K: here is the question of the story/narrative plays into it…
The narrative is that commununism failed and yet, the fact is
that Soviet Communism lasted only slightly less then Athenian
democracy. The narrative however is that Athenian democracy
was successful and the Soviet Communism wasn’t succeful…
but upon what grounds are you going to make that argument?
daughter and wife call my name, back later…
Apparently, my wife’s car was broken into and the window was broken…
We had to deal with that…and now I am back…
When last seen, I was comparing Athens to the Soviet Union…
the length of time for the two is similar, roughly 80 years…
or basically for Athens, the length of Socrates lifetime…
and yet, Athens is considered one of the great success stories
and the Soviet Union which existed roughly the same time length
is not… but why? I have suggested that the reason is the
story or narrative for each one is different…
Like Athens, the Soviet Union had a great empire…
and the ideology of both dominated the known world…
If we consider power as the connection between Athens
and the Soviet Union, then both had a great deal of
power, both internally and externally……
The vision created by both excited the world and many people
came from around the world to be a part of both their vision……
So what is the difference? The narrative of both is different……
For example, one of the great insults of modern America is calling
someone a “communist” and yet, people can’t correctly identify
what a “communist” actually is… they don’t know and they are simply
repeating the childish insults they have heard……
so what we must be aware of is, that the narrative we repeat is often
just a replay of other stories or narratives we have heard…
It may not be the truth because stories/narratives are always
about the truth. The stories we hear are often meant to be
directive narratives, a directive narrative is a story/narrative which
is meant to direct the listener to adapt or accept a certain point
of view…that is the point of the insult “communist”… it is meant
to direct the listener to adapt a certain point of view which is
negative against the person being accused of being a “communist”…
It is all about the perception that is being created… not the reality,
but the perception, the viewpoint that is being created by such
negative language as Hippy, communist, socialist, undemocratic,
against people……
If you listen to someone being called a “Communist” and you
have a negative connotation toward that person, then
you have been brain washed… you have allowed the
narrative or story to influence your perception of someone…
a narrative or story that is meant to influence your perception
negatively about someone. That is the point of the negative
narrative or story about the Soviet Union… it is meant to
influence you into a negative perception of communism…
but what is the truth? you have to research and understand what has
happened. As I have noted before, the Soviet Union was not
a communist society… it was a dictatorship posing as a
economic system……… for communism is an economic system,
not a political system and that is where the failure occurred……
they stretch the economic into a political and it failed for that reason…
Marxism as understood by Marx has never been tried… the Soviet Union
and China and all the other “communist” society, were actually
dictatorship posing as an economic system………
But that is not the story or narrative we hear today…
and that false story or narrative is driven by those
who benefit from the false story or narrative and
and that is the 1% of American society……
it is in their best interest to negate any other economic system
or political system because the 1% dominate our current system
and for them, they want complete control and one way to do
that is to create a narrative or story that negates other possibilities
so that we have only one choice and that choice is capitalism/democracy…
but the problem with that is the entire selling point of capitalism/democracy
is that we have choices but our choices is limited to the cars we buy
or the cereal we purchase, but we have no choice in our systems,
either economically or politically… and thus the system of choice has
no choice when it is about the overall system…………
you have to pay attention to the story or the narrative that is offered,
because quite often the story or narrative is meant to influence you into
a negative belief about something or someone……
the stories or the narrative is quite often is propaganda and that
is what we see today, the narrative of the Soviet Union is
nothing more then Propaganda meant to influence you…….
it was not an economic system but a political system and a
dictatorship at that, but the Soviet Union had nothing to do with
Marx’s vision of how we should exist and how we should spend our time…
Kropotkin