- 17 Dec 2018 17:24
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I will accept your analysis that individuals seem to lay blame onto others instead of their own failings, but how is that not irrational if the blame should actually be put onto ourselves and not others? Or is it you accept that humanity can be irrational but you are highlighting the Marxist contradiction with the resentment of wealth to that of the rich man? If that is the case perhaps you have highlighted a contradiction with reasoning but the conditions are different in both cases and as such one is rational and the other isn't.
To highlight my point we need to look at both conditions. Racism in the form of Nazism is based on entitlement from previous conditions of the state - whether that be an perceived erosion of Christian values from society as you pointed out or the belief that one race is superior to others. A resentment on wealth is a resentment on class bias. You are born into a social class and what class you are born into is purely by chance. So while Nazisms reasoning of thought is based solely on a belief of what you should have is based on the colour of your skin (a factor you cannot change), Marxism is a belief that we should get out of society what you put into it (a factor of contribution). In other words one wants to discriminate on a random factor such as race and the other wants the Capitalists to not benefit of the labor of others because they were born lucky.
Victoribus Spolia wrote:Of course this is the part you would find most captivating, its the part most confirming of your own biases.
Thing is, blaming and hating the rich, which are often more near-at-hand than you would think, is equally dehumanizing, resentful, bitter, and hopeless.
If I were a communist, I would've hated the same rich Jewish neighbor, only instead of hating him for being part of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, I would have hated him for being part of a worldwide greedy capitalist elite who didn't pay me or my family members our fair share as his employees.
How is that any better? Its not.
Its the same thing and my point is that we we always blame society's problems on others instead of ourselves and our own in-group for its contributions to our world's degradation.
If you can't blame yourself and your own group for its problems in life, then you are no better than a Nazi in my opinion, for you live by a philosophy of fear.
Instead of fearing Jewish hollywood mogols, inner-city black gangs, MS13, or demographic displacement, you instead fear people who have more than you, religious people, entrepreneurs, and alienation. Its a mirror-image philosophy.
Indeed, contrary to popular belief, rich people are still people too and my rich Jewish neighbor was still a relatively good and decent man for offering us work, irrespective of the pay he offered relative to his own wealth and irrespective of his race.
If I resent him, its because of something in me, not him; contrary to nazism and marxism.
I will accept your analysis that individuals seem to lay blame onto others instead of their own failings, but how is that not irrational if the blame should actually be put onto ourselves and not others? Or is it you accept that humanity can be irrational but you are highlighting the Marxist contradiction with the resentment of wealth to that of the rich man? If that is the case perhaps you have highlighted a contradiction with reasoning but the conditions are different in both cases and as such one is rational and the other isn't.
To highlight my point we need to look at both conditions. Racism in the form of Nazism is based on entitlement from previous conditions of the state - whether that be an perceived erosion of Christian values from society as you pointed out or the belief that one race is superior to others. A resentment on wealth is a resentment on class bias. You are born into a social class and what class you are born into is purely by chance. So while Nazisms reasoning of thought is based solely on a belief of what you should have is based on the colour of your skin (a factor you cannot change), Marxism is a belief that we should get out of society what you put into it (a factor of contribution). In other words one wants to discriminate on a random factor such as race and the other wants the Capitalists to not benefit of the labor of others because they were born lucky.