Socialismo

Neither was the assertion of the socialistic character of the Party and the regime an imposture. It is self-evident that in a totalitarian state, where the government wields an absolute power, private property loses all its reality. A manufacturer whose factory can be confiscated at a moment's notice without compensation, who has to produce what he is told at a prescribed price, who has to invest his money in a definite manner, who has to make specific donations at certain intervals and has to deal with governmental trade unions, is an " owner " or a " master " not even on sufferance.

Liberty or Equality, E. Leddihn

Que nos diz essa ideologia marxista? Diz-nos que, partindo da crença de que o transcendente não existe, todas as formulações morais acerca da condição humana não passam de isso mesmo, de meras formulações, e que são o resultado do processo histórico. A Família, a propriedade e até o próprio Estado, são convenções relativas ao tempo e ao espaço, sem qualquer tipo de referência objectiva e sem critério exterior. Não são características impressas na natureza do homem, mas construções ideológicas da vontade. Tudo é, para o marxismo, fruto da vontade, e é essa vontade que comanda os destinos da moral, não o contrário. E que vemos nós hoje em Portugal? Casamento homossexual; aborto; controlo/influência estatal dos grandes negócios; o poder usado como mero objecto de lucro partidário. Em suma, a transformação (ou a deformação) de todas as verdades inegociáveis.

Arbitrariedade

It is one thing for a government to be absolute, and another for it to be arbitrary. It is absolute with respect to constraint - there being no power capable of forcing the sovereign, who in this sense is independent of all human authority. But it does not follow from this that the government is arbitrary, for besides the fact that everything is subject to the judgment of God (which is also true of those governments we have just called arbitrary), there are also [constitutional] laws in empires, so that whatever is done against them is null in a legal sense [nul de droit]: and there is always an opportunity for redress, either on other occasions or in other times. Such that each person remains the legitimate possessor of his goods: no one being able to believe that he can possess anything with security to the prejudice of the laws - whose vigilance and action against injustices and acts of violence is deathless, as we have explained more fully elsewhere. This is what is called legitimate government, by its very nature the opposite of arbitrary government.