Reprint triggered by focusing on the necessity of paper cash. When there’s no way of paying debts outside of Altman’s tyranny, there’s no feedback system, no equilibrium. Natural Law, whether expressed in genes or societies, is all about equilibrium and equipoise. Every cell is meant to work in its own way, every cell gets nourished if it works.
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I’m tired of the constant and intentional lies about the Soviet system. The biggest lie is the misquote:
From each according to his abililies, to each according to his NEEDS.
It’s an absolute lie, and a classic Shared Lie. The R side says it’s bad, the D side wants to implement it.
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The first 1917 Soviet constitution said only:
If you don’t work, you won’t eat.
The 1977 Soviet constitution states:
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his WORK.
WORK, not NEEDS.
The Soviet system implemented Natural Law**. Everyone can be useful and must be useful. Everyone must have a purpose. The government harnessed varied individual talents to benefit the public, NOT to benefit Larry Fink or Sam Altman.
But I didn’t know if Marx had said the ‘needs’ crap or not. So just for fun I read the original Communist Manifesto. The slogan isn’t there in either version. The closest approximation seems to be this:
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
‘Equal liability to labor’ means everyone should work.
Stalin tried industrial armies for agriculture and quickly abandoned them. Later Mao tried it for a longer period, and caused far more harm than good.
The Soviet system was an experiment, first trying out the original theory, then using negative feedback to modify it.
Marx also wanted to abolish families. Lenin tried it briefly and abandoned it. The actual Soviet system made special provisions for families and children, and had no room for feminists. Mao tried abolishing families in 1968 and abandoned it. Post-Mao China also tries to strengthen families. Western banker-based Deepstate has been abolishing families since 1946, with considerably more success.
‘Equal liability for labor’ is a good idea, still active in Belarus and a couple other Soviet remnants. Industrial armies and abolishing the family are bad ideas, abandoned by the Soviets.
In short, Marx had good and bad ideas. Equal liability for labor is one of the good ideas.
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** Natural law as defined in Islam:
The Almighty has created this world as a trial and test for man; every person has therefore been made to depend on others for his living. No one in this world can live independently as regards his needs and requirements. A person of the highest rank turns to the most ordinary to fulfill them. In other words, every single person has an important role to play, without which this world cannot continue.
This role depends upon his abilities, intelligence and inclinations as well as upon his means and resources, which vary from person to person. In fact, it is because of this variation that a society comes into being. Consequently, laborers and workers, artisans and craftsmen, tillers and peasants are as indispensable as scholars and thinkers, savants and sages, leaders and rulers. Every individual is an integral component of the society and contributes to its formation according to his abilities.
By creating various classes of people, the Almighty is testing whether the big and the small, the high and the low create a society based on co-operation and respect or create disorder in the world by disregarding the role each person has been ordained to play.
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