Argentine President Javier Milei recently slammed socialism during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past weekend. Milei asserted that the leftist political philosophy would not work under any circumstances.
President Milei, who came into office late last year, has consistently made headlines for his libertarian and right-wing views. Milei is also a prominent economist, informing his criticism of socialism from an economic lens.
“None of the varieties of socialism [can] work. In the most extreme cases, because there’s no private property, you can’t engage in the exchanges of the market required,” Milei said. “Marxism defeated on the economic front [transfers] its class struggle to other aspects of life.”
In addition to denouncing socialism, Milei also took aim at another leftist fascination of the current times: social justice. The Argentinian president criticized the woke social ideology, pointing out its inherent unequal treatment of people. Milei also equated social justice’s redistributive properties to socialism, slamming it as “robbing” individuals unjustly.
“Social justice is private and unjust. It’s not just or anything of the sort. Far from it, it’s an aberration,” Milei said. “Unjust because it involves unequal treatment … Social justice is unjust because [its] redistribution is basically robbing Peter to pay Paul.”
President Milei then turned his sights toward abortion, another focal point of the left, suggesting it was a “murderous agenda” to deceptively enact population control. The libertarian further debunked claims that humans were depleting global energy sources, justifying a need to slow population growth.
“[It’s] a murderous abortion agenda. A murderous agenda we can trace back to the times of ancient Egypt when the ancient Egyptians attempted to exterminate the Jewish people. It was based on the principle of ‘birth control,’ which was basically about just that,” Milei said. “They suggest that throughout the world [we] use energy based on fossil fuels. And that those energy sources are not renewable. They predicted that those resources would run out by the year 2000. They claimed that that would lead to food running out … we know that they were advocating the abortion agenda.”
Milei offered his country’s experience as an anecdote for the American audience, urging them not to fall victim to leftist ideology like Argentina once did. He illustrated how Argentina fell from being one of the wealthiest countries in the world to one of the poorest. Milei called upon the audience to fight for freedom and never surrender to the left.
“I come from a country that bought all of those stupid ideas that went from being one of the most affluent countries in the world to one to one of the [poorest],” he said. “If you don’t fight for your freedom, they will drag you into misery … Don’t surrender,” Milei said, exclaiming “¡Vive la Libertad Carajo!” to the crowd.
The American Tribune covered comments from Javier Melei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the Argentinian explained to the world’s most powerful leaders that “the West is in danger” of socialist ideas.
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