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sometimes it's an embarrassment to be on the right, dear friends, and
even though right and left as political denominators are of little use
in post american america i'll take the right (at least as i define it).
anyway this is one of those times that its an embarassment.
let me explain. in all the talk a couple of months ago about that cuban
kid elian gonzalez that was buzzin' over the airwaves and on tv, one
of the threads running through the comments from those who claimed to
be conservative (a sub-species of "the right") wa that castro and the
commies are evil incarnate. why? because they're commies, of course.
it's a circular argument, and, just plain stupid.
one guesses, from comments heard, that most of the people knocking communism
didn't even know what it's about or how it started. they just parroted
what they thought was solid conservatism. count me out of this crowd
folks.
now, it's pretty clear that communism doesn't work very well. the reason
it doesn't work, however, is not because it's "evil" but because it
has an incorrect concept of humans and groups of humans, and humans
in groups.
here's a nickel's worth of information on communism for those prone
to let their knees jerk their mouths into saying stupid things when
they talk 'bout the subject.
communism started as a reaction to a newly industrialized world that
dehumanized humans and which made various robber barons even richer
by exploiting workers who toiled away like human machines, often in
health robbing, grimy factories. it was a time of homo robotus.
along came the commies to remedy the situation. problem is, that at
its core, communism believes all people are the same, but unlike the
robotic sameness seen by the robber barons, the commies figured humans,
while all the same (in their view) weren't machines.
 with
this as one of its bedrock beliefs, it was reasoned that some people
(the robber barons) had risen to positions over others through some
manipulations of the system and not because some of the robber barons
had certain talents and abilities lacking in others. therefore, in order
to re-humanize the lowly workers and put them in charge of their own
destinies and fortunes, the robber barons would be replaced by the lowly
workers themselves who would collectively decide how to run the factories
and society. sounds good. problem is that many of the lowly workers
were lowly workers because they lacked the executive skills to do what
the robber barons were doing--building successful and large businesses.
in place of the individual initiative of the robber barons, communism
opened up the decision making process to various committees of workers.
sounds democratic, doesn't it? it is. however, putting 20 incompetents
in a committee to make decisions didn't reduce the individual incompetence
of the individuals involved, it just multiplied it because every person
with some cockamamie idea wanted it to be considered. want an example
of this? attend some meeting of homeowners in any community in the u.s.
sometime. good grief!
communism, as a social and economic experiment, has failed. it has failed
to uplift the workers even though it has rid the system of the robber
barons and has, instead, kept workers at low standards of living due
to the intrinsic misperceptions about the nature of man and his societies,
that are inherent in communism, even when they are not stated.
still, for all its failures, communism was an attempt to better the
lot of common people. it is not evil, as so many knee-jerk conservatives
say; it just doesn't work. and, it doesn't work because man is not the
type of creature that communism requires. communism is a hive philosophy
and humans are not hive animals. in place of humans as machines as was
the case under the robber barons, communism saw humans as identical
hive insects and wrongly believed that treating them in this manner
humanized them.
in order to make a better society, true human nature must be understood,
otherwise all philosophies and social systems that have incorrect views
of humans will ultimately fail. and where does this lead us? to genes,
dear friends, to genes. and when we talk about genes we must, if we're
honest, talk about race.
race? oh, no! "race isn't real. people are just people. genes don't
matter," comes the cry of the stupid. welcome to the new dark ages in
post american-america, dear friends, as our present society attempts
to improve the human condition by denying human nature once again. do
you get the feeling that this is where you entered?
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