don't like police states. Here, cops not only can steal your property, they can also take your life and consistently escape prosecution.

What are the extent of property rights under socialism?

Sure, you can say that it's all owned by the proletariat, but where are the borders between properties, and what is private property?

If I own three cars, is that too many, and can one be liberated for someone who has none?

If I own an acre of land in the open, and then, people move in around me and it becomes dense, must I share some of my land with these newcomers. At what point do I not "own" the property anymore?

Who makes these judgements? Is it the state?

Suppose the state is populated by uptight people who decree that feather boas, ice cream, boom boxes, and expensive sneakers are not necessary. Suppose that they decided that classical orchestras, gardening, car washes, and hats are necessary. What's going to happen?