Just sent a massive shitpost to the Spectator. Hoping they will read it.
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https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/05/generation-z-stalins-little-helpers/Yes we are Stalin's Little Helpers and it is an absolutely good thing
Response (informal) to “Generation Z: Stalin’s little helpers” by Alexandra Marshall–
To Flat White and to Alexandra Marshall in particular,
This response is directed towards your previous online article “Generation Z: Stalin’s little helpers” from the 11th of May 2021. The two objectives (not parts) of this response are to further affirm i) your theory that we are Stalin’s little helpers and ii) to legally induce a general philosophical fear within you (Alexandra Marshall) in particular – I want you to think about it each night, before going to sleep, for the rest of your life. It will be a relatively informal response, because Burkeanism deserves only nuclear weapons and even this rag of a response is an excessive charity for your class. The response, in two parts will in turn 1) consist of informal commentaries on each paragraph 2) a final semi-formal response, the charity for you.
1 Informal commentary
The title: “Generation Z: Stalin’s little helpers”. Yes. Absolutely yes. I’ve read Robert Service’s 2004 biography on Joseph Stalin with the goal of emulating his life. My ultimate goal will be to turn Australia into the second communist great power of the 21st century in alliance with the People’s Republic of China, annex New Zealand, annex Vanuatu, annex New Caledonia and turn our massive uranium stockpiles into nuclear missiles, which which to nuke Indonesia and kill each and every Indonesian. Beyond that, I would very much like to fire those 100000s of thousands of missiles onto the United States, NATO countries, Chile, Spain, Russia (for failing the initial project) and a whole host of other countries. But yes, we absolutely are Stalin’s little helpers and we don’t see the problem for us, rather than for you.
“Their antics have turned…”: That’s the idea. The problem was that Stalin was too lax and libertarian, hence allowing cripples like Khrushchev to sneak into the party. The Soviet Union did not end in 1991, it ended in 1953. Stalin was a libertarian – we are not. One day, either you will actively have our ideology in your head or you will not exist. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat was not enough, what is needed is the Totalitarianism of the Proletariat.
“While pretending to fight against oppression in public…”: It would very good for the Spectator’s press equipment to be totally, physically smashed, wrecked, destroyed – not every used and reappropriated for our own ends, tainted as it is. You have vocal chords is also rather too excessive.
“Many people put this behaviour down to bad parenting, but it probably has more to do with years of indoctrination within the school system, which has focused on turning children into Marxist activists instead of intelligent young people.": That’s the funniest cunt-shit I’ve heard. It’s fucking funny how studying HSC economics post-recession made me into a full blown tankie now. But I suppose you might be correct. HSC modern history had a whole unit on Joseph Stalin and his cult of personality. Initially, I personally condemned Stalin as “inefficient” and “irrational” in accordance with my previous economistic creed. However, the 2010s, the continued wars, the Christchurch shootings, I realised he was completely efficient and rational – in relation to the existence of Burkeans. “Only their ideas matter and only their words deserve protection.” Correct.
“It is the standard Marxist response…”: If you ask me, the state is not total enough. Next.
“Children raised by the state lose the essential framework of social responsibility to their family and instead serve the interests of politicians and political movements above their loved ones. ”: That’s the idea, the point. Yes.
“Democracies were originally founded by the coalition of influential families who held more power than the state”: Okay. It would’ve been very nice to list the particular families, the year – the House of Hanover and the Glorious Revolution? But I would differ. Cromwellism is where its at.
“With the family structure in decline, they turned their attention to dismantling equality under the law…” Irrelevant, incoherent, unworthy.
“Instead, collectivist movements reduce individuals to a single attribute and then assign guilt based upon the actions of any individual within the history of that collective. ” Awesome.
“Political systems evolve in the same way as biological ecosystems. ” Politics is politics, biology is biology.
“What Gen Z call ‘Social Justice’ is really just another name for the persecution of innocent people by criminals. ”: Yes, it’s the point. Formal innocence unfortunately protects people who from our viewpoint, do not deserve to be protected.
“Greta Thunburg:” In my opinion, she should die as well. She doesn’t go far enough.
“Hitler and Mao employed identical tactics during their regimes. ”: That only speaks to the latter’s strength.
“We became Red Guards – we all shared the belief that we would die to protect Chairman Mao”: As much as the Chinese are useful as a means, they are disgusting in this regard in that they feel the need to apologise for past victories.
“Despite the terror and fear she both inflicted and suffered at the hands of the murderous revolution…” Again, I fucking hate Chinks for not revelling in the Cultural Revolution. Dengists are slavish in feeling the need to apologise for it.
“Lenin and Stalin perfected the cult of childhood Communism, manipulating Russian society with the fantasy of innocence ”: Awesome, glorious.
“The idea was to create a grassroots community feel ”: Awesome, glorious.
“It is worth pointing out that most of humanity’s worst ideas were enabled through the argument of ‘consensus’ even though consensus has no basis in truth or fact.” It doesn’t need to. Induction does not need formal deductive truth and fact. That’s the whole point of Popperism.
“The one truth which remains constant is that you have to start with children in order to create a generation of adults prepared to kill their friends and family in the name of a political leader ”: An astounding and useful insight.
“In time, this will escalate to a ‘Lord of the Flies’ scenario.”: Yes, from which the strongest and most capable shall emerge.
“We have already seen the youth of Extinction Rebellion, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter send death threats to their peers.” Which is unfortunate, because idle death threats instead of physically carrying them out without warning is worthless.
“If you think none of this matters because ‘it’s just social media’ remember that in a few short years, these kids will be the individuals running the world’s major corporations and sitting in the houses of Parliament. When a generation is allowed to engage in this sort of degenerate behaviour, it entrenches in their psyche and manifests into something much darker in their adult years. It is how you end up with governments led by irrational toddlers who use their power to murder millions in pursuit of the Socialist Utopia. ”: Informally, I would agree with you, that this all matters. And how awesome it will be to run said corporation and run Parliament for the sake of dissolving it like Cromwell. As for “murder”: I do not believe in natural law, the 10 Commandments nor international law. I am a positivist at heart. Murder requires laws prohibiting it. I intend to kill billions and it will be perfectly legal and not murder because I will write the law defining murder. Beyond the legal question, it might even be moral and ethical to do so.
2) Final semi-formal response: “Yes we are Stalin’s Little Helpers and it is good.”
Syllogistically:
Major Premise: Good comes from particular age groups believing in totalitarian ideologies.
Plato’s Form of the Good is what transforms the philosopher into the philosopher-king – Lenin and Stalin, beginning as young intellectuals, became the leaders of the Soviet Union, “philosopher into philosopher-kings”. What transformed Lenin and Stalin into those leaders was their belief in Marxism-Leninism – thus Marxism-Leninism is the same as Plato’s form of the good.1
Kant’s Categorical Imperative in its first formulation, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”2, can tell us good actions from bad actions. I personally can will that my whole generation become one of Joseph Stalins, believers in Marxism-Leninism. I say it myself.
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think.…”3 Marxism-Leninism is the true heir to Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism. The Katyn Massacres were a necessary and a good balancing of pain and pleasure, for Vasily Blokhin’s mass execution of Polish officers, ensured that to this day, Poland is incapable of attacking its neighbours.
From each of these examples, we induce the rule: “Good comes from particular age groups believing in totalitarian ideologies”.
Minor premise: We millennials are that age group who believe in Stalinism. (You’re basically admitting it yourself.)
Conclusion: Yes, millennials are Stalin’s Little Helper’s and it is good.
Yours sincerely.
P.S.: I am being completely unironic when I say I want to conquer the world and kill billions of people for Stalinism and that this is a good thing. Australia should build up a 100000 thermonuclear missiles and kill with them to implement Stalinism.
1 Reeve, Plato ; revised by C.D.C. (1992). Republic ([2nd ed.]. ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publ. Co, (508e2–3) .
2 Kant, Immanuel (1993) [1785]. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. Translated by Ellington, James W. (3rd ed.). Hackett.
3Bentham, Jeremy. 1780. "Of The Principle of Utility." Pp. 1–6 in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne and Sons