Exposition for the 21st Centurion
The Anno Domini of Trillenium
Marxism: A Fallacy
A Brief Analysis of Contradictions to Question
the Communist Myth of Social Equality
& Engage Liberals to Accept Reality
Source: www.wikipedia.com
The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx
Marx’s thought demonstrates influences from many thinkers including, but not limited to: The philosophy of Lycurgus, including the forceful and equal redistribution of resources (land) and the equality of all citizens
Lycurgus (lawgiver of Sparta) who established the military-orientated reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. His reforms promoted the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness, and austerity.
The Spartan Constitution or Politeia (believed to have been formulated and established by Lycurgus): supported a rigidly “layered social system” and strong military.
Lycurgus is believed to have been behind the Spartan Constitution. Legend has it that Lycurgus forbade any written constitution, therefore it was presumed to have been oral.
Contradiction:
A layered social system does not reflect the Communist Manifesto’s ideals of equality among citizens. In fact it is just the opposite.
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Source: http://www.civilization.org.uk
How was Sparta organized? We have two very good sources for our knowledge. One is the biographer Plutarch (AD 50 – 120) who wrote a series of parallel lives, one of which was the life of Lycurgus, a more or less mythical Spartan king to whom the Spartan constitution was always attributed. The other is the adventurer and writer Xenophon, best known for his description of how he led a group of Greek mercenary soldiers back from the Black Sea to Athens. He went to live near Sparta and a constitution of Sparta is attributed to him.
The economic basis was provided by the Messenians, who had been captured by the Spartans in the seventh century and were now kept as an underclass called helots. There was considerable discussion then and even now as to whether or not helots were slaves. It depends on the definition of slavery: in a way they were not slaves in that each had his own property, but this was tightly controlled and they were compelled to give up half of their produce to their masters and provide the food that Spartan’s had at the common mess.
The Helots were kept in control by a form of secret police known as the Krypteia, which means secret people. Young Spartans were required as part of their training to make excursions into Messenia, hiding out by day and emerging at night to knife any Helot who was suspected of becoming too bolshie or in modern term, bolshevik. This could be called murder of course, which would bring down divine retribution, but in order to prevent this, every year the Spartans declared war on the Helots so that they could be murdered with impunity.
The Spartans were great believers in equality for their own kind, and the Lycurgan system is an excellent example of what is involved in promoting a successful socialist campaign for Helots to keep Spartans as masters. Theoretically at any rate, all Spartans were equal: they were called Homoioi, or ‘The Equals’, and Lycurgus is said to have parcelled out the land of Sparta in equal lots; though as usual, when the aim of equality is pursued, some soon become more equal than others, as they make full claim to their lot.
Contradiction:
Deduced from the above, the Spartans were great believers of inequality for the social whole and upheld fascist ideals from their inner class structure. Affirming Spartan history to the Marxist Communist perspective appears to be as mythic and vague as the consistency of Greco-Roman spiritism and written poetics (philosophies). Lyrcurgus appears to be attributed to much thought of equal social law with no tangible evidence to support Liberal claims and ideologies.
In order to impose Spartan equality (or hierarchy from the vast perspective), State education was the rule from birth. This education is not reflective of what mass society experiences as education today. When children were born they were brought before the elders and any that appeared to be unfit to be deemed as ‘equal’ by the measure of the elders scales were exposed on the mountainside. At the age of seven they were enrolled in the ‘herd’ controlled by a leader and a squad of assistants equipped with whips. The training was tough and they were only allowed one cloak a year and from the age of 13 they were no longer allowed a tunic. They had to go barefoot and were given the minimum of food. If they wanted more food, they were encouraged to steal it, though if they were caught stealing, they were always soundly whipped, not for stealing, but for getting caught. The education could be understood today as a form of primitive capitalism: if one wanted to accumulate capital (i.e. food) one first had to undergo the risks of getting whipped. Needless to say, these trials were not tribulative for everyone. Reason can declare this process of selection to be viewed as an example of Darwinism’s survival of the fittest model as a social construct under the microscope of one civilization’s time. However, time does not cease and an argument exists that Rome never fell with monuments and columns but instead persisted and thrives within the societal structures of the Western world today.
η αντίσταση είναι μάταιη:
Gathered from the above, Spartan “Communist” ideals are not reflected as socially just, equal, and fair as humanists adhere to belief in today’s notion of the concept.. The method of selection was arduous, rigid, course, and full of penalty. Karl Marx is debunked as a hooligan with simple deductions in reasoning and his philosophical theoretics are based off tailoring Roman hearsay to reflect his stance; attributed to conning masses of liberal thinkers into a eutopic delusion of socially considerate economics. As a conservative Republican (if forced by death to side with a party as I do not partake in politics), I am bemused that liberals have been hooded into believing in a caste structure of Spartan equality as Socialistically just by Marxist rhetorics. More shockingly, Liberals have grasped the myth of Democracy based off traditional Greco-Roman school of thought for centuries! Quite simply, Democracy does not exist by liberal conception and politically never existed as well. If Liberal naivety falls into the delusion of Socialism I applaud with unforgiving hands; I might as well declare myself as Athena, Goddess of the Acropolis and observe them slither and dwell inside the cubic pits of the measured constraints that Marxism truly is. Socialists will squander in equality as they neighbor together enjoying the fruits of forced labor and dole their earnings to my table. Hitler spoke passionately against Marxism to expose the dream as the snare that it is. From the top down perspective, Hitler deserved appraised recognition for attempting to allow chance for commoners to escape the socialist snare, yet from the bottom up perspective he was overtly extremist and clearly became frenzied in the attempt to exterminate what he felt was the end all plague to righteous civility, therefore expounding to treacherous displays of attempts at urgent genocide. When one raises a flag for their country’s liberty it may be seen as an act of heroism, yet climbing the mount with it alone to the sun is syndromatically Icarius. The question is not if Fascism is better or worse than Communism, the question is, “How are Fascism and Communism any different from one another?” From the top down perspective they are comprehended as one and the same. Hitler’s regime sprawled to occupy both sides of the fence, further blurring the lines of political myth and reality.
Conclusively, this introspection not only affirms that Democracy does not exist as reality but also further leads to expose my intrinsic belief that politics in itself does not exist as reality, Democrats and Republicans do not exist as reality, and political parties (red, blue, and others) merely ‘exist’ to perpetuate common members of society (modern day Helots) into the belief that they are not secretly ruled and run by the one existing party that is a reality and not a myth: Oligarchy. Today’s Spartans are Oligarchs.
Unfortunately for Democrats and Republicans, Oligarchy is not a ballot voting option. The spinning wheel of the rat race is classically fervent. Individualism is as illusionistic as the rodent’s free will in choosing a better maze. The rodent remains a rodent, the mazes remain as mazes, and the wheel inside will continue to spin as it always has and most likely always will.