Of Communists and Radical Sons
7th January 2016
Sarah Hoyt does a little analysis.
No, I was still right about the mechanics of collapse not happening in the way it’s shown in the movies, ie. what I refer to fondly as a Mad Max future. At any rate, and to make me stop doubting myself, they made a disparaging comment about my still having a problem with communism.
When I was told this (I don’t actually have time to waste on these sites, and if I did, I still wouldn’t because I’d rather be writing) it struck me as very funny. Because, I mean, come on, let’s toll the bell of communist successes, from the Cultural Revolution to the Stalinist purges, from Holodomor to the immiseration of Cuba.
I always find it strange that people can revile a system that was responsible for about 10 million deaths (National Socialism) while clinging to a system that was responsible for over a hundred million (International Socialism, i.e. Communism).
If wealth really were a closed pie (nonsense on its face, else, our ancestors in the caves were all far wealthier than us, since there are more of us) then everyone who has more than average is by definition stealing. And everyone who has less than average is by definition a victim.
And the implication that things are badly arranged appeals to every adolescent, EVER, particularly the wealthy ones who have more time to contemplate how they should have a lot more of whatever the heck other people have and they don’t: power or race cars, women/men or prestige.
The philosophy, in fact, appeals to anyone who is envious of others. I remember reading a biography of the sainted (ptui) Evita saying that knowing there were rich people in the world made her unhappy. This is a sentiment you see oft repeated by communists and their soft-sisters, the socialists. Our very own president said that even if raising taxes decreased the amount collected (which it does, after a point) it was still “the right thing to do.”
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, by its belief in the closed pie, takes envy and removes all stigma from it, conferring upon it the power of a sacrament.
Well said.