Σοσιαλοκομμουνισμός

Η Ayn Rand εξηγεί μέσα σε λίγες γραμμές τί ακριβώς σημαίνει σοσιαλοκομμουνισμός.

I think it’s a worthy undertaking—to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole. That’s what’s happening in New York. Nobody can afford a modern apartment—except the very rich and the paupers. Have you seen the converted brownstones in which the average self-supporting couple has to live? Have you seen their closet kitchens and their plumbing? They’re forced to live like that—because they’re not incompetent enough. They make forty dollars a week and wouldn’t be allowed into a housing project. But they’re the ones who provide the money for the damn project. They pay the taxes. And the taxes raise their own rent. And they have to move from a converted brownstone into an unconverted one and from that into a railroad flat. I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Μου ήλθε στο μυαλό η περίοδος που έψαχνα παιδικό σταθμό, αλλά δεν έβρισκα διότι το εισόδημά μου θεωρούνταν υψηλό (επειδή είχα την «ατυχία» να έχω ακόμα τη δουλειά μου). Εγώ, που με τους φόρους μου παρέχω τους παιδικούς σταθμούς, δεν δικαιούμαι να τους χρησιμοποιήσω.