Roots of Socialism from the Position of Dialectic.

By Mark Aretskin

Dialectic has no relation with the class struggle it was just a philosophical method of discussion used by Greeks and in more contemporary times developed and used by Hegel and adopted by Marxists. They used dialectic as a system of proofing that classes are engaged in struggle. And using the same method I will show why mostly uneducated in that subject, 67% of our (D) and 47% of our (R) (Old official statistic. I do not have new numbers,) are so positive about Socialism.

Let's start with a classical description.

1. B. Lenin on October 2 of 1918 speaks in front of young communists.

They just were victorious in the revolt 1 year ago (It was named the October Revolution by Stalin after Lenin died.) and were genuinely curious about what is the nature of Socialism. Lenin compares Socialism with Pyramid, with control from the top to the bottom and subordination from the bottom to the top.

One who will open any door of any company in America or around the globe will see inside that kind of structure. And management by natural law must take care of the social welfare of that company's employees.

In most cases, companies (corporations and not.) operate on OPM (Other People's Money).

This is a direct schematic of a pure socialist society.

What is Capitalism in that context?

Capitalism is a system of trade relations between those pyramids (companies) and individuals in a mix.

When we have many companies, they trade and compete. One can derive an analogy from the physics of the coexistence of electricity and magnetism.

2. What is wrong with socialism as a governing system in any country?

Let’s imagine that employees of some companies start to trade the results of their internal labor for perks or money. Management will not aloud it, as it contradicts the management structure.

When an initial attempt to build a new society in Russia failed, Lenin returns to Capitalism (НЕП) in 1922. The next 5 years country flourished, till Stalin screwed it over. The last page of the most common addition of the Communist Manifesto listed 10 steps society needs to build Communism. There interesting quote by Stalin on the same page saying that the Soviet Union got through all these steps by 1930.

Carl Marx was right once, when he wrote, that “Bureaucrats own the World”.

All socialistic buildups require an enormous bureaucratic controlling structure. It is expensive and paid for by over-taxation and external loans. OPM (Other People Money).

Margaret Thatcher said in a 1976 interview:” Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”

3. The internal market stagnated. Unemployment is prohibited by law.

But what to do with an excessive population not finding themselves placed in industry or agriculture? These 5 instruments socialist (socialistic) government used to control “excessive”: Abortion, Extended HS Education, Army (preferably at war), Prison (GULAG is a consequence of fully implemented Communism by the government), and Extended Retirement Age (Modern Russia). In a program discussing modern Venezuela, I heard from a much-respected host on Fox Business channel: “…Gorbachev did not kill his own people…” This lady probably was slightly misinformed. There are at least 3 episodes of the Soviet history of killing people connected with Michael Gorbachev in Lithuania, Georgia, and Tajikistan. There were no Soviet or Russian leaders in history, who did not have the blood of their own people on their hands.

4. Ronald Regan made a semantic mistake when he named USSR an “Evil Empire”.

It was/is Evil. But it is an Evil Corporation.

5. Gorbachev got to power, and in front of his people proclaimed a new policy “Perestroika”.

This nice word is translated into English as Restructuring. Restructuring is Chapter 11 of a Bankruptcy Law.

I brought as an example a GM pooled on the biggest geographical country in the globe during my first interview in the first American company, I worked then in 1991. I explained that if that company will not comply with internal dues, then it will crumble. (18 years later GM filed Chapter 11…).

6. Any military occupation of one country by another is equivalent to Chapter 7 — Dissolving.

7. Update. Maduro starts to talk about privatization. See part 2. Of cause, this was not the first-page news.

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