Posted on 10/30/2021 5:14:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Any ideological vision based on the language of lies disrupts and ultimately destroys by fostering chaos and destruction.
In his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn pictures Stalin ruminating over the concept of “language as an instrument of production.” A new way of speaking would establish the reality of the communist order and the communist man and woman.
The Man of Steel had thought about refuting “the reactionary theory of relativity or wave mechanics;” but was “too busy with affairs of state” to tackle those ideas. Trofim Lysenko, who was in charge of Soviet science, was already conforming the science of biology to communist ideological standards.
Since Stalin already had achieved massive ideological victories over bourgeois science, it seemed easy to change language and the meaning of the human being in order to hasten the progress of the new communist order, which in his mind was such an orderly, clear and wonderfully comprehensive abstraction.
For Stalin, disruption of the food supply chain in the Ukraine and the resultant starvation of millions of peasants were necessary phases of a cultural shakeup. They were required to speed up the inevitable evolutionary process that eventually would eliminate injurious class distinctions.
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Some do not learn from history, but the democRATs are determined to repeat it. Especially the horrors of communism.
Wherever communism gets a foothold, the first priority is always to cause death on a massive scale. Nothing good can ever come from it.
The truth is, economic liberty and personal liberty are inextricably intertwined. They cannot be separated.
Taking away economic freedom, as is done in Communism, takes away personal freedom, and vice versa.
That is why Communism is always doomed to fail, to cause misery, to cause tyranny, and to cause death.
And Communism is based on lies. Anything based on a lie will never stand because, as Solzhenitsyn is said to have described this mechanism fatal to the ideology: “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
That realization by people is fatal, and will erode the foundation of any ideology based on it until it finally crumbles away.
That is my remaining hope for Leftism, although in that case, far too many of its adherents don’t know (apparently due to their conscious and unconscious embrace of Orwellian principles) that they are both lying and being lied to.
Been observed: tyrants don’t care if you actually believe their lies, only that you obediently assert them true. Truth reduced to a social construct, controlled by BigTech feudal lords? We must “follow the science” but only after “science” submits to “woke” ideology. Alas… 21st Century Lysenkoism is here. Interesting read...IMHO.
bkmk
“We are being subjected to a Blizzard of Lies (about everything) - Mark Steyn
Control the language to control the culture.
From Stalin to Orwell’s 1984 and modern Western Leftists, totalitarians must overwhelm the culture to achieve their hells on earth.
Yes, but the core reason I think communism is doomed to fail is that it’s based on a completely false premise. Marx assumed that if the concept of ownership is removed from society, it will be removed from the individual as well. But that is contrary to human nature, since we evolved as hunter/gatherers and tool users, instinctively knowing that we must keep what we own or die. Che Guevara himself was forced to acknowledge that humans would need to evolve into something else before they’ll accept communism. But evolve into what? Mindless drones similar to worker ants, with no sense of self determination, only a hive mind. Not the future any sane person would want.
Interesting
LOL, I think you are I are on the same page here, though I may have said it differently.
At the core is the concept that most people have their own self interest foremost, that is human nature. Our form of government and economics tends to harness that by fostering property rights instead of suppressing it as Leftists try to do.
I agree very much with your post.
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