IsolationHurts said:
Not me. I would be executed under any communist Government. I love freedom of thought.
And historical materialism ("Marxism") offers the best explanation on why "freedom of thought" came into existence after the citoyens, the citizens of the free cities, used the capital that was a result of new modes of production to get rid of the aristocracy and eventually replaced feudalism with capitalism. Having an interest in the free exchange of ideas and in the sciences that enabled them to come into power in the first place, they obviously supported freedom of thought and idealized it against the resistance of the aristocracy. Later, they required well-educated citizens to compete with the citizens of other nations.
However, the monopolized US ruling class of today, freed from all serious and soon from any military and economical competition at all (hence their desire to destroy Russia and China), is also freed from the necessity to have mature and educated citizens, who could compete with, say, the scientists of other nations and enjoy a prosperity that would prevent them from attempting a revolution as they wanted to try out another system of another country that seemed to work better for another people. In the age of US monoimperialism, citizens subjects can easily be infantilized again.
With all power now in the hands of a monopolized ruling class, "freedom of thought" is as unnecessary as having different nation states. Hence, borders are getting destroyed just like freedom of speech, freedom of thought and the entire education sector.
As for the leftists of today: Richard Dawkins once had the genius idea of describing memes ( ideas, religious and cultural norms, etc.) as cultural analogues to genes; both replicating, mutating and responding to selective pressures. Some having an advantage to replicate, some having a disadvantage to replicate. I don’t know his exact wording anymore but he says something along the lines of “turned up speakers.” Teachers, college professors, journalists, “activists”, artists and creative nu-media types are essentially the “meme replicators” of the ruling class; the latter handing the former “turned up speakers” so they replicate those (and only those!) memes the ruling class likes. So there are selective mechanisms at play here at least since the 50s or so, that are responsible for the fact that what you get from leftists today is SJW, feminists, essentially rainbow capitalists (capitalism with gender quotas, rainbow imperialism, etc.)
Anonymous said:
Judaism is a religion like other religions. It's not that religions are inherently bad, it's just that the "good" religions have the fundamental flaw of not being able to justify unjust class domination the same way "bad" religions are able to. So the religious traditions that have survived, including Judaism, are always those that support throwing crumbs to the peasants (individual charity) but strictly oppose changing a system that prevents this pervert wealth gap we see today. The other thing they hate is sex for pleasure which is also the reason why this insignificant minority of homosexuals is always persecuted so much. Homosexuality is obviously sex for pleasure and not for procreation. Judaism is no exception to this rule: a religion that justifies class dominion, is opposed to changing the socio-economical order, and opposed to sex for pleasure. And since it is a bronze age religion, it depicted God as a king with generals / archangels.
Christian antisemitism , I suppose you'Re a Christian antisemite, is one of the weirdest phenomenons, since Christianity was obviously a failed attempt to reform Judaism and the earliest Christian texts clearly focus on Jews. Jesus himself said that he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. When a non-Jewish woman begged him to heal her daughter, he said that it would be unfair to take what is for the children of God and throw it to the dogs. (Matthew 15:21-28)
Of course, on the other hand, you later have this idea introduced that Christians are the actual sons of Abraham in Abraham’s seed which is Christ. You have Jesus talk about the Synagogue of Satan in what seems to be the Gospel that was written last (John), later than Matthew, Mark and Luke. You have this whole concept of a once ethnic people of God now being a spiritual and multi-racial people of God in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile for they are all one Christ Jesus. The Bible, no matter how you read it, essentially divides humanity into two ethnic groups: Jews and all the rest simply lumped into one collective, characterized by the fact that they are “Gentiles” and not Jews who are “beloved for the sake of their forefathers, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” This weird relationship to Jews is not despite but because of the Bible, and the Bible is such a mess that Christians will never develop a normal relationship with Jews, and either worship that race or esoterically satanize it.
