In order to fight for what we believe in, we must be clear about (1) what it is that we are defending, and (2) what our Leftist enemies are trying to do to us to bring about their own utopian system, which also means, (3) analyzing what they say for what they might really mean. I want to try to translate this citation from a Scientific American article into terms that I can use to see what lies behind the words.
In an earlier post, I cited excerpts from an essay I had read in a 1991 issue of one of the premier scientific magazines in the world: “Essay: Marx Wasn’t All Wrong” by Nathan Rosenberg, Scientific American, December 1991, page 158:
Perhaps we should hesitate before consigning Marx to the dustbin of history. Recent events in the Soviet Union are being interpreted as evidence of the final breakdown of Marxism, but one might question such a reading. . . . . Marx’s writings essentially analyze the historical process by which capitalist societies grow and become transformed. Marx needs to be disengaged from the disastrous 20th-century economic experiments with socialism because in his view of history socialism would emerge only out of advanced capitalist societies. Socialism would arise after capitalist societies became wracked by their “internal contradictions.” Socialist societies were destined, according to Marx, not only to resolve the internal contradictions of capitalism but to inherit the immense productive apparatus that mature capitalist societies were incapable of utilizing. When socialism finally appeared on the world stage, it would immediately take possession of a highly productive industrial technology, and it would administer that technology far more capably than the social system that had generated the technology. Thus, in at least one limited but essential respect, the collapse of socialist economies serves to prove that Marx was right, not that he was wrong. . . . . [. . . .] . . . . Marx may be said to have finessed the “equity versus efficiency” trade-off by assigning to capitalism the historical role of providing efficiency and to a later socialism the role of delivering equity.
Look again at this part of the quotation from the Scientific American essay:
Socialism would arise after capitalist societies became wracked by their “internal contradictions.” . . . . When socialism finally appeared on the world stage, it would immediately take possession of a highly productive industrial technology, and it would administer that technology far more capably than the social system that had generated the technology.
Let me translate this:
“Socialism would arise”—means “socialism will take over. . .”
“after capitalist societies became wracked”—means “after the enemies of America have succeeded in driving our morality, religions, sexual behavior, etc, into their own image of what it should be . . .”
“by their “internal contradictions.”—means “by the problems the enemy has caused in trying to change the American system of values into the enemy’s system of values—which does actually produce contradictions—but they are not the contradictions of the American philosophy; they are rather the contradictions that now exist because so much of the American philosophy is being destroyed.”
“When socialism finally appeared on the world stage,”—means “when socialists finally take off their disguises and finally take control. ..”
“it would immediately take possession of a highly productive industrial technology,”—means “socialists would immediately steal the economy, the economic means of production, and all property, and everything else it could get its hands on to be controlled by themselves, the leaders of the new Communist United States,”
“and it would administer that technology far more capably,”—means “the enemies of America believe that they are better at controlling everything. They believe that they know everything there is to know about how you should live your life and how what once was your property or your home or your business should be controlled. Big Brother Knows Best.”
“than the social system that had generated the technology.”—means “the socialists know that it was the capitalist, democratic, Bill of Rights, Checks and Balances, religious, moral, trational America that produced the wonder of the ages—the richest, most technologically advanced, and freest society in the history of the world, but hey! Big Brother Can Do It Better.”
What the heck! Let’s look at a little more of the Scientific American quote:
Marx needs to be disengaged from the disastrous 20th-century economic experiments with socialism because in his view of history socialism would emerge only out of advanced capitalist societies. . . . . . . . . Marx may be said to have finessed the “equity versus efficiency” trade-off by assigning to capitalism the historical role of providing efficiency and to a later socialism the role of delivering equity.
This is one of the scariest segments of the whole essay. Let’s translate some more:
“Marx needs to be disengaged from the disastrous 20th-century economic experiments with socialism”—means “Okay, even the most die-hard Communist, socialist, Leftist has to admit that socialism has failed disastrously everywhere it has been tried. . .”
“because in his view of history socialism would emerge only out of advanced capitalist societies.”—means “actually, Marx really did think that socialism would arise from more advanced societies. That is true. Marx thought that it would come that way because, in his view of history, capitalism was needed to build the infrastructure of an advanced society—oh, you know—capitalism was necessary for the small things like building the greatest industrial, medical, social, free society on earth. Trivialities, but necessary for Big Brother to take over after the targeted country became the greatest industrial, medical, social, free society on earth, because as the first part of this showed, socialism has been disastrous at doing anything good itself.”
“Marx may be said to have finessed the “equity versus efficiency” trade-off”—(I love this one!)—means “Marx didn’t see how everyone could be “equal” and yet the system become efficient. This is probably because (1) someone who can work harder and produce more in the same amount of time sometimes earns more money than someone who is unable or unwilling to do as well, and (2) someone who can produce a computer program or an automobile or a piece of art or has an athletic or musical talent that lots of people want to pay lots of money for will probably do better than someone who produces things less popular. (3) Capitalism rewards effort. (4) Capitalism encourages individuals in entrepreneurial, technological, productive growth. (5) Etc. These conditions are viewed as unfair by some people—of course, a lot of them are the people who assume that they, in the role of Big Brother, will do brilliantly and therefore will at that time deserve the best homes, the most money, and private stores so that they can buy beautiful things (which people of their taste can appreciate) and not have to wait in lines (with those people that they, by the brilliance of their Big Brother mind, control). This, naturally, Big Brother knows is fair.”
“by assigning to capitalism the historical role of providing efficiency”—means “Marx just knew that socialism wouldn’t be able to produce anything really useful. It takes capitalism to transform the world into something wonderful.”
“and to a later socialism the role of delivering equity.”—means “and after the enemies of America take control, Big Brother will make certain that all the non-Communist-Party people are treated equally and fairly. They will all be the same: equally controlled, fairly allowed to take what Big Brother considers ‘fair’, equally unable to individually do anything to better their life or change the circumstances that were decided by others to be their lot in life. The people in the highest power are, of course, equal in their own way, and they will equally live their lives in special, luxury circumstances that they themselves have equal access to.”
Okay. That makes sense.
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