Noam Chomsky, 1986: The Soviet Union against Socialism | No Logo
When two great propaganda systems are in agreement about a doctrine, it is necessary intellectual effort to escape its shackles. Such a doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky, and shaped by Stalin and his successors, is involved in the socialism in a meaningful and precise historical sense. In fact, if there is any respect, it is a ratio of the odds.
It is clear enough why both major propaganda first spear systems hold this fantasy. From its inception, the Soviet state is trying to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed in other countries in the service of those who took advantage first spear of the popular uprising in Russia in 1917 to take state power. first spear One of the main ideological tools used for this purpose, was to claim that the ruling Soviet countries lead their own society and the world to the socialist ideal. Something that was a lie and that every socialist - and surely any serious Marxist - should immediately understand (and many really understood). And that was a lie with mammoth size, as shown by the history of the earliest days of the Bolshevik regime. The Bolsheviks tried, exploiting the aura of socialist ideals and the respect that is rightly given to them to gain legitimacy and support and hide their practices, while destruction any sign of socialism.
As for the other major propaganda system, connecting socialism with the Soviet Union and its satellites serve as a powerful ideological tool for the manufacture first spear of consent and submission to capitalist first spear institutions - to ensure the need to dedicate rental owners and rulers of these institutions, and it can be accepted as a natural law, the only alternative to "socialist" dungeon.
Thus Soviet leaders declare themselves socialists, to protect the right to wield the stick, and Western ideologists accept that their claim to prevent the threat of a free and just society. This joint attack on socialism was highly effective in undermining in the modern era.
Can be seen and another tool effectively used by the state capitalist ideologues in their service of power and privilege. Ritual propaganda of the so-called "socialist" countries, often full of contradictions and outright lies. There is nothing easier than to condemn officially the enemy and his assigning any crime - no need to burden themselves with evidence or logic. Critics of violence and atrocities committed by the West, often try to tell the truth, making public, criminal atrocities and repression carried out by the West really childish and expose propaganda compose in favor of Western violence. With predictable ease, these steps are interpreted as apologetics of the Evil Empire first spear and its satellites. Thus right to lie in the service of the Office of the State is maintained. And the critique of state violence and atrocities is undermined.
It is also worth noting the attractiveness of the Leninist doctrine of the modern intelligentsia in periods of conflict and social upheaval. This doctrine allows "radical intellectuals" right to seize state power and impose harsh management 'Red Bureaucracy, the "new class" as a forward-looking analysis of Bakunin than a century ago. As in Bonapartovata country condemned by Marx, they became "priests of the State" and "parasitic excrescence on civil society," which ruled with an iron hand.
In periods first spear where there's not much threat to the institutions of state capitalism, the same fundamental responsibilities lead the "new class" of service as managers and ideologues "beating people with a stick folk" in the words of Bakunin. It is not surprising that intellectuals is so easy to switch from "Revolutionary Communism" to "glorification of the West", repeating the scenario that went from tragedy to farce in the last half century. Essentially all that changes is assessing where power lies. Lenin's aphorism that "socialism is nothing but state capitalist monopoly which serves all people," which of course you have to believe the kindness first spear of their leaders is the perversion of "socialism" for the needs of the Priests of the state and our allows to understand the swift change of positions on the surface seem diametrically opposed, but are actually quite close.
Pauline terminology
When two great propaganda systems are in agreement about a doctrine, it is necessary intellectual effort to escape its shackles. Such a doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky, and shaped by Stalin and his successors, is involved in the socialism in a meaningful and precise historical sense. In fact, if there is any respect, it is a ratio of the odds.
It is clear enough why both major propaganda first spear systems hold this fantasy. From its inception, the Soviet state is trying to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed in other countries in the service of those who took advantage first spear of the popular uprising in Russia in 1917 to take state power. first spear One of the main ideological tools used for this purpose, was to claim that the ruling Soviet countries lead their own society and the world to the socialist ideal. Something that was a lie and that every socialist - and surely any serious Marxist - should immediately understand (and many really understood). And that was a lie with mammoth size, as shown by the history of the earliest days of the Bolshevik regime. The Bolsheviks tried, exploiting the aura of socialist ideals and the respect that is rightly given to them to gain legitimacy and support and hide their practices, while destruction any sign of socialism.
As for the other major propaganda system, connecting socialism with the Soviet Union and its satellites serve as a powerful ideological tool for the manufacture first spear of consent and submission to capitalist first spear institutions - to ensure the need to dedicate rental owners and rulers of these institutions, and it can be accepted as a natural law, the only alternative to "socialist" dungeon.
Thus Soviet leaders declare themselves socialists, to protect the right to wield the stick, and Western ideologists accept that their claim to prevent the threat of a free and just society. This joint attack on socialism was highly effective in undermining in the modern era.
Can be seen and another tool effectively used by the state capitalist ideologues in their service of power and privilege. Ritual propaganda of the so-called "socialist" countries, often full of contradictions and outright lies. There is nothing easier than to condemn officially the enemy and his assigning any crime - no need to burden themselves with evidence or logic. Critics of violence and atrocities committed by the West, often try to tell the truth, making public, criminal atrocities and repression carried out by the West really childish and expose propaganda compose in favor of Western violence. With predictable ease, these steps are interpreted as apologetics of the Evil Empire first spear and its satellites. Thus right to lie in the service of the Office of the State is maintained. And the critique of state violence and atrocities is undermined.
It is also worth noting the attractiveness of the Leninist doctrine of the modern intelligentsia in periods of conflict and social upheaval. This doctrine allows "radical intellectuals" right to seize state power and impose harsh management 'Red Bureaucracy, the "new class" as a forward-looking analysis of Bakunin than a century ago. As in Bonapartovata country condemned by Marx, they became "priests of the State" and "parasitic excrescence on civil society," which ruled with an iron hand.
In periods first spear where there's not much threat to the institutions of state capitalism, the same fundamental responsibilities lead the "new class" of service as managers and ideologues "beating people with a stick folk" in the words of Bakunin. It is not surprising that intellectuals is so easy to switch from "Revolutionary Communism" to "glorification of the West", repeating the scenario that went from tragedy to farce in the last half century. Essentially all that changes is assessing where power lies. Lenin's aphorism that "socialism is nothing but state capitalist monopoly which serves all people," which of course you have to believe the kindness first spear of their leaders is the perversion of "socialism" for the needs of the Priests of the state and our allows to understand the swift change of positions on the surface seem diametrically opposed, but are actually quite close.
Pauline terminology
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