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I differ in that I don't view a common global civilization as being inevitable or preferable because even though I call myself a communist I am also a nationalist. I see a common global civilization with aims for a world government or assembly as a tragedy, it seeks to destroy human biological diversity creating a monolith uniformity which in my mind is grotesque. I believe nationalism and world class revolution is possible which separates me from most communists. I also believe that human prejudices will always remain where trying to stamp them all out is a fool's errand, the goal is to force people to cooperate with each other, but that doesn't mean they have to like each other or that all identity should be stripped away.![]()
I don't think Marx would disagree with that, though he would say a class revolution has to be global.
Communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in its sentimental or in its highflown ideological form; they rather demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The Communists do not preach morality at all.
They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that egoism, just as much selflessness, is in definite circumstances a necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals. Hence, the Communists by no means want to do away with the "private individual" for the sake of the "general", selfless man. That is a statement of the imagination.
Communist theoreticians, the only Communists who have time to devote to the study of history, are distinguished precisely by the fact that they alone have discovered that throughout history the "general interest" is created by individuals who are defined as "private persons". They know that this contradiction is only a seeming one because one side of it, what is called the "general interest", is constantly being produced by the other side, private interest, and in relation to the latter is by no means an independent force with an independent history — so that this contradiction is in practice constantly destroyed and reproduced. Hence it is not a question of the Hegelian "negative unity" of two sides of the contradiction, but of the materially determined destruction of the preceding materially determined mode of life of individuals, with the disappearance of which this contradiction together with its unity also disappears.
The German Ideology — Ch 3
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