Smoke A Little Dope? -- Say WHAT? -- The Recipe of Bolsheviks of Old.

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LITTLE DOPE”, …  (look at these characters).

With the winding down of the wars as formerly prosecuted in the Middle East (principally in Afghanistan and Iraq), presumably as well the so – called “war on drugs” is being relaxed for the time being and thus a principal conflict as carried on by the U.S. Military and somewhat by coalition partners for more than thirteen years so far, and to every pessimist and naysayer, seems to have been without the kind of social and economic utility that one expects from traditional “boots on the ground” - type warfare since even the time of Clausewicz. It is important to note the current military and paramilitary conflicts in Northern Iraq and Syria, again involving tribal warfare and that of warlords, probably will not taper off for a while, whether or not the US continues or avows the causes of people like the Kurds and so forth. Since some time ago, and even before the Iran / Iraq war of some time ago, the Kurds were fighting the occupiers of their territories, presumably Kurdistan, and those occupiers were the same groups now involved in the strife in that area again. The Kurds are a minority in a Northern Middle East territory that were a bother and therefore marked for extinction by neighbors, of which the Iraqi Hussein regime during the late 1970's and early to mid – 1980's. No one wants to remember the essentially peaceful Kurds having to take up arms to defend their homes against invaders and / or flee their homeland by way of any means possible, including by the airlines to parts unknown where they assimilated and disappeared into crowded populaces, as did the culture of Kurdistan they carried with them, and most of home was forgotten by those refugees who actually managed to escape the forces invading at home. The attitude of the invaders and the Syrians, etc., opposing the Kurds and rebels in those areas to – day is they are good for nothing and need make way for the “postmodern” and hegelian (even those who read Engels) everyman from the delineated areas and their corresponding military forces, many of whom worship the former soviet military model and some of its views and practices still pervasive in Russian Federation society at this time still. This includes perhaps an unofficial phalanx of ruling society featuring “urbane” types, a political party structure that imitates immovable royalty and some other things Lenin and Leon Trotsky would be proud of today.

October is a terrific month for conflict, of which the resolution of the sudden chaos and abandon of the Russian Revolution (1917), and that of the very long Chinese Communist Revolution that ended in 1949. It is also the month of the famous Yom Kippur War, the Battle of Trafalgar, the beginning of the Long March of the Chinese Revolution, that of the Battle of Passchendaele, the First Battle of Ypres, and ironically that of the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648. The list goes on of notable things without there being a laundry list of disaster after disaster. That the Middle East wars are winding down, as are the legacy of 2000 – 2008 statecraft and the democratic Cold War legacy as former communist states withdraw into themselves as led into it by the Russian leadership, and the tampering as well with the war on drugs are anything but peaceful portents: People just continue to get more and more wound at the prospect of facing opposing leadership as they get older given the Cold War and other conflicts showed the deficiencies of the forgetfulness and continuous renewal of things as represented by the international left, including an elitist permissiveness for things like trafficking of various sorts. That the left today even in the US is preoccupied with curing social ills and socioeconomic inequities, it is perhaps a paradox the left started these sorts of things in their modern form and in concentrating on these issues with public and solicitous private campaigns, it glorifies and highlights these sorts of things that are at best perfidious, lousy intrigue and extremely hazardous, and destructive at their most benign. Comments invited.

Sur "Attali sur Marx" -- un sommaire de son discours en 2006.

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SOMMAIRE EN BREF -- CONFERENCE SUR MARX – OCTOBRE 2006 – JACQUES ATTALI (IMPRIME PAR EDITIONS PLEINS – FEUX , 2006)

Au moment où l’on parle de Karl Marx à ce point, malgré le discours de M. Attali en 2006, une date récente, on ne puisse guère parler que de son legs quoique pratique quoiqu’intellectuel et dont l’opinion d’autant de marxistes soit également que l’intérêt des écrits de Marx dépasse celui de tous les romans du monde.  Le mouvement mondial du marxisme soit en effet une politique internationale caractérisée par une humanité très personnelle dans l’engagement de la théorie communiste / socialiste.  Dans les dernières années de sa vie, Marx avait tel inquiétude au sujet de l’usage de ses théories et dans lesquelles on ait fait tel confiance à l’époque.  La potence des théories de Marx avait pour un temps une bienveillante domicile en France en cause de quelques faiblesses dans le système d’enseignement dont on n’a pas considéré de tous les propres côtés.   Le statut de la religion auprès du Marxisme considérait l’échelle du monde à laquelle nous nous trouvons, et son influence parme les personnes fascinantes dont Mao T’se – toung et son « Le petit livre rouge » donnant une collection de locutions fascinantes. 

Né dans la Rhénanie allemande, et créant une théorie politique et économique de l’utopie, une fois construites et éventuellement effondrée et discréditées, les idées de Marx ont caractérisée des barbaries, etc., du XIXème siècle, qui ont bloqué une bonne mondialisation et une réussite éventuelle et encore la bonne mondialisation dans le XXème siècle.  Toutefois, il y a des liens en commun entre l’histoire personnelle de Marx et le trajet de cette politique qu’il inventait dont le destin extrême et le rapport administratif eux – mêmes de ses théories.  Marx naquit en 1818, et fût élevé dans l’absence de la religion et au moment donné dans sa jeunesse tombait facilement sous l’influence hégelienne.  Son père était avocat, et il suit donc son père dans ses études de droit premièrement à Bonn et plus tard à Berlin à l’âge de 18 ans.  Hegel pour Karl Marx représentait une philosophie allemande, érudite dans les idées, s’agissant de la liberté sociale contre la monarchie ; et un esprit de siège du monde contre Hegel.  Dans ses études parallèlement, il fréquentait Engels, un personnage de famille d’industriels.  Depuis un bureau de droit à Trèves, son père paya les études de droit de Marx et assurait sa voie envers l’obtention du diplôme en même temps. Marx renonce à l’idée de devenir professeur de droit à la fin de ses études, et grâce au modèle de sa philosophie exprimât le propos de devenir le plus grand homme d’idées allemandes au XIXème siècle – ceci fût pendant le temps où il rencontrât Engels pour la première fois et son père est mort à l’époque aussi.  En ce temps, il relit la philosophie et lit tous les économistes du jour qui auraient pesé sur ses théories :  Celles – ci, d’une grande partie basées sur une réalité économique et politique que cultivent la société.  A la fois, il rencontre aussi « Jenny », sa femme, et avec qui il fait un voyage des noces.  Il est possible, étant donné aussi le trajet de la vie de Marx et les réflexions sur ses pensées dont certains citations, que le bien de ses théories indiquait en même temps une haine de soi.  Pareillement, il haït les systèmes de croyances religieuses, et en commençant à publier ses articles, sembla aimer Hegel et son existentialisme. 

Il s’est décidé à rester en Allemagne, mais en était chassé avec sa famille dû aux activités de son Ligue Communiste ; et donc se trouvèrent à Bruxelles à l’âge de 29 ans où il embauche son appel à la politique mondiale de ses théories, etc.  Aussi pendant ce temps, il perd dans la pauvreté trois de ses six enfants, et à la suite déménageait à Londres où il refuse de travailler.  Il était finalement devenu correspondant pour un grand journal new yorkais, le « New York Daily Tribune » et fût publié fréquemment dans ses écrits en continuant à écrire ses tomes et ayant en ce temps un enfant avec une bonne qui nettoya la pièce de la famille.  En ce temps aussi, il travailla dans les syndicats et publia son « Le Capital » en 1867 au moment où il concentrait encore sur le « Socialiste Internationale ».  Bismarck en ce temps avait fait des liens aux communistes / socialistes pour réunir l’Allemagne administratif et politique, et Marx fût devenu, à partir de 1871, le cause célèbre et patron majeur du communisme / socialisme mondial. 

La suite de ces mouvements politiques et économiques, surtout au niveau des compromis allemands dans la politique qui étaient pour Marx des coups réussites, engendrait pour le Marxisme une piste et sillons sur sillons de barbaries idéologiques et pratiques qui saignaient l’histoire des états ayant accepté le communisme / socialisme.  Le Commune de Paris, et la suite d’évènements Marxistes dès 1871 ont fait preuve de quelques de ses idées dans les ombres :  la paupérisation, celles des grandes entreprises mondiales et le pouvoir industriel partout, et une baisse dans le taux de profit pour l’industrie dans le monde développé.  D’autres points, dont la dictature du prolétariat de Marx, servit pour quelques de se débarrasser du monde du capital en vue d’une « économie de liberté » selon lui.  

the new socialist regime and the french republic.



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The recent regime change in France amid renewed socialist fervor in that country, mostly due to the same economic and political conditions that brought Francois Mitterand to office in that country some years ago, poses a threat to political realities everywhere given the, again newfound, positivism in French politics these days.  Socialism in France has a different flavor than that fostered by the soviet communists in the old days:  Whereas the soviets relied primarily on principles close to strict Marxism, French socialism is an effort in theory to build, or re – build a utopia using the principles of liberalism that appear to its own socialists to be the best means to accomplish this end.  Remember France has a quite popular anti – conservative and anti – royalist tradition that is bounded by ordinary civilized politics and administration including frequent instances of civil disobedience, activism, and administrative rabble – rousing and ‘stirring the pot.’  What does this mean?  The first thing to remember is the French socialists, not their communist party that no longer really exists; but their socialists believed in more sterilized and scientific approaches to ousting conservatives than the sort of bank – robbing and gun – slinging many soviet communists favored even in more modern times.  This had American administrations believing for a long time that it was possible to live with a strongly socialist French president Mitterrand, though it is well – known Mitterrand so loathed the right he was willing to embrace the right in the USSR at the time more than the Americans, though this ideal fizzled with the end of the soviet system in 1991 or so.  

 

The socialists in France have already proven to be more glamorous than their conservative predecessors as subsequent to their troop reductions in the Afghanistan war they have far – flung operations in Mali in the conflicts there at this point.  Mitterrand concentrated on Tchad for a while and New Caledonia as well as places to send troops to fight.  The French socialists regimes almost rely as heavily on the military for security and self - assurance than their soviet analogs had done in the day given the emphasis in soviet times on the intrigues and unwinding plots and plans of the state organs.  The French federal constitution allows for more political and civic freedoms for its citizens than the old soviet one did, and thus the willful demonstrations of security forces and the military are less stark under French socialism than in the former soviet times.  The reasons for this are palpable and evident to anyone who has visited the French capitol where any number of ethnicities have their territories and social cliques, and where there are many conflicted interests as a result, not to mention the ordinary operations of the police bureaus and Interior Ministry personnel.  What do socialist French regimes, as that of Francois Hollande that follows the regime of Nicolas Sarkozy, invite and engender besides a varietal form of liberal regime in Western Europe?  It is difficult to speculate, though every Marxist for years has pointed to the leftist regimes in France, and their capitalist – compatible form of socialism despite the open admiration of some officials there for the soviets, as a successful form of liberalism in which the state provides a social net, education, military readiness, a well – trained police force, rule of law administration, and other principles un – characteristic of typical socialist regimes.  These principles nonetheless apply to those within the party, as the French socialists appear to depend upon widespread party support for success in elections and do not necessarily reach across party lines for votes, nor for moral nor financial support.  Informally mentioning the closely knit socialist elite in France as a candidate for the actual mantle of worldwide Marxism after the end of the USSR is a possibility, and with an internal French will to a utopic view of a liberal regime, again, instead of one that emphasizes the cult of personality and secrecy, and machinations of the organs under what was soviet Russia and its satellites.  This is no apology for either soviet regimes, nor at all for the utopic socialists in France and elsewhere (including in places like P.R.C., Southeast Asia, South America, the Middle East and Africa, … .)  It is a writing purposefully and briefly proposed to bring issue awareness to a new type of leftist politics that muddies the political / economic waters that were cleared by the end of the cold war and the abandoning of communism.  Remember one attraction of this is upon the end of the USSR, considerable numbers of communists and leftists, some of whom were very accomplished people under the old regime, were cast out and they have been waiting in the wings for their fortunes to rise again through a resurgence of any liberal regimes in Europe or anywhere.  Such individuals and their associates and families have eked out a bitter existence for years since the early 1990’s despite their respectability under the leftist values of old.  A question proposed by this writing as well is what should be done with these parties who were cast aside and who have found a resurgence in new liberal regimes in Europe and elsewhere.  How should they be treated, and should they be legitimized anew by their values as subscribed by regimes such as the current one in France and the important place of that now leftist country in the community of nations, and in the world opinion that is formed commonly starting in the villages and hamlets yearning for a better life everywhere.