In outward appearance everything seems to be easy. Create the image system according to your sense of proportion and so to the goals of ruling; bring these images into accord with necessary words; and your consciousness will combine images with adequate words by itself. As a result the certain events happen without any your efforts. And why does it work? Because a crowd-“elitist” society lives relying on some ideas; and one usually doesn’t think how the ideas are formed and if they are contrary to fact. An idea is formed in process of combining images with adequate (or inadequate) words. While words are adequate to images a society lives and develops relying on the ideas. But as soon as words become inadequate to images a society falls down into a crisis, which finishes either with a catastrophe or with thinking over the ideas and bringing images into accord with adequate words. The conceptual and terminological system in any culture is formed in such way. Bu any culture is limited and, moreover, secondary towards the conception of ruling. And it follows, that the conceptual and terminological system, a society during its existence relies on, is the basis of the unstructural method of ruling within the certain conception.
In a crowd-“elitist” society everything is going more or less “fine” and the crowd behaviour, including its “elitist” part, is rather predictable while there is no alternative conception of ruling. Otherwise, the symbolism and the images and thus the matrix based on them remain unchanged. But the new terminological system connects the old matrix with the new conception’s words and images and starts to form new ideas. In other words, the matrix methods of ruling are rather efficient until the appearance of another subject with another sense of proportion who defines other goals, which may be mutually exclusive with the goals of ruling of the first subject. And this is the weak side of the method because the crowd activities become unpredictable and the period of the conceptual indeterminacy starts. Think over, the ruling based on what matrix will be more efficient during the period of the conceptual indeterminacy? Evidently on the matrix that agrees more with the matrix of objective reality – the matrix of God’s Predetermination.
I can hardly say that I’ve understood all of my Russian guest explanations. But when in America the events of September 11 had started I automatically remembered “picnics” and instantly noticed the time: 8.45. I remembered the last year discussions, my own thoughts connected with some pictures of the third “picnic”; and on September 12 “El Pais” published this strange map of Madrid with this wrench. Can you see, Mr. Holmes, this monkey on the third “picnic”? It can be an occasional coincidence, but you know, “an adjustable
wrench” is also called “a monkey wrench”. Moreover,
“a wrench” and the verb “to wrench” also mean “a twitching”, “a distortion” and “to distort” (facts or truth). Shortly, on the map of Madrid there is a “monkey hand”. Before you came we had been discussing if the publishing of this map was the warning of an act of terrorism, which was being prepared in Madrid.
Everything you’ve told is quite interesting, Andrew. But how do you think, who can organize an act of terrorism in Madrid? Bask nationalists[49]? Or some united international terrorist organisation that has already organized the acts in the USA?
Do you mean our Trotskyites? – Paolo entered the discussion. – But they didn’t show any activity in Spain for a long time. Although, according to the political situation in our country and in the whole Europe their positions grow stronger; and it seems to me that they don’t need any action of the kind. The Socialistic International unites Europe into the European Union even without such acts. Today almost in all European countries socialists are in power.
Paolo, what’ your opinion, the Trotskyites are closer to the socialists or to the communists? – Holmes asked.
They don’t understand the difference in party masses, but the Trotskyites bosses are obviously closer to the socialists. For them the permanent socialistic revolution is not an abstraction but the reality, they want to make the whole world to reckon with. However, one should notice that since the second half of the last century they essentially changed their tactics, though still keeping their adherence to the ideas of the permanent socialistic revolution. Having approved the new methods on Japanese “red armies” and Italian “red brigades” in the conditions of the East and the West they decided to globalise the permanent revolution process. But to make the process work by itself they needed to overcome one obstacle, however, though it may seem strange, Trotsky himself was its bearer.
What obstacle do you mean? –Verov asked.
Do you know Trotsky’s testament? – Paolo asked others.
No, – Holmes answered. – But does it really exist?
I can’t say for sure, since nobody saw it in facsimile. Nonetheless, this document exists in hand-written copies; and its spirit and style looks similar to the Trotsky’s pompous style, moreover, it conveys the Trotskyite ideas. If nobody minds, I can familiarize all of you with this text.
Very interesting, – responded Holmes.
Paolo searched his papers for the necessary one and read it aloud.
Testament
My high (and still rising) blood pressure is deceiving those near me about my actual condition. I am active and able to work but the outcome is evidently near. These lines will be made public after my death.
I have no need to refute here once again the stupid and vile slander of Stalin and his agents: there is not a single sport on my revolutionary honour. I have never entered, either directly or indirectly, into any behind-the-scenes agreements or even negotiations with the enemies of the working class. Thousands of Stalin's opponents have fallen victims of similar false accusations. The new revolutionary generations will rehabilitate their political honour and deal with the Kremlin executioners according to their deserts.
I thank warmly the friends who remained loyal to me through the most difficult hours of my life. I do not name anyone in particular because I cannot name them all.
However, I consider myself justified in making an exception in the case of my companion, Natalia Ivanovna Sedova. In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
L. Trotsky