Many think: “Aw, Communism in the USA is just something culture-vulture money-mongers thump about to get donations as part of a good old bipartisan culture of corruption! Besides, Communism is a political system invented by Marx; the apparent political nihilisms and subjective-idealist relativity today is just too many dogs thrown too few bones by capitalist politicians and their paid-off henchmen! THAT’S what’s causing us to lose trade and jobs, even if other places ARE Socialist or Communist!”.

In counterpoint, reference is made to the within-below cited works in support of my own opinion that the USA infrastructure security apparatus, on the main, is charged more with advancing and reinforcing a Leftist culture than with true concern for democratic capitalist growth and safety.

Communism is simply any system in which the lands, buildings, money, goods, and so on are vested in a community or abstraction representing a community (e.g., a City, State, or Federal government; a club; a family estate). A number of primitive societies around the globe through all time have, as say nomads or shepherds jointly owning herds, been direct community Communists; the government of Peru under the ancient Incas assigned work-organization rules for the masses dividing up each person’s possessions for the whole but exempted rulers from such division, standing as an early example of managed collectivism wherein the officials of course lived on different, more capitalistic terms.

The only thing Marx et sequitur did was move Communism from speculative ideations of random thinkers into social movements…which can co-exist in seemingly different cultures having similar governmental interest in managing collectives.

All Communist societies have features in common. Competition for private property is blamed for all evils, thus all economic activities must be restricted and taboo to criticize; industrial attitudes requiring production are quashed, with a fixed stock of goods solving fair distribution by reducing means of consumption; the family is seen as the origin of private property-based evils, so the State must demand ends to family and marriage, with eugenic powers of the State flexed as it requires; there is tautology educating that abolishing private property ends theft, abolishing marriage cures adultery, treating everyone the same ends envy or insolence.

Further, such communities become isolated due to having nothing to trade; their population sizes (minus new immigration at first) shrink, then freeze; goods pare to a selection that never varies; and as philosophy urges constant revaluation of values it is made to be politically correct or abolished, sometimes even extending to students rebelling against educators who commit “errors” in varying from State dogma (as has been known in Communist China, and to anyone familiar with late 20^th century philosopher Richard Rorty’s calls to end philosophy).  

On such precept, considering how much of these “features” are found in America today, a case could be made that the Department of Homeland Security NICC is less a psychology-based defense shield and inter-governmental intel center drawing on public and private sources, and more an analog to A.A. Zhdanov, a once Soviet commissar for culture, who directed all police and educational activity to eradicating the “vice of bourgeois objectivism”, as he put it, on grounds failure to link economic determinism as part of Natural Law and material condition of life was anti-scientific challenging of officials to increase one’s own power…and thus treason.

A modern example of such “bourgeois objectivism” might be noticing only one of the world’s diverse religions has a niche branch calling even itself just psychology, dogmatic, above question, and able to destroy anyone not believing officials who share their view are absolute…and then pointing out Communist systems (having nothing to trade) permit only such type of Wahhabi Islam theosophy as “spirituality” to feign invocation their government is religious manifestation of faith and thus covered by “special privilege” only they can see.

If I suggest that neither requiring for all people the orthodoxy of a niche view, nor requiring political orthodoxy for all people that nations wanting nothing to trade are adversely affected by trade policies abroad anyway, nor economic determinism are useful to democracy, Zhdanov emulators would at least call cooties on me…or worse.

In the case of DHS, such was the gravamen in its April 2009 reports re Left and Right. DHS NICC also works for people who believe only government employees could be deemed necessary workers, government should take over as much private property as it can, religions are all psychology and interchangeable, marriage is for losers, families are unnecessary burdens, and the whole world should less build trade centers and more respect the niche Wahhabi strand Islam embraced from Pakistani to Venezuelan governments (even if they are regimes in their own rights). And to think, at least in the case of Latin regimes and American governmental faith overseers, until recently the only acceptable spirituality was niche Saint-Simon Christianity (sort of a view this life is training wheels for collectivism in God’s eternity).

To me, it seems we’ve got all the symptoms of every Communist society there has ever been. “Socialism” would seem a misnomer to USA culture, as it simply means centralized direction of an economy minus things Communist.

[REFERENCES:

Bibliographie des Sozialismus und Communismus, Stemmhammer, 1893-1908/ 3 volumes

Histoire du communism, Walter, 1931 (Paris)

Communism and Socialism, Woolsey, 1880 (London)

Soviet Theory of Knowledge, Blakely, 1964 (Dordrecht presentation)

Soviet Marxism and Natural Science, Joravsky, 1961 (London)

Der dialektishe Materialismus: Seine Geshichte und sein System in der Sowjetunion, Wetter, 1953 (Vienna)]