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…and all these things have happened because Marxism has failed.
No, you are not great. If you think you are, you are secular and elitist. This is caused by consumerism. The disease you have prevents you from knowing you have a disease. But to ask a diseased man to end himself is too much. Instead he would begin to believe that he is the higher type, and now the problem is twofold. An abomination caused by a consumerism who supports a consumerism so that there be abominations!
Be gone…or join us. That’s two strikes, buddy.
[détrop lights a cigar and signals his men. They turn and walk away.]
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The “sheep” metaphor you are using was popularized by Nietzsche to represent the situation concerning the subordination of the working class to the ruling class, …among this ruling class was the religious clergy. Originally the class differences were distinct, and this can be seen in the first feudalisms. There was a profound difference in intellect between the ruling classes and the plebs. The plebs were “conducted” through the propaganda of religion, by the religious clergy. This is your “sheep” metaphor, as the working class is horded and controled by the ruling classes.
This must be what Nietzsche means when he uses this metaphor specifically. One need not use such a metaphor to simply say God does not exist. The “sheep”, then, are people who are affraid of God…and people are affraid of God because religion is a meme that is deeply planted in the psyche of humanity, due to language and semiotics in combination.
A Marxist is beyond all this. Well, my Marxism is beyond all this. I am not dissappointed at the world or at capitalism, since capitalism is a necessary transition to socialism, and then to communism. I approach this indifferently and as a matter of dialectics- economic history is developing necessarily and the prediction of communism is valid and credible. It is not merely a choice that communism occur…it is something that WILL happen, or our species will die off much sooner than necessary. Revolutionaries only hope to ussher this development into reality, since there is nothing more mandatory than this, despite what “philosophy” might claim. On an individual basis all that can be done is a strict adherence to principles and efforts to spread the ideology to those who have the sense and intelligence to understand. The rest do not matter.
I wonder who and what you are, Cezar. I say happily that despite your criticism and hatred for Marxism, your efforts can only help, since an individualist/Nietzschean is a kind of “rebel” that will only work to shake up and break apart the complacent moral systems that exist today in the world. In fact, your “type” is even encouraged, even if you support and/or practice capitalistic principles. If you are a capitalist…you necessarily have a hand in making things worse, and this will lead to revolutionary circumstances faster.
You cannot defeat the monster, Cezar. No moustache in the world can save you. The science of history was around long before this single man you call “Nietzsche” even picked up a pen. Do you not have eyes to see great distances? Can you not see a thousand years long?
A little info for you: most anti-communists are not legitimately knowledgeable in the science of Marxism…they are instead only simple habitual people who are fixed in a routine economic setting and life that they are content with. In such a context, the only way they see Marxism is as this: an event that would prevent me from having the security I now have in my mundane life and job. They imagine a communist world that takes away all the little comforts and privileges they have in their ordinary boring lives. They are, in a sense, fossilized. This accounts for the majority of people who don’t endorse Marxism.
The rest are capitalists themselves. Those who certainly don’t want their wealth and independence taken away. The fundamental principle they hold dear is the opportunity to not have to labour at the expense of another persons labour. This is fine…and one can have that desire and cherish it. However, such a desire does not, and will not, stop mass revolution, simply because the majority of people, who are the working class, will not remain content. The capitalist is just a “parasite phase” of a historical progression of economics.
Detrop, have you ever read Max Weber: “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”? If you hate xtians like you hate capitalism, you’ll love it.
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You do cliff jumping? In antarctica? Dude, you got some big balls…or shrivelled balls from the temperature of the water. Now I think I understand you, Cezar. A 99 year-old cliff jumper into frozen waters is most certainly going to have issues.
Unless you have a wet-suit.