Freitag, 17. April 2020

KUDOS TO YOU, MR JAMES CORBETT


Just watch this remarkable monologue. (Source: https://www.corbettreport.com/what-no-one-is-saying-about-the-corona-crisis/ https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/strikingtheroot.mp4 https://youtu.be/lmHRYzF0dyQ):

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Yes, Mr. Corbett, you are perfectly right. But...

First, you are an anarchist and therefore you overestimate the individual protest. I watched you running down an empty Japanese street totally ALONE. You live in Japan but I have not seen a single "Corbett Report" with the participation of even a single Japanese person. I am afraid that you are terribly lonely in this country which remains foreign to you. Alienation is a very acute problem in modern capitalist world. It is a sort of solitary confinement in a cell with glass walls called INDIVIDUALISM. (By the way, a totally harmless drug called LSD was prohibited exactly because it knocks down these glass walls).

Being a Russian living already almost 40 years in Germany I am exposed to the climate of alienation as everyone else. But I socialize now predominantly with the Germans, not the Russians (there are lots of Russians in Berlin), because now I can understand and trust the Germans much better than the Russians. Well, don't you realize that individual protest is powerless and even pathetic? To win we need social MASS protests.

Second, the important thing you failed to mention is that the present trend towards fascism (or totalitarianism, if you prefer this word) is nothing new. It is baked into capitalism from the very beginning. Therefore the enemy are not individually Messrs. Rothschild, Soros & Gates with his killing vaccines and corrupt WHO and government officials but the whole system of global capitalism. Capitalism in the times of depression always resorts to fascism and wars to preserve its tyranny over the society.

The fatal mistake of all anarchists and libertarians is that being individualists, they wrongly imagine that socialism and communism equal stalinist dictatorship, whereas in reality the establishment of Stalin dictatorship in the Soviet Union was practically the end of socialism and the first step towards the reactionary restoration of capitalism by Messrs. Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

In reality the political power and the power of capital are just two sides of the same coin. Capitalist economics of "free competition" inevitably creates monopolies which require first corrupt "democratic" government, and then fascist dictatorship to protect the privileges and accumulated wealth of the upper class. On the other hand, dictatorship is the best cover for corruption and nepotism which are useless without being "abused" for the accumulation of wealth, as the turn in the 1990-ies from fake "socialism" towards capitalism in the Soviet Union clearly demonstrates.

Dear Mr. Corbett, please understand that the first thing we all really need is ORGANIZED MASS MOVEMENT against the evil of capitalism to fight for EQUALITY and COLLECTIVISM as the basis of true socialism and communism. We should fight inequality because it is the root of oppression, exploitation and tyranny, both political and economical. Only socialism can be truly democratic because the imperative of equality eliminates the cause of all repression, i.e. "abuse" of power and wealth. Without socialism "democracy" and "liberty" are nothing but empty, fake words.

Therefore the problem is how to organize for class struggle of the oppressed and the exploited against the elites and then to establish the social order of equality as something unquestionably desirable for everyone.
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Marx and Lenin long ago gave the answer for the economical part of the problem: the abolition of private propery and exploitation of wage labour. But both of them died without solving the problem of creating a totally different, socialist society. This problem was further obfuscated by capitalist antisocialist propaganda of "individual liberty", including such misleading and sickening rubbish as "1984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
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But now the social part of the problem is ready to be solved thanks to the scientific research made by the father of radical behaviorism - Harvard professor B.F. Skinner. This solution is the application of radical behaviorist social engineering to create the socialist system of social and interpersonal relations for the equal.

That is why I call myself behaviorist-socialist.