Gilad Atzmon – gilad.co.uk Dec 18, 2019
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: In order to understand Corbyn/Labour’s devastating defeat you have to examine the limits that define the Left’s delusional intellectual mode of thinking and the reasons why the Working Classes tend to reject the political bodies that claim to care about them. Rarely in history has there been a popular coup against an opposition Party. This is what we saw in Britain last week. In Being in Time I offered an analysis of Left’s detachment. I basically predicted Labour’s catastrophe.
Illusion vs Insomnia*
Left ideology is like a dream. Aiming for what ‘ought to be’ rather than ‘what is’, it induces a level of utopian illusory detachment and depicts a phantasmal egalitarian world far removed from our abusive, oppressive and doomed reality. In this phantasmic future, people will just drift away from greed and gluttony, they will work less and learn to share, even to share that which they may not possess to start with.
This imaginary ‘dream’ helps explain why the (Western) Left ideology rarely appealed to the struggling classes, the masses who, consumed by the pursuit of bread and butter, were hardly going to be interested in utopian ‘dreams’ or futuristic social experiments. Bitten by the daily struggle and chased by existence, working people have never really subscribed to ‘the revolution’ usually because often they were just too busy working. This perhaps explains why so often it was the middle class agitators and bourgeois who became revolutionary icons. It was they who had access to that little bit extra to fund their revolutionary adventures.
The ‘Left dream’ is certainly appealing, perhaps a bit too appealing. Social justice, equality and even revolution may really be nothing but the addictive rush of effecting change and this is perhaps why hard-core Leftist agitators often find it impossible to wake from their social fantasy. They simply refuse to admit that reality has slipped from their grasp, preferring to remain in their cosy phantasmal universe, shielded by ghetto walls built of archaic terminology and political correctness.
In fact, the more appealing and convincing the revolutionary fantasy is, the less its supporters are willing to face reality, assuming they’re capable of doing so. This blindness helps explain why the Western ideological Left has failed on so many fronts. It was day-dreaming when the service economy was introduced, and it did not awaken when production and manufacturing were eviscerated. It yawned when it should have combatted corporate culture, big money and its worship, and it dozed when higher education became a luxury. The Left was certainly snoring noisily when, one after the other, its institutions were conquered by New Left Identitarian politics. So, rather than being a unifying force that could have made us all – workers, Black, women, Jews, gays etc. – into an unstoppable force in the battle against big capital, the Left became a divisionary factor, fighting amongst itself. But it wasn’t really the ideologues’ and activists’ fault; the failure to adapt to reality is a flaw tragically embedded in the Left’s very fantasised nature.
If I am right, it is these intrinsically idealistic and illusory characteristics that doom Left politics to failure. In short, that which makes the Left dream so appealing is also responsible for the Left being delusional and ineffectual. But how else could it be? How could such a utopian dream be sustained? I suspect that for Left politics to prevail, humanity would have to fly in the face of the human condition.
And what of the Right? If the Left appears doomed to failure, has the Right succeeded at all? As opposed to the ‘dreamy’ Left, the Right is consumed by reality and ‘concretisation.’ In the light of the globalized, brutal, hard capitalist world in which we live, traditionally conservative laissez-faire seems a naive, nostalgic, peaceful and even poetic thought.
While the Left sleeps, Right-wing insomnia has become a universal disease which has fuelled the new world order with its self-indulgence and greed. How can anyone sleep when there’s money to be made? This was well understood by Martin Scorsese who, in his The Wolf of Wall Street, depicts an abusive culture of sex, cocaine and amphetamine consumption at the very heart of the American capitalist engine. Maybe such persistent greed can be only maintained by addled, drug-induced and over-stimulated brains.
Rejection of fantasy, commitment to the concrete (or shall we say, the search for ‘being’ or ‘essence,’) positions the Right alongside German philosophy. The German idealists’ philosophical endeavour attempts to figure out the essence of things. From a German philosophical perspective, the question ‘what is (the essence of) beauty?’ is addressed by aesthetics. The question ‘what is (the essence of) being?’ is addressed by metaphysics. The questions: ‘what are people, what is their true nature, root and destiny?’ are often dealt with by Right-wing ideologists. It is possible that the deep affinity between Right ideology and German philosophy explains the spiritual and intellectual continuum between German philosophy and German Fascism. It may also explain why Martin Heidegger, one of the most important philosophers in the last millennium, was, for a while at least, a National Socialist enthusiast.
The Right’s obsession with the true nature of things may explain its inclination towards nostalgia on one hand and Darwinist ideologies on the other. Right ideology can be used to support expansionism and imperialism at one time, and isolationism and pacifism at another. Right ideology is occasionally in favour of immigration as good for business, yet can also take the opposite position, calling for protection of its own interests by sealing the borders. The Right can provide war with logos and can give oppression a dialectical as well as ‘scientific’ foundation. Sometimes, a conflict may be justified by ‘growing demand’ and ‘expanding markets.’ Other times, one race is chosen to need living space at the expense of another.
The Right is sceptical about the prospects for social mobility. For the Right thinker, the ‘slave’ is a slave because his subservient nature is determined biologically, psychologically or culturally. In the eyes of the Left, such views are ‘anti-humanist’ and unacceptable. The Left would counter this essentialist determinism with a wide range of environmental, materialist, cultural criticism and post- colonial studies that produce evidence that slaves do liberate themselves eventually. And the Right would challenge this belief by asking ‘do they really?’
*Source: Being in Time, pg 14
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“Totalitarianism is not a mysterious mutation it is a memory and a promise an attempt to keep hope alive”
By totalitarianism we mean the system by which apocalyptic millenarians enforce the conditions they believe will constitute the new Jerusalem(utopia) in which their sect believes.
It doesn’t pick a side as its all unGodly intervention leading to the destruction of life.
Intervention impedes growth no matter where it comes from, left or right.
One of the most funniest yet alarming things to witness in the last year is the left`s attack on Russia while the right attacks China and how the paced attack increases in time.
It is obvious that “global warming” wasn’t going to be the great uniting tool it first set out to be but in many ways it is bringing people together and the funniest thing is people don’t even realise it.
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Germans spiritual?. Voluntary slave nation status in the guise of civilization isn’t civilised, like a full bowel whether its from the Frankfurt school or Hitlers third Reich it’s all shit.
I got to wonder Atzmon do you spend time in solitude?. Real solitude without stimulants of any kind. What we are seeing is a drama directed and orchestrated by a lowest common denominator for the paying audience and the Germans have proven themselves the biggest purchaser of the shit show but it could be said they just got in first.
Yeah I talk to much but I’m in good company, one last thing, I never got to travel the world so I lived in and managed backpackers to get a feel of people over a long period about a decade.
The Germans where the most dirtiest, judgemental, haughty people’s I have ever come across. Arrogant to the core and that’s saying something when Americans exist. I and the locals could not sit down with these people and just talk about life, history and where as humanity we were going. They didn’t even want to know Australian history just briefly. They were blank to it with glazed eyes like kangaroos on the road at night dimwitted by car headlights.
One of the best and open people’s I came across were in fact Israelis believe it or not. Young backpackers fresh out of the IDF with bucks to spend. They certainly knew how to listen and talk, just talk and reveal their lives compared to the unnecessary guarded nature’s of the Germans.
So in conversations with the world I discovered a lot of first hand sentiment and realism I was lucky however that was 30yrs ago, and it looks like the Germans never changed while unfortunately the young Israelis have.
Dear Mr Atzmon- I have a very simple question for you,
What is your view on the state of Israel and the Chief Rabbi of the UK deciding who should govern the UK ? Israel was openly hostile to a Corbyn led government and that apparently was enouigh to doom his project. Blair was successful due to his TOTAL SUBSERVIENCE to Zionist interests in other words a Labour Government can only exist if it duly grovels before the might of Zion. The UK is governed by a permanent de facto Jewish/Zionist Dictatorship- see the huge Magan David/Star of Moloch on the floor of the ante chamber in the Palace of Westminster- a veritable symbol of occupation and dominance. We are a vassal state of Israel. One notes the total absence of the term false flag in the Jewish controlled MSM. We wouldn’t want the Goyim getting ideas about terrorist incidents occurring just before the EU Ref,General Elections of 2017 and 2019.
When left and right are controlled by the same group, should we not be a little more critical and not so hung up on ideological differences? Gilad must realize that his nation, Israel, was founded by the money and power from the Zionist Rothschild network and by brute force. Left and right had nothing to do with it. In fact, Israel continues to advance regardless of any internal left and right differences. The nation like their benefactors continues to do so by stealth and brute force in walking over the faces of any people or nation in their way. Not only does it cause resentment but eventually huge inevitable reactions.
Review the 20th century history and you will find Jewish historians saying that the train which brought Lenin into Russia came from Germany (as if WWI Germany planted communism in Russia). No, the train was allowed to pass through Germany in 1917 and it was sent with cabal gold under the auspices of the London-Zurich-New York bankster and the Masonic-Zionist elites who funded the revolution and ensured its success in the following years. This same so-called “capitalist” cabal was instrumental in spreading communism throughout the world. Had they not been so greedy with their totalitarian plans to topple the ascending middle-class rule, there would not have been any fascist movement throughout Europe or anywhere else to oppose them, i.e. no WWII.
The hands of the Masons and Jewish elites are today clearly revealed in spreading communism throughout the 20th century. They are also the masters of the most exploitive bankster and exploitive forms of capitalism to milk the world for their exclusive designs (Any doubts – read John Perkins.) Most oligarchs and tin-pot dictators in the West today as in the 20th century are totally owned by this same cabal.
It is the people in the middle who are always screwed by the same manipulating cartels. It is called “divide and conquer” and it is not so complicated as to require any in depth analysis of left or right. Communism as spread by the cabal is as evil and corrupt as the capitalism they practice and control. If the ordinary common people had their way, the government’s main job would be constant huge trust busting and anti-corruption operations together with the seizing and redistribution of assets gained by unfair competition, cartels, and top-level insider trading by the money masters, all going way way back. Show me one political party anywhere in the world which advocates such a necessity, and I will show you a party which is quickly destroyed.
” So, rather than being a unifying force that could have made us all – workers, Black, women, Jews, gays etc. – into an unstoppable force in the battle against big capital, the Left became a divisionary factor, fighting amongst itself.”
I think in the field of economics we’re all either beginners or whores of the system. Nevertheless I’d like to correct the above paragraph where “big capital” is mentioned. I could go on for some time about how the meaning of the word has morphed from physical stuff to physical stuff plus money/credit, and how modern neoliberal economics has conflated capital – the original definition – with land…
To cut a long story short the sentence should read “into an unstoppable force in the battle against big finance”. Many entrepreneurs who provide capital equipment for employees and their business operate on slim profit margins and need to service considerable overheads to landlords by way of rent and banks in the form of interest etc
Of course banks are often majority shareholders in big enterprises and here too “big capital” disguises where true ownership resides.
Corbyn failed because that was his mission. You really need to worry when a prospective PM suggests a ‘peoples QE”. A Labour leader pushing for more debt enslavement. Corbyn never suggested: “When I get into No10, my government will create its own interest-free money and end the people’s debt slavery to the City of London.” Corbyn never said this, so he is an establishment muppet. The real reason why the sheeple didn’t vote for Labour is that they are thick as pig —-. Totally brainwashed and they deserve everything that’s coming to them. The Guardian is fake left and so is Corbyn. I used to follow British politics even though I have spoilt my ballots for more GE’s than I can remember, but now I reach a new milestone, I no longer need to watch Marr, or any other political program. I will mentally switch off when the news covers domestic politics because there is absolutely no point.