An Analysis and Comparison of the Socialist and Zionist Ideological Calamities.
Introduction.
European Imperialism, Nazism, and Socialism, should be seen, not as the result of simplistic malice or stupidity, but as flawed ideologies that understandably made sense to many intellectuals and well-intentioned people. As 1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics F.A. Hayek writes:
“It is necessary to realize that the sources of many of the most harmful agents in this world are often not evil men but high-minded idealists, and that in particular the foundations of totalitarian barbarism have been laid by honourable and well-meaning scholars who never recognized the offspring they produced.”
Hayek again:
”Most people are still unwilling to face the most alarming lesson of modern history: that the greatest crimes of our time have been committed by governments that had the enthusiastic support of millions of people who were guided by moral impulses. It is simply not true that Hitler or Mussolini, Lenin or Stalin, appealed only to the worst instincts of their people: they also appealed to some of the feelings which also dominate contemporary democracies.”
Just like Socialism was a flawed ideology that led to tyrannical-chaotic states like the Soviet Union and Maoist China, so is Zionism and resulting Israeli state. Zionism is similar to the ideologies above, yet far deadlier, because unlike their flaws, which have been relatively simple and already overcome, Zionism’s flaws are far more complex, thus fooling many of our brightest minds and still increasing their calamitous effects. To properly understand this we begin by briefly summarizing the recent emergence-evolution of the modern global free market capitalist order, followed by the rise of Socialist mythology and resulting Soviet Union which will provide an example of how intelligent people fool themselves into tyranny, and then we show how the same applies to Zionism and resulting Israeli state.
The Emergence of Capitalism and Socialist Mythology.
Until the late 1700s most people lived in small and nearly self-sufficient farming towns. As technology improved (printing press, engines-factories), the rate at which mankind could transform raw materials into wealth was rapidly increasing in cities. A growing class of businessmen-entrepreneurs-capitalists and their ‘private sector’ companies were constantly innovating, and due to people’s ‘freedom to trade’ their ‘private property’ only for things they deemed superior, entrepreneurs also had to copy the innovations of competitors, inadvertently creating and spreading superior information-technology and subsequent socioeconomic order. Competition between increasingly wealthy-productive factories-businesses-entrepreneurs motivated them to pay increasing amounts of wealth relative to what workers earned in farms causing people to move to cities, quickly leading to massively complex metropolises-supercomputers and accelerating living standards.
Morals are information which also emerges and spreads via economic competition to considerable degrees. It is hard-working, courteous people-workers, that treat others-customers-coworkers with mutual respect in a manner that maximizes cooperation-production-profitability regardless of age-sex-religion-race, who thanks to competition, motivate everyone else to be likewise. As Hayek writes:
“Competition is, after all, always a process in which a small number makes it necessary for larger numbers to do what they do not like, be it to work harder, to change habits, or to devote a degree of attention, continuous application, or regularity to their work which without competition would not be needed.”
By the late 1800s most large cities in the world, from NYC to Shanghai, were increasingly being organized by private businessmen and citizens who wore some kind of business suit, priding themselves in hard work, honesty, self-reliance, toleration, and the wealth and prosperity they brought.
Now, very important! Were the above changes leading to the emergence of modern capitalism the result of the plans or design of some great intellectuals-leaders? No. Just like language is a complex and vital communication-coordination system that is, in the words of Adam Ferguson: “indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design”, so are the socioeconomic institutions associated with Capitalism like private property, money, economic competition (summarized above), as Carl Menger writes: “the unintended product of historical development…the unintended result of individual human efforts (pursuing individual interests) without a common will directed toward their establishment.” Just like through a non-designed evolutionary process cells created the respiratory-digestive-nervous-etc. “systems” that coordinate multicellular life, so has man created the mechanisms (private property, money, finance-banking) that coordinate, what Menger and Herbert Spencer so cleverly called, ‘The Social Organism’.
Thus we can see how ‘private property’ and its emerging freedom and ‘competition of ideas’, as opposed to leading to chaos, is what 1) enables and motivates the discovery and spread of superior information and subsequent social order, 2) civilizes us, 3) protects us from being coerced into doing something we don’t want and thus allows us to live our lives as we wish, 4) and is vital for discovering the truth. Freedom is the ultimate algorithm!
Since these changes were “unintended”, their benefits were not widely understood which led to the rapid spread of a new erroneous ideology-mythology, Socialism. Misguided ideologues and resentful masses, fooled by the rapidly growing complexity of the socioeconomic order, increasingly thought that entrepreneurs and their companies were “exploiting” workers, leading to “unfair” differences in wealth, and that abolishing them or having them managed by a coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” and “great leaders”, in other words, the state-government or the ‘public sector’, would be a better way of managing the socioeconomic order. An echo-chamber of intellectuals showing various levels of ignorance-incompetence-negligence would describe these increasingly popular fallacies-myths in a manner that was bound to go viral and that is what sort of happened with Karl Marx and his bite-sized “Communist Manifesto” where he famously writes: “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution in 1917 led to the attempted implementation of a Socialist state, the Soviet Union(1922). The Soviets’ expert-led “central plans” could not work if people were free not to fund or go along with them, so everyone had to be coerced via a massive police state that would both criminalize dissent and propagandize its myths-ideology making them much harder to change.
Without privately owned and thus competing companies, you’d now have a single coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” with no incentives or pressure to innovate or copy existing innovations since there are no judicious customers to persuade-satisfy. Without corporate profit-loss calculation, which guided the actions of people-workers-companies in a manner where more wealth was produced (sales revenue) than consumed (costs), thus ensuring profitability-growth, the future Socialist-Soviet-Maoist bureaucracies-orders would consume more than produce leading to eventual famines and chaos. The Soviets-Socialists did achieve some technological progress because they would copy the improvements companies in the free-competitive non-Socialist countries were creating.
Kulaks, farmers who employed and thus profited from laborers, would be seen as greedy-immoral “exploiters” to be killed with impunity. Lenin orders:
“Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known blood-suckers…Publish their names…Seize all their grain.”
Socialist movements inadvertently had massive Jewish overrepresentation. There is Jewish leading Socialist ideologue Karl Marx. Lenin’s sidekick and founder of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein), was offered by Lenin to be the first leader of what would become the Soviet Union, but Trotsky turned down the idea and told Lenin: ‘You know very well that a Jew can’t be Premier in Russia’. Jewish Author Yuri Slezkine writes in his excellent book ‘The Jewish Century’: “At the First All-Russian Congress
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