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A quotation from Steinbeck, John
Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: “After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?” Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picnickers on her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
Essay (1960-06-01), “A Primer on the Thirties,” Esquire
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After World War II, Joseph Stalin again raises the issue of the urgent need for the widespread introduction of the 6-hour workday norm
“...it would be wrong to think that it is possible to achieve such a serious cultural growth of the members of society without serious changes in the present state of labor. For this purpose it is necessary first of all to reduce the working day to at least 6 and then to 5 hours. This is necessary in order to give the members of society enough free time for a comprehensive education. For this it is necessary, further, to introduce compulsory polytechnic education, necessary for the members of society to be able to freely choose a profession and not be chained for life to one profession....
Joseph Stalin, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR,” September 28, 1952”
After Stalin's death, the USSR leadership removed from the agenda the need to move to a six-hour day for the masses.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шестичасовой_рабочий_день
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Today is the 107th anniversary of the great #OctoberRevolution, the first successful socialist uprising in the world, which transformed Russia from a poor and backward feudal country into a leading economic, political, military, scientific, technical, cultural and educational power!
The revolution illuminated the peoples' struggle for social liberation.
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7 November 1917
For the first time in the history of mankind, a new socio-economic formation, different from capitalism, showed not only its viability, but also far ahead of the pace of development. Later, in 1945, having defeated the united fascist capitalist Europe, it was the first to launch a man into space.
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Machine translation from https://histoireetsociete.com/2024/09/29/comment-khrouchtchev-a-fait-derailler-la-locomotive-de-lhistoire/
We are among ourselves... in this blog which has broken ties with social networks and which seeks to build in our small collective a place of collective reflection since this is not permitted in the political-media space which is heading towards war , fascistization, clientelist divisions and the fear of facing both the past and the future. As I tried to explain, we are in a temporal paradox, that of a historical shift. It is clear that what we are facing is new, the solutions are unusual and require experimentation, collective reflection... But at the same time what prohibits this essential cooperation is the way in which we have managed to convince the working class, the youth, all the victims that there was no other alternative than individualist coping... What is happening is abominable and our leaders are leading us towards the apocalypse, but socialism, the collective, is worse. And we will not get through this without confronting this trauma of the past as the Russians and the Chinese do. Once again this translation by Marianne on the “Khrushchevian derailment” represents a contribution and as long as it is ignored there cannot be a revolutionary party and not even a reformist one. Since with the end of the USSR, there is no longer a reformist party, only parties which believe they can more or less control the pace of regression, negotiate it. (note by Danielle Bleitrach translation by Marianne Dunlop historyandsociety)
By Serguei Kostrikov and Elena Kostrikova (1)
This text is actually the conclusion of the book by Serguei Kostrikov and Elena Kostrikova, The locomotives of history: the revolutionary year 1917, a title which alludes to the famous phrase of Karl Marx: “Revolutions are the locomotives of History”. I do not believe I am betraying the authors by attributing a large part of the responsibility for the derailment of the locomotive to Khrushchev, even if he was not the sole cause. (notes and translation by Marianne Dunlop for History and Society).
We are convinced that the materials contained in this book, taken from Russian periodicals of the revolutionary year 1917, convincingly prove that the February bourgeois revolution and the great October socialist revolution were inevitable. Contrary to the predictions of its enemies, not only did Russia not sink into the abyss of oblivion, but it became one of the greatest world powers, it defeated the universal evil of fascism, it led the struggle of the advanced forces of humanity against oppression, for real democracy, for justice, for national and social liberation – this is the historical merit of the working people led by the Bolshevik Party.
Ideological opponents of Marxism will say with philistine sarcasm: "Well, where did your world power go, why did it collapse, where is your Marxism-Bolshevism?" The Soviet system, the socialist economy and the friendship between our peoples withstood the test of strength during the years of relentless war. In the USSR, unlike Tsarist Russia, there were no irreconcilable contradictions, no economic and social problems that could not be resolved within the framework of socialism. Our power has not disintegrated, it has been destroyed. At the end of the 20th century, we all witnessed a monstrous betrayal, the example of which is difficult to find in history. This betrayal was committed by representatives of the ruling "elite", who placed themselves at the service of external forces who had never stopped fighting against the first socialist country in the world.
The roots of the tragedy that occurred lie not in the vices of socialism, but in the fact that at a certain stage the leadership of the Communist Party ceased to rely on Marxist doctrine, did not not realized the need for its development. “Without theory we are dead,” Stalin warned. The world was changing, the international situation posed more and more difficult questions, and at that time the field of ideology in our country gradually stagnated.
After World War II, the authority of the USSR and socialism had reached an exceptionally high level. This is evidenced by the new role of our country in the world, the emergence of new socialist states, the rise to the forefront of communist and workers' parties in many countries, the development of the national liberation movement in the colonial empires. From the point of view of bourgeois ideologists and politicians, it was necessary to disrupt this wave of growth of the authority of socialism and the influence of Marxist ideology. And in the bourgeois camp, it was necessary to find ways to modernize capitalism. This is clearly seen not only in the alternation of conservative and liberal parties in power, the establishment of neoliberalism and neoconservatism in the economy and politics. Reactionary movements, including neo-fascists, have been revived. They also tried to penetrate the sphere of left-wing ideology, not only in their country, but also in socialist countries. Many left-wing organizations appeared. All of them are characterized by petty-bourgeois revolutionism, ultra-leftist phrases, distancing from Marxism-Leninism, its revision, attempts at petty-bourgeois interpretation in relation to new conditions, or a complete rejection of the doctrine and a struggle against her.
These groupings reflected the objective tendencies of Western societies in the conditions of the scientific and technical revolution and the socio-economic processes that it engendered. Engineers, technicians and other intellectuals, previously privileged, inevitably transformed into openly exploited “proletarians of mental work” and became politically radicalized. On the other hand, the many leftists reflected the struggle of the bourgeoisie against the true communist movement, against Marxism as such. It is important that we understand the main thing: in the West there was an active intellectual search aimed at creating ideological constructs that opposed or destroyed Marxism. This was a new major front of ideological struggle. And we had to meet this challenge with all our might.
Why, having created a powerful socialist state, having won the Great Victory, were we not prepared for confrontation in a new form? Why, after making a gigantic breakthrough into the future, were we not able to truly evaluate what we had accomplished and defend it when the time was right? Why did people who were not only dogmatic, who did not develop Marxism, but who were not Marxists at all, find themselves at the head of the party? ?
One of the reasons lies in the changes of people within the state and party leadership that took place in the post-war period, and especially after the death of Stalin. Our victory was dearly paid for. The human losses were heavy and irreplaceable. To a large extent, the war destroyed an entire generation of newly formed Soviets. These were, one could say, people of the future, in good physical and moral health. Children of workers and peasants who, without the war, would have become production managers, scientists, representatives of creative professions, military and political leaders.
They constituted an invaluable genetic heritage for the nation. Today, we miss not only them, but also their children, who would have been raised to become true Soviets, true patriots of their country. Those who were lucky enough to survive performed a true miracle: in a few years they restored what had been destroyed, created a superpower and were the first to make a breakthrough into space.
Unfortunately, while the best representatives of our people were fighting and creating, careerists with Party cards were sneaking into power, skillfully posing as ideological communists. In the mid-1950s, at the top of the party bureaucracy, whose vices had been ruthlessly combatted by Stalin, there was a rush for power. The results are known. First of all, the denunciation and liquidation of Beria, then "the dismantling of the anti-party group Molotov-Malenkov-Kaganovich and others." In the end, Khrushchev, ignorant but skilled in the art of intrigue, prevailed over all others.
Under Stalin, every civil servant, whatever his rank, knew full well that his position did not protect him from the most severe sanctions. With Khrushchev, the apparatchiks received a guarantee of immunity – that is, in effect, irresponsibility – from the party apparatus and bureaucracy. From that moment on, a process of massive and accelerated decay and degeneration of the ruling bureaucracy began. “The cadres decide everything” (2), said Stalin. The “dragon’s teeth” sown under Khrushchev produced poisonous sprouts for a long time. In the 1980s, Khrushchev-era “cadres” rose to the highest level of power. It was Khrushchev who allowed people like Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Yakovlev and their ilk to sneak into the highest ranks of the party. “We had too many 'Khrushchevs',” VM Molotov later recalled with bitterness.
For Khrushchev, the reckless “denunciation of the cult of personality” served above all his own justification and self-affirmation, and not at all the restoration of Leninist norms. He himself easily violated these norms by dismissing from office, dismissing from the capital or retiring all those who did not agree with his adventurist orientation and whom he considered dangerous to himself- even. He did not imprison them or shoot them just because he had cut himself off from this path. But he humiliated them mercilessly. Molotov, Malenkov, Zhukov, Shepilov, Furtseva and many others understood this perfectly. All this has not improved the party. But he undermined his authority, as well as the authority of socialism on the world stage. Like a merchant on the spree, Nikita squandered and squandered the gigantic moral and political capital acquired at the cost of the blood and sweat of our people..
Khrushchev undeservedly reaped the fruits of the victories won under Stalin. The breakthrough into space (3) allowed him for a time to distract attention from the socio-economic problems he had caused. With the arrival of Khrushchev, his line of extensive development of the country and the economy triumphed. The reckless and unbridled expansion of virgin lands at the expense of the restoration and development of the indigenous agricultural areas of central Russia, decimated by the war, is spectacular in appearance, including in terms of propaganda. But it was not justified. At the beginning of the 1960s, we had already drawn on state reserves, then began to regularly buy grain from abroad, financing foreign producers..
The failures of the economy and the rise in prices caused discontent among the population. This is how workers were shot at in Novocherkassk. During the entire Soviet period, no leader of the country had dared to do such a thing !
As a result, Khrushchev's policies translated for the USSR into senseless spending inside and outside the country, adventurous economic and political decisions, demagoguery, ideological swindling and propaganda, the split and weakening of the international communist movement, the loss of world authority, guidelines, ideals and the degeneration of party cadres. His arrogant troublemaking policies almost led to nuclear conflict with America in 1962.
Khrushchev's name is associated with stagnation in the field of ideology. An uneducated man with a petty-bourgeois mentality, he adopted the slogan “catching up with and overtaking the West in all areas” as his basic development strategy. In the very essence of this slogan was the idea not of our identity, not of the already realized benefits of socialism, not of reasonable sufficiency. The idea of our backwardness and even a kind of inferiority was imposed on the Soviet people. Of course, Lenin also spoke of the need for Soviet Russia to “catch up with the advanced countries.” But he spoke about scientific, technical, cultural and industrial progress, about the advanced organization of management and production, on the basis of which a completely different society was to develop. Lenin reasoned from the position of a politician in the 1920s, at the head of a country devastated by wars and interventions and culturally and technically backward. Khrushchev, on the other hand, was the head of a superpower that had achieved enormous successes in economics, science and culture, and had managed to win an unprecedented war thanks to the achievements of socialism. It was necessary to view the pursuit of development dialectically, and not to chase after the bourgeois West. Khrushchev's slogan "catch up and overtake" was deeply philistine and reflected a petty-bourgeois view of development and its goal. We were asked to beat the enemy on their territory and according to their rules. Khrushchev psychologically oriented the population towards a consumer society, without taking into account the traditions of our peoples, economic expediency, state possibilities and probable socio-psychological, ideological and political consequences.
The obvious advantages of socialism, which allowed everyone to develop normally, healthily and creatively, were replaced by petty-bourgeois consumer instincts – “theirs are better, bigger, more beautiful”. The West has transformed itself into a glittering showcase of an infinite quantity of junk, of necessary and less necessary goods – a veritable Ali Baba's cave. Like a savage blinded by glitter from a tin can and abandoning real jewelry for cheap trinkets, Khrushchev's common man was ready to give his soul for chewing gum and Coca-Cola, not doubting not that all the benefits of socialism were guaranteed to him forever. We had lost our ideological “immunity” against capitalism! On a daily basis, the West has surpassed us.
After Stalin, ideology in the USSR stagnated. From Khrushchev onwards, no senior Soviet party leader, unlike his predecessors, wrote anything himself. At the same time, the new party “elite” was terribly removed from the lives of the people. Lenin and Stalin, driven by the desire for a just world order, knew how to ignite the masses with their ideas. In the most difficult hours, they were able to find words that were close and understandable to ordinary people, touching their souls and instilling in them faith in victory. They encouraged work and struggle. But he who does not consume himself will never be able to lead others.
They encouraged others to follow him. The soulless and bureaucratic “agitation” of the era of “stagnation” could only discourage the study of Marxism. Despite the numerous Marxist-Leninist universities, schools and circles where studies were formalized, the mass of the Party became politically and ideologically infantile and easily infected by petty-bourgeois instincts..
Our official ideological propaganda apparatus, headed by MA Suslov, did not find answers appropriate to the times, did not react correctly to the new phenomena brought to the fore by the processes of the scientific and technical revolution and globalization . Foreign ideology began to quietly seep into the vacated space, ideas were borrowed from Western philosophers, sociologists and economists. Certain academic institutions have become sanctuaries of opportunism: the Institute of the United States and Canada, IMEMO, IMRD, etc. A whole layer of intellectuals who did not think in a Marxist way was created. But it was they who found themselves at the time in the roles of advisors, consultants and speechwriters within the Central Committee of the CPSU. “Burlatski-Arbatov-Bovin” and others wrote speeches of leaders, party programs and resolutions on the most important issues.
The famous “thaw”, which made Khrushchev so beloved by our liberals and those of the West, did not occur by his will. He used it as a social backdrop to assert his power by crushing his predecessors and political opponents. Khrushchev and liberalism have little overlap. The character himself embodied petty-bourgeois radicalism. Khrushchev's "thaw" gave birth to the "sixties", these "adult children" of socialism. Why socialism? Because they owe him everything: a life saved from fascism, a better education, and even their creativity. With enchanting siren voices, they led naive novelists to sing about "the fog and the smell of the taiga", while they themselves firmly believed only in money. Like cuckoos, they destroyed and ravaged the nest that sheltered them. Biding their time, they were happy to relax in the houses of creativity and state dachas, gracefully entertaining the nomenklatura when they asked. They did not risk much, because they were firmly convinced that their Western patrons would not let them down. At the first opportunity, they “escaped” abroad. Today they are professors, like Nikita Khrushchev's son, in foreign universities, letting the people get out of the mud into which they have dragged them.
The real heroes of the sixties and seventies were very different. These young people who, following the example of their fathers and older brothers, built new cities and factories, built dams on the Angara and Yenisei, led the Baikal railway through impassable taiga to Love, explored space, made scientific discoveries, and simply worked honestly where the Motherland called them. They were true ideologues, true patriots, whose motto was: “As long as my dear country lives!” » (4). Current authorities try hard not to remember those times. But the monuments of this great era and its heroes are magnificent books and films, truly talented songs and much more..
What about today? Does our country, our people, the whole world have a socialist perspective or has the bourgeois “end of history” arrived? What needs to be done to give workers around the world hope for a better life? ?
First of all, do not deny our great past, draw from it the strength for a new breakthrough towards the future. The revolutionary teachings of Marxism are by no means obsolete. Its founders saw far. It is in their writings that the key to understanding the modern era is found. Let's return to Marxism, let's relearn to think scientifically, dialectically, from the point of view of the class, and not in a philistine way.
A hundred years ago, VI Lenin prophetically declared: “To imagine that world history moves forward smoothly and neatly, without occasional gigantic leaps backward, is undialectical, unscientific, theoretically incorrect. »
Which means: “There will be new victories, new fighters will rise!” » ; “A new October is coming ! » (4)
Notes :
1) The authors of the book “The Locomotives of History: The Revolutionary Year 1917” are two Russian historians specializing in revolutionary movements. Sergei Kostrikov heads the chair of history and political science at the Moscow State University of Management; Elena Kostrikova is a doctor of law, member of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We published on H&S articles by their son, a journalist at Pravda.
2) This famous phrase from Stalin should not be misinterpreted: it simply means that choosing the right leaders (at all levels) is of the utmost importance.
3) 1957 : 1is Sputnik ; 1962 : 1is man in space. These projects were planned and prepared under Stalin.
4) Quotes from Soviet songs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KVAByJids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QWh6LX38Q
For more details (in Russian) on the methods and mechanisms of the collapse of the Soviet Union, see S.G. Kara-Murza, Manipulation of Consciousness - http://flibusta.site/b/478923
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it is not the socialist revolution that provokes mass violence, but the bourgeois counter-revolution, that begins when capital realises that it is losing its property and power.
...Beyond that, the picture was of a “triumphal procession of Soviet power” (this heading in Soviet textbooks was no accident). In the winter of 1917-1918 the relationship of forces saw half a million members of the workers’ militia, the Red Guard, pitted against a few tens of thousand White Guard members in the south of Russia. Everything was quiet until the counter-revolution received vast sums of money from the Triple Alliance (primarily from Germany) as well as from the Entente, and all these imperialist countries launched aggression against the young Soviet power.
...And this applies to countless examples, all over the world, where the West first provoked and brutally antagonized socialist or communist countries, then accused them of cruelty, and finally “liberated” them in the name of freedom and democracy, literally raping the will of their people. All this just so European and North American imperialism would survive and thrive.
...Ask the common men and women of the streets of London, Paris or New York, what they know about Stalin’s era, or the famines in the early years of the USSR, or in Communist China?
99.99% know nothing. Where these famines took place, or why? But they are absolutely certain that they took place. No doubts, whatsoever. No doubts that they happened “because of Communism”. Westerners are intellectually obedient, like sheep. Most of them do not question the propaganda unleashed by their regime. Are they really “free”?
The famine in the Soviet Union actually took place because the young revolutionary country was totally devastated by the Western and Japanese invasions, which tried to break and plunder the country. British, French, U.S., Czech, Polish, German, Japanese invasions, to name just a few.
But ask, for instance, the Czechs, how much they know about their Legions that controlled the Trans-Siberian railroad, on their way from Europe to Vladivostok. Plundering, rape, and mass killing. I tried. I asked, in Prague and Pilsen. They thought I was a lunatic. The Legions are portrayed as heroic, in their history books.
...In both cases, Western propaganda made people believe that the real cause for the loss of lives in Russia and China was Communism! The brainwashing has been so successful, that even in Russia and China, millions of people have been fully indoctrinated by these countlessly repeated lies coming out of the West.
But ask in London, whether people know anything about the fact that under the British occupation of India, tens of millions of people died from starvation; victims of the famines triggered by London, for many reasons, one of them being an attempt to lower the population. Over 50 million Indian people, cumulatively, died in these famines, between 1769 to 1943, in British administered India.
Should we, as a result, ban the British political system? I am convinced that we should! But that is usually not what the people of the world, including the victims of the British colonialist barbarity, are demanding.
...The goal of Western propaganda has always been to equate Communism and Fascism, the two most antagonistic systems in history, in the world. It was the Soviet Communist system, which smashed Nazism to pieces, saving the world, at an enormous cost of approximately 25 million human lives.
Only Western imperialism can be compared to German Nazism. The two are made of the same stuff.
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Anti-Communism Is A Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed By Billions| Countercurrents — https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/anti-communism-is-a-fundamentalist-religion-now-followed-by-billions/
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Frank Zappa on Crossfire 1986
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20 years later.... Let's look back at the innocent debate over dirty song lyrics in America, see the late great Frank Zappa trying to keep his cool among angry pundits Robert Novak, Tom Braden, and 2 other conservative halfwits. How little has changed in 20 years.
It's being now 20 years more, so 38 years later........ Zappa was right, there is no faith in politics, earlier calendars have been set by some to put the whole livings under the so-called time quantum -no evidence upon time as a scientific data- slavery ever, aso.
Meanwhile, Dulles proved his commitment to anti-communism by heading for a long time one of the most specialized anti-communist organizations in the world, with a budget not inferior to that of the U.S. Army, the main task of which was the PLANNED BORDER against COMMUNISM in the USSR.
...U.S. leaders and their military-political advisers openly declared that in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, American liberals and Democrats pursued the goal, above all, of destroying the COMMUNIST regimes in those countries, along with the populations that had tasted socialism. How, then, does the goal of American liberals differ from the goals of the fascists who raved about destroying Bolshevism?
...“Methods of 'decisive action,' including, if necessary, assassination...financing underground organizations in Russia's satellite states...establishing insurgent gangs 'under American leadership'...assassinations of prominent Communists will be strongly encouraged...American agents, dropped by parachute, will coordinate anti-Communist activities....”
...Experience has already shown that, in addition to their official activities, British and American diplomats carry on very active work in the USSR and the countries of the People's Democracies in which they are accredited, which is summarized in general terms as follows:
I. Organization of anti-government conspiracies and support for these purposes of anti-people, reactionary (including fascist) elements, representatives of bourgeois parties expelled from the political arena, and especially right-wing socialists.
II. Espionage, for which all these reactionary elements, including former Hitler agents, are widely used.
III. Diversionary, subversive and terrorist activities calculated to retard the economic development of the countries of the People's Democracies, weaken their defense capabilities, provoke discontent within the country, and hinder democratic reforms.
IV. Attempts to induce military psychosis, fear of an allegedly inevitable war in order to create a tense atmosphere of uncertainty and anxiety.
https://diasp.org/posts/10805609
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Additional read:
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY AGAINST RUSSIA – https://resistir.info/livros/the_great_conspiracy.pdf
In the United States, these costs include rising #monopolization of the tech sector, because control of data creates entry barriers, and the development of #business models based on constant online engagement and individualized digital ads, which breed emotional outrage, #extremism, and echo chambers online, with damaging effects for democratic participation.
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... mother who took a more realistic view that most of the poor, and especially so in a socialist country, are poor because they do not want to work.
https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-three-ways-of-thinking-about
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4k07KofBIe9g/
#Mark-Passio - Two #Masks, Same #Face: The Dark #Occult #Origins Of #Nazism & #Communism 6-20-2024
How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/business/economy/china-us-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Communism work. Market forces and greed don't.
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Gathered on one page some facts about the history of Russia, the USSR, the US, fascism, capitalism, economics, and more.
https://hub.hubzilla.de/page/kuchinster/history
Many posts about History: https://hub.hubzilla.de/channel/kuchinster?tag=history
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An article from greanvillepost that explains something I've been unable to express clearly. I've been puzzled for the last couple of years how on earth freedom-loving people for instance call te WEF a "communist" agenda?? A bunch of billionares want to enslave us in digital-feodalism and (mostly right wing) opponents call it communism, WFT. Read on...
As the Red vs. Blue paradigm begins to break down and become less and less useful for ruling class interests, it needs to be strengthened and adapted to current realities if it hopes to defeat the growing groundswell of populist sentiment.
Over the last few days, I have observed a rhetorical effort that purports to explain reality and provide an alternative understanding of the culture war, while simultaneously manipulating those already indoctrinated into conservatism, to support Team Red and the imperialist imperatives of the Western ruling class.
As actual communists, we understand and recognize the top-down effort to increase and agitate the cultural divide that exists among the working class. A divide that largely results from generations and generations of a two-pronged strategic cultural propaganda effort that was and is intended to destroy working-class unity by hijacking cultural differences and exploiting them for all they are worth.
So what are the features and contours of this new rhetorical effort to corral conservatives away from populism and back into the velvet ropes of "polite" elite discourse? Well, in a nutshell, they hope to accomplish this feat by spinning a narrative that blames “communism” and alleges a vast “communist conspiracy”. A communist conspiracy that is responsible for the overt top-down effort to shove “wokeness” down everyone’s throat.
For this narrative to be consistent and have a modicum of plausibility, it must misrepresent communism and appeal to the multi-generation anti-communist indoctrination that all Americans have been immersed in since communism first began to threaten the interests of Western imperialism, well over a hundred years ago.
The misrepresentation of communism hinges on the spurious and preposterous notion that Communism itself is a creation of the elite and is part of their “divide and conquer strategy” which they have employed in their pursuit of global domination. Of course, anyone who knows anything whatsoever about actual communism, or who has read the actual words of historic communist leaders, would know and understand the ignorance and idiocy of such a proposition.
Idiocy abounds, and is easily swallowed in many stubbornly ignorant quarters. Thus the dangerous upending of reality continues. Among other things, the masses have been sold the idea that capitalism is "the American Way", and that it guarantees freedom and democracy—none of which are even remotely true.
Yet, this preposterous notion of communism as the creation of evil elites, has a history in right-wing discourse that goes all the way back to Marx himself and has been championed by many contemporary right-wing influencers such as Antony Sutton (in his 1974 book “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution”) and James Corbett who runs a popular libertarian podcast from Japan. This easily debunked right-wing trope has gained impressive traction within libertarian circles and inevitably, when the topic comes up, Sutton is cited by the libertarian faithful, as an authoritative expert.
The genius behind this narrative is that once you convince someone that communism is a tool and weapon of the elites that they created, and which they utilize for their own nefarious purposes, it reinforces and panders to the massive anti-communist narratives that the Western ruling class has created and been accepted as gospel by many unsuspecting Americans, over the last hundred years.
But this narrative which is being sold to the "anti-woke" side of the culture war, of course contains a primary and indeed fatal contradiction: On the one hand, the anti-woke are asked to accept the reality of a gargantuan “communist conspiracy” purportedly designed to undermine society in the hopes of eventually achieving a one world communist government, while they are also asked to accept the narrative about “communism being the ultimate evil” a notion which the same ruling class has turned into a virtual religion over the past several generations at least since the end of WWII.
Here is a question for the libertarian faithful who embrace this narrative: how do you square this circle? From where does this “communist conspiracy” draw its strength? If the communists have infiltrated all aspects of government, why did they turn anti-communism into a veritable religion? If the elites —who demonstrably control the West's governments everywhere—are “communist” why is communism so demonized by the same power structures of the West?
Yea, these guys are psychopaths alright, but NOT Marxist psychopaths. Try capitalist psychos. Only massive ignorance and confusion permits this kind of fundamental error.
So this is where the narrative pivots and does its best to pander to the inculcated ignorance of its intended victims. By redefining “communism” as, “everything that conservatives oppose”. There is truly no limit to the “evils” that conservatives are happy to blame communism for. A lecture from one of the narrative’s top proponents, James Lindsay, is entitled “Maoism With American Characteristics”. In this lecture, Lindsay panders to American ignorance by claiming Mao was an agent of the elites and that American elites want to revisit the evils upon the American people that Mao visited upon the Chinese people.
Another insidious aspect of this anti-woke propaganda offensive aimed at those Christian conservatives that have most fully embraced the religion of anti-communism, is the demonization of the nation of China. The obvious agenda here is to rally public support for a future hot war against China. But an obvious question begs to be answered: why are the communists, ostensibly in charge of the West, agitating for war against the communists that they created and installed in China? Like why are our supposed communist elites that are alleged to be shoving their woke agenda down our throats, provoking, sanctioning, and doing their best to cripple the economy of their Chinese communist allies? This is just mindless ignorance peddled to mindless people.
Everything stated above is a necessary background and preamble to the actual point I am hoping to sharpen with this essay. If we forget about these brazen contradictions which ought to make every adult reject this spurious narrative in its entirety, we are left with a basic argument that goes something like this: “I am an anti-authoritarian and so I hate communism and China for their authoritarianism. I believe in freedom, liberty, and volunteerism, so I simply can not abide by the communist agenda and I will oppose the great communist conspiracy that is attempting to control our lives just as it controls the lives of the Chinese people. (you know, with all their censorship, organ harvesting, human rights abuses, COVID tyranny, and their efforts to genocide the Uighurs and Taiwanese).
Notice again the schizophrenia. These folks parrot the bullshit narratives about China, long disseminated by the Western Elite, while simultaneously blaming a “communist conspiracy” of the Western elite, for the woke agenda.
Ferocious anti-communism has been drilled relentlessly into the American mind for well over a century, in a truly totalitarian way, with the most outrageous lies coming at the public from every conceivable corner: politicians, media, religion, academia, charities, the military, civic institutions, and of course the business class. The witch-hunt has also included blacklisting and overt police repression.
The reality of course is that the culture wars are facilitated, managed, and manipulated by the ruling class, not because the capitalist-feudalist ruling class are “communist” but because they are “wealthy elites” who hate and fear working class unity that communists hope to inspire and work to achieve. After all, Communists are the ones who have observed and identified the nature of class struggle and they understand that the Western ruling class exists first and foremost for the benefit of the small wealthy elite minority. This elite, chiefly concentrated in the US, but spanning the globe, comprises not more than 0.0001% of the human race. This tiny minority is supported by another 10% comprising the military, the police, and the PMCs (professional/managerial types, plus an assortment of upper-middle class small business owners). This elite owns outright or controls no less than 80% of all existing private property, including all the main means of production and media (which controls the people's minds), and entire nations (with their public goods) by controlling the political machinery of almost all nations currently in the so-called "collective West", the bloc of nations at present engaged in a war of conquest against Russia, China, Iran and whosoever else might stand in the way of their obsessive desire to maintain global hegemony and unipolar supremacy. Think about those facts for a minute, and tell us how you can believe such disgusting reality can equate with these elites' constant refrain that they are vibrant democracies!?
So, the people must be lied to about everything including the supposedly democratic nature of Western governance, as well as the true history of popular communist revolutions and the tremendous accomplishments these revolutions were able to achieve whenever they succeeded in taking political power. Mao best illustrates this last point. He was perhaps the single greatest humanitarian of all time, doing more good for more people than perhaps anyone else in the history of the known universe. However, according to Western elites, Mao was the greatest mass murderer of all time. Inevitably, far too many of the intended victims of elite propaganda honestly believe and fall for these lies. Ubiquitous repetition does the trick, and the West has mastered the art of disinformation.
Of course, the anti-woke crowd, in their schizophrenia, embrace the narrative of the Western elite and agree that Mao was the most prolific mass murderer of all time. Simultaneously however, they also believe that Mao was empowered by and used by the Western elite and that the Western Elite’s “woke agenda” is simply the Maoist blueprint, being used on the American public (listen to James Lindsay, he’ll tell ya).
( VIDEO HERE IN THE ORIGINAL POST)
So why and how are these ignorant conservatives and libertarians “moral degenerates” and what does this have to do with anything stated above? Good question, as I am slowly getting there. First off, it has to do with their prioritizing nonsense terms like “anti-authoritarianism”, and other meaningless slogans such as “individualism, anti-collectivism, freedom, liberty, and volunteerism” above any other rational consideration of reality, morality, or justice.
Ultimately, libertarianism is the anti-democratic ideology of the rich who want to make sure that democracy never threatens their obscenely disproportionate share of wealth, power, and privilege. So they emphasize “freedom” from government and they want government to be so small and ineffectual that it is unable to be used by the majority to threaten their interests and privilege.
The rich promote “individualism”, a formula for social atomization, because they fear the unity of the collective—the people united—and the conquest of political power by ordinary citizens. They know that the masses would likely use their political power to run the state in the interests of everyone instead of just in the interests of the rich. The rich have always hated communism and everything it stands for because ultimately, communism stands for the interests of humanity and wants to prioritize humanity’s interests over the oppositional interests of the wealthy elite. So, libertarian “freedom and liberty” means the freedom to stand aloof from humanity in a position of extreme privilege. It means freedom from the state and freedom from responsibility and accountability to the collective. It also means the “freedom” for the rich to exploit the poor. From the perspective of the rich, this is a natural political position to take as it promotes their material interests.
But, for the working class moral degenerates that sit in the church and affirm the dishonest narratives spun by folks like James Lindsay, and who have been hoodwinked into promoting the anti-working class ideology of libertarianism (which is in opposition to their own material interests) they simply want the freedom and liberty to be ideologically selfish. They don’t enjoy the wealth, power, and privilege that the wealthy elite do, so they embrace “freedom and liberty” because they want the freedom and liberty to be unaccountable to the rest of humanity. They want the freedom and liberty to not be responsible to reality. They want the freedom and liberty to maintain their indoctrinated delusions without being held accountable by their fellow man. They want the freedom and liberty to be selfish and to not want to put any effort into understanding reality or doing any sort of work that doesn’t, first and foremost, benefit their confused misperception of their own self-interest.
Sorry, this is the behavior, advocacy, and ideology of the morally degenerate. Prioritizing selfish individualism over responsibility to your fellow man, is the natural materialist predilection of the rich. #Christ himself, as anyone can read in the New Testament, reviled the selfish, judging selfishness, self-centeredness, a fundamental offense against his teachings and God. But there is a special shame for working-class libertarians, who adopt the material interests of the class which they don’t even belong to, while they simultaneously pretend to oppose them. Morality is about the courage and sacrifice of struggle. It is the struggle to be a better person and to work to make the people around you better. Morality can not be abstracted from the effort to discern reality, to understand reality, and the struggle to improve reality. Libertarianism is a morally degenerate ideology as it embodies a rejection of all of the above, or at least its subordination to the right to not be told what to do. Absolute “freedom” (besides being technically impossible since humans are social animals), is immoral. Freedom ought to be tempered with wisdom, love, responsibility, thoughtfulness, consideration, sacrifice, and struggle. When freedom stands alone, it can quickly turn to tyranny. Libertarianism is a morally bankrupt ideology built atop lies and the material interests of the wealthy and powerful."
#USA #wokism #communism #populism #propaganda #divideAndConquer
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2024/05/14/the-moral-degeneracy-of-the-anti-woke-probably-not-what-you-think/
