The Structural Violence of Socialist Systems: An Africonomics Refutation of Socialism and Coercive Governance

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The Structural Violence of Socialist Systems: An Africonomics Refutation of Socialism and Coercive Governance

The Structural Violence of Socialist Systems: An Africonomics Refutation of Socialism and Coercive Governance

Abstract:

Socialism continues to enjoy intellectual and political rehabilitation despite its catastrophic historical record. While the Austrian school of economics has exposed socialism’s technical flaws through the calculation and knowledge problems, utilitarian critiques—focused on inefficiency, incentive problems, or informational limits—have proven insufficient, as they leave socialism open to perpetual reformulation and moral defense. This paper advances a fundamentally different refutation. It demonstrates that socialism is not only economically inefficient or impractical but fundamentally unethical, inherently anti-human, and structurally violent by design. As a system that relies on coercion, manipulation, dispossession, and repression, it comprehensively violates the natural-moral law principles of truth, justice, nonaggression, and human dignity. This paper refutes socialism as a pseudoscientific, reactionary ideology that must be rejected as fundamentally incompatible with structural justice, civilized society, and human flourishing. It presents Africonomics as a principled alternative that replaces structural violence with structural justice and civilized social order grounded in natural-moral law.

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Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist; and the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute.

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