| Frontispiece | ||
| Prologue | ||
| Chapter I | Voltaire and the Encyclopedists | |
| Chapter II | The Hegelians | |
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Chapter III | Heaven on Earth |
| Chapter IV | Empire of the Czars | |
| Chapter V | Llano Estacado | |
| Chapter VI | Dawn of the New Age | |
| Chapter VII | Man of Steel | |
| Chapter VIII | Wolves are Closing In | |
| Chapter IX | Stalin and Roosevelt | |
| Chapter X | Shifting Alliances | |
| Chapter XI | Cold War | |
| Chapter XII | Lost Empire | |
| Chapter XIII | Apre le Deluge | |
| Chapter XIV | Paper Centerfolds | |
| Postscript |
In the ultimate analysis, the "spirit
of Judaism”
means
“the spirit of capitalism.”
Meszaros (1970)
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Heaven on Earth
The goals of the communist movement were outlined in Marx and Engel's (1848)
Communist Manifesto and summarized in Eugene Pottier's (1871) L'Internationale.
After the Internationale, which was the Marseillaise of the communist movement,
one of its popular songs was ‘Heaven on Earth.’ If memory serves me, its key
verses were
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It depends only on us When for all of us Heaven will be on Earth |
The natural experiment of the first magnitude was the disintegration of the Soviet Union that started with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This event is celebrated, but seldom objectively studied.
To build heaven on earth requires an isolated territory and constraints on the aggressive and acquisitive sides of the human nature. The word Utopia means ‘no place’ in Greek and the utopias of the English speaking world, be it Thomas More's Utopia, Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, James Harrington's Oceana, Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or B. F. Skinner’s Walden Two were located on an island or in an isolated corner of Earth. Finally, the Utopia was built on the territory of the Russian Empire.
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Even though many
objective indicators showed the socialistic
society as superior to the capitalistic societies, it was disliked as it was a closed, prescriptive social system.
The Marxist ideal of communism was that of a society in which many social,
political, and economic evils of capitalism have been eradicated. There was
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health care for all |
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low crime rate |
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no unemployment |
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no prostitution |
and the list could go on.
Karl Marx reasoned that wars are inherent to the old societies, and that among their main causes are the economic and religious reasons. By changing the economy and by removing religion from the public sphere, warfare should be reduced
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Wars of the Soviet Union and of the United States |
Soviet Union | Years | United States | Years |
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Hungary Czechoslovakia Afghanistan |
1956 1968 1980 |
Korea China Guatemala Indonesia Cuba Congo Peru Laos Vietnam Cambodia Grenada Libya El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Iraq Somalia Bosnia Sudan Afghanistan Yugoslavia Iraq |
1950-1953 1950-1953 1954, 1960, 1967-1969 1958 1959-1960 1964 1965 1964-1973 1961-1973 1969-1970 1983 1986 1980s 1980s 1989 1991-2001 1990s 1994, 1996 1998 1998 1999-2000 2003-? |
In Soviet Union and other socialist countries Jewish communities did not dominate economy and mass media.