Saturday, August 17, 2013

Anarchy vs. Communism, Who Won?


At the turn of the 20th Century one of the larger social questions was in determining which threat was worse, Anarchy or Communism.  It seemed that dangerous radicals and revolutionaries were forgoing the advantages of solidarity against the Establishment, and were dividing off into two different camps – the Camp of Anarchy and that of Communism.  The Anarchists wanted to restrain the powers and reach of government so that there would be no limit on what private individuals could amass for themselves, in terms of both wealth and private military power.  They recognized no moral authorities, and would do whatever it took to advance their causes, and were often referred to as “Bomb Throwers”.  On the other hand were the Communists.  The Communists did not argue over the need to have Government, but only quarreled over what Class such a Government would be most responsive to.  At first the Communists expressed great support for the Working Class, but as Communist Regimes actually arose, it seemed more as though Communism was a system that most well supported and represented a Managerial Class, surprisingly not unlike Modern Capitalism where owners have virtually disappeared from the Corporations and Factories and have largely been replaced by salaried Managers… Capitalism’s own ‘Party Members’, so to speak.

 

The Twentieth Century saw a lot of conflict between these two camps, the Anarchists and the Communists.  At first Governments were as suspect of one group as the other, but when actual Communist Governments began to appear, it seemed the tendency for Western Governments to take to heart that Wisdom that comes to us from some old Islamic Bandit, I forget his name, that says, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.  If Anarchists were the Enemy to Communism, then they became the Friends of Western Democracy.   Such strange paradoxes then ensued, the most striking I find is that Governments seemed to support the spread of strongly Anti-Government Literatures.   We have Orwell writing several ‘Classics’ whose primary theme was that All Evil originates in Government.   Yes, Communism, as being the Strongest Form of Government, took the brunt of this Propaganda Punishment, but Western Democracies appeared to have no fear that when communism would fall, then, well, Western Governments would THEN become by default the Next Strongest Forms of Government left as obstructions in the Path of a Perfectly Complete Victory for the Anarchists.

 

So, Communism did virtually get all wiped away.  Well, has anybody heard of any great Victory Parade for the Anarchists?  Well, no.  No one even speaks of Anarchism any more, but why is that?   I would guess that it is because the term Anarchy is not a reputable one.  The Anarchists certainly would not call themselves that, would they?   No, they prefer names like “Tea Party” or Libertarians.  They band together in parties that attempt to cripple governments by attacking their sources of revenue – they fight taxes.  And they attack government’s ability to apply Power, by legislating restrictions to law enforcement and restrictions to the collection of information.   They are great believers in the rights of privacy.

 

What we end up with under the Secret Rule of Anarchy is with Governments that appear in name only, but which are effectively powerless to achieve any significant social or economic goal, and where most of the Real Power has reverted to Individuals and Private Corporations.

 

So now it is the 21Century and the World is now on the brink of the combined Catastrophes of  Global Economic Collapse and Ecological Disaster, and the only Real Powers that exist are fragmented between thousands of Individual Interests whose only concern about Economic Collapse is that all the others fall further down than they do, leaving themselves to be the relative ‘Winners’… the Last Men Standing, so to speak;  and their only concern about Ecological Disaster is that it is only a Poor Person Problem, that whatever happens to everybody else, the Super Wealthy will still be able to afford Mansions with effective ‘Climate Control’.

 

Oh, and we also have those Anarchists who invested heavily in the Military Industrial Complex, and so it is that we never really did ever totally escape the “Bomb Throwers”.  Look now at how much Political Support there is for trying to “Democratize” the Middle East by simply pouring guns and munitions into the Region.  To me it looks like a very cynical attempt by Western Anarchists to establish first and foremost who the Worst Losers will be in the Globalization Regime.  You know, Globalization, the name America gives to its World Empire, was never about cooperation and Universal Prosperity, but was simply a program to establish “House Rules” across all the Economic Centers and Societies of the World, that would end with America coming out the eventual Winner and sucking the Wealth away from every other Region.   Now, as we have it today, after the ‘Arab Spring’ that was pushed forward by American Propaganda and promises of support, the Muslim World has become so fractured and destabilized that it is virtually knocked out of play.   China is a different problem.  The Americans had unfortunately believed their own propaganda about the inherent inefficiencies of Socialism and in giving China an inch, China took one hundred thousand miles of Economic Advantage.  So far China is the big Winner is Globalization, but the game is far from over.   I expect that America will wait for some excuse to happen in China and impose Economic Sanctions, as they had with Iran,  that would effectively cancel out American and European debt to China, which would destroy the Chinese Economy while at the same time relieving the most significant debt pressures on the West.  

 

I’d like to say that there is some solution for this problem, but at this point I am afraid that everything will simply take its course, and Civilization will collapse.  The Wolves won’t listen to the finer wisdom of the Sheep, indeed, the Wolves are too stupid even to understand what the sheep are ba, ba baing about.   The Wolves will consume too many of the Sheep, and so many Sheep will simply die from the Horrible Times, that the Wolves will be left only with the one last option of Eating Themselves.  There will not be anything left.  That is how we define the Collapse of a Civilization.  A New Civilization will only emerge when people again begin to believe in Order and Collective Authority.   The Meek shall inherit the earth.           

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