Why infanticide is endemic to the collectivist philosophy

When one is forming an ‘Ideal State’ one must have complete control over the people including who lives and who dies.

Leftists are down to one last and excruciatingly inadequate excuse for the 400 years of failure that is their base ideology. This is the ad hoc rescue that collectivist systems of the past weren’t really collectivist. This abject denial of reality comes in varying forms with the false implication that the next time around, the new version will be different. That somehow socialism scam version 200.0 will have no need for coercion, re-education camps or death squads. This time around it will be the ‘Ideal State’ dreamed of by collectivists for over 2,400 years.
As has been the thought experiment conducted down through the millennia, one only needs to apply ‘science’ to how humans interact and form societies to perfect a collectivist version. Unfortunately, reality and logic haven’t been too kind to their efforts at perfection over the past four centuries.
Now that the Left has tacitly come out in favor of infanticide, we are going to show this is not an aberration but a direct outgrowth of their ideological mindset. These will just be a few examples over the past few millennia that illustrates the point.

The collectivist philosophy is one of totalitarian control to the point of who lives and who dies.

This philosophy of collectivism is one of complete control over society, ranging from the ownership of property to the issues of life and death. It’s a philosophy born out of the presumption that collectivists are morally superior because they are morally superior. Thus it is they who should have the choice in all matters for the ‘what is the greatest good, and what is the greatest evil’.
This has its beginnings with a dialogue on the ‘Ideal State’ in Plato’s ‘The Republic’ written approximately in 360 BC. This had a protracted discussion on the raising and nurturing of the children of the Guardians. The contention was that these children should be cared for by the state, separated from their parents. Since the state bore the burden of child rearing, those that were deemed to be the ‘offspring of the inferior’ or ‘deformed’ will be put away in some mysterious, unknown place [From book 5]:

The proper officers will take the offspring of the good parents to the pen or fold, and there they will deposit them with certain nurses who dwell in a separate quarter; but the offspring of the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away in some mysterious, unknown place, as they should be.

This is always the in fine print of the something for nothing deal offered by the collectivists. Everyone will have free ‘access’ (whatever that means) to health care. But it will be our betters who decide who will actually benefit. The subject of death panels was brought up only after the passage of [Un]Affordable Care Act by example. History is replete with other examples of the deadly results of the collectivist philosophy. These are just a few examples that should illustrate the point.

Baby Kretschmar.

This was the infamous case that set the stage for Genocide by the ‘Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei’. That this is disturbingly close to the present discussions should give pause to everyone. As reported in The Telegraph this was the Nazis’ first euthanasia victim.  Anyone familiar with the history of this regime of the Socialist-Left knows this wasn’t the last.

The elimination of Down syndrome in Iceland.

A recent story on CBS news had announced the stunning news that Iceland had eliminated Down syndrome. Not by some new innovative treatment, but the elimination of those children by abortion. It is only a short philosophical step from that to infanticide as we have seen.

The other end of the life cycle has the disturbing example provided by Larry Grathwohl.

As reported in PJ Media, Larry Grathwohl was a member of the weather underground, he was also an FBI informant. In a 1982 interview he describes the disturbing discussion of what would happen to the millions who didn’t accept the collectivist’s Utopian vision of society after their ‘glorious’ revolution:

I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

This wasn’t an issue of deformed or inferior babies, but adults who objected to the elimination of Liberty that the ‘morally superior’ collectivists would have to kill. There are of course many other examples from collectivist regimes around the world, but these examples should prove the point.

The Takeaway.

Some will argue that the current example of the Left losing the plot on abortion is just an anomaly of pursuing their ideology to the furthest extent possible. The reality of their collectivist philosophy is far more disturbing.
When they use the term ‘choice’ it means their choice. Their decision on who should live and who should die. Consider their reaction to any threat to the curtailing of what they presume to be the ‘morally superior’ position on abortion rights.

 Originally published on the NOQ Report