Defending Marx 9: Does Communism Need to Be Believed In?

2008/3/3 16:13:24

There are far too many self-righteous fools in this world. For example, these fools will pose questions like: "If nobody believes in communism, or if more people disbelieve than believe, can communism still be realized?"

Those who pose these questions are the quintessential self-righteous fools. Their signature trait is first taking their own understanding of so-called communism as a target, then using their pitiable brains to speculate. Such people are as numerous as the hairs on an ox, and the most debased among them use this as a con to hoodwink people into a God-like, Christianized so-called communist practice, creating so-called New Communist Persons, in order to realize their so-called communist ideal.

Anything that needs to be believed in is a swindle. Things like Christianity are exactly this. All God-like constructs need to be believed in—this is the common feature of all swindles. And to Christianize Marxian communism is the most common variety among all modern tragedies.

Marx's greatness lies in being the first to banish faith from social theory. Communism does not need faith—it needs faith no more than one needs to believe in the existence of the sun. The sun exists; it sets today and rises again tomorrow. This has nothing to do with faith. Communism is the same—believe it or not, what will be will be.

Even in a society composed entirely of people who resolutely oppose communism, the ultimate development of capital globalization will inevitably lead to two possible outcomes: first, the destruction of that society; second, communism.

Communism is the only output besides destruction. This requires no faith whatsoever.

Of course, there is a prerequisite here, and that prerequisite is: the people who make up society all die and all need to eat. Unless there exists a society composed of people who need not eat and never die, then communism will be communist just as Marx described.

All activities that treat communism as a faith have nothing to do with Marx. Of course, we can promote this process, but Christianized activities based on faith can only produce jokes and farces.

How can we hasten the arrival of communism? All activities that promote capital globalization can more quickly hasten the arrival of communism. Of course, capital globalization proceeds regardless of anyone's will—whether you believe it, want it, or not, this process inexorably and irreversibly continues. So even if no one wants to promote such activities, capital globalization will advance unstoppably.

A person who sells European male concubines to Asia, then Asian male concubines to the Americas, then American male concubines to primitive tribes in the African jungle, and so on—this person does a hundred million times more to promote communism than those who propagandize the so-called communist ideal and cultivate the so-called New Communist Person.

Everything illusory must ultimately shatter. All the tedious activities of creating New Communist Persons have historically shattered. The New Communist Persons became new human resources and new driving forces for capital globalization, swept into this inexorable historical process, and communism thereby draws ever nearer.

Communism needs no ideal, needs no faith. Communism is merely the systemic, necessary output of an inevitable historical process. Unless humanity is destroyed, communism will inevitably be communist. All of this has nothing to do with faith or ideals.