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Dictatorship of the proletariat? 

A naïve concept developed by Marx and Engels and implemented by Lenin. 

It started with a big promise people were electing Soviets (councils) to rule over municipalities, businesses and ultimately the nation. Sadly, the lack of checks and balances led to authoritarianism and terror. The Soviet Union after remarkable successes in industrialization, education and space travel stagnated into oblivion the creativity of its people stifled by the deficiencies of a bureaucratic planned economy which was oblivious to the realities of people’s needs and dreams. 

The system was successfully implemented in China where the ruling elites studiously examine its failures and aided by American readiness to open their markets to prevent rapprochement between Russia and China managed to create the most powerful economy in the world while lifting hundreds of millions of poverty.  

Technically Lenin’s notion that a group of elitist managers – the Bolshevik Party should lead the masses for their own good is not new. Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics expect a class of learned leaders to boss over the productive classes. Also, they expect those people to be eunuchs. Lenin did skip that last part but it was implemented by the Turkish Sultans who established the Janissaries by abducting the first sons of non-Muslim families to train them in military and state affairs so they can rule the country in the name of the monarch. That notion of aristocratic monarchy supported by learned eunuchs was also implemented by the most enlightened empire – ancient China. Rome also used talented slaves as administrators and advisors.  

Those empires failed – including the Ottoman empire embroiled in a bitter fight between the Janissaries and the regular Western European style army created by the Sultan to protect him from the rising power of his former ‘guardians’. 

On top of these political theories and formations rooted in premedieval thought came the new political theory of democracy and free-market economies from the most unlikely place – the fringe of Europe – England. That blossomed in the new British colonies in America to the unsurpassed: “We the people…” and developed into the leading economy in the world, mesmerizing humanity with art, technology and excellence. Sadly, that system proud with its reliance on human creativity and endeavor is now deeply undermined by growing inequality and corruption at all levels of society. Why? 

While I still believe that democracy and free market principles have no viable alternative, the fact that societies built on those principles are so vulnerable to rot from within is frightening. Take America – even after Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex the proud people of the United States fell into the trap of militarism, corruption and demagogy losing life, freedoms and most important the potential pursuit of happiness. 

Looking towards the future – is it going to be molded by an elitist Politburo, a hypocritical Congress or Soviet – I hope not, but what will that future be?  
I don’t know. 

I don’t know. 

But I (and perhaps any of you too) know what I want! 

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A speculation on how the world may look from the point of view of the  US corrupt crony elite

That’s how the world seems to look from the watchtower of the American globalist elite. The major competitors are:

  1. The EU
  2. China

The US corrupt crony elites want to control those two to avoid sliding into irrelevance. They plan to do that by:

  1. Controlling the EU and China corrupt crony elites and
  2. Controlling their trade roots
  3. Controlling their energy sources (that’s why the Ukrainian war was urgent due to the danger of the EU becoming energy independent through renewables and EU nuclear being undermined)

Currently:

The US has complete control over the EU corrupt crony elites and EU transatlantic trade routes but not the trans Asian ones (aah the Silk Road)

The US has fairly good control over China’s trade routes through the Pacific and the Malacca Straights

China and the EU may wiggle away from US controlled trade routes but developing the Silk Road and the US has very limited leverage to prevent that – hence the war in Ukraine and the meddling in Central Asia.

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Does “Society” even exist?

There is no such thing as ‘society”” just a useful invention of sociopaths to exploit the gullible.

Society as something opposed to the individual is a travesty. The only useful use of the term is if it serves me.

There is no such thing as “society” apart from the personal interests if its members and only in the sense those members understand them – not as some other people or group will try to impose on them.

Any claims of primacy of the common good over personal interests betray either personal confusion and a repulsive “holler than you” self-righteous ignorant attitude or exploitative hypocrisy in a brazen attempt to shame you into submission.

As with the wise Emperor of China who was the wisest person in the land because he was able to learn something even from the dumbest person so everyone of me and you is an emperor of our individual destiny. Free to set up our own goals and devise the means to achieve those goals. Free to succeed and free to fail including free to learn from that or ignore the lesson.

But what if my quest for happiness harms others?

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Ukraine – a story of mystery and greed

Manafort’s connection to Ukraine is currently discussed in the media.
This post is an attempt to put things into perspective and adding some historical notes and links. I have attempted to provide a broader and more comprehensive coverage with the links while not necessarily agreeing with the content published there. Just a scaffolding for thought and further research.
Ukraine is a country (the name means at the edge of…) in the centre of Europe with one of the most fertile soils in Europe and home to an amazing people of beauty, intelligence and diversity. It also produces, rocket engines, chocolate and world class champions. Unfortunately, it has been the victim of greedy politicians (both homemade and imported) and has endured a chequered post-Soviet development.
The people there live in poverty and their standard of living is ever declining while being ruled by a corrupt clique of greedy oligarchs who are kept in power by a foreign government.
Internationally they are isolated by the EU, NATO and Russia – who have declared that they do not want to deal with Ukraine anymore (and who would – you cannot blame them for that). No one seems keen to spend money on the corrupt Ukrainian elite anymore
The last act of this sad story started when a phony argument regarding the future of the country in the EU (the EU has since declined membership) brought out Soros funded protesters on the street and who instigated a putsch that put in power the current government which is half-heartedly supported by the US in exchange of the corrupt government’s meaningless anti-Russian foreign policy.
Jo Biden’s son landed a job in a Ukrainian oil company, and John McCain was a frequent visitor.
Manafort was involved with the previous president of Ukraine V Yanukovych through the help of an interpreter working for the International Republican Institute (an organisation funded by the US taxpayer and chaired for some time by John McCain) and the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov (the richest man in Ukraine – Poroshenko the current president of Ukraine is the second richest).
Poroshenko was supporting Clinton and met with her before the last elections.
Thant’s it for now, check the links below, take everything with a grain of salt and let’s see what Paul Manafort has to say about it.
Links:
John McCain
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/31/mccain-visits-frontline-ukraine-troops-anti-putin-gesture/96036782/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-ukraine-protests-support-just-cause
https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/john-mccain-and-paul-ryan-hold-good-meeting-veteran-ukrainian-nazi-demagogue-andriy
Jo Biden

What Will Ukraine Do Without Uncle Joe?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-biden/u-s-vice-president-biden-to-make-swansong-visit-to-ukraine-idUSKBN14W0QT

George Soros
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/george-soros-emails-published-by-russian-hackers-us-security-services-dcleaks-wikileaks-a7192396.html
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/08/30/soros-ran-us-foreign-policy-post-coup-ukraine.html

Click to access Xproof%20Nazis%20in%20Ukraine.pdf

 

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This world is about me

 

This world is about me! Without me the world doesn’t matter (for me). Therefore, the only practical use of this world is to make me happy! Unfortunately, based on recent observations that is not entirely true. Something is wrong. I don’t know how to fix it and that is driving me crazy.
On the other hand, that is not entirely true. There are so many things to be grateful for…
I am alive. I am healthy. I have a loving and happy family. We are striving towards our goals and we are all helping each other.
Also I appreciate that I have this blog, I have your attention, I have a job and … the internet.
Therefore, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself? *
But I don’t agree with the above even though I understand it. We don’t need to be rendered helpless by fear because that will play in the hands of our enemies and lead to our (and our loved ones and those close to us) destruction. On the other hand we have to fear the unknown and strive to understand it because arrogance is the path to ignorance and ignorance is the path to hell!
There are two ways to acquire knowledge – through experience – you learn better but it may take some time could be expensive and even painful if not outright dangerous, and through the shared experience of others. The main goal of knowledge being – how to make the environment more cooperative to the pursuit of our desires. Or in other words how to increase our personal power.
One obvious way is through better knowledge – the other through the cooperation of others. That is why we, the people form associations of which the government is the most powerful one. Unfortunately, that power comes with it being most prone to be corrupted and turned against us – the people. And that is not because power corrupts (it actually does) but because we, the people are not careful enough to use it correctly and establish the necessary checks and balances to keep it from slipping into dictatorship. The history of the USA is proof that the nation with the best (not perfect but still the best) system of checks and balances is the most developed (again not perfect – but still number one for the foreseeable future).
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish. **
One reason the US political system has survived regardless of it’s obvious deficiencies is because the strong middle class managed to keep the system going without having to resort to drastic measures like the Russian revolution of 1917 that deteriorated from the most democratic system of government – that of the Soviets (or councils of the people) to a corrupt system where elite intrigue and backstabbing replaced stakeholder involvement in decision making. Still it pulled Russia out of poverty and brought us space travel. It failed because it didn’t protect private property (actually openly declaring as its primary goal the abolition of private property). That may have sounded good in party documents – almost biblical if it wasn’t accompanied by the increasing inequality incompatible with the stated goals of communal bliss. Communism failed because the lack of accountability led to uncontrollable corruption. The mere success in total control of the masses led to the inevitable loss of that control, because without the people there is no political power only temporary coercion that constantly undermines the society it is supposed to serve by creating resistance (and even worse indifference) to its attempts to achieve anything at all.
Because it is in the interest of us human being to maintain and increase our/my personal ability and potential to achieve a better quality of life and with the government being among the most powerful organisations/associations created by people it is self-evident that the main or perhaps only goal of any proper government is to protect private property. On the other hand private property is impossible without a government to protect it. Because, even if you are the strongest in your neighborhood it will only take the collusion of two or three people to deprive you of it.
That ultimate power of government in regards to private property invites the temptation to use it as a tool to steal and re-appropriate that property to those who hold or pull the strings of political power.
That struggle between those who need government to protect their property and those who want to use government to steal is the essence of politics.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address