The Parasite with a Pistol: Why Socialism Will Always Devour Its Host

 

In one stark, simple image, an old man labeled “Socialism” holding a gun to another man’s head labeled “Capitalism,” both standing on a plank suspended over a cliff, the utter insanity of leftist economics is laid bare. The plank is rooted on the capitalist’s side. Without him, the socialist falls. And yet, the socialist has the gun. This is not just a joke; it’s the bloody essence of every leftist regime that ever lived off the labour of others while demanding the right to rule them. This is socialism in practice: parasitic, delusional, and ultimately suicidal. The man with the gun represents the state, armed, coercive, and unproductive. The man holding up the plank? The entrepreneur, the business owner, the taxpayer. The entire structure depends on him. Without his productivity, there is no plank. Without his willingness to engage in trade, risk, innovation, and investment, there is no wealth for the socialist to “redistribute.” But the socialist, drunk on ideology and ignorant of economics, thinks he’s in charge simply because he has the gun. Let’s call this what it is: extortion masked as compassion. The left loves to talk about fairness. About justice. About how capitalism is evil. But they never explain how their utopia will fund itself. They never admit that every socialist scheme, from free healthcare to universal basic income to student loan forgiveness, is built on the back of someone else’s labour. They hate the rich but rely on them. They despise capitalists but depend on their productivity to survive. And then, with grotesque arrogance, they demand more. “Tax the rich,” they cry. But if you tax a producer out of existence, the plank falls. “Regulate the corporations,” they shout. But if you strangle the engine of the economy, the entire structure collapses. “Eat the rich,” they sneer. But once you’ve devoured them, what’s left? Starvation, rationing, and ruin. Just look at history. Every socialist country becomes Venezuela. Or Cuba. Or the Soviet Union. First, they loot the productive. Then they silence the dissenters. And finally, they collapse under the weight of their own lies, corruption, and incompetence. The socialist shoots the capitalist and then plummets to his death, blaming capitalism all the way down. Capitalism, for all its flaws, builds. It creates. It offers ladders out of poverty, not bullets to the head. It doesn’t need to be perfect to be vastly superior to every alternative. Because unlike socialism, capitalism doesn’t point a gun at anyone’s head. It offers a deal: “Let’s trade, and we’ll both be better off.” The plank of civilization is built on voluntary exchange, property rights, and free markets. Not threats. Not envy. Not utopian fantasies enforced at gunpoint. To the left: put the gun down. Step off the plank you didn't build. And learn to stand on your own.