The entire Covid phenomenon makes no common sense and is illogical. It’s based on everyone following dictates of this WEF/Davos contingent. Really believe they intend to further curb liberty and any human rights as sacrificed to their misguided climate and social agendas. This is one of those big plans to own the planet and all of us.
I agree. Seemingly to kill the intelligentsia and laboring people of the 1st world is to start. Caucasians must die first. Marxism has been the culture of the transition from the Christian-bourgeois society—of which we find the insuperable example in the work of Benedetto Croce—to the bourgeois society in its pure state. We could even say that Marxism represented the “transition to the worst” in the sense that, through Marxism, bourgeois society has shed every residual moral and religious sense, unburdening itself of all “impurities” that still tied it to traditional society, thus presenting itself as full materialism and full secularism. The West has realized everything of Marxism, except its messianic hope. “Socialism” Veneziani writes “has not inherited capitalist society, but has become included, entangled in capitalism itself; in many respects, it has been the intermediate stop on the journey from capitalism to neo-capitalism.” Veneziani notices that Western society realizes the essence of Marxism: “radical atheism and materialism, internationalism and universal non-belonging, the primacy of praxis and the death of philosophy, the domination of production and the universal manipulation of nature, technological Faustianism and equality that realizes itself as homogenization.” The new globalist liberalism, Veneziani observes, absorbs the lesson of Marxism, purifying it of all prophetic, gnostic and anti-modern slag, and of solidaristic suggestions.
Therefore we can say that the West is Marxism’s full secularization, as well as its perfect realization. It is Capitalism that absorbs Communism, using it to erase religious sacredness and national sacredness, a goal it could not have reached in any other way.
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control.
Complicated history alright. My mind simplifies it by envisioning a long term trend among all the world civilizations - East and West - to increasingly offer false promises which inevitably led to intensification of the ruling class regardless of the economic system in play. This in turn resulted in the ruin of each civilization in turn as corruption/kleptocracy increased, war, famine, disease took their toll and the population fell into ruin. Unfortunately there seems to be a deep systemic pattern at play. Climatic patterns of planet Earth and our sun also have a strong effect. Sometimes I wonder if we have learned anything all. Civilization seems like a thin veneer which imposes greater stress on the collective bands merging into larger city states and eventually fails.
The entire Covid phenomenon makes no common sense and is illogical. It’s based on everyone following dictates of this WEF/Davos contingent. Really believe they intend to further curb liberty and any human rights as sacrificed to their misguided climate and social agendas. This is one of those big plans to own the planet and all of us.
I agree. Seemingly to kill the intelligentsia and laboring people of the 1st world is to start. Caucasians must die first. Marxism has been the culture of the transition from the Christian-bourgeois society—of which we find the insuperable example in the work of Benedetto Croce—to the bourgeois society in its pure state. We could even say that Marxism represented the “transition to the worst” in the sense that, through Marxism, bourgeois society has shed every residual moral and religious sense, unburdening itself of all “impurities” that still tied it to traditional society, thus presenting itself as full materialism and full secularism. The West has realized everything of Marxism, except its messianic hope. “Socialism” Veneziani writes “has not inherited capitalist society, but has become included, entangled in capitalism itself; in many respects, it has been the intermediate stop on the journey from capitalism to neo-capitalism.” Veneziani notices that Western society realizes the essence of Marxism: “radical atheism and materialism, internationalism and universal non-belonging, the primacy of praxis and the death of philosophy, the domination of production and the universal manipulation of nature, technological Faustianism and equality that realizes itself as homogenization.” The new globalist liberalism, Veneziani observes, absorbs the lesson of Marxism, purifying it of all prophetic, gnostic and anti-modern slag, and of solidaristic suggestions.
Therefore we can say that the West is Marxism’s full secularization, as well as its perfect realization. It is Capitalism that absorbs Communism, using it to erase religious sacredness and national sacredness, a goal it could not have reached in any other way.
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control.
– Giorgio Agamben
Complicated history alright. My mind simplifies it by envisioning a long term trend among all the world civilizations - East and West - to increasingly offer false promises which inevitably led to intensification of the ruling class regardless of the economic system in play. This in turn resulted in the ruin of each civilization in turn as corruption/kleptocracy increased, war, famine, disease took their toll and the population fell into ruin. Unfortunately there seems to be a deep systemic pattern at play. Climatic patterns of planet Earth and our sun also have a strong effect. Sometimes I wonder if we have learned anything all. Civilization seems like a thin veneer which imposes greater stress on the collective bands merging into larger city states and eventually fails.
Very thin of necessity. My idea is climate catastrophe is underway and outcomes are war gamed. Never so many alive. Catastrophe cd sink the ship.