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.
 Flag of the Russian Revolution with Liberte, Equalite, Fraternite in Cyrillic Characters. |
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
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low frequency of wars
and the list could go
on. In Soviet Union and other socialist countries Jewish communities did not
dominate economy and mass media.
