Posted on 09/08/2022 6:55:19 AM PDT by SJackson
In Marxist theory, the final stage of socialism is true communism, when everyone shares of his or her resources equally, the state withers away, and true justice finally dawns upon the earth. We never have seen that stage and never will, because Marxism is rancid pseudo-religious hogwash that runs directly contrary to human nature. The real final stage of socialism is what we saw in the last ten years of the Soviet Union: an entrenched, all-encompassing, corrupt and inefficient state bureaucracy nominally presided over by a succession of senescent, barely-there incompetents. With his disgraceful descent into open authoritarianism Thursday evening, Old Joe Biden and the Democrats signaled their intention to skip right to that final stage: they’ve already got the doddering figurehead and the ravenous bureaucracy firmly in place.
During the first stages of socialism in Russia right after the Bolshevik revolution, the new workers’ paradise appeared from the outside, where the gulags weren’t so easy to see, to be youthful, dynamic, and promising. The American journalist Lincoln Steffens visited Soviet Russia in 1919 and was enthusiastic, declaring: “I have seen the future, and it works.” Other American intellectuals visited the Soviet Union and were likewise enthused; the New York Times’ Walter Duranty was so enamored of the place that he willfully covered up evidence of Stalin’s Ukrainian famine so that Times readers wouldn’t get a negative view of the new Russia.
This sort of thing went on for years. Two decades later, with the U.S. on the brink of entering World War II, three young folk singers named Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Josh White, who called themselves the Almanac Singers, recorded Songs for John Doe, an album of peace songs. This was the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact, and as Seeger, Guthrie, and White were all hardcore Communists, they didn’t want the U.S. joining any war against Stalin’s ally Hitler. Hitler soon betrayed Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, and suddenly these pacifists were passionate for the war and able to pose as patriots. For decades, Seeger, Guthrie, and multitudes of others worked tirelessly to make the Soviet Union and Marxism chic among American Leftists. It worked.
The Soviet Union itself, meanwhile, was governed first by Lenin and then by Stalin. Both were unscrupulous, inhuman, murderous thugs, and both remained in power only by ruthless reigns of terror and cults of personality that made them into gods more efficiently and comprehensively than any Roman emperor was ever deified. Even today, in post-Soviet Russia, Lenin is respected, and Stalin is revered. Lenin’s Tomb is still situated prominently in the Kremlin and gets a million visitors a year. Not far from it are the much more modest graves of most of the other Soviet leaders; Stalin’s is the only one that Russian visitors regularly decorate with flowers.
But in the last days of the Soviet Union, the ruling elite grew old and relied on the bureaucrats, who like cockroaches were always there, outlasting all the rulers, to do the real work of keeping the massive state apparatus lumbering along. It was hard to build a cult of personality around a succession of old, feeble, barely coherent figureheads, and few made more than a half-hearted attempt to do so. Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75 in 1982 and was succeeded as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the de facto head of government, by Yuri Andropov, who was a relatively young 68 but in extremely poor health. Andropov was nominally in power until he died in 1984, although it’s not at all clear that he actually did anything while he was the man in charge. The same could be said for his successor, 72-year-old Konstantin Chernenko, who acted as the man whose photo was on the wall in all the buildings and not much more until his own death thirteen months later.
If these guys were the future, it no longer worked; on the contrary, it had rheumatoid arthritis. Back in the 1980s, this succession of elderly company men was widely seen as symbolic of the sclerotic, calcified nature of the Soviet bureaucracy and Soviet society in general. And now that Joe Biden is out in the open about criminalizing his opposition and brooking no dissent, we can skip here in the United States right to the final stage of socialism. We have the entrenched deep-state bureaucracy, and we have the dementia-ridden septuagenarian puppet in charge, so we’re all set.
All we need now is a Ronald Reagan to set the whole authoritarian house of cards on a course to tumble down so that the free republic can be restored. Maybe such an individual is already on the scene.
BTTT
After they steal the midterms their gloves will come off and we will really get bent over.
It’s working.
“The goal of socialism is communism”... Vladimir lenin. Socialism becomes communism when one man WITH a gun can control one hundred men WITHOUT one. And you stupid americans wonder why they want your guns? Or worse, are Willing to give them your guns?
it is all an easy fix.
just takes one congress to not
fund anything except the military and the parks
system.
for one fiscal year.
Does anyone believe these leftwing despots will suddenly restrain themselves, for any reason at all, once they’ve achieved socialism?
Socialism is only a step on the path, communism is the goal.
they never get past the totalitarian police state
because they dont want to
People can vote fraud their way into tyranny, but they have to shoot their way back out...
This is why I am opposed to term-limits for elected officials.
All it will do is transfer MORE power to the permanent bureaucracy. Look how much people like Fauci, Birx, Comey, Brennan, Wray, etc.... have over you. Look how they can defy Congress. Did you EVER get to vote for any of them?
At least with elected officials - you still have some chance to remove them.
NOTHING will be fixed until there are automatic term-limits on BUREAUCRATS and GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
What he said.
Trump scared them. He scared them so much they moved the socialist agenda time line up a decade.
I am a straight white male engineer type so the state will let me live and work for the common good.
This is good for us. It means they are scared and desperate enough to abandon the “long march” plan, and risk all of the progress that they have made on one very longshot bet.
And they will lose. Because you can’t “skip ahead” to the end of a process like the descent into socialism. Each step is predicated on the previous. Trying to do this will fail, because they haven’t completed the prerequisites. They don’t have complete control of the courts, the local governments, media outlets, etc. There are too many potential points of failure that they have not attended to, making it inevitable that in trying to rush ahead, they will fail on at least one of those essential points.
Unfortunately, any congress is no better than the people who elected them as screwed up constituents will elect a screwed-up representation.
The beuracrats in DC control everything.....
They’ve had everything in place since the stolen election. They’re just waiting until they can implement an adequate crisis to make the final push.
One can hope you’re right. I do but I also have my doubts for many reasons.
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