This configuration puts these elements in an order more in line with current
understanding. But still, the words used all mean something else to different people.
The different views on certain particulars might cause certain people to quibble on
exact positioning.
But what this line represents is really a socialist theory view of it -- the political
spectrum is really posed from left to right, with communism both as defined in
theory by Marx, and in practice by various countries, on the left, with socialism to the
right of it. On the other side is capitalism, both as defined in theory and as in
practice; on the Right. For Capitalism we have taken practice and have been
moving it towards the theory. We have enacted the socialist theory of capitalism
and how to make it work we have been both conforming to its predictions about it
morally, but we have been failing economically, also as predicted. Socialism calls
for more socialistic ideas to cure the evils capitalism. The failure of capitalism has
occurred as we have instituted more socialist theory. Again, "capitalism" is a
system defined in a theory by Marx to explain what socialism was not. It never
existed; the explanation is based in the landed royalty of Europe having the major
hand in the economic pie.
After it defined what "capitalism" is, Marx said that socialism was not that, only all
that was good about the working of society was socialism, that any evil remaining
was left over "capitalism"
It is this sentiment that is today to follow the "third way" -- or combining the theory of
socialism, i.e., the good stuff, the lofty ideals and social decency, with the efficiency
of capitalism, avoiding the evils of capitalism.. So we should, supposedly, and if
these theories are really what the socialist theory says they are, run a system that
works, but has bad ideas behind it combined with a theory that is for the benefit of
man but does not work.
Run the practice of the working system with the theory of the non-working system!
Even this line, this spectrum, falls short in the search for a new paradigm. The
words communist, socialist, nazi, capitalist, have all become tainted and
confounded by so many different people using them in so many different ways as to
make them both meaningless and meaning-full.
On the American domestic political scene, words like Republican, Democrat,
Liberal, conservative and many others have also lost all meaning. In Europe it is
Labor, Tory, Social Democrat and Christian democrat.
Even now in the former socialism world there are words that mean the opposite as
the same word in the West. The circular reasoning and misuse of words has
resulted in none of these words being useful for discussion. And that's why the
political spectrum using these words is inadequate to our purposes.
How about this....
understanding. But still, the words used all mean something else to different people.
The different views on certain particulars might cause certain people to quibble on
exact positioning.
But what this line represents is really a socialist theory view of it -- the political
spectrum is really posed from left to right, with communism both as defined in
theory by Marx, and in practice by various countries, on the left, with socialism to the
right of it. On the other side is capitalism, both as defined in theory and as in
practice; on the Right. For Capitalism we have taken practice and have been
moving it towards the theory. We have enacted the socialist theory of capitalism
and how to make it work we have been both conforming to its predictions about it
morally, but we have been failing economically, also as predicted. Socialism calls
for more socialistic ideas to cure the evils capitalism. The failure of capitalism has
occurred as we have instituted more socialist theory. Again, "capitalism" is a
system defined in a theory by Marx to explain what socialism was not. It never
existed; the explanation is based in the landed royalty of Europe having the major
hand in the economic pie.
After it defined what "capitalism" is, Marx said that socialism was not that, only all
that was good about the working of society was socialism, that any evil remaining
was left over "capitalism"
It is this sentiment that is today to follow the "third way" -- or combining the theory of
socialism, i.e., the good stuff, the lofty ideals and social decency, with the efficiency
of capitalism, avoiding the evils of capitalism.. So we should, supposedly, and if
these theories are really what the socialist theory says they are, run a system that
works, but has bad ideas behind it combined with a theory that is for the benefit of
man but does not work.
Run the practice of the working system with the theory of the non-working system!
Even this line, this spectrum, falls short in the search for a new paradigm. The
words communist, socialist, nazi, capitalist, have all become tainted and
confounded by so many different people using them in so many different ways as to
make them both meaningless and meaning-full.
On the American domestic political scene, words like Republican, Democrat,
Liberal, conservative and many others have also lost all meaning. In Europe it is
Labor, Tory, Social Democrat and Christian democrat.
Even now in the former socialism world there are words that mean the opposite as
the same word in the West. The circular reasoning and misuse of words has
resulted in none of these words being useful for discussion. And that's why the
political spectrum using these words is inadequate to our purposes.
How about this....
| Jim Hlavac |
The Socialist Era
| Poltics, Theory & Economics |
CHAPTER 3
cont'd
cont'd