B y Mark Luedtke Why People Advocate Socialism In his book The
New Evolution Diet, Paleolithic lifestyle pioneer Art DeVany
calls humans lazy over-eaters. “We humans evolved when food was
scarce and life was full of arduous physical activity. Hence,
our bodies instruct us to eat everything we can lay our hands on
and to exert ourselves as little as possible.” Because of the
environment our ancestors evolved in, humans are genetically
programmed to take the easy route whenever possible. Proponents
of socialism are experts at preying on this human weakness.
Vladimir Lenin claimed, “The socialist state can only arise as a
net of producing and consuming communes, which conscientiously
record their production and consumption, go about their labour
economically, uninterruptedly raise their labour productivity
and thus attain the possibility of lowering the working day to
seven or six hours or even lower.” Humans are instinctively
drawn to promises of greater wealth for less, or no, work. But
history exposes this fa