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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (25833)	9/4/2001 9:33:45 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One of the things that few people realize is that both fascism and communism were examples of militant relativism. In fascism, the people (the Volk) has its own "genius", out of which its particular ethics grow, embedded in its unique culture. There is no universality, rather, each "Volk" is self- contained, although some may have an affinity with others, and some not. Thus, each nationality has natural friends and enemies. Since each Volk is inevitably motivated to preserve and propogate itself, and since a self- confident Volk will want its values to prevail, at the expense of its "natural" enemies, it must be expected that a great Volk will be self- assertive and even imperialist in disposition. In communism, it is a matter primarily of class- interest. Each class develops its own morality, which alters somewhat as the class becomes ascendent over time. Furthermore, since there is always a dominant class, "class morality" cloaks itself in both nationalism (as patriotic values) and universalism (as bourgeois rights). In modern Marxist revisionism, as expounded, for example, by Gramsci, the reason that the working class has failed to achieve the requisite degree of solidarity to overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie is that it's culture has been coopted by bourgeois culture, primarily through the mass media. In any event, the pursuit of the overthrow of bourgeois culture and the creation of a dominant proletarian culture led to the institutionalization of revolution, and was a direct cause of Stalin's show trials, the Soviet culture of denunciation and kangaroo trials (leading to Siberian exile), and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, not to mention Pol Pot, the Vietnamese re-education camps, and the Boat People.......