THE REQUIRED RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION IV
The Revolutionary Revolution exposes the fact that the pernicious political/ideological divide that now presides over everything has, as we shall see, no basis in reality. This divide has become “normalized” through an agreement by the two sides that their ideologies are, indeed, hopelessly at odds with one another.
The Revolutionary Revolution offers an holistic worldview where ideological conflict becomes a relic of the past.
Our enlightened view of capitalism and socialism, for instance, seamlessly incorporates them within the social fabric. The two would hardly be noticeable.
Basically capitalism is self-interest and socialism is collective-interest. And like capitalism and socialism self-interest and collective-interest are popularly seen as being diametrically opposed to one another.
However, they are not. They form a dynamic. A dynamic that is fundamental to every social system that ever was and ever will be.
We unknowingly participate in that dynamic every day we go to work.
We need to work to make money. Money is how we survive. It provides us with food, clothing, shelter and whatever else we deem necessary for a fulfilling life. So, we get a job. That means we become part of a business, a collective. And we contribute to that collective’s survivability by helping to maintain its profitability. In doing so we receive a paycheck.
So, the collective-interest of the business is served by the self-interest of its employees. In fact, both the self-interest of the employer and the employees create and support the collective-interest of the business. And through that collective participation they all earn money. Collective-interest serves self-interest and vice versa. It’s a dynamic. One that is hiding in plain sight as we participate in it every work day.
Self-interest is not an ideology. Neither is collective-interest. But capitalists and socialists view those interests as separate elements to champion according to their preferred dogma. It is a view that is artificially imposed on a social system and one that is contradicted in workplaces on a daily basis all over the world.
The view of the world as split between capitalist and socialist ideologies has no basis in reality. Ideologues of both isms are responsible for the predominance of the split-view. They are not capable of seeing things as they are. They cannot accurately evaluate the composition of any social system including the ones they themselves inhabit.
If they could they would see that Western democracies, arguably the most successful nation states ever, are all, to one degree or another, a mix of socialism and capitalism. And that’s what works.
It works because socialism needs capitalism to fund its programs and capitalism needs socialism to provide the infrastructure in which it can efficiently operate.
So, we go about our daily business completely unaware of the self-interest/collective interest dynamic (that is at base responsible for generating a nation’s economy) as we indulge ourselves in fantasies that foster the untenable split-view about either capitalism/self-interest or socialism/collective-interest being able to successfully serve as a standalone operating system for a society. Given that the self-interest/collective-interest dynamic, as we have seen, is fundamental in the formation of any society is it any wonder that capitalism and socialism are the predominant ideologies in the world?
In the social system of the Revolutionary Revolution the isms are closely bound together at the grass roots level in recognition of the self-interest/collective-interest dynamic. And that symbiotic arrangement is preserved throughout the whole social system as it is the microcosm that creates, informs and defines the macrocosm.
