House of Paine

the "emerging "mailer on containment in the ike age

seeing as i'm on Mailers tail
and seeing that kennan just past.....

 
before he went white negro

norm

 had a few  not so  shabby ideas 
                     about "defending"
                                  kold war europe 




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i won't waste time
     showing how he got there

but he reached 
the "nice" point 
crucial to kold warriors


     the soviets "need" to swallow 
                      western europe to "prosper" 



by the 

"plunder" policy drive 

the move west
would be for
 a quick commodity fix

to keep the red masses laboring 

at its black and blue core

the kremlin's 
 is nothing more
then a "slave" production system

gulag smoolag
the whole set up 
is just so many desecending concentric rings
                                          of toilers' hell on ice 
 
 
a  given the finite ghost in all of us

the process  runs down as it runs its human parts down

"a man as well as an animal
can be worked to death"

hence the need for an outside  fix

(nitze in nsc 68
kinda goes this route too)
spontaneously
it can't reproduce itself stand alone 


what else can lift the output levels

since the set up left to its lonesome
only 
" demands  more and more toil 
for less and less
            "goods and creature comforts"

an '84 type
          orwell rig .....

but if only there were 
"a stalinist europe"

then --and this gets fuzzy--

the set up could boot strap up
to yank output standards
and set the platform for" a stalinist world"

thisthe revolution needs germany and france (at least )
is a nice bookend 
to the trot bit 
     socialism can't cut it in one country 
                             of the early 20's


norms nice little  wrinkle

the kind that gets 
ironed out 
  in the general mass hysteria  

 
the soviets need to swallow  western europe  "intact"

  and
the kremlin
  "has  to   know"

they can't
         succeed by  arms
"they'll be just  "adding another  grave yard"

why?

cause 
" us forces
 though certainly
  not enough to hold
             the german plain
              against a soviet thrust
 still are   
              certainly plentiful enough
to scorch  
every factory 
 on the way 
         back to britain 

hence to norm

the huge acheson build up 
to "hold the line in europe" 
              is mostly  
               wall street  bull-dickery

all but the strategic   bomber command bit at any rate 
                               

(norm here
  shared  mental territory  
with the likes of just elected
senator goldwater )
the up shot:

"the soviets are forced to  find 
           a peaciful way
to bring western europe 
                into its orbit"
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  the norm-view benign in itself
unfortunately 
         was
 effectively submerge-able

because 
norm 
" sees"
the same  

" inside group  mind "
 
running the  kremlin  

as the boldest badest kold warrior 

  because of fatal flaws 
           in its production base 

the kremlin 
  was 

"a wanna be euro-aggressor "

and since norm also agrees with the koldees

that 

"to allow europe
to produce for the needs of the soviets
would be fatal 
to american world dominance "

and yet
none of these pundits
norm included

ever care 
to carry their line
all the way to the end 
to prove this final point

what if we gave em europe?


take this
  all the way 
thru 
to the final stage

 
where  a fuller analysis shows

the soviet center can not hold 

and what waits for a red success
 out ahead 
is 
   "the inevitable "
        final internal  system  morph

oh yee of little faith

take strength from this



the internal flaws will out

there is no escape level

no  point 
where  productive forces
are beyond where
the system winds down to stagnation


there is no
 take off point 
to perpetual development
not for the stalin system at least


even after euro fusion

there would be national fissions

 just 
as  we saw 
 culminating itself 
                   in '89 

that was not the result ultimately
of containment
but of internal flaws

if the camp of stalin had been the human race 

still 
      the mooorph cometh 


say thered been
an  early 50's
         success swallow

"a  gulp down
of not just germany
but  picasso's paris 
felini's rome  
and franco's spain

what you may ask

would  have inevitibly 
 entrained ?


simple

a '89 moment

when?

sooner or later ?

my guess sooner

and 
 with a cleaner  morph 

yes little ones

despite kennan's 
  self serrving 
opposite claim

that with europe goes the whole  woild 

a claim that 
 not only  produces 
his containment Rx
   
but quite nicely 

 the one and best 
high profit option
for                 
wall street too

wall streets overseas ops

 indeed  
would  be 
  big losers
if as in orwell and burnham

the marxa-cockalls

 reached  the channel ..... 


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by the way

heres norm in the same piece

on the practical limits 
of keynesianism

"one can hardly visualize 
the cure of capitalism's short term ills 
through a nostrum
which asks private financial empires
to accommodate themselves
to the gradual dissipation
and eventual transformation
                        of their domestic  hammer lock"
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"korean war

a move by stalin
"to keep china " 
from 
     "a titoist deviation"

not bad norm not bad 



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and how about this....

norm 
on the  necessary  red menace 

"if the soviets
   were in fact 
  living 
 in some sort of 
    tinker bell type 
               proletarian utopia 
           something
              right out of the mind 
                             of the young rene clair 

            be assured uncle sam 
                            would still 
                         need to  make us see 
                                  a  nite-mare
                                    over there 
                        and 
                          probably one that ran
                                      along lines
        not too very far off
   from 
what  
 stalin's  handiwork 
seems to have  actually produced "

the cunning of history eh?

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