Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Saturday, November 13, 2010
On Marxism :)
Recently someone in LinkedIn groups defended Marxism as the only true democracy. I never expected we have such people left on Earth. Meanwhile, here is a post as a response to him, as well as my personal thoughts on the issue:
Marxism had always been there. It had been developing since the mass communication appeared (book printing, etc.) and literacy levels going up. It became "branded" "Marxism" after Marx. Today's Marxism could be Muslim fundamentalism.
Whatever it is, it basically attracts people who are unhappy with their own lives and especially fates (unclear, murky future), a poison and a trap for the desperate and the poor, and provides them hope and call for action. It's a virus that stroke weak ideological immunity of the Russian elite in 1910-1925s and spread quickly (China, Africa, LatAm) as local elites could not manage rising literacy levels as well as failed to fill in the rising gap of ideological vacuum, meanwhile strengthening the Western democracy.
Vice versa: the most efficient democracy is the one that had never been built, described by William Shockley, the Silicon Valley founder: the smarter you are, the more educated, the more you had achieved in life and profession - the more power you should have in the voting.
That's the way I like it :)
Marxism had always been there. It had been developing since the mass communication appeared (book printing, etc.) and literacy levels going up. It became "branded" "Marxism" after Marx. Today's Marxism could be Muslim fundamentalism.
Whatever it is, it basically attracts people who are unhappy with their own lives and especially fates (unclear, murky future), a poison and a trap for the desperate and the poor, and provides them hope and call for action. It's a virus that stroke weak ideological immunity of the Russian elite in 1910-1925s and spread quickly (China, Africa, LatAm) as local elites could not manage rising literacy levels as well as failed to fill in the rising gap of ideological vacuum, meanwhile strengthening the Western democracy.
Vice versa: the most efficient democracy is the one that had never been built, described by William Shockley, the Silicon Valley founder: the smarter you are, the more educated, the more you had achieved in life and profession - the more power you should have in the voting.
That's the way I like it :)
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