We began this meditation discussing what I believe to be the two great struggles of human history and their manifestations in the fictional universe of Star Wars between the Force factions of the Sith and Jedi Orders. To reiterate, the two great struggles of human history are those between good and evil, and liberty and tyranny.
Now let us turn our attention to two real-world great struggles which I will use as examples of this understanding.
Two Great Struggles in History: Totalitarian Collectivism at its Worst
In the 20th Century humanity was confronted with two of the greatest forces for evil in the history of the earth. I refer to the movements known as National Socialism (Nazism) and International Monolithic Communism. In this section, the Jainist will show you, dear reader, in a brief and broad sense, how these two absolutist forms of collectivism are very much more similar than one may think. Further, as we continue, I will show you that the ideological foundations for both these totalitarian monsters were in fact the same.
So let's begin.
Nazism
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew...but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
-- Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question", 1844
One of the most misrepresented ideas is that Hitler and the Nazi regime started "the Jewish Question." This is farcical, as the above quote, given by modern ideological socialist founding father, Karl Marx shows. Note that his statement is 95 years before the outbreak of WWII.
It should be further understood that Adolf Hitler himself often declared that much of the doctrinal basis for Nazism originated with the ideological beliefs of Marx. Many are unaware of this truth. However, read this 1925 New York Times article in which future Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels states his belief that the difference between the "Hitler faith" and that of communism is "very slight." Goebbels' statement is an eye-opening revelation within itself. But let's look deeper, for there may be further hidden truths to the notion that the difference between the "Hitler faith" and the communist faith is "very slight."
Many are also unaware that for at least a decade before the advent of World War II, Communist Russia was already practicing industrial-scale murder in the form of both outright murder and genocide vis-a-vis starvation. For example, during the years 1929-1934 more than 2.7 million people were starved to death by the genocidal polices of Josef Stalin. This figure does not count the 7 million - MILLION - who died in 1933 alone because of Stalin's practices of food confiscation from, and then isolation of, the Ukraine.
If one adds these figures altogether, a total of greater than 9.7 million human beings lost their lives to the deliberate Stalinist practice of the Ukrainian famine of 1929-1934.
Moreover, the evidence of wholesale murder in order to suppress ethnic peoples inside the Soviet Union, and to restructure Soviet-communist society worldwide, is indisputable.
Sickening, isn't it?
Yet, these works of murder and starvation were studied by the Nazis before they ever began to contemplate "the final solution" to "the Jewish Question" inside Germany.
Think about that.
Coincidence?
Not hardly.
Communism
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon, all of which are highly authoritarian means. And the victorious party must maintain its rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted more than a day if it had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Cannot we, on the contrary, blame it for having made too little use of that authority?
-- Friedrich Engels, "Controversy with the Anarchists", 1873
To denigrate violence as something to be rejected, when we all know that in the end nothing can be achieved without violence!
-- Friedrich Engels to Wilhelm Blos, (Letter, February 21, 1874)
Comrades!... Hang...no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers ... Do it in such a fashion that for hundreds of kilometres around the people might see, tremble, know, shout: "they are strangling, and will strangle to death, the bloodsucking kulaks."
Yours, Lenin.
-- Lenin's "Hanging Order" regarding the kulak revolt in the Penza Gubernia, August, 1918
The red fist of Communism smashed down the lives of more than 100 million people worldwide. It left a bloodtrail of death from the Ukrainian famine/genocide of 1932-33 under Stalin to the Cambodian Khmer Rouge massacre of 1975. The theory of Communism has always been that once bourgeois capitalism has been overthrown, mankind could make way for the true and just governance of the proletariat and the classless basis of society. However, every time this "theory" has been practiced anywhere in the world, always the iron fist of dictatorship has followed. And such dictatorship has been loosed upon the world in the form of the unbridled murder and wholesale slaughter of innocents. There are those who say that what Lenin initiated in Russia in the early 20th Century, and what Stalin subsequently continued (and then exceeded by lightyear jumps) was not communism. That what these men did in terms of the murders of millions of people was an aberration - not in any sense of the word "communist." After all, Communism is about equality, peace, brotherhood - not murder.
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| The truth about Communism |
However, the Jainist states emphatically that the bloodthirsty history of Communism, from its inception, is the actual fruit and reality of Communism! Indeed, dictatorship and murder, not equality, is Communism! That actual history, as stated before, can be seen in the slaughter of millions of human beings planetwide from Eastern Europe to Africa to Asia to Latin America. No Communist "theory" about "true" Marxism-Leninism substitutes for the reality of death pursued in the name of this so-called brotherhood movement.
But what is the basis for this pursuit in both Nazi and Communist philosophy? Why is killing an essential ingredient in the creation of the Nazi and Communist man?
The Nazi-Communist's "New Man": The Doctrinal Basis for Dictatorship & Killing
...there are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes. -- V. I. Lenin (“Lessons of the Commune,” Collected Works, Vol. 13, p. 478)
The historical record is quite clear: once the Communist technique of subversion had run its course, and once the Communists had come to power in any country - it didn't matter where - they then proceeded to ruthlessly restructure the society by imprisoning, exiling, or outright murdering at least ten percent of the population. This included landowners, intellectuals, teachers, scientists, and especially those who resisted the Communist takeover, or, in particular, those who aided it to seize power in the first place.
One may ask, "Why? Aren't these some of the best people who would be needed to help rebuild the society and inoculate it against bourgeois ideas?"
A valid question.
But one which misses the more subtle point of Communist control. The point is to capture the minds of the target population by subjugating their will to the control of communism. The further point is to socially engineer the society so as to make it "more fit."
"More fit for what?" you ask.
Another valid question.
And here is the answer.
Ignore for a moment that this video focuses on Chinese communism. What I want you to get from this is Communism's assertion that it is the supposed answer to the ills of the world, and that its formula for the creation of a new society, a new kind of human being freed from the oppression of selfish individualism, is the correct model for the salvation of the world. And in the fuller context of the Communist "new man," we are to see from this video that it is society, as a whole, which has benefited from the enforced dictatorship of the proletariat. And because the people have not yet come to the realization that they must be lead to the paradise of egalitarianism, an enlightened few will act in the name of the greater masses of the people and lead them to paradise on earth, by force if necessary. For the greater good. This includes killing those who resist coming into alignment with the new reality imposed by the proletariat dictatorship, because, after all, they are too ignorant and set in the fallacies of the old ways to see the truth. They cannot be changed. And thus they must be eliminated, for their own good. And for the greater good.
But what is the Nazi counterpart to this idea?
While Communism preaches the notion of a new man based upon a false sociology, Nazism was equally interested in creating a new man based upon a false biology. We all have been taught to recognize the phony Nazi idea of the superior Aryan man, and thus the Jainist thinks there no need to quantitatively explain it to the majority of you. Suffice it to restate, however, Hitler's notion was that his "faith," as Goebbels put it, would create a new, superior form of life based upon the eradication of biologically inferior human beings. These humans expressed their biological inferiority culturally, intellectually, socially, even spiritually, by their inability to advance civilization, to defend themselves against "the stronger race(s)," and most significantly, by their inability to impose their way of life on the rest of the world. Planet Earth, therefore, belonged to the Aryan ubermensch and no one else.
Thus, in both Nazi and Communist philosophy we see the seeds of totalitarian control rooted in a false understanding of human nature. Both movements disagree with the human being as he or she is constituted. Both philosophies are at war with human nature as it is. And thus both ideas believe that if the enemies of the new human man do not give up, do not submit, they must be exterminated -- without mercy.
However, where did these two totalitarian siblings get their principles from? Modern-day Marxist apologists would have us believe that Hitler got it all wrong when he supposed to exterminate whole groups of people based upon their racial and national distinctions. But is this the truth?
The Jainist says NO! In point of fact, if one examines the writings of Marx and Engels, the Jainist says that Hitler indeed correctly interpreted the founding fathers of his philosophy.
Marx and Engels: Believers in the Universal Brotherhood of Man?
Don't get your briefs in a twist when I tell you that nothing can be further from the truth! Both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were entrenchedly prejudice - not simply against black Africans or their descendants as is often asserted, but of Jews, Slavs, and many others. Observe just a few quotes.
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| Two villains of history |
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
-- Karl Marx to Antoinette Philips (Letter, March 24, 1861)
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...the Jewish Nigger, Lassalle... it is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother had not interbred with a nigger. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product. The obtrusiveness of the fellow is also nigger-like. -- Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels (Letter, July 1862), in reference to his socialist political competitor, Ferdinand Lassalle
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Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
-- Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, (Letter, 1865)
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We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.
-- Friedrich Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, April 29, 1849
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.
-- Karl Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov, (Letter, December 28, 1846)
Now put your fists up and praise your ideological fathers, ye black, Asian, Latin, and other non-Germanic, non-white Communists and socialist laborers for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the dictatorship of the master race, these men who hated you with all the vitriol and passion within their being!
The Specter Haunting the World
How Do These Two Philosophies Relate to Our Primary Thesis?
The Jainist doesn't believe there to be too much question in most people's minds that both Nazism and Communism represented two of the greatest forces for evil and tyranny in the history of the world. In fact it is my personal belief that International Communism was the worst of these two, and that it was the most heinous personification of evil ever faced by humankind to date.
Do not misunderstand.
I have no love for Nazism whatsoever!
I simply believe - based upon my own studies of the shear quantity of people killed, and the long, extended international reach of Communism, coupled with the fact that it was a more insidious, sophisticated, and subtler form of tyranny, and, finally, that the Nazis learned much of their techniques of enslavement from the Communists - that the international Red Menace was a far greater threat than history has given it credit for being.
To state my conclusion, however, Communism and Nazism, despite revisionist and apologist claims, destroyed the lives of nearly 130 million people combined. Nazism learned from its senior blood brother how to carry out the socialist cause, and Communism both preceded and succeeded Nazism in this endeavor long after the "Hitler faith" had been put down.
Both movements proved themselves a rabid, wild dog dedicated to conquest, murder, and domination.
If an individual can look at these atrocities and not regard them as acts of evil and tyranny, quite frankly the Jainist considers such a person inept in both their intellect and their moral conscience.
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| Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao |
These men set the world stage for a century and a half of bloody totalitarian slaughter that has been unequaled in all planetary history. The specter haunting the world, to paraphrase Karl Marx, was not free markets, the rich, the middle class, nor those who create wealth.
The specter haunting the world is collectivism in all its heinous and destructive forms. The specter haunting the world is fascist socialism. And the specters of Nazism and Communism were its worst adherents in the history of the earth.
How Do These Two Philosophies Relate to Our Primary Thesis?
The Jainist doesn't believe there to be too much question in most people's minds that both Nazism and Communism represented two of the greatest forces for evil and tyranny in the history of the world. In fact it is my personal belief that International Communism was the worst of these two, and that it was the most heinous personification of evil ever faced by humankind to date.
Do not misunderstand.
I have no love for Nazism whatsoever!
I simply believe - based upon my own studies of the shear quantity of people killed, and the long, extended international reach of Communism, coupled with the fact that it was a more insidious, sophisticated, and subtler form of tyranny, and, finally, that the Nazis learned much of their techniques of enslavement from the Communists - that the international Red Menace was a far greater threat than history has given it credit for being.
To state my conclusion, however, Communism and Nazism, despite revisionist and apologist claims, destroyed the lives of nearly 130 million people combined. Nazism learned from its senior blood brother how to carry out the socialist cause, and Communism both preceded and succeeded Nazism in this endeavor long after the "Hitler faith" had been put down.
Both movements proved themselves a rabid, wild dog dedicated to conquest, murder, and domination.
If an individual can look at these atrocities and not regard them as acts of evil and tyranny, quite frankly the Jainist considers such a person inept in both their intellect and their moral conscience.
In the last part of this series we will devote ourselves exclusively to an examination of how these two abominations can be related to the Sith-Jedi conflict in the fiction of Star Wars. We will deal with the matter of good and evil as represented between the two Force orders, and how their age-old internal struggle set the fictional galaxy "far, far away" aflame. There are lessons.
Until then...
To the upward reach of man.
