Jakob wrote:The enlightened worker commands the value of his own labor.
The sickle belongs to Saturn, the taskmaster, lord of harvest, discipline, death and time and the hammer to Thor, the strongest of the Aesir, who was known in Communist heartlands as the guardian of the common man. The prosaic meanings to the symbol naturally fall into the same realm as these gods, thats what symbols are for.
Pandora wrote:The sickle belongs to Saturn, the taskmaster, lord of harvest, discipline, death and time and the hammer to Thor, the strongest of the Aesir, who was known in Communist heartlands as the guardian of the common man. The prosaic meanings to the symbol naturally fall into the same realm as these gods, thats what symbols are for.
But communists did not believe in any pagan gods and would have objected to such associations. That would be like saying that Christians who put up a Christmas tree are really pagans at heart and just don’t know it.
Jakob wrote:What tanked it as Ive understood it from within is the lack of spirit. There was something lacking in Communism, which manifested in absurdity and bleak indifference. Our home was always bustling with laughter at Soviet absurdities, as solidarity was strictly with the worker, not with Marx, Lenin or any other party head. This is Communism at heart; Solidarity. It is one of a few solutions to narcissism in a mass culture. But of course it was very flawed in the days before it fell, therefore it fell with Justice, and Reagan was necessary.
Greed is not a problem if there are enough resources for everyone. But the absence of spirit in the Soviet economy of drives made it lose out on the libidinal front. Gods are, after all, the unrepressed potency of a culture. The Soviets had to go into space to release their drives.
Jakob wrote:Marx deciphered for the worker class that knowledge is power, and the knowledge that we are in stages of reversals of power attaining is that labor is magic, and priceless. Vast sums of wealth are being produced by the humblest labour, and the labourers do not partake in this wealth as much as the owners, and this is natural, as ownership is a very demanding kind of labour. Most that win great fortunes lose them quickly. But the difference between the price and the value of labor is too great. I dare say this is not the case because the owners are evil, but because the workers have in general not been enlightened. Because even though we all know our time is our life and that is priceless, it is only in moments of pure inspiration and creative unfolding that we see what our labour is really worth, namely that it is not just our time, but our whole being.
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