In 1989 Communism Put Itself on a Garage Sale Which, in Fact, Was the Largest Self-Inflicted Political Dumping Ever Recorded

“Everyone according to his abilities,
To everyone according to his needs.”
Promise of Communism

Capitalism and the Devil laughed:
“Desire beats everything!”

Historical lesson concerning communism: Nothing destroys and discredits a movement or an idea so well and so utterly as betrayal by its own anointed leaders. That's why it was also planned and executed that way.

Meditating on Vladimir Holan's Night with Hamlet, we can say that the architects of the world had the USSR and communism and their talk of equality and justice fall in the most disgraceful and pathetic way through toads, clowns, alcoholics, pedophiles, village idiots and street criminals and rats not only to fulfill Marx's own wish and prediction that saw a tragedy overtaken by a farce, but also to make people stop fearing fascism once again.

After fascism tried to use Clausewitz to defeat communism and failed, like the US in Vietnam, it was decided to use Sun Tzu instead of Clausewitz and to defeat communism without a battle or a shot fired (not counting those killed by comradely fragging by the KGB for standing in the way). And this worked perfectly and it was moreover the Soviet leadership's own idea.

In Russia something very peculiar happened. When the country's leadership made a radical political and ideological U-turn, it not only waged and quickly won a war against (its own former) communism. But very quickly it started and has been waging since then also a war against its own country, against the economy, against conscience, against morality and above all against the people themselves.

When the last Soviet communist leadership pulled the plug on communism, they took care not only to do it in such a way as to meet the least possible resistance, but also in a way that would end Soviet communism in the form of not just a complete and unconditional capitulation, but, perhaps even more importantly, as a dishonorable discharge. In the wake of this utter and self-inflicted utmost disgrace and dishonor, most of the leadership and many of these communists then put their faces and backs behind supporting and even adoring the semi-fascist and anti-communist regimes of the former communists, Yeltsin and Putin. And so while the USSR back in its day took over the international communist movement and vastly expanded it, it was also the Soviet Union and its communist leadership that did their best to destroy communism both as an organized world movement and as an idea most utterly and most thoroughly. And in this alone they succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. No one sane can after this sensibly argue that "true" Marxists were politically and strategically the smartest or even most "scientific" or even smarter in any notable way than anyone who did not get so thoroughly duped.

Marxism and its Soviet development equipped the working masses and their parties with such impeccable understanding of the world and politics, i.e. with "scientific communism," that, at the end of the 1980s, the proletariat did nothing to defend their socialist system and abandoned it like the corpse mentioned by Jesus: "Let the dead take care of the dead." However, the proletariat who was taught Marxism all their lives under the Marxist system did not realize that their Marxist leadership had abandoned Marxism and socialism even before they did.

The course and fate of Soviet communism did teach mankind a valuable lesson: while one can develop capitalism with any number of hypocrites, for communism hypocrites are deadly, and hypocrisy brings death to communism at a speedy rate. And one cannot have society without any hypocrites in it.

One of the issues or rather one of its many Achilles heels that communism suffered from was the simple, constant and ever more rising temptation to simply cash in the otherwise supposedly timeless and everlasting new organization of society and its total control over all the resources. And that's exactly what happened in the USSR. The possibility to cash it all in proved to be for the very "communist" leadership more persuasive than anything else, however noble or good it could be. And capitalism always held this option open--to all the communist regimes even to those that were meant to be destroyed. In a word, Marx forgot that his theory and plan did come with its Achilles heel--the option to cash it all in and sell it all with everyone on board down the river.

When communist China charged the USSR with revisionism and when the USSR charged China with the same, each of them had a point, one from which no one tried to learn anything useful. As a result, communism followed the fate of Hamlet, a hero also linked to a "ghost." But since a tragedy already happened--in Shakespeare's play, then the second time, somewhat as Marx sensed and predicted, the tragedy had a form of farce. The Soviet and Russian leaders were hoping for some happy wedding, which sometimes crowns the comedy, but, instead of a wedding, something much less ceremonial and much more mundane happened.

The notable rise and spread of pro-fascist and even pro-Nazi sympathies in Ukraine and in Russia has behind a rather simple, but powerful psychological and social reason which is tied to the implosion of Soviet communism, its moral bankruptcy and the immorality of new bandit capitalism mainly run by former communist momenklatura.

And the process has been perfectly manifested in Ukraine--most of the Ukrainian army officer corps are former Soviet officers, many of them Afghan veterans. Going through the most shameful betrayal by the government, humiliation and dishonoring, they like so many of the new young post-Soviet generations came to believe that it is new fascism that can give them back value, dignity, pride and honor. And Putin and his mafia Putinism are merely pouring oil on the fire.

 "The notion that Capitalists would sell to the Communists the ropes with which they would hang them is the most myopic idea in 2700 years of history of philosophy, the exact opposite happened." The history and demise of the USSR fully confirms this. Putinism is still part of the same rope. Now Russia's own existence is hanging on this rope.

The claim that capitalism would sell to the communists the rope on which they would hang capitalism does not pass even 101 of marketing or the skills of almost any used car salesmen, not to mention chess or any more serious strategy, or the fact that a mere teaser, an apparent easy give-away of few bits of threads, is misrepresented or mistaken for the whole rope. Late Soviet communism sold itself and anything and anyone who fell under their sway and control.

The story of Soviet communism is the case of the greatest and most complete sell-out in history, and the price of the initial purchase of these prostitutes with which the West bought them was ridiculously low. Once these prostitutes were bought, they sold everyone else in the USSR and in the world also close to nothing. In comparison with this Louisiana Purchase or the purchase of Alaska can't compete with this in terms of sheer profitability.

The state did not wither, neither did capitalism. But something else did. Neither the community of women went quite as planned. At one point Soviet leaders concluded that the OTHER community of women looks better than theirs. 

Many believe that this switch was not planned. Except for the seller. After all Marx himself argued and insisted that the cash nexus melts and dissolves everything. Even communism and his own ideas, as it turned out. Or these even before others.

That’s perhaps also why the best and most famous Soviet ballet is Aram Khachaturian’s (1903–1978) Spartacus (Russian: «Спартак», Spartak), which was awarded a Lenin Prize right in 1954, when the ballet was composed—right after Stalin was secretly killed in 1953. The ballet was then premiered in 1956 the year of Khrushchev’s Anti-Stalin Speech. Symbolically Spartacus heralds and, in some way, also symbolically explains the death of Soviet Communism and the Soviet Union already set and planted back then, but at that time still several decades away. The plot of the slaves’ uprising and its ballet symbolism shows the tragic failure of the revolution and its death to be caused by the “women’s question” and the “anti-revolutionary” comeback of Eros (through Bacchantes, prostitutes and courtesans).

And the story of Russia from the late 1980s on till now under Putin does look in many ways as an ongoing Dionysian orgy of the drunk celebrants who eat up the wealth of their fathers and grandfathers, while growing themselves increasingly stunned and impotent.

If one were to be honest, one would need to acknowledge that feminine beauty or beauty of a woman posed a certain and not at all simple trouble both to communism and fascism.

That's also perhaps why the West still feels that the loss of ancient art and architecture did deprive us of something essential, perhaps even of something more real than of the vegetable gardens of Adam and Eve barred from knowledge.

Politically, each idea lives as long as it is believed, but its credibility is also directly proportionate to the number of the people who are willing to stand up and fight for it. As an organized political force. At least as far as political ideas are concerned. In this regard, Soviet communism died with few whimpers not unlike the famous Thracian king Rhesus and his soldiers caught by Odysseus and Diomedes asleep and dispatched without resistance to Hades.