Schneeberg-SovietCapitalism

Home ** Soviet Capitalism ** Opinion piece by: Neil Schneeberg Grade: 10 For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. With materialism, the mass desire to acquire things, came religion, which preaches of the importance of the immaterial, of spiritual pleasures. In reality though, materialism is too a religion, and all actions and reactions can only be within the same paradigm, the same framework of thought. With the rise of economic capitalist globalization, the reaction was Communism, the most obvious example being in Soviet Russia. Still though, Communism and capitalism remain within the same structure of thought; the thought of the State, and the thought network of slavery. If you look closer, you'll see that Communism //is// capitalism, and both are bondage, both are debt. If I work in a factory then I am //owned,// my ability to labor is in theory in possession of another. It does not make a difference to me whether I am employed by a private enterprise or the State for in both of them my time and abilities are claimed by someone else. Both pursue the myth of property; the idea that a person has a "right" to material objects either through the act of "equivalent" exchange or just for being Human. In reality might is right. Merely switching the individual exploiter for the collective exploiter of the State does not end exploiting, it furthers it! There cannot be freedom in a society where there is coerced work, and especially not in a society where work is glorified.The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called these reactions like religion and Communism "re-sentiment." The slave looks up at the master and sees what he values as good and so labels it evil. The slave does not look inward for her values but derives them purely from reaction to her oppressors. He does not rebel because his own values are violated, but because he has accepted his master's moral paradigm as his own and as such is only capable of "re-sentiment," the re-direction of values instead of the creation of one's own. This can only alter the roles of master and slave, the slave not seeking to end slavery, but make all a slave. This is what happened with Soviet Russia in relation to capitalism. Soviet Communism did not solve the problem of capitalism.