House of Paine

a stalinoid looks at noamsky

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 its 1984
the orwell moment has arrived for real

and 
the great chomsky
is posing a question

“ was the soviet  system 
under the bolsheviks 
           ever really socialism ?”

his answer 
“obviously..... no”

(“ most honest marxists now agree ”)
                    but 
         “ the two super powers”
both say 
                                      “yes”

( remember we’re pre gorby here
            there were still “thought” to be
                      two super powers  )
  
  hmmmmm? 
   noam adds up front :

“When the world's
 two great propaganda systems ....”

        (  are both
 pushin’   the same dope  )

“...... it requires  intellectual effort 
to escape its shackles.”
                     noam chomsky 1984 
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my question :
 in making his determinations

   has brainy  noam here
  really 
the   mental houdini 
he claims to be 
beyond 
the most obvious 
  exploiter bindings 
has he 
escaped  all   shackles ?

has he 
   bothered enough with the details 
  made enough of an   “intellectual effort”?

or does he  open   a few easy  locks 
 
and leave  enough unbroken
to keep himself  
              still locked up 


and as a follow up question:
this enquiring mind wants to know:

     how can   chomsky know
his  mind - ghost 
     has        actually
“dream escaped”
 these  mental “shackles ”
( seeing  as this is 
                a pure think piece
and all

and 
seeing as chomskys” real body “
 remains through out
  jaunting about
on that ever so 
 nice  burger campus )

 is this in actuality
            a bold  and successful
                               attempt 
at a  mental crash out ?

a crash out

from the dual super power imposed 
                    cerebral  mind prison 

to the free  dream weaver 
                  fields of  possible visions of social progress ?
 

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( by the way
        maybe
      if he
 like don q 
is still stuck in  his dreamscape 
 with  its 
quixotic escapades mere ilusion 

is this ultimately
  because such non threatening 
fierce puppy   gaddling about 
can  go on  un- interupted 
inside the beast’s belly
  without   causing
the slightest  indigestion ? 

    is such gabble
as noam’s  
yoked
to   suckh personally 
               demure body - action 
actually
a welcome  respite 
perhaps even a helpful 
 struggle clump  disintegrater 
an anti coagulator 
 a helping hand
  for capitalist hegemonists 

after all 
he’s got comforts 
in his loss  
not onlyis he 
academically
  “brilliant and successful”
whats more
he has a following
which has got to be personally  gratifying 
for such a  moms little genius talker 
“  semi monastic
peter  the hermit
 a no next day hang over 
   raw people’s 
         “ my  radical phase”     pied- piper   ?

well 
then again
thats  jumping  around 
and at best ahead.....)



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first question first

as noam 
            stated  :

“  did  the society (sic)
created(sic)

by Lenin and Trotsky
and molded further
 by Stalin
 and his successors..... 
....have some relation
    to socialism
 in some meaningful 
or historically accurate 
sense of this concept. ”

------- 
as you might supposd 
noam’s  answer turns out to be a resounding 
“no no no “
but before we go into that 
      notice  first
 his  story line 
  a few guys  
and their successors 
               have  
 “created“
 not   just 
        an on going 
              party-regime 
(of a possibly new type)
thats right “created”
not just a state apparatus
             built around  
  an un disclosed
             pre existing 
               cadre  party  
                 of a new type 

no 
these men
have 
“created “
 an actual 
 “ society” 

a new type of society
thats  
seriously
dangerous to its own citizens
a  crack pot  bloody  set up  
but a “society’
non the less

no these guys have not just 
 modified  or  transformed
not  just revolutionized
a society 
they’ve 
“created” one !!!!!!!  

a burnham- orwell
“ 1984” type society

and 
  in this real  world of ours
not on the pages of a damn book
created it 
and the monstrosity 
     is  still clanging along  
as of this  real date
 in 1984 

yup 
still goin  
even if unknowingly
the vicious contrivence  
     is   a mere 6 years from  
                   the scrap heep
thanks
to 
 the shake apart powers 
             of the real roads  human history 
                   forces bad social designs to travells along 
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 my pause here is 
so i can add this taunt   
 “ hey  good buddy
                  .......
why don’t you try  designing
and “creating “
 a  real 
full montee type  “society “
yourself some  time ”

i mean  really 
imagine 
constructing
     “ a society” 
straight out of a mass
 of   post regime collapse 
                 scattered human parts  
human parts now teetering 
                       on the edge of  a   hobbes like 
                                       destated chaos 
          all agin all stuff
zoo escape brake downs 
cows and bulls runnin wild 
wolves and rabbits 
 lions loose  in the streets 
you pick yer  favorite fable animal types 

i remember the manhatan black out of ‘77
imagine if that went on for 9 months .....

 no lights 
no night life 

no farm pens 

no farm george 

just a riot of conflicting 
 substantial types 
 at best 
its like against like
gang agin gang
     building to 
 one  war lord   people-horde 
 vs 
 another war lord people horde ?

self build a society out of this?

can’t be done 
fast enough 
in one country 
              right?

even  that  blower 
of  any rich enough
   lord ‘s horn 
    eddie   burke

got that 
 point 
right 

the fantasy 
 of a ground up
from scratch
 man made society
  a  frankenstein society 
staulking the glode 
is  midwife  foolishness  

 a  suddenly state free society 
siezed  and mounted “on the run “
thats more like it 

a from the bottom up 
boot strap rebuild 
no time no time
the cops will bust it up long long before 
any state freed peoples 
can get “voluntarily ” co-ordinated 
 peoples in the bulk like that 
are    too complex
and contradictory 

and besides force will get in there
 any how 
bandit force if no other 

and speaking of force
even thats not enough 
to construct or 
reconstruct society
in a total  enough sense
to call 
some bunch of guys authors
 of that  new society


pure foolscap 

even 
the most determined and ruthlessly
compact and coherent 
pack of  social rebuilders
even with a detailed  
plan of re-organization 
can’t create a brand new society

no

crafting a whole new way
 for people to “socialize ”

a whole new  social totality 
for most (let alone
 all )
of the members
    of      any  pre existing 
state dissolved society  
by  any “few ” members 
               of 
that society
is patent non sense

nope

any lenin type outfit
 can  do no more 
 then  seize power
build an army and a  state around tthe army 
and use that armed state 
to modify 
the  behaviour 
of  the society
without
  expecting anything
not already apres le deluge 
 implicit in the soft ware
of the n million heads of the citizenry 

this is plain facts 

take them 
post enlightenment 
   popular opponents
of edmund burke 
they knew this 

they recognized the distinction
        between 
 a state 
and its underlying  “civil” society

their main beef with burke
 was not based on some proto-totalitarian hubris 
like
“we will create new people “
no their beef
was with his
gotta go slow
 and through the system 
no serious leaps
no  experimentation
no exploration
no attempt to find 
 the edge of the  possible 
the social fronteer 

behind their optimism was one implication

a human society 
unlike a single human organism
 can’t die from botched  experiments
form  overly drastic 
  first time deep reconstructive 
                       surgery
put a society on “a kidney machine” 
and you’ll  find out 
whether or not the machine
reflects enough
knowledge 
to completely 
  replace a kidney 

and if you’re wrong
the society won’t die like a  human patient 
cause its elements its cells are not 
so organically specialized and  interdependent
they all die when the system brakes down 

human’s are indeed socially interdependent 
but it ain’t like a body ‘s cells 

you can hack away at the bastard 
hack it to pieces in fact 
and  left to itself 
    it’ll  regenerate 


in fact society will strike back 
and strike back successfully 
        against
the state 
that  social engineers poorly 
the engimeers state will collapse
like a bad bridge iwhen suficient wind hitsa it 

the rads of the french rev
 claimed only indirectly
 thru the scalpel   of  the  state 
both the need and ability 
to 
“ cut mold and reshape society “

state power
is all you got
 to make 
 a   social revolution with

sure society evolves

but thru plolitical revolutions 
and if
you’re 
bent on social transformation
realize you are dealing with 
a conciously
    effectable 
 but none the less
“lawful and 
transcendentally 
self producing
  dialectical  totality “

 “you do not make
       you embody and 
                    you obey 
the laws of social motion “

this notion of an  atomization 
     of the old society
leaving a mass of people 
ripe
for re- building 
as the moving parts
  of a  new system....

building socialism
like a cathedral
out of fleshly bricks

from basic human  units...
 well 
thats certainly
“ a god  like  accomplishment “

not even moses did that 
not even satan 
in fact jehovah  himself
though 
he produced his pilot
  two person  one garden society
  well ..... 
 look how it 
straight off
    dicked itself up ----------------

------- notice also

“ meaningful concept “
not embody ment 
“concept “

this is pure “head quaters “stuff ain’t it ------------------


-------  if we must deal in conceptions
of socialism 
             one can define socialism variously.....

         whats yours noam ?

(later on he gives us his
and its not all that bad 
just clever enough
to not permit bolshevisms claims to the title  )

“  Since its origins  
socialism has meant 
the liberation of working people 
from exploitation” 

odd?
“ since its origins’
minerva like it sprang 
full grown and  complete at birth 
but lets proceed

notice he doesnot say 
private exploitation

or capitalist exploitation

why ?

well cause exploitation is exploitation
whether by private  capitalist or 
party -state commisars 


now we know what did not happen
 in soviet russia in the early twenties 
now we know

that whatever new  framus type  of society
 intervened between  the  social fragmentations 
     of an exploded
      czar  nicholas regime

  and say
 the generalissimo  party state of 1950’s stalin-
it wasn’t “exploitation free”
for its working people  -------------------





“ In fact, if there is a relation
between the soviet state and socialism
 it is the relation of contradiction. ”

------- this needs exspansion
if there is a relation between
the soviet system of lenin et al
and a system that liberates working people 
from  exploitation ....

its a relation of 
contradiction .....

-- contradiction ?

as in opposite noam ?

a relation of opposites
 as in nyet vs oui ?

would it be fair to say  noam
that
the soviet system quickly became 
the very opposite of a liberation of working people
   from exploitation ? 
that it became
 a means towards
 the exploitation of working people ?

we’ll get back to this --------------

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=============================

“ the kremlin and madison ave
co exist  in symbiotic mischief “

nice phrase noam 
even if i goosed it some 
nice and pat

as in the two party system here in amerika 
is really the single business party 
or the  joint incumbancy conspiracy
 or the ....

there was
during the kold war
 a two party rig job globally
      the party of lenin and castro 
vs the party of thatcher and humphrey  
tweedle dee and tweedle dum 
its all just a very nice
     unified field really ----------------
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here’s the soviet 
exploitation system 
of a new type defined:

“ Since its origins 
the Soviet State 
has attempted to harness 
the energies of its own population
 in the service of the men 
            who took advantage
 of the popular ferment 
   in Russia in 1917
 to seize State power. ”
----------  a state system 
of a new type
created by a party of exploiters of a new type
   a state of a new type
    in the service of the elite few
of a new type 
           as against 
 party’s of the old  socialist type
in the service of liberating the working people
               from exploitation 

party’s and circles that got goinked 
out of action 
by this  siezed state of
these red new klass types 
on the way to their new type exploitation system 

socialism prole liberation therte from
nope 
nope
 the broad  workerish masses
                       of the   pop
  just got  
   an exploiting  of a new type  

and by all accounts
if ya step out of line

its worse 
then dickensian capitalism  

there only jails 
not
death  gulags around the corner from bleak house ------------- 



“One major ideological weapon
 employed to this end 
has been the claim
 that the State managers.....”

------ state managers ?
whaaaaaa ?
give us the word noam
be these beasts
part of a  inner party outer party 
the elite kremlin apes
or 
are the rest of the intelligensia 
if they fly right 
 members too
or are they another klass?

oh so many silly questions .....

like the free white yeoman fringe klass 
in the south
not slave owners
supported by slaves 

but sharing in the slave based systems better off cause at least we’re free 
that is 
if their not naughty and get gulag oppresssed ? --------

resuming the flow ....----------


 ( these state managers)
 claim
  they  are leading their own society
 and the world
      towards
 the socialist ideal

----- ie an end to exploitation ---------------

an imposibility 
 as any socialist 
-- surely any serious Marxist --
should have understood
 at once 
 --- yes an impossibility
 as in 
by the soviet system
really just  imposing
        an  exploitation 
of a new type

and how the hell is that 
  possibly a  beneficial 
(let alone necessary)  move
 leading  on toward 
  liberation from exploitation

there is either exploitation or no exploitation
right ?
and there can’t possibly be 
 progressive stages of exploitation
progressive stages as 
exploitation
 turns itself step by step 
          into its opposite
  as all “serious marxist”  should see “at once” ---------

 
----------as soon as the  reved up
workers in the plants came under 
red managers’ orders 
and  red managers’ orders 
 came under  red state orders
 and red state orders 
came under red party orders
and  red party orders came under red  central committee orders
and red cc orders came under
 red  politbureau orders 
and  red politbureau orders came under
oh  no ...stalins orders 
zoink -----------  -------------

 --- whats more not onbly is it impossible its ....----------
 
 a lie 
of mammoth proportions

 as history has revealed 
since the earliest days 
of the Bolshevik regime 


------  okay fair enough

kerensky gets topled
and we get 
lenin and go thru stalin to k and b and then
end up with gorby
a kerensky with splotches 
a  bloody senseless  circle ride 
                right ? ----------- 
 
   but what  diff might have been noam ? 
  say its russia  1917 all over again
  where was the socialist road 
                              right then and there ?----------------- 
===================================
The taskmasters have attempted 
to gain legitimacy and support 
by exploiting the aura 
of socialist ideals 
and the respect 
that is rightly accorded these ideals 

to conceal their own ritual practice
 as they destroyed every vestige 
                    of socialism. 
-------------- there was some 
                               socialism?
       vestiges remained to be destroyed ?
  till when ?     tell us all  chom chom ---------------------
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--------wally  western gibberish 
simbiotic of course 
also call this fraud the real socialism so....--------

the only alternative
to capitalist exploitation
  is -------

the 'socialist' dungeon
-------- again
what other  alternatives 
existed then
or now

i get the feeling socialism is like the new jerusalem
some day it will just drop down t on us from heaven  
and till then we need not to fall for anti christs like lenin 

we must nourish ourselves on prefiguations
 like catalonia in 37
or turin in1919 
 fleeting moments
  of   council communism 
and riotous over throw
those  
 are the true congreations  only  times of communion with the glorious free and fair future 
            our ever so brief snacks 
                 till the coming  endless banquet  ---------------
 
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  ------repeat --------



The Soviet leadership 
t portrays itself as socialist 
to protect its right to wield the club 
and Western ideologists 
adopt the same pretense
 in order to forestall 
the threat of a more free and just society 

------- oh  

now noam
is it
that lower order
rebellions 
are  held back till hope arrives
in their heads 
hope for 
 a freer juster system 

is it like believing in tinker belle 
i mean really  believing 
then and only then 
will   tink  glow again --------------
                  
This joint attack on socialism 
has been highly effective
 in undermining it 
in the modern period


---------- 
the caps say 
don’t go that way bro
its a dungeon

 but the dungeon isn’t really 
the socialist road 

don’t look that way bro 
why can’t the bros see 
the more free and just road ?

too conned to look ?
hard to see ?

not real ?

what ?
if you see it noam
why can’t the bros see it ?

oh ya need to make an intellectual effort

an effort of the mind
 the overwhelming majority
of wage heads 
are too exploited
too fatigued
 too beknighted
too bamboozled 
too beguiled 
        be able to muster  -------------------
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The ritual denunciation 
of the so-called 'socialist' States
 is replete with distortions 
and often outright lies.
Nothing is easier
 than to denounce the official enemy 
and to attribute to it any crime

: -------- but  from where
 cameth forth  your counter thoughts noam  
  thoughts that allowed you to free  your mind ? ------------------




 ----- i’ve kinda 
skipped some 
  signature chomsky
agonic rant here 
its always availible
at your local  rad store front  anyway 
and  too much
bristle krieging 
wil throw ya of the sent 
but                here’s
 noam
gettin  on with it ---------------- 
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yes lenin’s sexy 
It is also worth noting 
the great appeal of Leninist doctrine
 to the modern intelligentsia
 in periods of conflict and upheaval. 


This doctrine affords 
the 'radical intellectuals'
 the right to hold State power
 and to impose the harsh rule
 of the 'Red Bureaucracy,'


------- see its 

 good angel double domer 
 ( liberty ship socialists like noam)
vs 
 bad angel double domer 
(lenin ) -------------


 the 'new class,'

------- here it is

the new class
 this dream of the attic shut in loser

of gettin at long last
to be  large and in charge 

hey for tainted fruit
it’s  a pervasive  attraction

thats from whom
pre rev cadre 
are  recruited  ------------

 in the terms of Bakunin's
 prescient analysis a century ago

------   note he quotes
                  Bakunin
that stinking giant  elephant plop  -----------

 As in the Bonapartist State 
denounced by Marx 
they become 
the 'State priests' 
                 and 
"parasitical excrescence upon civil society"
that rules it with an iron hand.
 
------ noam not having 
a  real class notion fixed firmly in his head
sees an  oopportunist  fraction
         of an  expropriated class
  as not only a klass in itself
if not yet for itself
but a brand new klassin itself 
 albeit a non  self subsisting klass  in itself 

but rather the opposite 
a pure parasite klass in itself 
its share of the suck 
determined 
 by each individual members  rank
 in a mojo 
snake oil
   ideo-cratic 
       blood sacraficing
     pharasaical  ruling  state apparatus 

like the aztecs had 

playing no materially necessary roles at all
purely  
totally absolutely
          dispensible 
a  vampire class

worse even
then  rentiers
who are only
the  vampire fraction of a klass
that has some functional types too 
and even 
not like feudal clerics 
themselves but 
the  landlord class 
(fandango division)
no this new klass
of state managers 
are 
 a pure stand alone  fandango klass 

you may ask
what about 
the intellectuals ?

what are they ?
are they a a a .....what ?  ...a social ummm group?

 regrettably they seemto play
 a still  indispensible role

no red system know 
  that’s  without some experts 

not yet any way 

but  the hack party state  management cadre 
are here and a new klass of exploiters 


 plain new 
pure  
blood suckers 
no more no less 

shit its so proto jacobin 
wheres my axe ?----------


  ----------why  how 18th century  you  are noam ! ----------------------
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In periods 
when there is little challenge
 to State capitalist institutions
 the same fundamental commitments
 lead the 'new class' 
to serve as State managers and ideologists,
 "beating the people with the people's stick,"
 in Bakunin's words. 
It is small wonder 
that intellectuals find the transition
 from 'revolutionary Communism'
 to 'celebration of the West' 
such an easy one,
replaying a script 
that has evolved from tragedy to farce 
over the past half century. 
----------- burgers are what burgers do
but a new class noam?

  one that can morph back to a burger klass
why make up the diff then ?

use 
occams razor 
makes em the  one same klass 
they really always are 
still burger after all this revoltin ------------------

In essence, all that has changed
 is the assessment 
of where power lies. 
Lenin¹s dictum 
that "socialism is nothing 
but state capitalist monopoly
 made to benefit the whole people," 


the people  must of course
 trust the benevolence 
of their leaders
----  this nicely ---------- 
 expresses the perversion
 of 'socialism' 
to the needs of the State priests
, and allows us to comprehend 
the rapid transition 
between positions
 that superficially seem 
diametric opposites,
 but in fact are quite close

-----  as in post 89 eastern europe 

this is the convergence egg fry 
   only cooked up   over hard
 vs say
a  galbraiths 
         sunny side up ------------- 
====================
The terminology 
of political and social discourse
 is vague and imprecise

----- boy ain’t you  been showin that here  noamy -------------

 and constantly debased 
by the contributions 
of ideologists 
of one or another stripe

----- implication
the sir noams of the peoples  round table 
    by contrast
being of pure just heart
and sound free mind 
  view all
  from  camelots castle keep towers

outward past 
 green meadows sweet  

to tin town and poison river city  --------------
----- finally 
    here comes the love train keeds -------------

 . 
Since its origins, 
socialism has meant 
the liberation of working people 
from exploitation. 

------see where i got that from ------------


As the ---- council comunist --------
          Marxist theoretician
 Anton Pannekoek observed,
 "this goal is not reached 
and cannot be reached 
by a new directing and governing class
 substituting itself for the bourgeoisie," 
but can only be
 "realized by the workers themselves
 being master over production." 


Mastery over production 
by the producers 
is the essence of socialism

------- is this just the first def 
pulled from the  back end
 forward thru its front door -----------  

and means to achieve this end
have regularly been devised
 in periods of revolutionary struggle, 
against the bitter opposition 
of the traditional ruling classes 
and the 'revolutionary intellectuals' 
guided by the common principles 
of Leninism 
and Western managerialism
as adapted to changing circumstances.
 But the essential element 
of the socialist ideal remains: 
to convert the means of production
 into the property 
of freely associated producers
and thus the social property 
of people who have liberated themselves
 from exploitation by their master
,as a fundamental step
 towards a broader realm 
of human freedom

------aka the jump to the new jerusalem -------- 

=============================
The Leninist intelligentsia
 have a different agenda.
 They fit Marx's description 
of the 'conspirators'
 who "pre-empt the developing revolutionary process"
 and distort it
 to their ends of domination; 
"Hence their deepest disdain 
for the more theoretical enlightenment 
of the workers 
about their class interests," 
which include the overthrow 
of the Red Bureaucracy 
and the creation of mechanisms
 of democratic control 
over production and social life. 
For the Leninist, 
the masses must be strictly disciplined, 
while the socialist 
will struggle to achieve
 a social order
in which discipline 
"will become superfluous" 
as the freely associated producers 
"work for their own accord" (Marx). 

Libertarian socialism, furthermore,
 does not limit its aims 
to democratic control 
by producers over production,
 but seeks to abolish 
all forms of domination and hierarchy
 in every aspect
of social and personal life, 
an unending struggle, 
since progress in achieving 
a more just society 
will lead to new insight 
and understanding 
of forms of oppression 
that may be concealed 
in traditional practice
 and consciousness. 
===================================
The Leninist antagonism
 to the most essential features 
of socialism 
was evident from the very start.
 In revolutionary Russia, 
Soviets and factory committees
 developed as instruments 
of struggle and liberation, 
with many flaws, 
but with a rich potential. 

Lenin and Trotsky, 
upon assuming power, 
immediately devoted themselves 
to destroying the liberatory potential 
of these instruments,
 establishing the rule 
of the Party,
 in practice 
its Central Committee 
and its Maximal Leaders 
- exactly as Trotsky had predicted 
years earlier, 
as Rosa Luxembourg 
and other left Marxists 
warned at the time, 
and as the anarchists 
had always understood.
Not only the masses,
 but even the Party 
must be subject to 
"vigilant control from above,"
 so Trotsky held 
as he made the transition 
from revolutionary intellectual
 to State priest.
Before seizing State power
, the Bolshevik leadership 
adopted much of the rhetoric 
of people 
who were engaged
 in the revolutionary struggle
 from below, 
but their true commitments 
were quite different. 
This was evident before
 and became crystal clear 
as they assumed State power 
in October 1917. 
A historian sympathetic 
to the Bolsheviks,
 E.H. Carr, writes that 
"the spontaneous inclination 
of the workers
to organize factory committees
and to intervene in the management 
of the factories
 was inevitably encourage 
by a revolution 
with led the workers to believe
 that the productive machinery 
of the country belonged 
to them 
and could be operated
 by them 
at their own discretion
 and to their own advantage" (my emphasis).
 For the workers,
 as one anarchist delegate said,
 "The Factory committees
 were cells of the future... 
They, not the State, 
should now administer." 
======================

But the State priests knew better,
 and moved at once 
to destroy the factory committees 
and to reduce the Soviets 
to organs of their rule.
 On November 3, 
Lenin announced
 in a "Draft Decree on Workers' Control" 
that delegates elected
to exercise such control 
were to be "answerable
to the State 
for the maintenance
of the strictest order and discipline
 and for the protection of property." 

As the year ended, Lenin noted 
that "we passed from workers' control
 to the creation
of the Supreme Council of National Economy,"
 which was to
 "replace, absorb and supersede
 the machinery of workers' control" (Carr).
 "The very idea of socialism 
is embodied 
in the concept of workers' control," 
one Menshevik trade unionist lamented; 
the Bolshevik leadership expressed 
the same lament in action, 
by demolishing 
the very idea of socialism. 
=======================

Soon Lenin was to decree 
that the leadership 
must assume "dictatorial powers"
 over the workers, 
who must accept 
"unquestioning submission to a single will"
 and "in the interests of socialism," 
must "unquestioningly obey the single will
of the leaders of the labour process."
As Lenin and Trotsky 
proceeded with the militarization of labour,
the transformation of the society 
into a labour army 
submitted to their single will,
Lenin explained 
that subordination of the worker
to "individual authority"
is "the system 
which more than any othe
assures the best utilization of human resources" 

-- or as Robert McNamara 
expressed the same idea, 
“vital decision-making...must remain at the top...
the real threat to democracy 
comes not from overmanagement, 
but from undermanagement"; 
"if it is not reason
 that rules man,
 then man falls short of his potential,”
 and management is nothing 
other than the rule of reason,
which keeps us free. 
At the same time, 'factionalism' -
- i.e., any modicum 
of free expression and organization 
- was destroyed 
"in the interests of socialism,”
 as the term was redefined
 for their purposes 
by Lenin and Trotsky,
 who proceeded to create
 the basic proto-fascist structures 
converted by Stalin 
into one of the horrors 
of the modern age.1 
Failure to understand 
the intense hostility 
to socialism 
on the part of 
the Leninist intelligentsia 
(with roots in Marx, no doubt), 
and corresponding misunderstanding
of the Leninist model, 
has had a devastating impact
 on the struggle 
for a more decent society
and a livable world in the West,
 and not only there.
It is necessary to find a way 
to save the socialist ideal 
from its enemies 
in both of the world's major centres of power,
 from those who will always seek
 to be the State priests
 and social managers, 
destroying freedom
 in the name of liberation. 

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