Magic Circ Op Rep Ens wrote:
[snip]
> I think the only reason that the Soviet Empire collapsed was that they got
> spent under the table.
This seems to me to be one key aspect of Anglo-American anti-Communism that
was so cleverly implemented (or was it truly an unwitting effect of
the agent-less agency of The Invisible Hand, thus showing, yet again,
that, as Hegel wrote: The history of the world is the world history
of Reason???) -- this capitalist strategy was so cleverly implemented
that nobody seemed to notice it at the time, neither the Soviets
and their apologists, nor the "revisionists" here in The West (e.g.,
D.F. Fleming). Or maybe the Soviets *did* realize it, but they also
realized that there would be no useful point served by saying they did?
> How well would the US have done if the might of
> European Capital had been turned against it for the first seventy years of
> our existence? In fact how would we have done compared to Castro?
I have been asking this question for over 20 years.... The Western
policy of "siege warfare" economic strangulation, where Blitzkrieg
overthrows of left-leaning regimes whether democratically elected or
other could not be applied, has never been much of a secret.
But, as pointed out above, the ultimate logic behind The Cold War
"arms race" seems only recently to have come to light. The Cold War was won,
somewhat like The Battle of Britain, "by the numbers". The British
beat the Germans because the British rate of replenishment of their planes
and pilots just barely exceeded the German rate of replenishment
of their planes and pilots. The United States won The Cold War
because the American economy could sustain a rate of resource waste
on military (and also "consumer") spending which The Soviet Union could not.
But The Soviet Union had no choice whether to participate in this
self-destructive dialectic, since, if they stopped competing, then
the American nuclear weapons buildup really could have physically destroyed
them with impunity, and/or the Soviet "consumer" would have revolted.
Perhaps Reagan knew all along that his "Star Wars" was technically
unworkable, *and* that this was irrelevant, since all any American
weapons program needed to do to accomplish its mission
was to get the Soviets to try to defend themselves
against it.
> I'm
> not preaching their brand of Communism. I don't believe that despots are
> human in any circumstance, however the despotism of Time Warner or the
> energy companies in Texas is limited only by laws and government
> regulations. Despots are despots and the organizational types are the
> worst and escape responsibility the easiest.
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As my all-wise parents and teachers ["almae matres"(sp?)] used to continuously
hammer into my head (albeit, not about themselves...):
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Even Stalin could not, in the end, insinuate his network of
terror as deeply into the lifeworld of the Russian and other
"Iron Curtain" peoples as the Invisible Hand
anonymously infiltrated life in The Free World. Everywhere and nowhere.
Stalin could not say "I had no choice", or at least he could not say
it as "correctly" (truth is the best lie!) as American CxOs.
For the nation that, at the end of World War II, had over 2/3 of the
world's capital base and probably even more of its intellectual
capital, to end up just being less worse than everybody else,
even if it is true, does not sound to me like "honors" level
of achievement.
From those to whom much has been given, much should be expected.
> Artists are the eyes, ears and heart of a society. We also define a
> hierarchy of quality. If you want to escape responsibility then first
> kill the eyes, ears and heart. Then everything else is just business.
What about postmodernism?
( http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/postmodernismx.html )
+\brad mccormick
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