Collectivism and Class Struggle

Psychological disorder has become a weapon against middle America

Collectivists insist that there is a class struggle.

But what it is really is going on is class cognitive dissonance. 

After all collectivists usually do not enjoy the freedom and rewards of being wealthy.

Nor are they a recipient of tender treatment therapeutically applied to the underclass.  

They’re normally right in the middle -- with most of America.

Yet because they’re unwilling to accept this fact they insist there’s a forever war between two allegedly opposing social classes.

For them the battle is between the rich and the poor, both of which they’d like to join but can’t or won’t.

And because this schizophrenia -- which literally means “split mind”  -- never resolves itself and then manifests itself as the will to destroy civilization.

Thus the socialist struggle is not real -- at least not in the materialist sense.

And it proves that the contradiction isn’t inherent to capitalism, but it is inherent in the minds of collectivist reactionaries.

For Marxists there are then three options to address this schizophrenia.

Renounce one’s belongings -- like the great Christian St. Francis of Assisi -- and become proudly poor.

Gain wealth and be proud of it like any normal successful person would do.

Accept being in the middle like the rest of us and enjoy the cosmopolitan nature of widespread commonality that spread through capitalism.

Then, instead of implicating the rest of the world in their imaginary battles, more people could live more freely.  And we’d be one step closer to utopia -- for each person who lives without cognitive dissonance makes the world a better place.

Zigmund Reichenbach has an M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University and works as an advocate for less government by day.  You can help him combat bad ideas in politics and philosophy by donating to his work at https://ko-fi.com/zigmundreichenbach .

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