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Karl Marx was very correct in his summation that
“The history of all hitherto existing
society [2] is the history of class struggles.[1]”
The footnote “[2]” relates to some sophomoric writings that “showed” that
communism was the primitive early human ground state before government and
capitalism destroyed that pristine system and forced antagonism among the newly
formed classes. This is in fact a truism if you stipulate that the ‘poor’ have
not benefited from the elevation of humans from ignorance, fair government and trade from the pitiful ground
state of poverty and disease. But, this form of egalitarian politics cannot
allow such an advancement as it only widens the spaces between the inevitable social
strata that spontaneously form. The
elites must intervene and conquer or suppress capitalism if they are to restore
‘natural’ society.
Our
social systems were founded not upon equality, as there is no such thing in
groups above a count of say 20[2],
but on capitalism[3]
[even in primitive societies] where jobs and performances on those jobs were
assessed by local leaders and adjustments to the work force made if necessary. In cases where individuals have an ‘equal
chance’ to be decision makers, this notion allows blunders, sometimes fatal to the
community, and burdens those remaining to suffer from bad decisions resulting with an alteration
of the food supply or war with other locals. We are clearly not equal as we can see form
standardized cognitive skill tests [IQs] [4]
that are now suppressed belief that they
‘discriminate’ against certain minorities. This a fact because, strangely, IQ
tests sort out people by the cognitive tendency “g” and indeed sort out averages[5]
in races according to the average scores for any tabulated society taken from
those tests. The fact that Asians score an average of about 101-102 compared to
100 for Caucasians[6]
is not illustrative for the left who know that many of their constituents,
aligned in racial groups, have an average of only IQ = 85, a full standard
deviation [15 points] below whites and Asians. Indeed, if even part of the IQ
differential is accepted by the left then that argues for more ‘education’ to
help bring up the average.[7]
The salient fact that IQ can be accurately measured in 5-7 different ways and
does not depend on advanced education is ignored. The nostrum that IQ can be
enhanced with education is a farce that is perpetuated by liberals.
Marx
and his rants may be taken at face value only if we ignore capitalism. Thus, we
note that capitalism is the premier barrier to advances in the so-called
socialist theories of governance. Marx
is focused on demonizing those who are successful in assembling teams with jobs
given to match those with the appropriate attributes because such teams are
frequently successful and, in competition on any scale, rise above the chaos of
primitive socialism.
The
placement of people in key jobs is central to the notion of efficiently and
this effect tends to allow a concentration of wealth among the gross masses if
interactions among classes are allowed. This interaction allows the evil
‘exploitation of the masses’ to proceed and the zero-sum rule is necessary to
add in with the complaints as proof that any comparison of assets among all
groups is proof that that wealth was gained unfairly.
The
solution to this dilemma is two fold: [1] destroy capitalism and [2] institute
a government of enlightened persons who will force a sharing of wealth so that
every citizen might be essentially ‘equal’ to all others. Now, back in 1775
when those skilled in history and politics began to construct our Constitution
these forces were clearly understood. King George III
was a leader at the top of the feudal system in England and made decisions along
with Parliament about laws, taxes and such. The methods used by this king and others are typical of tyranny
and the Constitution was written so as to remove those powers that might allow
the American Colonies in this experiment to ward off such advances in offensive
government. Thus the Constitution ad the Bill of Rights became a barrier to
those who would usurp power and advance toward tyranny.
Government
was then changed into a form where the separate colonies operated a federal
union with a host of barriers against the growth and power of government
tending toward tyranny. Thus the representative governments in several states
might use their power to control the federal government and prevent abuse to
the citizens.
This
process did what it was supposed to do: it enabled capitalism and proscribed
the power of government that might threaten this economic process and hand
power to a few who would ‘govern’ according to whatever they thought to be
correct at the time. This process made the USA the biggest and most successful
nation in history and almost any positive average of any attribute can be found
to be the highest or near the top for the US .
This is unacceptable to the left because the US is an engine that tears apart
any notion of equality and dwarfs nations who leaders select socialist options.
They are publicly punished by the US successes. Publicly demonstrating that the social works
and expensive legacy of leftist elites are worthless only invites a crusade to
curtail capitalism and that means circumventing the Constitution in the courts
or with Executive Orders. Thus they turn vicious and demonize capitalists
wherever possible.
This
leads to phony interpretations of the law as we see in the case of defeating 7
million votes in California
who voted against gay marriages:
“"Proposition 8 violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution by taking away the right of
same-sex couples to marry, without a sufficient governmental interest," Brown
said.”[8]-- District Judge Vaughn Walker, a gay who should have
recused himself.
This
‘right’ is arbitrary and could be applied to any endeavor such as smoking dope
or prostitution or sexually abusing children. All it takes is some radical
activist judge to ‘find’ that right somewhere in the dumpsters and change the
law. They found such a stooge.
Apart
from that, the far left needs to buy off the voters with monies stolen or
abstracted from the right and the current notion of paying off mortgage holders
whose mortgages are higher than their
current house price is a classic:
“An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages
– one in
five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion. Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, the
Treasury Department waived a $400 billion limit on financial assistance to
Fannie and Freddie, pledging unlimited help. The actual vehicle for the bailout
could be the Bush-era Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP, a sister
program to Obama’s loan modification effort. HARP was just extended through June 30, 2011 .
“2) Wall Street banks are
alerting their clients privately to this possibility. Here is what some are cautiously
saying publicly. This from Goldman Sachs:
This would be a direct transfer of money to potential
constituents using debt as the vehicle and sticking the taxpayers with even
more debt that the 14 trillion they have now that equates to 14 t/65 m or $215,384.62 for every taxpayer above the median. [10]
This is a socialist’s dream come true.
This is how it works so get set to watch more of
your wealth and assets transferred to the ‘poor’ guided by the gentle hands of
the liberals.
rycK
Comments to ryckki@gmail.com
[1] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto
of the Communist Pary 1848. The footnote [2] refers to some attempts to show
that communism was common and natural before government and capitalism
destroyed this savannah. With the dissolution of the primeaval [sic] communities,
society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic
classes. I have attempted to retrace this dissolution in _Der
Ursprung
der Familie, des Privateigenthumus und des Staats_, second edition, Stuttgart ,
1886.
[Engels, 1888 English edition]
[2] The Futile Attempt of
Forcing Equality Among the Masses.
[3] The Pyramidal Theory of Capitalism
Explained in Simple Terms. http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pyramidal-theory-of-capitalism.html
[4] Unintelligent Design in
the World Economic System and the Economic Path Downward.
“One
of the main follies in the human process is that workable ideas and social
systems cannot work effectively for everybody so the necessity to redesign or
improve the existing system draws power and strength from the dissatisfied. When given a chance to vote, the lower
classes always strive to vote money for themselves.[4]This
process proceeds even though the disgruntled may become worse off from the
effects of the new design. The solution thus, monotonously, becomes an urgent
need for more government. When we hear
that we must ‘do something for the people,’
the people, whoever they are, eventually absorb the full brunt of the failure
from this ‘something’ and suffer from starvation, government, poverty or
disease. Part of this frantic quest for alternatives to proven viable economic
and social systems has produced disasters like the French Revolution[4],
the Russian Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution[4]
and many others. Many of the citizens of these movements fell under programs
like The Reign of Terror[4],
Dekulakization[4],
The Russian Purges,[4]
the famine in the Ukraine known as Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор translation:
death by starvation)[4]
and events such as in the sadistic genocide of innocents by Pol Pot and the
Khmer Rouge political party in Cambodia[4],
There are too many examples of this madness to even list by title. So, the
quest for power and wealth by political operatives goes on under new names, the
current one being ‘economic stimulus’
or, in my wording, unintelligent design.”
[5] Not
individuals.
[7] Johnson asked the
academic community for an answer as to why his programs failed and Arthur
Jensen of University
of California at Berkeley assessed the
reason as being related to low cognitive skills of African-Americans. His
article: “How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic
Achievement?” caused a political fire storm and was instantly refuted by ignoring and making excuses
for the standardized test results. The data were reinvestigated and reanalyzed
at Harvard and further substantiated in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
, which was also ‘refuted’ with
emotion and political action. The attack on the authors was actually an attack
on legitimacy of the testing data, known well since 1905 and discussed in a
book entitled The Measurement Of
Intelligence by Lewis M Terman.
Nobody had questioned the facts about cognitive differences among races
until it became a hot political issue. Thus, the refutation of hard scientific
facts such as IQ testing now follows by strident political mechanisms as we see
in the phony Global Warming Follies and other political nostrums. If the truth from sound scientific data
violates some leftist political tenet then they must be lies and some
counter process is needed to ‘correct’ the political view. 21,000 scientists
can take issue with Al Gore on global warming, which recently had to be
embarrassingly changed to ‘climate change,’ but he declares the matter
‘settled.’ His adventure is in the realm of global taxes—not science. He is the
new Lysenko.
[8]
Prop 8 Ruling Divides Political Candidates Posted by Stephanie
Condon http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012768-503544.html
[9] An
August Surprise from Obama? AUG
5, 2010 00:26 EDT By James Pethokoukis http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/08/05/an-august-surprise-from-obama/
[10] People below the median pay little or no
taxes so out of 130 million workers the upper half will be stuck with repaying
the debt.
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