From the fact that the Marxist theory of communism is utopian, it is a mistake to draw a hasty conclusion about the prospects of capitalism. Capitalism or the structure of society, which relies on free market relations of production as a basis, is, in fact, also a dead end. This is an even more dead-end path in the possible development of society. The development of capitalism does not lead to an increase in the level of civilization, civilization. It is easy to draw such a conclusion, if only from the observation that under capitalism the level of culture of the people is in an extremely deep state. The main reason for the utopia of capitalism is not so much these free market production relations themselves, but the proprietary interests behind these relations. The capitalist formation is formed from consumerism and forms consumerism. Capitalism will inevitably either explicitly or implicitly come to elevate consumerism to the highest value.
SOVOC
Often Soviet socialism is scolded for being a "SOVOC" (scoop). And this problem is glued together with the fact that supposedly there is no socialism without a "scoop". Here you need to understand what a "scoop" is and what are its causes. "Sovoc" and its cause is the stupidity, venality and deceit of officials. And the stupidity, venality and deceit of officials always exists: under the tsar, and under socialism, and under capitalism. You can't get away from the "scoop". He always was, he is now, and he always will be (that is, will be for a long time).
The main contradiction of any state is not the struggle of classes, but the struggle of power with the people
Surplus value is not exploitation. Since the worker can always break off the relationship with the employer. Exploitation is when a person cannot break off relationships that he does not like. Specifically, this is the relationship between the citizen and the state, the taxpayer and the authorities. Power is the real exploiter. A change of power, the replacement of an overstayed, autocratic power with another, more honest, more advanced one, which will establish legal order, does not fundamentally change anything, since the old system always remains the same. There remains a system that allows you to keep power in the hands of anyone who has it. The fundamental solution to this problem is reform, the formation of a different institution of citizenship. The fundamental issue here should be the freedom of any person to renounce citizenship if some taxes, laws, customs do not suit him. Not the freedom to change citizenship, but the freedom to renounce any citizenship in principle. A person should have the right not only to vote in elections, but also to vote individually with their feet: if they don’t like something, then a person will have the right to express his protest by breaking off relations with the state. Within the framework of the legislative framework of the state in whose territory such free people without citizenship live, an appropriate contractual taxation system should be provided for those services of the state that a stateless person will use.
Another option to solve the problem of exploitation by the authorities is the obligatory status of monasticism for the first person and other power holders.
Mechanisms of human needs
Building communism does not require a high level of material production
The need for a high level of material production is one of the key mistakes of the classics of the theory of communism. However, communism can be built both in a highly developed country and economically in a hopelessly backward country. The reason for the error of the classics is that they did not study deeply enough the mechanisms of human needs, the patterns of dynamics, development, and evolution of needs. The formula "with the satisfaction of the need, it disappears" is erroneous, short-sighted and extremely naive. In fact, any need behaves identically to the pattern of development of drug addiction. Here is the diagram:
1. No need.
2. Sample for interest.
3. Satisfaction.
4. The desire to repeat the experience.
5. Consumption.
6. Temporary satisfaction
7. Repeated satisfaction of the need with an increase in the required dose or with a modification of the consumer or circumstances.
8. Inability to be satisfied with even a very large dose.
9. Expansion of desire, the desire to try something else, of the same type as this.
Theorists often do not clearly distinguish between the sixth and first points, mix them up, equate them, take one for the other, which is just a gross mistake. Vital needs such as food or sex tend to circulate steadily on the fourth, fifth and sixth. Some secondary needs and desires, due to various internal and external factors, can also circulate on the fourth, fifth and sixth points without undergoing evolutionary changes. When external or internal factors do not allow to satisfy the need, stress appears. The stress of dissatisfaction can be greatly reduced through the satisfaction of some other parallel need. For example, a sexual desire can be quenched by eating or watching TV. When the energy of an unsatisfied need is transferred to a higher (in the moral sense) level of desires, for example, to socially useful activity, this is called sublimation. On the other hand, if needs are satisfied as they arise, then the need sphere will grow. It can be seen from this diagram that the assumption that with a high level of production and with the provision of necessary needs, favorable conditions will arise for the emergence of communism is naive. In fact, it's the other way around. Satisfaction of a need leads to the consolidation and expansion of desires, and, consequently, to the impossibility of covering the ever-growing needs and desires with material support. If a person does not consciously limit himself, then his needs grow to the maximum possible limit. There is no limit to human desires. "The human stomach has no bottom." That is, the need sphere of a person is restrained only by his material wealth.
If a person decides to consciously form, educate his need sphere, then for this he has to limit himself in satisfying a number of undesirable needs. Some authors erroneously refer to this as "suppression". In this case, to work on himself, a person uses willpower, and also adjusts his lifestyle and forms his environment for this task, so that the lifestyle and environment become factors that prevent him from satisfying unwanted needs. One such way of life is monasticism. Monasticism is such a variant of changed conditions of life, when the way of the community in which a person lives becomes an external factor that interferes with the satisfaction of unwanted needs. In accordance with the narcotic analogy, the correct education of communists (genuine members of communist society) should also be built. That is, the scheme of weaning drug addicts from addiction should be used in the education of communists. Here is the diagram.
1. Awareness of the need to overcome addiction, capture, desire, need.
2. Deep determination to overcome addiction.
3. Termination, refusal of this consumption by an effort of will, or isolation, distance from the possibility of this consumption.
4. Increasing desire, tension, stress.
5. Crisis, barrier, insane state.
6. Overcoming the barrier, reducing stress, reducing desire.
7. Failure control, stabilization of the new state.
8. Freedom from dependence, capture, desire, need.
This in itself is most likely just what should look like a monastery.
After all the words
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