I base some of my idea of Soviet America on James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution", written during WW2:
"What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the MANAGERS (as I shal…
I base some of my idea of Soviet America on James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution", written during WW2:
"What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the MANAGERS (as I shall call them, reserving for the moment an explanation of whom this class includes). This drive will be successful. At the conclusion of the transition period the managers will, in fact, have achieved social dominance, will be the ruling class in society. This drive, moreover, is worldwide in extent, already well advanced in all nations, though at different levels of development in different nations.
There is, in truth, not a formal identity, but a historical bond uniting Stalinism (communism), Nazism (fascism), and New Dealism. Against differing developmental backgrounds and at different stages of growth, they are all managerial ideologies. They all have the same historical direction: away from capitalist society and toward managerial society."
Soviet America is the form the Global American Empire is taking at home, where the country is ruled by an managerial/technocratic/aristocratic/cultural elite and it's defined as having 1) Potemkin elections, where the Party decides the candidates and no matter who you vote for, power is never threatened and policy rarely affected, with all politicians having more or less the same (approved) beliefs and ideas; 2) having ideological loyalty oaths to the Regime (in our case DEI) as a way to weed out opponents and dissidents and keep them from gaining any sort of power, esp in re employment and college admission; and 3) most importantly, having all this fortified and the population both addled and pacified by a nonstop full-spectrum program of propaganda, where the Party and its leaders and its reigning narratives (all of them centered on vague platitudes like Progress or Hope or Love) are painted as enlightened, necessary, the natural beliefs any Good, kind person should hold, with the opposite being any dissenters or opponents become Emmanuel Goldstein (Trump, Elon, Jordan Peterson, Canadian Truckers, up to and including Matt Taibbi) and deserve nothing but hate and scorn—all this amplified by rage and anxiety-inducing algorithms.
Other aspects include mass immigration, secularization, divide-and-conquer tribalism, and the assault on our civil liberties (painting free speech etc as "dangerous" or "hurtful"), but I've already gone on too long. Hope this makes sense.
I see Soviet America as so much what I witnessed in Post Soviet Cuba. Toe the part line and you stay employed by the Govt. and the "NGO's" - don't toe the party line and you scrape it out in the gig economy. The fearless leader(s) have 5 or so multi-million dollar mansions and eat the best food and smoke the best cigars and hang out w/ world class writers (celebs) etc. Those who speak against the party line or exhibit "wrong-think" will never get hired, will not get paint or plywood to repair their homes (after Sandy etc.) so basically CANNOT survive! You are FORCED to become a good party apparatchik in order to provide for your family! We are closing in on this and w/ the Harris/Walz team- I see us as almost there! PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THEM!!!
i think whatever the supposed political system or its supposed values, most members of the ruling class (or aspirants) fantasize a set-up like this: they get to live as aristocrats with the rest of us becoming some species of servant, dependent upon them for food/housing, always pledging loyalty to stay in their good graces.
and Soviet America is a new spin on this, as most us live pretty safe lives and are stuffed with excess calories, entertained by all our devices and machines, while a combination of state surveillance and constant propaganda gradually shrinks civil society and locks in a rigid hierarchy that is veiled behind a smokescreen of spurious race&gender egalitarianism.
Soviet America, I think, only seems odd or coercive to those of us raised in the 20th century, for the screen addicts raised in this century, being programmed and policed by their devices seems natural and normal, as this is all they've ever known.
"Smurfing" = laundering millions of dollars into campaigns using identity theft
ie: "Sonia" gave 78,810 contributions to 186 different committees and campaigns since 2016...on average made 25.4 contributions 7 days a week for 8.5 years.
Heavy-hitter IT guys on this via FEC filings. Funding the "managers" and keeping them compliant.
OMG's James O'Keefe found an ACT Blue vendor table at the DNC
Thanks for asking, let's see if I can clarify.
I base some of my idea of Soviet America on James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution", written during WW2:
"What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the MANAGERS (as I shall call them, reserving for the moment an explanation of whom this class includes). This drive will be successful. At the conclusion of the transition period the managers will, in fact, have achieved social dominance, will be the ruling class in society. This drive, moreover, is worldwide in extent, already well advanced in all nations, though at different levels of development in different nations.
There is, in truth, not a formal identity, but a historical bond uniting Stalinism (communism), Nazism (fascism), and New Dealism. Against differing developmental backgrounds and at different stages of growth, they are all managerial ideologies. They all have the same historical direction: away from capitalist society and toward managerial society."
Soviet America is the form the Global American Empire is taking at home, where the country is ruled by an managerial/technocratic/aristocratic/cultural elite and it's defined as having 1) Potemkin elections, where the Party decides the candidates and no matter who you vote for, power is never threatened and policy rarely affected, with all politicians having more or less the same (approved) beliefs and ideas; 2) having ideological loyalty oaths to the Regime (in our case DEI) as a way to weed out opponents and dissidents and keep them from gaining any sort of power, esp in re employment and college admission; and 3) most importantly, having all this fortified and the population both addled and pacified by a nonstop full-spectrum program of propaganda, where the Party and its leaders and its reigning narratives (all of them centered on vague platitudes like Progress or Hope or Love) are painted as enlightened, necessary, the natural beliefs any Good, kind person should hold, with the opposite being any dissenters or opponents become Emmanuel Goldstein (Trump, Elon, Jordan Peterson, Canadian Truckers, up to and including Matt Taibbi) and deserve nothing but hate and scorn—all this amplified by rage and anxiety-inducing algorithms.
Other aspects include mass immigration, secularization, divide-and-conquer tribalism, and the assault on our civil liberties (painting free speech etc as "dangerous" or "hurtful"), but I've already gone on too long. Hope this makes sense.
I see Soviet America as so much what I witnessed in Post Soviet Cuba. Toe the part line and you stay employed by the Govt. and the "NGO's" - don't toe the party line and you scrape it out in the gig economy. The fearless leader(s) have 5 or so multi-million dollar mansions and eat the best food and smoke the best cigars and hang out w/ world class writers (celebs) etc. Those who speak against the party line or exhibit "wrong-think" will never get hired, will not get paint or plywood to repair their homes (after Sandy etc.) so basically CANNOT survive! You are FORCED to become a good party apparatchik in order to provide for your family! We are closing in on this and w/ the Harris/Walz team- I see us as almost there! PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THEM!!!
thanks for your insight.
i think whatever the supposed political system or its supposed values, most members of the ruling class (or aspirants) fantasize a set-up like this: they get to live as aristocrats with the rest of us becoming some species of servant, dependent upon them for food/housing, always pledging loyalty to stay in their good graces.
and Soviet America is a new spin on this, as most us live pretty safe lives and are stuffed with excess calories, entertained by all our devices and machines, while a combination of state surveillance and constant propaganda gradually shrinks civil society and locks in a rigid hierarchy that is veiled behind a smokescreen of spurious race&gender egalitarianism.
Soviet America, I think, only seems odd or coercive to those of us raised in the 20th century, for the screen addicts raised in this century, being programmed and policed by their devices seems natural and normal, as this is all they've ever known.
cheers!
This is a very informative, and depressing, thread.
In Cuba. I see a lot of happy people as well as poverty BUT they have healthcare?
Clever....you forgot 'JOY'...please never, NEVER forget her...
I beg your pardon?
Sorry, I was trying to be ironic....maybe came out moronic....
sorry! i will report myself to the proper authorities
It absolutely makes sense....
Just another way to describe clans of apes.
we're apes all the way down!
You forgot healthcare!
Why call it "Soviet?"
Have you heard of "Smurfing?"
Isn't that a synonym for sock-puppetry? How does that apply here?
"Smurfing" = laundering millions of dollars into campaigns using identity theft
ie: "Sonia" gave 78,810 contributions to 186 different committees and campaigns since 2016...on average made 25.4 contributions 7 days a week for 8.5 years.
Heavy-hitter IT guys on this via FEC filings. Funding the "managers" and keeping them compliant.
OMG's James O'Keefe found an ACT Blue vendor table at the DNC