Read Russia was selling some warplanes to Lebanon. Have they even repaired the airport yet from Israel's attack?
On Dec 18, 1:27 am, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > COLLAPSE OF COLD WAR POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS AND RISE OF ANARCHISM > > The Marxist Leninists, of the Stalinist variant, as in the USSR, and > its export of its ideology abroad, largely believed it takes ten years > to “re-educate” a person to the point of adequate political > conversion. That means conversion that is adequately internalized > psychologically. Essentially the difference between conversion to > ideas and internalization is the level of unquestioning acceptance of > the framework of ideas as governing how one perceives reality. Knowing > what the wold looks like through ideological glasses is different from > no longer needing those glasses and simply seeing it that way all of > the time, without significant exceptions. You no longer see the rose > colored world through rose colored glasses, but the world is rose > colored, and you no longer need the rose colored glasses. With > ideology it can work exactly that way if the conversion is > psychologically deep enough. > > The fact is that even when that internalized belief is broken, by > some traumatic shock concerning the perception of reality, there is no > returning to a prior condition as if the conversion never happened. > There is no return to a prior mental condition such that everything > can go on as it did before. No, when that conversion fails, due to > sufficiently traumatic experiences that break down the framework of > inculcated ideological beliefs as determine perceptions of reality, > that means that two frameworks of beliefs are now in hopeless ruins. > The one prior to “re-education” and the one that was brought about by > means of “re-education”. The conversion having been internalized > already did far too much damage to the preceding ideological framework > for it to ever be rebuilt as it once was accepted to be. Something new > is necessary to fill the void created by that failure of worldviews. > > We know that under primarily American influence and control we have > seen the “re-education” of Marxist Leninists, of whatever persuasion, > across a span of some decades. The Marxist Leninist frameworks, > comprising the Marxist Leninist worldview, have been very largely > broken down into no more than ideological rubble, in a vast number of > instances. This is particularly true in Europe, portions of the former > USSR, and the Americas, but not limited to those regions. Yes, I am > referring to a failed system of beliefs, and then subsequent > conversion of many of its followers to American style free enterprise > capitalism. Sixteen years since the end of the Cold War, and the “re- > education” was unrelenting, extending beyond its previous ideological > and geographic bounds. It had begun its work in the McCarthy era of > the 1950s, if not before. We see indications of it as early as the > 1920s, in America’s growing oppositions to Marxist Leninist communism. > (Stalinism simply being a subspecies of that species.) Western > capitalist ideology found it could quite readily step right in where > Marxist Leninist ideology had already crumbled, as a worldview, as a > framework, even more readily than capitalism could convert those who > still saw promise and future in Marxist Leninist communism. > > With that as background we now arrive at today. For many, caught up in > that turbulence of “re-education” (brain washing and ideological > manipulation no matter who does it and no matter which ideology is > being promoted) both Marxist Leninist communism and free enterprise > Capitalism have now had their frameworks largely destroyed. The > sudden, massive, extremely traumatic and unexpected, near to total > collapse of the American led system has, in many instances, been > sufficient shock to cause the ideological framework irreparable > damage. In some instances it crumbled completely. In other instances > it is a mere rubble heap compared to how it was built up. The > emptiness that is created when frameworks have been destroyed calls > for a new framework to be found. Human beings cannot typically really > function without such frameworks of ideas governing perceptions of > economic, social, and political realities. Such worldviews are more > essential today than are religions which once took on more of that > role, but today have lost much of that function in favor of > secularized systems. Some people are likely to cling to religious > ideas, if they have those available. Some framework is better than > none. Some structure and meaning is better than none. Particularly > when events are more chaotic and there is more uncertainty than > normal. However, for most, finding adequate and sufficient answers as > to a religious framework that replaces the crumbled frameworks of > secular systems that predominated over most facts of economics, and > social and political realities, as they were being experienced by the > experiencers of them, is not so common or likely in today’s world. The > quest for a secular answer tends to predominate. With Marxist Leninist > variants all hopelessly damaged by the persistence of the American > conversion machine, shattering those frameworks and re-educating to > free enterprise capitalist ideology, that rubble heap, already > weakened by Stalanist interpretation and excesses, has little chance > of providing satisfactory answers to those needing a new framework. It > is, after all, for all practical intents and purposes, an already > failed framework. It hardly matters whether that failure was a > pragmatic failure in life, or the destructive and reconstructive > process of re-education to capitalism. In actual fact it was both. > > Similarly now Capitalist free enterprise ideology, as a framework of > beliefs about reality, comes into question. It is morally wounded, and > crumbles, appearing to be another failed system. The shock and > traumatic effect of a damaged and crumbling ideology is always made > worse in relation to the persistence and intensity of the violence > with which re-education to it was accomplished. In simple terms, the > more aggressive, invasive and damaging the brain washing was the more > damage to the framework when it actually crumbles. The cost of a > deeply internalized framework being demonstrably proven failed. The > patching up and restoring of such agressively forced and deeply > internalized frameworks is either extremely difficult or impossible. > After all we are talking about a total failure of what had become > blind faith in a system. That faith is not readily restorable once > shattered. The framework tends to be abandoned. > > What then does that mean now ? It explains why the Anarchist > communism ideological thread, which lost out against the Marxist > Leninist ideological thread during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, > is gaining ground and is being considered as being one of the last > remaining viable ideologies. It has not had a chance to fail. It has > not been a matter of “re education”. Socialism was too tainted with > its identifications with the National Socialism of Nazi Germany. In > some regards that falls into the same category of ideologies that have > used brain washing tactics, have failed, and where brain washing into > a new, alternative, ideology has followed that failure. Socialism was > severely damaged by what happened in Germany in the 1930s and early > 1940s. Rightly or wrongly it tends to resemble those ruins to those > who have sufficient grasp of European history. Again, that leaves > Anarchist communism ascendant. We see it in an upsurgence in many > areas of the world, and particularly in Europe, as the frameworks of > both Marxist Leninist communism (in their several variants) and > American free enterprise Capitalism are seen by many as themselves > reduced to no more than ruins. The quest for a new ideology, a new > framework, that offers a way to understand and give adequate meaning > to, social, political and economic matters, now leads to Anarchist > communism. What results that will bring in terms of actual political > power being achieved by that system of ideas, remains in question. > That it is likely to gain significantly in power is a certainty. The > political stage was set by both the USSR and America in their > violently deadly dialectical struggle. Anarchist communism provides > the one existing opportunity to reject both “re educators”, ie. “brain > washers” as an unwelcome and unacceptable form of authoritarianism. > > The consequence of psychologically violent, and even worse yet > physically violent, opposition to the anarchist communist ideology > would be to reduce to pure nihilist violence without the framework of > ideas that tends to moderate against purely emotional explosive > outbursts. The anarchist communist position offers some restraint, and > some opportunity for dialogue, but when that is lost, due to past > errors being repeated, only the purified nihilistic violence > derivative from the existing processes and systems themselves would > remain actualized. Even more true where the social, economic and > political trauma, and resulting loss of faith, have greatest impact. > So the same tactics used against Marxist Leninist and Capitalist > ideologies by the two sides in the Cold War struggle, are decisively > not recommended. They would be very counter productive in the long > term, worsening the long term outcomes. Traditional authoritarian > oppressive tactics to counter and neutralize the anarchist communist > political force and its ideas, would only lead to a worse outcome than > the anarchist communists offer in the current scenario as toworldwide > and extremely traumatic failures of the world’s major ideological > framework contenders, as they were promoted by the USSR and the United > States. Excess of new oppression or excess of continued oppression > against the political involvement and freedom of expression that is > being sought, would tend to lead towards a growing political climate > of even more extreme frustration exploding as mindless, purely > emotive, purely nihilistic, political violence. That then would be a > framework, but not a framework that is as open to any forms of re- > education, due to its reliance on base instincts rather than > intellectual resistance, predominated over by reason. Yes, > intellectual resistance can be more readily oppressed, suppressed, and > brain washed, but where that leads to a more basic reaction, those > very tactics are contrary to their own purpose. > > Robert Morpheal > > This article may be copied, reproduced and distributed, by anyone, by > any means, anywhere, in any form, and in fact anyone is encouraged to > do so. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
