Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
What is so " elitist " or obscure about what should be the ABCs of " democratic socialism ? Sometimes background knowledge is needed to understand comments. I have said that dogmatic - militant atheist - Marxism is a dead end . I have said that the biggest mistake of the Russian Revolution was to declare the new socialist state " officially atheist'. I am concerned about the obvious contempt of too many groups on the Left for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. About FASCISM drifting in from the Left . What are the possibilities for success of any socialist revival or economic EQUALITY movement if millions of Christians are scorned as " benighted " and Christian virtues ridiculed - which, if practiced, can keep any new social order from becoming a hellish , totalitarian nightmare ? The very structure of existing Marxist parties points to an anti-democratic form of government . They are invariably led by some egomaniac permanent GREAT LEADER with an inner circle of subservient " Clears " so much like the daffy Church of Scientology . These already effete, future bureaucrats will never " connect " to the real working class millions . It is insane hubris for any group to believe that it is an agent of HISTORY with a unique patent on SOCIALISM. It is perverse to think that individuals, clearly on the LEFT, with opposing political views, are agents of the " class enemy ". Or that the designated " class enemy " consists mostly of moral monsters. In general, people are what they are because THEIR life has made them that way . Since the very beginning of civilization, in ancient Greece and Rome, there have been CONSERVATIVE , LIBERAL, and RADICAL political philosophies in circulation, competing for state power. At times one outlook was clearly superior to others - just as today. But even the eloquence of Cicero could not save the Roman Republic. Caesar and his plebian followers in Rome had their own " Appeal to Reason ". While the Roman aristocracy- with its voice in the Senate - was completely decadent.
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I am concerned about the obvious contempt of too many groups on the Left for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. About FASCISM drifting in from the Left .
What are the possibilities for success of any socialist revival or economic EQUALITY movement if millions of Christians are scorned as " benighted " and Christian virtues ridiculed - which, if practiced, can keep any new social order from becoming a hellish , totalitarian nightmare ?
The very structure of existing Marxist parties points to an anti-democratic form of government . They are invariably led by some egomaniac permanent GREAT LEADER with an inner circle of subservient " Clears " so much like the daffy Church of Scientology . These already effete, future bureaucrats will never " connect " to the real working class millions .
It is insane hubris for any group to believe that it is an agent of HISTORY with a unique patent on SOCIALISM. It is perverse to think that individuals, clearly on the LEFT, with opposing political views, are agents of the " class enemy ". Or that the designated " class enemy " consists mostly of moral monsters. In general, people are what they are because THEIR life has made them that way . Since the very beginning of civilization, in ancient Greece and Rome, there have been CONSERVATIVE , LIBERAL, and RADICAL political philosophies in circulation, competing for state power. At times one outlook was clearly superior to others - just as today. But even the eloquence of Cicero could not save the Roman Republic. Caesar and his plebian followers in Rome had their own " Appeal to Reason ". While the Roman aristocracy- with its voice in the Senate - was completely decadent.