Platt On 21 Feb. you wrote:
> Do you agree that both communism and fascism glorify social authority > and willingly sacrifice individuals for the greater good? (Also, see > comment below.) Originally, as an intellectually constructed political system communism did NOT glorify authority, it rather emphasized collectivism, a system of that they believed was more democratic than the parliamentary one. And the wiping out of the the landowner class (the kulaks) in Russia was not sacrifice in the sense of individuals freely giving up property and/or lives for a cause they shared. This is why Bolshevism was such a dread for the middle class Germans and brought Hitler to power. However as WW2 broke out communism turned national (a social pattern) with all the attributes you mention. And communism never recovered, as the cold war took over it remained a national social system and the rest is history. Platt on USA: > Yes, much too much interference of government, a steady loss of > freedom since Wilson and SOM intellectuals were appointed to run > society. All levels are supposed to regard its parent level as "bad"; life despises inorganic death, society abhors biology's "jungle laws" ...etc. Yet, there is also a paradise lost element. The Fall Myth may be society's longing for biology's a-moral innocence, and intellect has it's own yearning for the social "participation" past. If your complaint about government interference reflects this nostalgia for the closer knit small-town USA of the past ... or?? This may be another answer for question you didn't ask ;-). Bo Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
