Socialism and Social Justice

The word socialism has been thrown around a lot recently in political discussions. It is important to understand exactly what socialism is to ensure that you can use the term properly and identify when you are faced with a socialistic principle. There are some companies that attempt to mask their socialistic principles and policies behind well designed facades. Recently the Coalition of Religious Communities, or CORC, has masked their socialistic policies by using terms like 'social justice' in their rhetoric. Using terms like 'social justice' they can make their policies and beliefs seem mainstream and acceptable. In reality when you delve deeper into the policies that CORC has put out, you can see the prevalence of socialistic beliefs written between the lines. Socialism is based on the idea that there should be no hierarchy in society. To make this possible the government has a strong presence in the lives of its citizens to be able to regulate the means of production. This strong handed involvement is supposed to create a society that does not cater to and benefit the wealthy and a society in which there is no exploitation of the impoverished. This may sound idealistic and wonderful, but upon further inspection there are many different problems that arise with a society that promotes socialism. CORC promotes 'social justice' through a policy that they call progressive taxes. They believe that the individuals that have worked hard throughout their life to earn money and become wealthy deserved to be taxed with a higher percentage than the individuals that have not earned as much money. The idea here is that those that have made a lot of money should be redistributing that money back into society to benefit those that do not have money. This idea that those that have worked hard and benefitted monetarily from that work should be taking care of those that have not does not sit well with the majority of individuals in our society. Taking advantage of this system, loafing and being taken care of, is very easy. This idea that those that are wealthy will be forced to give up their money to care for those that are not can be seen in CORC's income redistribution and property redistribution. Interestingly, while CORC masks the true nature of their policies with terms like 'social justice' they have no problem "being called a socialist Acorn-type group." Supporting a coalition like CORC means supporting the infiltration of socialism into our capitalistic society.