And now in pointing out problems with the socialist economic model and implementation, and before one gets to the mechanics of a theory so not connected with empirical reality that it has become non-reality, I begin with its moral failure:
ERH again:
"The Bolsheviks challenged the old rule that in a misfortune a man does not argue against his country. They deserted old Russia. The desertion made them discover Judas.
The martyr Judas is extolled in both psychoanalytical and Communist literature. One might expect the successful ruler of Jesus' day, Caesar Augustus, to be hailed as the model; but Augustus is not mentioned. The pagan emperor has no connection with the history of our soul; Judas has. The revolutionaries prefer to set up Judas, the permanent natural and pre-Adamite force within ourselves, in opposition to the perfect man who healed Adam's wound.
In human history, in so far as it dates from Adam and Jesus, the pre-Adamite is represented by the traitor. 'No manual worker can be virtuous,' said Aristotle.
Modern society has to recognize that man, in so far as he is a cog in the machine, must be looked upon as frail, unreliable, traitorous--and all this not from bad intentions, but through his lasting weakness, helplessness, fear, and disappointment. But this recognition does not mean that exalted heroism or the virtues of strength and faith and reliability are abolished or denied. Only, the mass man in his tribal fears and nightmares cannot reach them."(ERH, Oor, p.109-110)
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