Deng Xiaoping’s impact on China and the CCP after the disastrous decades of Mao’s numerous failed economic plans was no less than spectacular. A sort of Asian meritocracy arose inside a communistic-collectivist enterprise and produced amazing gains in wealth for the entire world to see. This phenomenon as I will presently explain, echoes the historical manifestation of 18th Century capitalism entwined inside a Platonic Christian Western Civilization, the so-called, old Ancien Régime, pre-WWI. In North America, after the American Revolution, there occurred a similar phenomenon: an economic system of self-interest for the masses built on economic laissez-faire leadership caught in the crosshairs of a cultural legacy of charity, sacrifice and duty upheld by a powerful clerisy, (a white male Christian academic assemblage best reflected in the Eastern seaboard’s ivory league universities, many which preceded the revolution and are easily reputed as producing numerous rulers of America, as not only an elitist class but also the purveyors of what would become the anti-isolationist, anti-libertarian, Manifest Destiny, i.e., the new global billionaire power brokers).
This allowed, incrementally, a sort of similar meritocracy to exist side by side with a growing ruling class who hated any version of merit-based anything except in regards to power and they especially disdained free-run capitalism. This took about a century and a half to become an industrial dynamo with a Keynesian military-economy, state-licensed professionals, subsidized and otherwise state-controlled educational institutions, and the first small signs of the bourgeoning bureaucracy which would metastasize into the 21st Century Deep State. In China this took only three decades being that the Deep State had already been deployed fully by Mao and his communistic regime since the Cultural Revolution in the sixties. Otherwise, Deng Xiaoping’s libertarian-influenced economic-reforms (brought about through Zhao Ziyang via the American economist Milton Friedman) were some of the most radical in the economic history of humankind. They went from one bank, for instance, to 5000 national local banks, each with thousands of local branches. Their growth was next only to India in the 2000s; more on this below.
The endless and ongoing friction between the Platonic impulses of duty and sacrifice for the good of the collective versus the Aristotelian self-interest for the virtue of the individual, is found, I believe, in human nature itself, and has expressed itself in society for at least thousands of years, although admittedly, probably missing in any defined way in our long hunter-gatherer evolutionary history. When the Chinese liberal reformers were overthrown after the death of Deng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping (a conservative authoritarian Maoist-communist, i.e., a determined party-man with a Confucius foundation and a desire for national pride to hold the whole thing together), gained the upper hand in the mixed open-market system that Deng had nursed. Xi halted economic reforms immediately. The many reformers were reassigned, retired, or disappeared, and in fairness to Xi, he has curtailed much corruption from the CCP.
If Deng Xiaoping mirrored the openness of the illustrious Song Dynasty,
Then, Xi Jinping represents the command economy of the Ming Dynasty,
And the horrible heart-break its autocracy brought to China.
History shows us that stability is seldom more important than economic liberty.
The ceaseless stress and storm between Platonic ideals of self-sacrifice for the good of society and the Aristotelian desire for boundless reform of individual freedom and responsibility is exceedingly deep-rooted. It is reflected in the modern Left-Right dichotomy, (or sometimes in the Liberal-Conservative ideologies), is likely a constant see-saw in all civilizations: the dynamic dualism the world has been plagued with at least since the growth of the Greek Civilization. It is a contradiction of sorts, expressed best between Plato, the teacher at the Academy in Athens, Greece, circa 380 BCE, and one of his many understudies, Aristotle, a student of 22 years, who would start his own school, the Peripatetic School, which was located in the Lyceum, also in Athens around 335 BCE. This binary phenomenon would play-out heavily in the world’s two greatest monotheisms, Christianity and Islam, both in yesteryear logic and in the more modern sense, and why it would become in the end, biased mistakenly toward, socialism, totalitarianism and collectivism.
On the religious side of the clerisy, in the birth of Christianity, two voices affected the story of the Jesus figure. The missionary, Saul of Tarsus, (i.e., St. Paul), born near the time of the Crucifixion of Christ and trained as a Rabbi. He became the most important person, only after Christ himself, who would author the Epistles and insist in an open rapport with non-Jews which so influenced the early church Fathers, their followers and the whole direction of the movement, (i.e., especially to include all Gentiles—slaves, common laborers and Roman citizens—and not just the Jews). The other voice was Augustine of Hippo (i.e., St. Augustine) circa 375, a theologian, philosopher, and bishop in Africa who had gone from a youthful hedonistic lifestyle to one of religious contemplation which would lead to the brilliant book, City of God. He became the penultimate doctor of the church on matters of theology. The gist of both Paul’s and Augustine’s voices were overall, Platonic, i.e., rift with Neo-Platonist and Plotinus thought, and which eventually (with many codicils), would somehow add to a turn toward mysticism and the dawning of the slow devolution of the Roman Empire into the Dark Ages.
When the fascist-Zionists use the misnomer,
The Judeo-Christian Civilization,
They in fact mean they invented it.
And to think that they are so righteous in their current relentless genocide.
However, in Islam at its birth circa 600, the reverse occurred: here through the ascendency inside the Islamic early religious movement of the Persian physician-philosopher Al-Razi (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, also known as Rhazes, circa 900) was the voice of an outright Aristotelian. He was one of many brilliant thinkers (such as Averroes) during the Abbasid Clapiphate's Golden Islamic Age (lasting over five centuries) and he is considered the most important figure in medicine.
He is also known in the West as Abu-Ali-Sina or Avicenna.
Years before the resurgence of the early Renaissance circa 1400, the Christian theologian-philosopher, Thomas Aquinas, (i.e., St Thomas, a devout Dominican Friar) circa 1300 was introduced to Aristotle through Al-Razi’s (Avicenna's) work, ‘Kitab al-Hawi fi al-tibb’, known in the West as a Latin text, ‘The Comprehensive Book’. This likely occurred through the teacher Petrus de Ibernia, who taught Aquinas medicine, arithmetic, astronomy, music and other subjects. Aquinas' more formal interest in Aristotle's writings was cultivated, it is believed, by his mentor, Albert the Great, in Cologne, (i.e., St. Albert). As Thomas Aquinas’ reputation grew, Aristotle came into the West through the Catholic Church’s monopoly on education, and by this time, the Mecca Islamic era of detente with minorities and toleration of other religions was ending as the ascendency of a militant Medina view of the later Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) started to predominate among Muslim Mullahs and scholars, especially after Sa'eed ibn al-Musayyab, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr ibn Al-Awam, Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr, Ubaydullah ibn 'Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Mas'ud, Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit and Sulayman ibn Yasar.
In the end, the segregation between Plato and Aristotle, (which generally is a divide between idealism and empiricism, or sort of a gulf between mysticism and science, or intuition and reason), would separate along the Medina-Mecca periods, i.e., the Medina Islamic ascendency would see Platonism doom the religion to one of intolerance, Jihad, misogyny and even strict, repressive Sharia Law. (Note: Plato and Aristotle were both wealthy Athenians at the height of Ancient Greek culture who had property, schools, leisure, slaves, family and social position.) The Holy Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, would bifurcate the other way: with the Franciscans, being in part more Platonic, from St. Francis of Assisi, (circa 1250), and the Dominicans, i.e., the Thomists, after St Dominic, (circa 1200) leaning more to the Aristotelian. The Society of Jesus (Jesuits circa 1540, after St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanard in Paris) was known for education, missionary work, and intellectual rigor; they would try to square the circle between reason and faith, influenced equally by classical Platonic and Aristotelian thought, mid-reformation. This would ultimately lead, through a tortuous and twisted trail, to the loss of the Catholic monopoly on the faithful in Europe with separate Protestant reformations in England, Scotland, Germany, Holland and other nations inside the fold. In due course, it would result in the growth of philosophy, the secular society, skepticism, empiricism, and finally, the Enlightenment, circa 1700, as a push-back against superstition, intellectual rigidity, religious intolerance, and even, indeed, the Thomists’ own scholastic achievements through the Aristotelian method such as the explanation of the First Mover, the cosmos, gravity, and even Thomist philosophy itself.
This ever-present seesaw between intuition (spirit), and rationalism (reason and science), is nothing new in any sense. On the artistic side of the clerisy, we would be able to see the more modern divide between the Platonists and Aristotelians in the constant expression of utopians and dystopias. For the most part, the Platonists would write the utopias, starting with Plato himself with the Republic. Followed by The New Atlantis, Utopia, Lost Horizon, The City of the Sun, Walden Two, The Social Contract, The Communist Manifesto, Island, Ecotopia, Men like Gods and numerous others. Romantic utopia would be countered by various Aristotelian dystopias, such as 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, We, Brave New World, The Dispossessed, A Clockwork Orange, That Hideous Strength, The Handmaid’s Tale, Man in a High Castle, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, The Fifth Season, and of course, many others.
The soft under belly of the neo-Gnostic clerisy is at heart
A Platonic-Marxist who hates humanity and sensualism.
This back and forth was not reflected only in art, it also played out between the aristocracy and the forgotten huddled masses. The small inbred Machiavellian-imbued ruling-classes (often a warrior class) have reigned throughout history. Without fail, they have all put their ingrained subjects to shear sword and slaughter. The priestly classes also often helped keep the natives docile. Sometimes those poor folks not so devoted to the priestly rites but more concerned about their own family’s wellbeing were completely eliminated, frequently along with their entire clan. Slave and serf were the greatest part of this oceanic swirling mass of humanity who was born into the collective soul of man and died early in huge numbers. Philosophy and organized religion were a part of this mix and the Greek Ionian philosophers, first kicked the secular ball and started the high-stakes games, which with little help from the loathsome rulers, would bring us ultimately, and with much help from the Christian theologians, secular philosophers and eventually, even empirical scientists, into The Enlightenment.
During this era, especially after bourgeois dignity became common in Protestant nations such as Holland and England, the Platonists lost much of their power, not only to the simple libertarian formula of the modest and straight forward, Second Treatise of Government, but to many of the ancient Thomists’ power centers and their powerful monopoly on Scholastic education as the Church’s missionary reached out into the greater world through the voice of Aristotle via Aquinas on the merchants and conqueror’s’ longboats. The Platonists’ numbers also were gutted by the wealth that the Industrial Revolution created, the Scottish intellectual defense of it and the growing of trade around the world.
The clerisy whispered cunningly at the time
That the world masses were being seduced by golden trinkets.
When Scholasticism suddenly fell into disfavor and was overthrown with the help of a telescope, by Copernicus and Galileo’s assault on the geocentric view of the universe, for a brief moment the Platonists regained hope; but alas they were foiled again by a flood of empiricists, scientists, free market advocates and inventors, pointing out, what today looks obvious, like that the earth is not flat, that the sun is far away, that Venus and Mars are possibly planets like ours, that we may have evolved from animals, that there was magnetic-electric properties, that there was dynamic plate-tectonics at play under the continents, that there were germs and bacteria that naked vision could not see, that there was an awful lot of ocean, that volcanos were not the voice of the earth because we had done something that displeased the spirit world and that God might not be micro-managing the planet.
Upheaval on all fronts, in the course of time, changed the projected pathway of humankind. Eventually it brought women into the fray, then even the serfs & slaves (i.e., the utterly marginalized), and finally, all & any person who would be defined as human, even the transgender and unborn babies. So, a greater tragedy occurred for the Platonists, the birth of science liquidated what capital they had left. They fell into despair wondering how humankind could ever be saved from themselves and their evil selfish capitalistic ways. Their voices rose in despair, Niccolo Machiavelli, Étienne Cabet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Pierre Leroux, Thomas Hodgskin and Claude Henri de Saint-Simon. History betrayed the early socialists and none broke through until Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (they met in 1842) came together in England, two descendants of the bourgeois class who were born to bite the hand that fed them. Together, they started a religion similar to Seventh Day Adventists, their predictions always wrong and constantly in need of the nuanced apologetic (i.e., the decisive Nietzschean revaluation to discover a constant new secret).
What had immediately given Marx fame, (i.e., the Russian and Chinese Revolutions), might appear to the superficial observer as the great victory for an innovative Platonic philosophy; however, it did the contrary. These experiments were the first credible blow to the whole enterprise built around Das Capital; it was a terrible defeat, where plain horrific figures of democide would reveal the evil of Marxist arrogance. This then led to a greater Platonic revision. Marxism would have to be slowly painstakingly refortified. From there it developed into a Neo-Marxist’s rewrite among the true believers much as has happened to Islam & Christianity, and in due course, led to Critical Theory. This would spawn, in turn, the long march through institutions to Cultural Revolution that we have seen come to fruition in academia this century. When it came to actual culmination as viewed by regular working-class individuals though, the revolt would be completely mistaken by them as a simple & stupid hateful identity politics, a mistake of sorts; they did not understand the sinister nature of the unspoken conspiracy of the clerisy.
In truth, it was something much more insidious,
It was a cultural civil war waged inside the universities
Against liberty, individualism and free markets.
The thirty or so countries that have been led and managed by devoted or at least declared Marxists have failed to a singularity. Truly, not merely futile, but committed the largest human right abuses in our history, and with humankind’s record, that is saying something. Everyone of reason saw that in the totalitarian states of the early 20th Century there was a human sickness—a deadening of the soul. No, indeed, the most powerful force of the clerisy today is not artists, religious leaders or autocratic rulers, but the neo-Marxist atheistic academic priest-cast who do not openly identify themselves. It is the unread—by which I mean, empirical data mean nothing to them—political academics who have evolved and been transformed by a religion I call Marx-Engels’ fundamental-materialism; a new Gnostic religion. Those thinkers were naively impressed by this phony ideology of division-identity-beliefs, or the bare-faced, (and false), Foucault's sort of social-constructionism where all hard-wired problems, (biology), are faithfully believed to be software difficulties, (that can be corrected by better language, culture and social structures provided by the harmless state philosopher kings, i.e., them and their benevolent government administrations). Those theories have come directly from the endless waves of anticapitalistic Continental Philosophies through the neo-Marxism quagmire from the German Frankfurt School.
Let me explain: this is the interdisciplinary social theory and research group who fled Nazi-Germany to come to America via Columbia University in New York City to spread the (above), cancerous Critical Theory, (i.e., Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Max HorkHeimer, Wilhelm Reich, and others), extended to many of the American Pragmatists such as John Dewey and countless other academics, political scientists and artists.
Herbert Marcuse, one of the most foolish philosophers to ever emigrate from the Continent to America had a total hatred of the West's values, and especially, American-style democracy. “He [Marcuse] indicated it was the most fruitful direction for achieving an eventual revolution via the ‘long march through the institutions’ in his desperate 1972 book, Counter-revolution and Revolt. He puts it this way, To extend the base of the student movement, Rudi Dutschke has proposed the strategy of the long march through the institutions: working against the established institutions while working in them, but not simply by ‘boring from within,’ rather by ‘doing the job,’ learning how to program and read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use the mass media, how to organize production, how to recognize and eschew planned obsolescence, how to design, etcetera), and at the same time preserving one’s own consciousness in working with the others,” from, The Marxification of Education.
They in turn were greatly influenced by the cultural Marxist, Hungarian Gyorgy Lukas, who wrote History and Class Consciousness and was a pawn of Stalin's totalitarian orthodoxy for thirty years back in the days of the USSR. Then there was critical theorist, Antonio Gramsci, with his criticism of bourgeois hegemony in Prison Notebooks, who died a political prisoner at the hands of the Italian Fascists, to other Critical Marxists, such as the French thinker credited with Analytic Marxism, Louis Althusser, who fatally strangled his wife and saw no consequence for it. [“There is neither crime nor delict where the suspect was in a state of dementia at the time of the action.” The magistrate in charge of Althusser’s case decided that there were no grounds on which to pursue prosecution.] The ever-popular and flamboyant Michel Foucault came along studying the structures of power in our institutions from a Marxist purview. He died of HIV/AIDS and beggared every desire in humankind to live a much more conservative lifestyle. The wise and thoughtful Jean-Paul Sartre rose from the neo-Marxist French sentiment after WWII trying to decipher humankind’s anxieties and who also rejected all conservative values no matter how worthy. He was the very first philosopher I read, (at thirteen years of age, Being and Nothingness, I would read it again much later—it is a brilliant work). There is also the disillusioned Brazilian Marxist, Paulo Freire’s, whose work, The Politics of Education, has had such a long-standing and disastrous effect on North America’s education system leading up to this exceedingly stressful moment in our history inside the government classrooms everywhere.
Or in other words, they’ve been around for seven or eight decades at least. Marx is dispelled and reborn in every generation without young people realizing this is the modern pathology of collective Platonism which I discuss in so many of my articles under the Reason heading. See also, Mao’s America. Make no mistake, this assault on Western values and the Anglosphere itself, comes from the soft sciences of the subsidized universities, and is overall, a complete calamity of state-run education (that is, indoctrination) spewing its propaganda about a free society and the marketplace. Universities like Harvard pay no taxes, are subsidized over the years collectively to the tune of trillions of dollars, they manufacture irrational social technologies, they don't live by the rules of regular people, they (i.e., Harvard’s Capital Investment and Military research institute is one of the largest in America) make huge capital returns on Wall Street, they are the leaders in the censorship industry, the loans of their students are guaranteed by the state and the universities’ Alumni’s donations are tax deductible. I mean, come on, and this is not to make any accusations of their well-known affiliations with Jeffery Epstein.
Into the future we go from the distant past;
The new clerisy (like ancient Gnostism) is a soulless religion.
This is the Davos crowd, the aggressive undemocratic oligarchy,
Working with the I.M.C., the deep state and all the main state-influenced players:
Big Pharma, corporate media, the processed food industry and AIPAC lobbyists.
The clerisy is made up today of neo-Marxist elitists, anti-capitalist-aristocrats, the political Machiavellian globalists, with their monitoring agencies and their N.G.O. censorship apparatuses: they represent the belligerent 21st Century angst. It was first the Dutch who began to ignore their own Platonic clerisy and started reading the Aristotelians in the Golden Age of Holland, (circa 16th & 17th Centuries); the working-classes became a momentous movement including a wide range of professionals, artisans, traders and shopkeepers. ("God created the earth, but the Dutch made their place on it with their own hands"; circa 1740, L Holberg). They commonly had investments in the markets, low taxes, and better standards of living than many of their European neighbors. In 1500, the Netherlands had twenty-one cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, while England had no more than five. This embrace of work-ethic values, thrift, a belief in the market and individual personal interpretation of the bible, gave them a terrific moral edge for perhaps a century or so until, England, a growing navel might, looked across the cold choppy channel and communally sighed, “What the hell?”
"The United Provinces after a prodigious growth in riches, beauty, extent of commerce . . .
As made them the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of their neighbours."
W Temple, England's ambassador to the Dutch Republic, 1673.
"For the Dutch, commerce was king", F Braudel
The nation of England then began in earnest its rivalry with Holland: "Where there is an embedded history of left and right and profoundly different attitudes to the past, I think it’s difficult to settle on a consensus, which is why I think that the last period that you can legitimately say was a golden age was the seventeenth century in the Netherlands. Because it’s not really political. It’s about Vermeer and canals and tolerance and liberation and all this kind of stuff, and who could object to that? Everyone loves a canal and tolerance." T Holland, 2021.
We see this marvel repeated through history (i.e., competition between countries) even as recent as today between America and China or a decade and a half ago when India looked north to China’s obvious bourgeoning middle-class and collectively said, “What the hell?”It happened when India looked north to China and soon overthrew their Hindu elitist clerisy with the single greatest deregulation of an economy in humankind’s history. Now in turn, the current working-class of African and South American countries are taking a run at their deceptive and mischievous clerisy (many suffering with a colonial hangover). They are looking north and west and collectively sighing, “What the hell?”
So now eight billion people with computers in their purses or pockets, looking at the crumbling Western middle-classes and their rich malevolent clerisy billionaire rulers who have ruined them. The clerisy are the absolute evil cohorts of the final solution for us, their unruly subjects, that is all of regualr humanity, and we are all around the world collectively sighing, “What the hell?’
We're vexed and frustrated; so, let's show the Plutocrats & Globalists (i.e., the current clerisy) what working-class common-sense looks like. In 2026, the soul of humanity is alive and well! Human spirit is ascending and the revolution is coming; you best get ready!
