The projects could not be materialised and,
hence, neither approved nor falsified. Only the 20th
century – “the century of
science”, as the saying sometimes goes – reached the capacity to provide
technological means for trying out one such social utopia – Communism. Even
though more than a decade has elapsed since the collapse of European
Communism, this most important experience of humankind in the 20th
century has
not yet been properly evaluated. The principal conclusion from this lesson has not
become commonplace: the failure of Communism dealt traditional European
rationalism a decisive blow. In turn, it is promoting an alternative doctrine –
evolutionary rationalism
According to his own words, Karl Marx aimed “to lay bare the economic law of motion of society”. For
Marx, market economy was disordered and irrational and should have been replaced
by the ʻscientific planningʼ of production and consumption. The existing capitalist
institutions should have been smashed up and replaced by new ones, rationally
designed on the basis of scientific knowledge.
Instead of rational institutions, the spontaneous dynamics of the Communist system
gave rise to institutions that, in their irrationality, had no precedence in history.
Instead of a social system ensuring justice and happiness for all, a criminal political
system arose – it caused immense human suffering and 100 million people perished.
And yet, Communism was not useless providing that we consider it a posteriori as a
huge social experiment and that we analyse its results and draw appropriate
conclusions from them.
It does not seem that this has been undertaken so far. Four features, each of which is
rather disquieting, characterise global reactions to Communism:
(1) As a backlash reaction on the failure of planned economy, an extreme view
asserting omnipotence of the market is being preached and/or enforced. Faith in the
moralising capacity of the market has become almost the new credo for economic
reformers in post-Communist countries. Any attempts to control the market and to
minimise its imperfections are being harshly criticised. A comeback of Hegel: no
longer in Marxist disguise, but in a new form of marker deification. As if the market
were an expression of Hegelʼs Absolute Reason, Spirit of History. In addition, as a
reaction to the Communist misuse of power, a new naïve idea is spreading according
to which a State should be just a self-service facility sustained by taxes paid by a
sovereign individual for guaranteeing his/her safety and creating conditions for 4
his/her full “self-realisation”. This exaggerated, and often dilettante would-be
liberalism has been called paraliberalism. George Soros has named it “market
fundamentalism”. By its ignorance of what has already been scientifically established,
paraliberalism represents a cultural regress.
(2) The collapse of the Marxist “scientific world-view” and refutation of belief in the
unlimited capacities of individual reason is sometimes erroneously conceived as a
total failure of rationalism and as the end of the era of reason in general. Marxism
should be replaced by postmodernism. The objectivity of scientific knowledge,
however restricted, is being questioned: science is conceived as one of several
“meganarrations” equivalent to myth, religion, and art. All cultures of the world are
being considered as equally valuable, disregarding the number of evolutionary trials
they have accomplished, the amount of evolutionary knowledge they have built into
their structure, and their tolerance of other cultures.
(3) In the Communism era, Marxism, in its primitive Leninist, Stalinist and Maoist
version, became the world-view and ideology of quite a sizeable portion of the
population in many countries of the world. It had the capacity effectively to suppress,
or even replace, other views, such as chiliastic Christianity or Islam. After the
disappointment of bankrupting Communism, Marxism has induced a return to original
views, and also prepared the ground for the easy rooting and running wild of their
fanatic, fundamentalist versions.
(4) Marxist utopia is surviving in academic enclaves in the West, backed by the
conviction that Communism failed because it had been implemented in backward
countries, therefore the failure cannot be taken as a proof that, in principle, social
utopia cannot be accomplished. Even more blatant is tolerance of the political
ambitions of Communist parties in post-Communist countries.
In order to make adequate reactions on Communism and to prevent repetition of
similar horrific social experiments – perhaps in the form of authoritative regimes
deriving their legitimacy not from a “scientific” reason but from a “revealed” reason –
superficial, belittling or ignorant views on Communism should be globally supplanted
by the competent knowledge of its theoretical basis and its deeds. This knowledge
provides a weighty corroboration of what contemporary biology says: humans are
fearful, hypersocial (and group-confined), hypermotional and mythophilic animals
Kellel huvi tutvuda Kovac`i nägemusega sellest, mis võiks tulla - PDF. Kuigi ma ei nõustu temaga täielikult, on tal siiski arvestatav põhjendus ja mõte olemas. Lugege.
(märksõnaks "noocracy")
What will spark the new revolution?
What will be this generation's solution?
Will it be shots fired into a crowd?
Or a lone individual standing up proud?
As they shout it out loud.
And they preach about dreams,
and the meaning of things,
and the societal fabric
bursting apart at the seams.
Will it be the children out on the street?
With the scars and the hearts that still beat.
The ones with the cigarette burns in their arms,
and glass in their feet.
What do their eyes and their minds perceive?
While they live in the poverty
and pretend to believe
in a system that has nothing to offer but greed.
What will spark the new revolution?
What will be the new resolution?
Will it be hate spewed from the mouth?
Will it be rebels rising up from the south?
Will it be the killing of an entire race
As the world shuns and says "What a disgrace."
And they meet and they swear to put something in place
that will never allow it to happen again.
But it happens repeatedly to this day.
While the rest of the world turns up their chin,
the innocent victims plea and cry over kin,
and pray for some help and some protection.
And all we can say is "Such dismay,"
as we turn our heads away.
And slap "Save Darfur" stickers on the backs of our cars
And pretend that it will erase all of the scars.
What will spark the new revolution?
What will be the final conclusion?
Will it be bombs falling from the sky?
Or will it be the economy falling from on high?
While the families all cry
as they watch what they've earned shrivel and die.
The economist lie and call it a recession.
When really its just another great depression.
The economy, black attire, sits confined in its room
as the forever growing presence of doom
fills the void of its numbing repression
and slits its wrists, throat, in succession.
Will it be the assassination of a great man
Or a photo of a starving African
As she sits and stares from beyond the screen.
While the Bourgeoisie rub elbows with the Queen,
and the famous travel 'round in their limousines,
the rest of the world is haunted by screams,
screams from the horror of dying it seems.
Or perhaps the fear of living is what darkens our dreams.
What will spark the new revolution?
What will be the next evolution?
Will it be a writer with nothing but his pen?
Who battles it out between science and Zen.
And he writes it out loud.
And the people around tell him how proud
they are of his accomplishments. And he vows
to pull everyones' eyes out from behind the shroud.
Only to be silenced by the big mushroom cloud.
Maybe then the revolution will come.
And they'll battle it out with their wits and their guns.
And when the war is over, when the battle is done
and the side with more power, the side that has won
will start anew and with that more generations spawn.
And the generations will come and descend
and the wounds and the cuts will eventually mend
and the children will all ask "How did it begin?"
Their parents will proudly respond:
"With the whisper of a pen,
and the bang of a bomb."
Täpselt. Me ei saa, polegi õige, võtta iga uut ideed hirmuga karjudes, et "tegu on ju kommunismiga", kui me ei tea viimasegi põhimõtetest ja alustaladest midagi.
viimati muutis Mario. 25.05.2010 07:06:56, muudetud 42 korda
Ma ei näe teid tulevikus muuna, kui elovlutsioonilise ülejäägina, mis ei tahtnud areneda. Sellised eksponaadid kõlbavad hiljem muuseumisse, seega te ei ole oma eesmärki täielikult kaotanud.
hm... mitte küll täpipealt samas sõnastuses, aga sama ideed kandes on ajaloos vast juba üsna mitu korda asjad üsna hapuks keeranud. Viimasest korrast väga palju ju möödas polegi, vanemad inimesed veel mäletavad... _________________ verba volant, scripta manent Hoiatus! Olen sinu postituses olevate lolluste ja nõmeduste vastu allergiline. Lolluste ilmnemisel võib kaasneda raskekujuline sarkastiline reaktsioon.
Ma ei näe teid tulevikus muuna, kui elovlutsioonilise ülejäägina, mis ei tahtnud areneda. Sellised eksponaadid kõlbavad hiljem muuseumisse, seega te ei ole oma eesmärki täielikult kaotanud.
MarioA. on meist (kommunismi vm sarnase vastandujatest) arenemisvõimelisem ja juba areneb. Ja päris kiiresti areneb.
P.S. MarioA., hangi kuskilt Fernando Pessoa "Anarhistist pankur". Ingl k hetkel tervikteksti ei leidnud.
Ei garanteeri küll katarsist, aga selline kollektivismi "pealesurumine" poleemiliste väidetega käib pinda juba. _________________ assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
,,think before you print and save a ROOT::TTree''
Ma ei näe teid tulevikus muuna, kui elovlutsioonilise ülejäägina, mis ei tahtnud areneda. Sellised eksponaadid kõlbavad hiljem muuseumisse, seega te ei ole oma eesmärki täielikult kaotanud.
MarioA. on meist (kommunismi vm sarnase vastandujatest) arenemisvõimelisem ja juba areneb. Ja päris kiiresti areneb.
P.S. MarioA., hangi kuskilt Fernando Pessoa "Anarhistist pankur". Ingl k hetkel tervikteksti ei leidnud.
Ei garanteeri küll katarsist, aga selline kollektivismi "pealesurumine" poleemiliste väidetega käib pinda juba.
Ma ei näe teid tulevikus muuna, kui elovlutsioonilise ülejäägina, mis ei tahtnud areneda. Sellised eksponaadid kõlbavad hiljem muuseumisse, seega te ei ole oma eesmärki täielikult kaotanud.
MarioA. on meist (kommunismi vm sarnase vastandujatest) arenemisvõimelisem ja juba areneb. Ja päris kiiresti areneb.
P.S. MarioA., hangi kuskilt Fernando Pessoa "Anarhistist pankur". Ingl k hetkel tervikteksti ei leidnud.
Ei garanteeri küll katarsist, aga selline kollektivismi "pealesurumine" poleemiliste väidetega käib pinda juba.
lambamentaliteet on hullem
väga enesekriitiline avaldus... eks lambad ikka jooksevad määgides amokki uue karjamaa poole, mille kohal on taevas sinisem ja rohi rohelisem. Ning selle käigus tallavad eelmise täitsa söödava karjamaa mudaks ning trambivad paar talle ka veel jalge alla. _________________ verba volant, scripta manent Hoiatus! Olen sinu postituses olevate lolluste ja nõmeduste vastu allergiline. Lolluste ilmnemisel võib kaasneda raskekujuline sarkastiline reaktsioon.
Pole vaja just erilisi lingvistilisi teadmisi, et mitte vastandada lambamentaliteeti kollektivismiga. _________________ assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
,,think before you print and save a ROOT::TTree''
Ma ei näe teid tulevikus muuna, kui elovlutsioonilise ülejäägina, mis ei tahtnud areneda. Sellised eksponaadid kõlbavad hiljem muuseumisse, seega te ei ole oma eesmärki täielikult kaotanud.
MarioA. on meist (kommunismi vm sarnase vastandujatest) arenemisvõimelisem ja juba areneb. Ja päris kiiresti areneb.
P.S. MarioA., hangi kuskilt Fernando Pessoa "Anarhistist pankur". Ingl k hetkel tervikteksti ei leidnud.
Ei garanteeri küll katarsist, aga selline kollektivismi "pealesurumine" poleemiliste väidetega käib pinda juba.
lambamentaliteet on hullem
väga enesekriitiline avaldus... eks lambad ikka jooksevad määgides amokki uue karjamaa poole, mille kohal on taevas sinisem ja rohi rohelisem. Ning selle käigus tallavad eelmise täitsa söödava karjamaa mudaks ning trambivad paar talle ka veel jalge alla.
jah, mõne jaoks on tõde see kui tõe jaoks on rohkem uskujaid, sest kambamentaliteedis tunned end turvalisemalt, kuna uskujaid peale sinu on palju.
eks lambad ikka jooksevad määgides amokki uue karjamaa poole, mille kohal on taevas sinisem ja rohi rohelisem. Ning selle käigus tallavad eelmise täitsa söödava karjamaa mudaks ning trambivad paar talle ka veel jalge alla.
Antud juhul on eelmisel karjamaal ainult paar rohututti alles millekalal paar suurte sarvedega oinast maiustavad ja teised võivad aint vesise suuga pealt vaadata.
eks lambad ikka jooksevad määgides amokki uue karjamaa poole, mille kohal on taevas sinisem ja rohi rohelisem. Ning selle käigus tallavad eelmise täitsa söödava karjamaa mudaks ning trambivad paar talle ka veel jalge alla.
Antud juhul on eelmisel karjamaal ainult paar rohututti alles millekalal paar suurte sarvedega oinast maiustavad ja teised võivad aint vesise suuga pealt vaadata.
hea analoog
viimati muutis SKG 25.05.2010 13:53:47, muudetud 1 kord
Ma mõtlesin Auroni postitust.
See, mis paar posti üleval oli, kirjeldabki ju kollektivismi (tundub, et mu peene vihje ignoreeriti). _________________ assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
,,think before you print and save a ROOT::TTree''
SKG, üsna mõttetu vaidlus, kui ei suudeta endale selgeks teha kollektivismi tähendust. _________________ assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
,,think before you print and save a ROOT::TTree''
See, et paljud inimesed otsivad praegusele ilmakorrale alternatiivi tähendab ainult seda, et üldiselt on arusaadud praeguse süsteemi jätkusuutmatusest.
Üldiselt huvitaks tõesti, miks seda vaidlust nii pikaks on vaja ajada kui läbiv point on enda arvamuse selgitamine. Kui ei suuda lühidalt oma arvamust avaldada siis vaidluse puhul juba suhteliselt mõttetu enda arvamust alati mingiks etaloniks võtta.
Lambamentaliteet on halvustav sõna peaaegu sama mõiste kohta nagu kollektivism.
viimati muutis Elof 25.05.2010 14:18:18, muudetud 1 kord
See, et paljud inimesed otsivad praegusele ilmakorrale alternatiivi tähendab ainult seda, et üldiselt on arusaadud praeguse süsteemi jätkusuutmatusest.
Võib-olla. Kuid samas võib alternatiivide propageerimist tõlgendada kui tasakaalustavat jõudu, mis pöörab ühiskonna valupunktidele tähelepanu. "paljud inimesed otsivad" - kahtlen, kas just paljud inimesed ikka otsivad mingit radikaalset alternatiivi. _________________ assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
,,think before you print and save a ROOT::TTree''
viimati muutis guest1902 25.05.2010 14:21:38, muudetud 2 korda
sa ei või postitada uusi teemasid siia foorumisse sa ei või vastata selle foorumi teemadele sa ei või muuta oma postitusi selles foorumis sa ei või kustutada oma postitusi selles foorumis sa ei või vastata küsitlustele selles foorumis sa ei saa lisada manuseid selles foorumis sa võid manuseid alla laadida selles foorumis
Hinnavaatlus ei vastuta foorumis tehtud postituste eest.
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