MARXISM AND CATHOLIC IDEALISM – INFORM PROPERTARIANISM —“How did the Communist

MARXISM AND CATHOLIC IDEALISM – INFORM PROPERTARIANISM

—“How did the Communists capture one-third of the world’s population by 1950, given the fact that Lenin had only a handful of followers in 1900?”– Gary North from Douglas Hyde

—“Few people join [movements] because their founders developed philosophically persuasive systems of historical cause-and-effect. They join because the movements promise moral uplift personally and even moral reform culturally”—Gary North from Douglas Hyde

Note: But motive is different from content, is different from long term result. Just because people join movements for moral reasons, does not mean that movements predicated upon philosophically persuasive systems, or even systems of scientific laws, which can persist over the long term, by surviving as formal institutions, cannot easily be present in equal parts in any movement. It is only that the latter is harder than the former to construct.

–“…a statistically abnormal number of communists he had met on several continents had this in common: They were lapsed Catholics. Why? Because of their idealism. The Church failed to appeal to this idealism, especially among youth. So, they departed into the camp of the enemy.”— Gary North from Douglas Hyde

NOTE: He doesn’t have this quite right. Why do they have such idealism? … Heroism, and Chivalry as means of demonstrating heroism. Catholics. Idealists. ( Don Finnegan this is why we haven’t figured it out: it’s “idealism as an act of chivalry”. )

—” when organizations make minimal demands on their members, they get minimal commitment. When they make big demands, they get big commitment.”— Gary North from Douglas Hyde

(This is also born out by all research that I have been able to find. Aristocratic Egalitarianism places great demands upon the individual to secure freedom for himself and for others. Because he must both fight for those who offer to enter into the aristocratic contract, and demand truth, truthfully stated, or punish liars for pollution of the commons (theft from the commons).

(Propertarianism places additional intellectual burdens on members, who must master non trivial forms of argument, and employ that non-trivial form of argument whenever and wherever they encounter arguments not stated truthfully, and they must educate anyone who desires to conduct those same arguments. Operationalism and Testimonial truth are merely difficult arguments to master, and the number of those who can master them is limited.)

–“…successful long-term leadership requires systematic training. The Communist Party was careful to provide such training at all levels. Everyone was trained to

exercise leadership in his appropriate field.”–

Obvious. In all organizations. Everywhere. Throughout all time. Until you can institute nomocracy under property rights that prohibit all parasitism, and therefore eliminate demand for the state by all but the most immoral of men. Monopolies must create institutional order, before polyopolies can maintain an institutional order.

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