Because before whatever you consider to be socialism, there weren't any black people out begging? Do you think the percentage of beggars in society has gone up since socialism?
This could be an important question about economics and human nature in general. At issue, at the root, is access to resources and opportunity in general.
I consider "socialism" (perhaps another necessary lexicon item for the language I speak.... babese...) to be an intellectual fraud invented by British elites, with perhaps some collusion from other European nations, in the context of Imperialism's difficulties and decline, late in the nineteenth century. A fraud because, of course, intellectual elites use it to divide the folks into classes and invoke high-level governance to manage the menagerie of less-enlightened folks.... it is really a kind of fascism or oligarchical puppetry on the world stage. A rhetorical tool used by an elite class to explain their "beneficient" schemes generally to the ignoramuses.
We have always had a ruling class. Before the American Revolution presented the illusion of actual human rights, innate or God-given, any fool could claim the "Divine Right of Kings" or maybe simply own an army, and tell folks what's what. Now we need ideology.... useful ideologies like "socialism".
Mormons at the outset were fairly communal. Joseph Smith claimed authority from God to redistribute wealth and assign the means of productions, etc etc etc. So I've have all my life to consider the implications of management from an elite class of the sheep-like masses of mankind....
American Indians were not beggars much before their lands were taken from them and they were put on reservations which were basically "socialist" experiments.
African blacks were not beggars before some, usually Muslim, enterprising bands captured them in the bush and sold them to the British slave traders, who packed them like sardines chained in the holds of little ships with no sanitary measures, and shipped them to the Americas for auction.
There were few opium addicts huddled in little tea shacks in China before the British at the force of arms unload opium grown in India by economically distressed former cotton farmers, whose livelihoods were destroyed by British machine cloth made from American slave-grown cotton.
I think any intellectual tradition hatched at Oxford, under the paternal influence of Lord Cecil Rhodes deserves all the skepticism and criticism we little peons can muster.....
So the answer, OB, is an absolute "Hell No!!!! Humans have never been beggars until dispossessed of access to natural resources and opportunities at hand by the likes of imperialists and slave traders."
And in case you missed the point, I consider the "New World Order" to be a grand scheme of that ilk, in the hands of corporatists, cartelists, and a whole slew of sleazy immoral elites.
