Communism in America Part 1: The End of the World as We Know It
The fact is that communism is not a hammer and sickle, but a system that allows true individual self-actualization through communal living and self-sufficiency not by individual workers working to make corporations lots and lots of money, but a collectivist effort to work for each other together as equals with no class distinctions. In this first part of what will become a six-part series, I will explore this notion of communism and explain how, when properly understood, the end of the world as we know it may become something we can all hope for. So let us begin with America's good friend Karl Marx, the so-called father of communism:
In Marx's writings, notably The Communist Manifesto, a 3-phase system for the progression of communism into its final form implicitly emerges.
But aside from this faulty system, Marx's critiques of capitalism are still very pertinent today and can explain the true destructive, harmful inequality American corporatocracy creates. But to accurately apply these critiques concerning the worker as the commodity of the capitalist and his alienation from humanity, we must move away from Marx's violent uprising of the workers.
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The Occupy Movement, though it does not call itself communist, exemplifies the communist ideal beautifully with its belief in the economic equality for all and the end of the class-struggle.This emergence from capitalism into communism can only function, however, if there is a certain morality of communism and it cannot be the selfish morality of the corporation and capitalist America, but a productive morality that encourages the self-actualization, not the subjugation, of each individual in order to create a community of people who work together rather than work to kill each other.
And ultimately, this is communism in a nutshell: the existence of communities enabling self-actualization of all members to further create a peaceful and flourishing collectivist society.
When put that way, it appears much better than the capitalist class-struggle with the lowest classes struggling for employment and often finding themselves forced into criminality or beggary to avoid starvation. It is also apparently better than Soviet Russia and "Communist" China which were stifled from becoming true forms of communism by their dictatorial leaders
But that's it for this introduction. Stay tuned for our next article where Marx's anti-capitalist critiques discussed briefly above will be applied in more detail to American corporatocracy. And be prepared for the end of the world as we know it.
But that's it for this introduction. Stay tuned for our next article where Marx's anti-capitalist critiques discussed briefly above will be applied in more detail to American corporatocracy. And be prepared for the end of the world as we know it.
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