이 정권에 들어만 가면 누구나 거짓말장이가 되는가 보다.  공항은 종교시설이 아니고, 수행원들은 히잡을 쓰지 않고 있다. / 출처 일베

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2018년 3월 고1 서울시 교육청 모의고사/ 출처 일베

-----> 대여섯 명이 가는 캠핑에서는 누군가 나서서 텐트 치고, 요리하고, 물을 정화하는 등의 일을 분담하게 할 수 있다. 하지만 그 숫자가 수백만 명, 또는 수 천만명이 모인 사회라면 누가 그들 모두에게 명령하고 지시할 것인가?

하이에크가 누누히 말하지만, 공산(사회)주의는 위와 같이 소규모 집단에서는 통용되어도, 거대 사회에서는 그렇게 할 수가 없다는 것이다.

거대 사회에서는 추상적인 규범(법률)을 만들어, 수백, 수천만명이 그 규범에만 따라하면, 누군가 지시를 하지 않아도, 사회적인 경쟁과 협조의 그물망이 형성된다.

마치 교통신호만 지키면, 수백만 대의 차들이 그 법규에 따라 운행하는 것과 같다. 즉 정치가나 관료들의 필요성이 없어지는 것이다.

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윤서인

신기한 혼종들

1. 이승만 까는 기독교인 :
아니 이승만이 성경책 들고 건국한 나라에서 이승만을 까면 뭐 어쩌자는 거?
그럼 김일성식 통일이라도 됐어야 했나? 북한엔 교회도 없는데? 김부자 사진 걸고 우상숭배 할라고?...
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2. 문케어 지지하는 의사 :
내 눈엔 사람을 치료하는 의사로 안보임. 멍청하거나 사악하거나 둘 중의 하나.
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3. 반일 민족주의자 일본여행 전문가 :
실제로 있음. 혼종 중에서도 가장 신기함. 비슷한 부류는 삼일절에 문닫는 일본음식점 점주.
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4. 주식 부동산 하는 좌익 :
자본주의에서 돈으로 돈을 버는 행위의 꽃이 바로 주식 부동산 아닌가?
좌익이면 좌익답게 신성한 노동만을 해야지 뭐하는 짓임?
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5. 격차해소를 외치는 맛집 전문가 :
진정 양극화와 격차 해소를 바란다면 너부터 최대한 장사 안되는 식당에 가야하는 거 아님?
안그래도 존나 잘되는 식당에 줄서갖고 부익부 빈익빈을 심화시키면서 그딴소리를 하면 어떡해.
니가 이 식당은 저 식당보다 맛있다고 말하는 순간 바로 격차가 발생되는 거야.----------------------------------------------------------------------
대통령을 묻어버린 '거짓의 산' 69편 |
생생하게 귀로 듣는 태블릿PC 진실 공방

https://youtu.be/bu-NcxGmqKw


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1. 부동산 담보 대출은 꼭 집살때만 받는게 아님
생활자금이나 사업운용 자금이 모자라도 받음

2. 이제 집이 있어도 제1금융권에서는 대출이 극히 어려워짐

3. 예를 들어 자가있는 치킨집 사장님이 사업이 어려워지면 집 담보로 대출 받아 버텼는데 이제는 대출이 안되니 바로 폐업하거나 제3금융권의 후순위 담보대출(연 20%내외) 로 몰림

4. 그냥 금수저 은수저 말고는 대충 다 좆됨

[출처] 새로운 대출 규제가 무서운 진짜 이유/ 일베

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아예 비정규직 못 뽑게 헌법도 개정하려고 하고 있잖아
해고도 못하게 만들고, 노조가 회사 경영에도 의무적으로 참여할 수 있게 만들고
그냥 기업들 다 떠나라는 소리지
공기업도 비정규직 안 뽑고 운영하라 그러면 못해서 징징댈텐데
일반 사기업들까지도 비정규직 뽑지 말고 해고도 하지 말고 노조한테 경영 맡기라고 하면 그냥 한국에서 사업하지 말라는 소리지 ㅋ
지금 전세계에서 우리나라만 유독 노조가 활개치고 있는데 여기에 노조들의 권리까지 강화시켜 버리면 한국은 노조 때문에 기업 망하는 국가라는 이미지가 파다해져서 세계 어느 나라도 한국시장에 들어오려고 하지 않을 뿐만 아니라 한국 기업들도 본사 정도만 남기고 최소한 생산공장은 전부 다 타지로 옮기겠지
지금 한국인의 최저임금이 주휴수당 포함하면 대략 9천원이 넘는 돈인데, 생산성까지 고려했을 떄 미국보다도 훨씬 비싼 최저임금이라고 하더라...
세계 1위 경제대국보다 비싼 최저임금 ㅆㅂ
거기에 노조권한 강화까지 헌법으로 아예 못 받으면 한국에서는 사업 접어야 된다
사업하더라도 1인경영, 가족경영이나 해야지 ㅆㅂ

 일베 댓글, 자유와정의와

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저 빚이 대한민국에 저주가 될 것이다.

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[VON특종] 검찰, JTBC 태블릿 특수절도죄 재수사 통보

2016년 12월 16일 도태우 변호사가 심수미 JTBC 기자와 성명불상자에 대해 낸 특수절도죄 고발장에 대해
서울고등검찰청이 성명불상자에 대한 재수사 결정을 통보했다.

검찰은 통보장을 통해 “심수미에 대해서는 항고를 기각하고...
성명불상자에 대해서는 서울고등검찰청에서 재기수사한다”고 고발인 도변호사측에 알려왔다.

도변호사는 타인의 빈 사무실에서 태블릿PC를 허락없이 가져간 것은 특수절도죄에 해당한다고 고발장을 낸 바 있으나
검찰은(서울중앙지검 민영현 검사)작년 8월 불기소 처분했다. 도변호사는 이에 불복 항고장을 낸 바 있다.

[출처] 김미영 공유글)) [VON특종] 검찰, JTBC 태블릿 특수절도죄 재수사 통보/ 발췌

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전통적인 사유재산의 개념은 매우 복잡한 문제이고, 그 효과적인 결합은 아직 완전히 발견되지 않았다. 아놀드 플랜트는 이 분야 새로운 개척자이고, 그의 제자인 로날드 코우즈가 이를 계승했으며, 이어서 사유재산권 학파에 이어지고 있다.

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 저작권이나 특허권이 인간의 창조적 과정을 자극하는 가장 효과적인 방법인지는 분명하지 않다.
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손병호 

[광주시장은 자백하세요]

5.18광주사태 당시 괴한들이 교도소를 공격한 것은 명명백백한 사실입니다.
교도소란 범죄자들이 구속된 곳입니다.
구속된 범죄자들을 탈출시키려는 놈들은 당연히 범죄자입니다.
당시 교도소를 공격한 괴한들은, 광주시민이 [폭도]로 돌변해 공격한 것으로 지금까지 알려졌습니다.
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그런데 현 광주시장이 “교도소를 공격한 괴한들은 광주시민이 아니다”라고 밝혔습니다.
광주시장의 주장이 사실이라면 5,18 광주 사태의 진실이 참 곤란하게 됐습니다.

교도소가 공격받은 사실은 명백한 사실인데, 공격한 괴한들의 실체는 오리무중입니다.
공격한놈들이 분명히 있는데 어떤놈들인지 명찰이 없어요. 
 
광주시장은 “괴한들은 광주시민이 아니라”는 말만하지 말고, 그 괴한들이 누군지를 말해야합니다.
ㅎ아프리카의 감비아에서 들개를 타고온 식인종이라든지,
아니면 남미의 베네주엘라에서 독수리 타고온 인디안이라든지...
홍어 개돼지들은 귀하가 무슨 말을하든 무조건 믿으니까 겁먹지말고 그들이 누군지를 자백해야합니다.
“그건 나도 모른다”고 발뺌하면 디져야지요.

오늘 보도를 보니, 광주시장이 뱉아낸 말을 주어담지 못해 속끓이던데...
속끓일 필요 없어요. 솔직히 자백하면 되요.
지만원 박사의 주장대로 “교도소를 공격한 괴한들은 김일성이 남파한 600명의 괴뢰군”이라고 자백하면,
모든 사실이 명명백백해지고, 모든 의혹은 해소되며, 안풀리던 퍼즐이 맞추어집니다.

당연히 38년간 광주시민들이 받는[폭도]란 누명도 깨끗이 벗겨집니다.
광주시장은, 진짜 폭도가 누군지 밝혀서 광주시민들이 받는 누명을 벗겨 주어야 합니다.

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고고학 성과에 따르면, 물물교환(무역)은 농업이나 기타 생산보다도 오래되었다. 유럽에서는 이미 3만년 전 신석기 시대에 장거리에 걸친 무역이 있었다는 증거가 나왔다. 8천년전 아나톨리아의 카탈 후육과 팔레스타인의 여리고는 흑해와 홍해 사이의 무역 거래의 중심지였다. 이들 도시에서는 인구의 놀랄만한 증가가 나타났다.
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오딧세이아에 보면 아테나는 구리와 교환하기 위해 철을 싣고 다니는 배의 선장으로 변장해 나타나는데, 이로써 호머 시대의 무역의 중요성을 알 수 있다. 후에 고전 문명의 발전을 가능하게 한 무역의 거대한 팽창은, 역사적 문서 자료가 없지만 고고학적 증거로 볼 때, 기원전 750 ~ 550년에 일어났다.  무역의 팽창은 또한 그리스와 페니키아의 무역 중심지에 빠른 인구 증가를 동반했다.
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그리스의 무역업자들은 기름이나 포도주가 담긴 도자기를 싣고, 흑해나 이집트, 시칠리아 섬의 곡식과 교환하러 다녔는데, 그들 도시 사람들 몰래 그들도 탐낼 만한 물건들을 같이 싣고 떠났다.  소규모 집단의 사람들도 이를 용인함으로써, 새로운 세계를 받아들여야 했는데, 그럼으로써 소규모 집단의 중요성은 감소되었다. 새로운 기술적 단계인 청동기 시대로 들어가기 위해서, 사업자, 광부, 무역업자, 중개인, 배와 카라반의 조직, 양보, 조약, 이방인의 개념, 먼 지방의 관습 등이 모두 필요했다.
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장거리에 걸친 무역 --->이로 인해 여러 지역에서 앉아서 일을 하는 직업이 발전하고 전문화가 나타남 ---> 인구의 증가 --->연쇄반응이 일어나 인구의 증가로 전문화 또는 분업이 가속화 되고, 이는 다시 인구 증가를 부르고, 일인당 소득이 늘어나면서 다시 인구가 증가하는 과정이 반복됨
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비록 몇 가지 안 되었지만, 부싯돌이나 활의 줄, 접착제 등을 외부로부터 물물교환할 수 없었다면, 새로운 땅을 개척한 사람들은 그 땅에서 번영은커녕 정착할 수도 없었다.
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   초기 그리스 역사에 손님의 친구라는 제도가 있는데, 이들은이방(異邦)의 외부인들을 들이고 그들을 보호해준 사람들이었다. 무역은 초기에 인간관계에서 시작했을 것이다. 이미 부유한 사람들이 다른 지역의 특정 집안 사람들을 환대했고, 무역을 통해 자신의 지역에 필요한 물품을 제공함으로써 그들은 그런 관계를 통해 부를 쌓기도 했다.
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  외부인과 이익이 나는 거래가 생기면서, 사람들은 원래의 소규모 집단의 연대와 공통의 목적, 집합주의 등으로부터 탈피할 수 있었다. 일부 사람들은 소규모 집단의 의무와 결속으로부터 벗어나서, 타 지역에 거주하거나, 다른 공동체의 사람들과 관계를 맺기 시작했다. 그 네트워크가 끊임없이 가지치기를 해서 세계를 덮게 된다. 그런 개인들은 의도치 않게 복잡하고 확장된 질서의 건설자들이었다.
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무역은 집합적 지식이 아닌, 독특한 개별적 지식에서만 가능하다. 점진적으로 사유재산을 인정하게 됨으로써 그런 개인의 창의성이 가능하게 되었다.
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@ 오늘 발의된 대통령 개헌안은 헌법절차를 지키지 않아 위헌이다. 현행헌법(89조)에 의하면 헌법개정안은 국무회의의 ‘심의’를 거쳐야 하는데 국무회의를 형식적으로 들러리세웠다. 대통령비서실에서 주도한 개헌안을 국무회의에서 딱 40분간 심의하는 척했다. 헌법을 개정한다면서도 헌법을 지키지 않았다.

@ 조국 민정수석 언젠가 사고칠 줄 알았다. 법무장관과 국무회의가 할 일을 일개 비서가 설쳐대니 문제다. 대한민국 국회는 대통령 비서가 만들어 보낸 것을 검토해선 안된다.

@ 따라서 대통령 개헌안은 무효이므로 국회에서 내용을 들여다볼 필요없이 부결시켜야 하고, 국회는 원점에서 재검토해야 한다. 어차피 야당반대로 부결될줄 알면서도 발의한 거 아닌가.

@ 현행헌법은 이번에 다시봐도 손색이 없다. 권력구조 부분만 손보면 된다. 그런데도 이참에 사회주의 헌법으로 간판을 바꿔달려고 한다. 하지만 그렇게 하는 건 헌법개정으론 불가능하다. 헌법개정이 아니라 아예 헌법을 새로 제정하는 수준이기 때문이다. 혁명이 일어나지 않는한 어렵다.(학계 통설)

@ 주전자의 물이 팔팔 끓는데도 꼭 만져봐야만 뜨거운지 알 것인가? 그때는 이미 늦다. 잘못하면 사회주의국가의 `인민`으로 살아야 한다.

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손병호

[이명박 뒤늦은 용기]

 

구속되어 수감된 MB가 검찰의 출장조사를 거부한답니다.

참 안타깝습니다.

혹자는 감옥에서 조사를 거부하는게 집에서 거부하는 것보다 용기있다고 말하던데..
용기란 단어가 그렇게도 왜곡 되는군요.

나는 MB가 판을 뒤엎기를 바라고(그래서[고종의 아관파천]도 씀)그래야만 MB도 살고
우리 대통령도 서광이 비친다 했는데, 이제 MB는 오라에 묶인 몸이됐으니 어떤 방법도 없습니다.

인생을 쇼부로 살아온 사람이 제일 중요한 순간에 자신을 던지는 쇼부를 치지 못하고 감켰습니다. 그것도 사상 최악의 집단인 주사빨에 감킨겁니다.

한국에 어떤 격변이 없는한... MB는 세상보긴 힘들다는 생각이듭니다.
 
야속한 말이지만 죽어서나 나오게 된 듯하군요.

혹자는 MB의 졸개인 홍이나 무생이가 문의 개헌과 MB의 석방을 쇼부칠거라 우려하는데, 그놈들이 지들의 이익을 버리고 그걸 시도 할만큼 의리가 있는 인간들이 아니므로 그럴 일은 없을 겁니다.

설령 그걸 시도해도 문은 개헌만 따먹고 MB는 거기서 죽으라 할 겁니다.

사족으로:: MB구속에 깨춤추는 젊은 좌빨들의 광분을 보니.. 오히려 MB에 동정심이 생길 정도입니다.

역시 특정한 밥상머리 교육을 받고 자란 특정지역 인간들의 추악함은 우리와 다르군요.

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---> 페이스북이 오웰이 상상했던 것보다 강력한 감시 도구일 수는 있어도, 빅브라더와 달리 시민 사회의 노력으로 그 부작용을 통제할 수 있다. 그리고 그 용도도 아직은 상업적이다.
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교육의 반대는 무지가 아니라 잘못된 교육이다.

남자의 피임약이 남성 호르몬을 낮춰서, 화학적 거세 효과를 나타낸다고 한다.

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막시즘: 계급 의식에서 젠더 인터섹셔낼러티로

 

새로운 집합주의는 모든 사람의 정체성과 자아가 그들 각자의 젠더와 인종 그리고 성별과 관련이 있다고 주장한다. 그리고 그런 것들이 그 사람을 규정하고, 그 사람의 삶의 의미와 맥락을 결정한다고 말한다.

흑인이고 여성이면서 동성애자이면 5점을 받는데, 동성애자지만 백인 여성이라면 3점 밖에 받지 못한다. 백인 이성애자이면서 말을 더듬는다면, 언어장애로 1점을 받지만 백인의 특권을 누리고 있으므로 9점이 감점 된다. 이것이 바로 인터섹셔낼러티intersectionality 계산법이다.

이런 좌파 논리는 개인이 자신을 어떻게 보고 평가하는지는 무시한다. 또 개인이 타인의 행동을 그리고 타인에 대한 자신의 행동을 어떻게 판단하고 평가하는지 평가절하 한다.

나아가 좌파들은 그들이 주장하는 혐오 발언들을 금지하고, 발언을 하는 사람들에게 법적으로 제재를 가하려 한다.

언어의 장난과 조작에 능한 좌파들은 차별의 의미를 “억압”으로 바꾸기도 했다.

나를 내가 싫어하는 사람과 강제로 접촉하게 하는 것은, 나에게 내가 좋아하는 사람과의 접촉을 금지하는 것처럼 똑같이 억압이다.

 

 

Marxism: From Class Consciousness to Gender "Intersectionality"

 

 

•Richard M. Ebeling

 

 

By many objective signs and indicators the world is becoming a far more materially comfortable place. Over the last thirty years, tens of millions of people have been raised out of poverty in various parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. At the same time, new technologies have been transforming communications and conveniences of everyday life. Yet, present political trends in America and other places in the world seem to be suggesting a far different story.

 

Wherever degrees of market freedom exist anywhere around the globe there are amazing successes in creating wealth, opportunity and personal choice. But among many intellectuals and paternalistic ideologues every such improvement in the human condition is matched with condemnations and attempts to smother personal and economic liberty.

 

Statist Trends Around the World, Including America

 

For instance, the Chinese government and Communist Party leadership are proudly hailing its own brand of authoritarianism as a political model for the world, based on the silencing of disagreement and dissent combined with government guidance and planning of economic development for restored “national greatness.” The European Union continues to fracture, with revolts of nationalist and populist movements in many of the member countries opposed to the centralized planning bureaucracies and political elites headquartered in Brussels, but which desire to implement many of the same types of government policies only at the local levels of national control and command.

 

In the United States, political divisions seem to be growing even deeper between the progressive “left” and the Trumpitarian conservatives, with each side vying to transform America into their respective images through use of the state. The progressives want to use the government to impose a straightjacket of “politically correct” words, actions and attitudes. The Trumpitarian conservatives are determined to build walls against people and goods that might enter the country, while following their own version of America continuing to play policeman around the world. In the meantime, the U.S. government continues its path along worsening fiscal irresponsibility as both Democrats and Republicans in Congress “compromise” with each other to gain deficit-busting increases in both domestic and military spending

 

All of these trends, I would suggest, are instances of the fact that as we approach the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world is, again, in the grip of a wave of anti-individualism and anti-capitalism. In fact, it is merely a continuation of the same counter-revolutionary trend that has been at work for well over a century to reverse the achievements of nineteenth century classical liberalism. It is the same old collectivist wine poured into new political and cultural bottles. (See my article, “Before Modern Collectivism: The Rise and Fall of Classical Liberalism”.)

 

Collectivism’s Counter-Revolution Against Liberty

 

Classical liberalism and the ideal of a free, open competitive market society was already under attack by conservative, socialist, and nationalist forces in the middle and last decades of the nineteenth century. Though expressed differently, all of these counter-revolutionary movements emphasized the group before the individual, the submergence within and the submission of the person to the collective – whether that collective was called the hierarchical order of the aristocratic society, or the “workers of the world” united to impose socialist planning on mankind, or an ancestral call and appeal to tribal lineage of national blood and language.

 

The most repugnant, violent, and brutal of these competing collectivisms – Soviet communism, Italian fascism, and German National Socialism – all were gone by the end of the twentieth century (though some of the Soviet offspring still rule parts of the world, in such places as China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and Venezuela). But the collectivist genus, of which communism, fascism and Nazism were merely species, persists and threatens, once more, to possibly prevail.

 

Freedom, Tyranny, and the Postwar Interventionist State

 

The post-World War II global struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union brought out certain defining features between a free society and a totalitarian one. It was visualized in such contrasts as that between West Berlin and East Berlin, especially after the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. (See my article, “The Berlin Wall and the Spirit of Freedom”.)

 

In West Berlin, there was a vibrant market-based material and cultural recovery, along with wide and respected civil liberties, after the destruction experienced by the German people due to their active or passive support for and obedience to the Nazi regime and the cataclysmic war that Hitler brought down on all of Europe. On the other side of the Wall, in East Berlin, was a drab, grey and dictatorial system, with its ever-present secret police, which was imposed on the East Germans by Stalin and those who followed after him in Moscow, with much of the rubble and ruin of the war still surrounding the East Berliners in the bright and beautiful East German socialist state. Who could deny the contrast between these two worlds separated by a Wall built to keep the captive people of communism inside and the ideas and hopes of freedom outside?

 

But in the West, the market-oriented economies during those post-1945 Cold War decades were not truly free markets, as understood in the classical liberal tradition. They were economies enveloped within and hampered by varying degrees and forms of government regulatory intervention and redistributive welfare statism. The interventionist-welfare state may have been more extensive and intrusive in a number of Western European nations compared to the United States, but they were all managed, manipulated and partly planned societies within democratic political regimes.

 

The Left’s “Shock” over the Crimes and Collapse of Soviet Socialism

 

Nonetheless, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 were “shocks” to the emotions and the ideology of many of those on the political left in the Western world. For most of the seven decades following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, the socialists, progressives and modern American “liberals” had all yearned for the success of the great experiment of “socialism-in-practice” in the hope of a government planned “better world.” In the middle decades of the twentieth century many of them were apologists and mouthpieces for Lenin’s and Stalin’s Russia. Reports and eyewitness accounts of terror, tyranny, and mass murder at the hands of the Soviet regime were often denied or ridiculed as anti-socialist “red baiting” or the false tales of disgruntled opponents of “the new Russia.”

 

After the revelations of “Stalin’s Crimes” following his death in 1953, the brutal suppression of the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary in 1956 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush “moderate” socialist reforms, many on the left in the West had their hopes and dreams of the Soviet model completely shattered. Instead, given the complementary failure of socialist central planning to bring either prosperity or freedom to those countries in the Soviet and socialist orbits, the democratic socialists in Europe and the progressives in America gave up their heart-felt ideal of ending capitalism and replacing it with the planned economy. Their fall back position by the 1970s was for a heavily regulated and more redistributive system to assure “social justice.”

 

With the end of the communist system in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the shift to market-oriented reforms in places like China, it seemed as if only “capitalism” was left standing, embodied in America’s political, economic, and military dominance of the world. The political and cultural progressive left retreated even further than before into the cloistered halls of higher education. They could sulk and lick their ideological wounds, while continuing to sit in their intellectual ivory towers chanting incantations that capitalism was evil, communalism was just, and the “oppressed” and “exploited” still needed liberation. And they could share their abiding “faith” in a collectivist better world to the clusters of students who passed through their college and university classes, with those young and innocent minds waiting to be remade with a “raised consciousness” concerning social justice.

 

Old Marxist Wine in New Collectivist Race and Gender Bottles

 

But the twenty-first century was no longer the “harsh conditions” of the industrial revolution in the early nineteenth century, nor the “bad times” of the Great Depression in the 1930s. America and Western Europe, especially, were highly “middle class” societies with standards of living even for the poorest that were unimaginable for the kings and princes of past times. Good or at least reasonable pay for most, comfortable daily lives with new technology-generating amenities constantly easing the chores of everyday life for larger circles of the population, and generally wide areas of personal freedom and civil liberties for almost everyone.

 

So who were the oppressed, the exploited and the “marginalized,” the “suffering masses” yearning to be freed from the injustice of capitalism? Enter the new variation on the old Marxist theme. For most of the last two hundred years, the socialists and communists insisted that the great human conflict centered on “social classes.” But how do you sell “class warfare” when most in society view themselves as and financially are “middle class,” and while those in the lower rungs of the income categories want nothing more than to become middle class themselves – maybe even rich, one of the “one percent”?

 

So the traditional socialist class warfare was jettisoned, and in its place there was offered the new race and gender warfare. The Marxists of old used to insisted that the failure of the proletariat to fully understand their exploitation by the capitalist bosses was due to their being indoctrinated with a “false consciousness” that they were “free” under capitalism, while all the time they were “wage slaves” not even knowing the extent to which they were the victims of the unjust social system of private ownership of the means of production.

 

A New Race and Gender-Based “False Consciousness”

 

Now the false consciousness was to believe that racism in Western society, if not eradicated (after all there will always be some stupid people with foolish ideas), at least was dramatically reduced compared to the past, with attitudes and actions by most people far more consistent with the American ideal of judging and treating others as individuals. All the while, racism, it was asserted, is in fact pervading the society, keeping “people of color” down for the benefit of those who were “privileged” merely by their “whiteness.”

 

The same applied to gender and sexual orientation. More women in the workplace and in a growing number of positions of authority and responsibility with salaries reflecting that status hid from view the reality of sexist and misogynist attitudes that were “really” keeping women in second place and leaving them open to all forms of physical and psychological abuse. Legal niceties about same-sex marriages and relationships created the lie that homophobia was not actually haunting every corner of society.

 

Anthropologists and psychologists will tell you that the power of magic is to get a person to believe something to be true that is objectively not the case. Convince someone that a witch doctor sticking a needle into a voodoo doll made to look like them will cause them pain, and that person may, under the power of suggestion, feel as if they were experiencing pain. As the hippies of the 1960s used to say, “It’s all in your head, man.”

 

Get people to believe that any experienced disappointment, every personal failure, any slight by another person (whether actually intended or unintended) is a demonstration of the pervasive and inescapable existence and practice of racism, gender discrimination or sexual orientation bigotry, and some people are made into viewing themselves as the inescapable victims of white and male and heterosexual oppression, everywhere and every day.

 

Individuals Submerged Within Race and Gender Intersectionality

 

Furthermore, this new variation on the collectivist theme insists that everyone’s identity and sense of “self” is bound up with their classified gender, race and sexuality. These define you, determine who you are, and establish the meaning and context of your life. But what of the person who denies this, who opposes this, who rejects this, and who thinks of him- or herself simply as a thinking and acting individual, or who appreciates that they may be, by accident of birth and circumstances, a particular race, or gender, or person of a certain sexual orientation, but considers these to be of secondary importance in terms of their own self-identity and purposes in life?

 

Then this is their form of “false consciousness” from which they need to be reeducated and liberated. They are a self-hating enemy of who they “really are,” who has been brainwashed and manipulated to serve the interests of the white, male, heterosexual oppressors of humankind.

 

Plus, there is “intersectionality.” It seems that there are many complex forms of gender and race discrimination and oppression. You may be oppressed for being a woman. Or discriminated against for being black. Or you may be oppressed and discriminated against because you are black and female. Or you may be “marginalized” by others because you have a physical handicap. So you maybe oppressed, discriminated against and marginalized because you are black, female, and handicapped. Or you may be gay and humiliated and made fun of. So you may be black, female, handicapped and gay and, therefore, a victim of all these abuses and “aggressions.”

 

Each of these “intersections” has their own category of meaning, experience, oppression, discrimination, abuse and “marginalization.” And others, even abused “black sisters” may not fully know “the troubles you’ve seen” because you are female, black, but also handicapped and/or gay. And, of course, a white woman can only really understand one fraction of what this other person goes through because, though a women, she is white and therefore has had some degree of “privilege” due to not being a “person of color.”

 

You can’t keep up with all the permutations of abuse, oppression, and discrimination without a detailed and complex intersectionality scorecard! Nor can you know the forms and types of “white privilege” unless you have a similar scorecard of unjust opportunities or benefits you may have no idea that you, as a “white person,” may have been enjoying without even realizing it or wanting it.

 

You get five points for being black, female and gay; but you only get three points because while you may be gay and handicapped you are a white female. As a white, heterosexual male with only a stutter, you get one point for the speech impediment but minus nine for being totally otherwise white privileged. The mind gets dizzy with all the intersectionality calculations and possibilities.

 

 

The focus on collective groups and “rights” in the context of these discussions of “intersectionality” submerges from view, attention and weighted significance in the social analysis one other “group”: the individual. This ignores or downplays how the individual person views and classifies himself, how he judges and evaluates the nature and meaning of the actions of others and his own actions toward them. And what he considers important, meaningful and relevant in the social setting in which he chooses and acts.

 

Censoring Discourse to Dictate Identity

 

Just as the old Marxists used to call upon all workers of the world to unite against their capitalist chains regardless of their particular ethnic, linguistic or national backgrounds, so, too, the new race and gender collectivists insist that all victims of all forms and permutations of white, male “privilege” must stand united as one force of resistance and liberation. An offense against one oppressed or “marginalized” group is an offense against all; even though the members of one such oppressed and marginalized group may never really know and understand the other. That is why it requires being “non-judgmental,” and “sensitive” to the “feelings” and experiences of all other subgroups in the wider, generic category of “oppression,” as each subgroup defines these things for themselves.

 

The communist states insisted that they needed to block and prevent all unapproved Western ideas from entering the socialist paradise, so capitalist propaganda could not undermine the educated and reeducated minds of the Soviet people about the glories and superiority of socialist life. The new version is the declaration by the race and gender collectivists that all “hateful” or “offensive” or “fascist-type” ideas may be censored and suppressed from having a hearing in various “public spaces.” And, if necessary, any person attempting to utter the forbidden words and ideas may be physically challenged and ejected. Welcome to the latest version of ideological thuggery. (See my articles, “Campus Collectivism and the Counter-Revolution Against Liberty” and “Tyrants of the Mind and the New Collectivism”.)

 

Confusing the Meaning of Words for Collectivist Ends

In addition, the progressives and race and gender collectivists have been highly successful in manipulating the meaning and use of words, and to make concepts that are different to seem as if they are synonyms. Thus, the word “discrimination” has been transformed into a synonym for “oppression.”

 

“Discrimination” means to “distinguish between,” and to prefer, value or act differently toward one defined group or set of things compared to another. Thus, for example, I “discriminate” against all writers of romance novels since I choose to never buy their books and, thus, limit the income they might otherwise have earned if I bought their works. I “discriminate” against Nazis and communists because I refuse to intentionally bring them into my circle of friends, and thus I “restrict” them from the benefits they might have wanted to obtain from my company. (See my article, “Discrimination in Indiana: Private or Political?”)

 

“Oppression,” on the other hands, normally connotes the use or threat of some form of violence or legal prohibition faced by an individual or a groups of individuals classified with certain characteristics. Slavery was oppression. Segregation laws were oppression. Laws penalizing consensual homosexual behavior were (are) oppression. Ending oppression involves prohibiting private acts of force or its threat toward others, and the repeal of laws and other legal restrictions preventing individuals defined as possessing some type(s) of group characteristics from peacefully pursuing their own affairs and/or in voluntary association and interaction with others.

 

Ending oppression requires education and legal action (that is, repeal of restrictive or prohibitory laws). Ending discrimination requires education and reason and persuasion that the criteria used by individuals in their choices and actions are incorrect or misplaced. Laws against discrimination can only coerce people in a different way, by prohibiting or insisting on their acting in certain ways toward others that by necessity reduces and limits their own peaceful choices and actions. To compel me to interact with someone with whom I’d rather not is no less oppressive than preventing me from peacefully interacting with someone whom I would like to for some personal and mutual advantage. (See my article, “The Case for Liberty, Through Thick and Thin”.)

 

Restoring America’s Individualist Roots

 

How did we get here? It is because we have traveled a long way from those founding American ideas of individual rights and liberty. From a society that accepts that individuals may think and act in many different ways, including how that individual views himself and relates to and associates with others for various purposes that gives value and meaning to their life. But it remains the individual who is the conscious, thinking, choosing and acting building block from and upon which all that we call “society” emerges and takes its patterns and forms.

 

We must retrace our steps, and return to our roots in philosophical, sociological and political individualism. We have to recapture our understanding and appreciation of who and why the individual is important and that any associative identifications that an individual makes should emerge out of his own reflections and judgments concerning the meaning of and purpose to his life. They should not be imposed on him by collectivist ideologues wanting to straightjacket him into categories and classifications not of his own making and to which they wish to confine and condemn him, and, indeed, through which to oppress him. Otherwise, we are heading for another dangerous and damaging episode in the history of mankind.

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