Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.
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The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
Neither Fascist Italy nor Spain adopted eugenics as an ideology central to their form of government the way the National Socialist did. However, socialist and progressive nations such as Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway did adopt and implement eugenics. This is because eugenics is the safety valve of a centrally planned economy. Central planners like John Maynard Keynes fear a population that is not as meticulously planned as the economy. They fear the unproductive sectors out-breeding the productive sectors of the population. This is also why Keynes was a lobbyist for the British eugenics movement both before and after The Holocaust.
Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.