May 5th marked the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, and in spite of inspiring a wide variety of political movements that
have caused countless human rights disasters, Marx continues to be an object of admiration among many intellectuals and
artists. One such example can be seen in Raoul Peck’s new film The Young Karl Marx which
portrays Marx is a principled radical with a
laudable thirst for justice.
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Fortunately for Marx the man and his reputation, he never personally
gained control of the machinery of any state [albeit
though Rothschild did under different titles].
Thus, the
dirty work of actually implementing the necessary “dictatorship of the
proletariat” was left up to others. And those who attempted to bring Marxism
into the light of practical reality, quickly found that applied Marxism
brings impoverishment and the destruction of human freedom.
Nevertheless, after a century marked by brutal socialist regimes based on
various interpretations of Marx’s ideas, Marx’s rehabilitation often rests on
the idea that “real socialism” has “never been tried.”
That is, a
truly “pure” socialist experience ~ as Marx presumably wanted ~ has always been
tainted by the presence of bourgeois ideas or lingering capitalistic habits
present in the state apparatus.
A typical
example of this sort of thinking can be found in Noam Chomsky’s insistence that the obviously socialist regime in
Venezuela is really “quite remote from socialism.” And it’s also
notable in philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s 2017 article ”The problem with Venezuela’s revolution is that it didn’t go
far enough” at The Guardian.
In Zizek’s
view, it seems, socialism can work if the habits and customs of the status
quo are destroyed utterly and replaced by entirely new ways of
thinking. Or, as Zizek’s describes it, old proverbs (i.e., modes of thought)
must be totally replaced by new proverbs.
Radical revolutionaries like Robespierre fail because they just enact a
break with the past without succeeding in their effort to enforce a new set of
customs (recall the utmost failure of Robespierre’s idea to replace religion
with the new cult of a Supreme Being).
The leaders like Lenin and Mao succeeded (for some time, at least)
because they invented new proverbs, which means that they imposed new customs
that regulated daily lives.
Thus, the
problem in Venezuela is not that countless private business have been seized,
property rights been destroyed, and countless citizens deprived of basic
freedoms.
No, the problem is that the Venezuelan regime was too
conservative and failed to implement a total break with the
past.
But how is
that break from the past to be brought about? The truth lies in the language
used by Zizek himself. It involves “enforc[ing] a set of customs” and
“impos[ing] new customs.”
This, of
course, is the language of coercion and violence. These new “customs” wouldn’t
have to be imposed, of course, if people wanted to adopt them voluntarily.
From the
point of view of the socialist purist, if only a new Lenin or a new Mao were to
come along and try harder, well, then socialism might finally succeed.
After all,
as the satirical publication The Onion recently suggested, “Stalin Was Just One Great Purge Away From Creating Communist
Utopia.”
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As hyperbolic as such a statement may seem, this idea nevertheless
fundamentally describes the mindset of those who claim “socialism has never
really been tried”; if socialism is to be implemented, something must
be done to relieve people of their attachment to private property and all the
other customs and ideas that get in the way of utopia.
In practice,
this has always meant using the power of the state to force a new way of life
on people. Moreover, thanks to economic realities, it has also meant that the
more socialism is applied, the lower the standard of living sinks.
Ed Noor: The planners of Communism waxed lyrical about the blood they planned to flood the world with. Their followers made good on those wishes as history has proven. Letters between Marx and American king maker/banker Bernard Baruch drip with such anticipation.
But ~ the thinking goes ~ so long as the socialist planners keep forging ahead, and refuse to be sabotaged by capitalist thought, then utopia can be reached. Yes, there will be a lot of suffering in the interim, but the ultimate payoff will be incalculably great.
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Represented
graphically, the idea looks like this:
Both Marx
and Stalin admitted this unfortunate “interim stage” was a problem. As Ludwig
von Mises notes, Marx even had to invent a two-tiered evolution of socialism:
In a letter,
Karl Marx distinguished between two stages of socialism ~ the lower preliminary
stage and the higher stage. But Marx didn’t give different names to these two
stages.
At the higher stage, he said, there will be such an abundance of everything that it will be possible to establish the principle “to everybody according to his needs.” Because foreign critics noticed differences in the standards of living of various members of the Russian Soviets, Stalin made a distinction.
At the higher stage, he said, there will be such an abundance of everything that it will be possible to establish the principle “to everybody according to his needs.” Because foreign critics noticed differences in the standards of living of various members of the Russian Soviets, Stalin made a distinction.
At the end
of the 1920s he declared that the lower stage was “socialism” and the higher
stage was “communism.” The difference was that at the lower socialist stage
there was inequality in the rations of the various members of the Russian
Soviets; equality will be attained only in the later, communist, stage.
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Partial Capitalism Works Better Than Partial Socialism
Note,
however, that capitalism doesn’t suffer from this problem. If
we take a middle-of-the road interventionist economy and start introducing
partial, half-way free-market liberal reforms, does this cause
the economy to collapse?
Certainly not. Indeed, everywhere we look and find a relatively less socialistic economy, the less poverty and more prosperity we find.
Historically,
this is obvious. The countries that embraced free trade, industrialization, and
the trappings of market economies early on are the wealthiest economies today.
We also find
this to be the case in post-war Europe where the relatively pro-market
economies such as those in Germany and the UK are wealthier and have higher
standards of living than the more socialistic economies of southern Europe ~
such as Greece and Spain.
This is even
true of the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, which, as Per Bylund has noted,
historically built its wealth with a relatively laissez-faire regime.
HYPERINFLATION ~ Before abolishing price controls
We see this
phenomenon at work in comparisons between West Germany and East Germany.
In West Germany after World War II pro-market reforms helped usher in a period
of immense economic growth ~ with only half-way reforms. By abolishing price
controls and other government-imposed restraints on the economy, the Germany
economy took off while more socialistic economies ~ like that found in the UK at the time ~
were more stagnant.
Obviously,
in the case of Germany, the West German state did not adopt “pure” capitalism.
They merely adopted relatively more laissez-faire.
And the economy expanded.
In fact, according to Hans Sennholz, the West German state rather accidentally stumbled upon its free market reforms. And yet, we call the results “the German economic miracle.”
Other
examples can be found across Eastern Europe and Latin America. Where markets
are more relatively free, the higher the standard of living, and the greater
the economic growth. Capitalists aren’t forced to make excuses about how “real
capitalism has never been tried” ~ even though purely free markets have never
existed anywhere.
200 years after Marx, though, every new Marx-inspired failure causes his
defenders to resort to this same excuse again and again. One can only hope that
200 years from now, they’ve given up.
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