The magic trick of a true society is for its components to rank and privilege each other. So a fluid mechanism exists whereby the biggest concentrations of A are marked by people who value A and benefit of it, and a close scrutiny is applied constantly to the quality of what is produced. Perfection: Control is bottom up, executive consequence is top down. But herein is not enclosed the whole of the formula – as, contrary to Marx dialectic as seen from the position of an abstract proletarian, it includes also that which is in the minds eye of the executive director.
Marx never came to the luminious ideas of attribution general value to the process of production. He thence never even considered the angle of justification, and spontaneous will to sacrifice – the glory of the worker for the greater good — which is all the USSR ultimately came to stand for. A virtue so high and out of touch with the ideology’s roots that it had become invisible, and in its highest visible virtues the USSR aspired to meet the invisible.
And so a new, far greater and more untouchable Above was created. It was thus that the Marxist ideal lead to the ultimate subjection of the human to the idea of the Greater Body of Man - something evidently no single human can have any conception of - and of which it is thus rather questionable, if it holds ay merits to the individual at all.
Instead, Marxism - and a child is screaming very loudly low, down below me on the beach - had led to the impulse at least toward the singularization of Capital. Marx’ very exhorting the principle of Capital as something to overcome has made capital infinitely stronger than it could have done by the mere devices of Capitalism. It has allowed the Industries to totally subject all forms of government.
Original Capitalist, minimal governments can not be bought, as they are already well invested in themselves. Socialist governments can only be bought. They can do little else than to cater to interests here and there by the ones who make themselves most available. They are bought out of good will - they basically think that all (clever) Lobbyists are Auschwitz victims.
Given that the Socialist will has prevailed, and that its means for destabilization by revolution have proven to be inexhaustible it is clever for us to introduce something else than a revolution over it; as we must be utilitarian in our causes, and ideological only in terms of our tastes; we can afford this luxury because we can afford none else. We are aristocrats by necessity; history has forced this on us.
Ironically it was only through the looming danger of the USSR bringing about the Interior Revolution in European capitalist nations that the workers demands were granted and the welfare state was created. In the brief time that this lasted, all economic rigors were slackened to bring about an enormous growth of prosperity based on the everlasting productive nature of the satisfied and secure man.
Socialism is an asymptotic climb to utopia. It approaches the satisfaction of the common man closer and closer, but at ever greater cost per increase. In the meantime everything else falls away, and ultimately satisfaction has become synonymous with banality. Intellectual satisfaction is increasingly scorned, as, when the curve progresses its stretching and flattening, some truths are becoming dangerously obvious.
Foresight itself becomes anti-systemic. All intelligence is employed to progressively stupefy the workings of the human society, turning it craftily into a kind of goo. From within this goo all exceptions bubble forth like bubbles of promise and happiness, but nothing sticks. The rock star is forever tragic, the amusing antithesis to the socialist promise.
Within any socialist society, the idolatry of successful men is tenfold; these men are interpreted not as successful individuals (all individuals are in Communist principle equally successful) as agents of necessity itself. - exempt from commonality, as even communism ultimately realizes by trial and error that power is not coherently maintained by the masses. Power mustn’t really exist, but it must still be operated.
So we get the Stalin and the Mao, the men who can do endless harm without being seen as harmful. They are perceived as too great to be said to simply ‘exist’.
An those who don’t imply exist aren’t accountable for anything.
The mere idea of prosecuting hem would stir their subjects to flames.