TRANSFORMATION, PART I: NEP; TRUST; and THE BLIND DEAF AND DUMB documentary by GRZEGORZ BRAUN

This is a good Polish documentary with facts not recognized and mentioned in the West. I don’t agree with their conclusions about “SOCIALISM=BAD”. I am a real socialist and a social democrat, because there is nothing more socialist like democracy. But true democracy is based on informed voters just like real free markets are based on informed clients.

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. You take a look at the first ad you see on television and ask yourself … is that it’s purpose? No it’s not. It’s to create uninformed consumers making irrational choices. And these same institutions run political campaigns. It’s pretty much the same: you have to undermine democracy by trying to get uninformed people to make irrational choices.” ― Noam Chomsky, The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What’s Wrong with Libertarians

Since everyone lies we need to watch both sides because they both lie by omissions. So if we watch both sides we can make our own informed rational decision based on truth filtered from the propaganda of both sides which is based on lies of omission. For example:

24:08

“The ultimate aim of Communism is to create a new soviet man. That is one who has been trained by philosophers. The philosophers had grasped the relentless laws of historical processes and were therefore entitled to the privilege of exercising political power. But if they knew the end of the historical process it goes without saying that listening to anyone who is still ignorant of it is just a waste of time and discussing things with them amounts to delaying the arrival of the better, brighter future.”

The ultimate aim of Capitalism is to create a new capitalistic man. That is one who has been trained by advertisement and school. The authority and scientists grasped the relentless laws of historical processes and were therefore are entitled to the privilege of exercising political power. But if they knew the end of the historical process it goes without saying that listening to anyone who is still ignorant of it is just a waste of time and discussing things with them amounts to delaying the arrival of the better, brighter future.

Try to discuss socialism with some radical liberal talking about free markets when he doesn’t even understand that as long as we get ads like we got we don’t have free markets because we don’t have informed consumers and the same way as long as we don’t get informed voters we don’t have democracy.

10:43

“At the turn of march and April 1917 German authorities provided Lenin’s group with transport from Switzerland to Russia’s capital Petrograd in a sealed carriage that was granted diplomatic status. The tickets had been provided in person by Trotsky’s acquaintance Alexander Parvus also known as iIsrael Lazarevich Gelfand who acted as a Communications liaison between Lenin’s group German general staff and international financial institutions. As Winston Churchill put it years later: Lenin was transported into Russia like a plague bacillus. Report to general staff in Berlin dated April 21 1917: Lenin’s arrival in Russia successful acts strictly as intended meanwhile in New York Trotsky who had been swiftly granted U.S citizenship met with representatives of local banking houses which were to continue financing the revolution.”

15:01

“After the coup Lenin immediately fulfilled his obligations towards the Germans announcing the peace decree. He pulled Russia, an ally of Western powers out of the war, winning with that move the support of the masses of conscripted soldiers. The train loads of deutsche marks that financed the bolshevik movement led to the coup d’etat the overthrow of the legal authorities all of which was aimed at weakening Russia and eliminating the Eastern front. So that Germany could concentrate on the war in the West. Up to a point the plan succeeded; the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk successfully eliminated Russia as a military opponent. Readiness to make huge concessions in the name of staying in power at any price. It should be remembered that the 1918 Brest peace treaty was a truly traumatic experience for most Russians. Because the Bolsheviks, determined to save their regime at all costs, were giving up vast territories in the western parts of the Russian Empire. The post-peace treaty trauma was one of the reasons behind the civil war or behind some of the more active russians are standing up against the bolshevik regime”

33:49

“Lenin to the people’s commissar for foreign affairs to Chicherin to the conclusion that the cultured classes of Western Europe and America are unable to comprehend today’s situation and the actual relations of power. These classes should be considered deaf and dumb and treated accordingly a special maneuver should be carried out. Firstly to appease the deaf mutes we should announce a fictitious separation of our government from the Politburo and most of all from the Common term. Declaring them to be autonomous organizations independent of the Soviet Union, the deaf mutes will believe it. Secondly let’s declare our willingness to establish relations with capitalist states based on mutual non-interference in one’s internal affairs, the deaf mutes will believe it. The raison d’etre of the soviet state was the constant deception of the west and of its own or citizens in this context denoting not just single lies which everyday propaganda was full of planned large-scale covert operations of the deception intelligence type. Some are bribed for others, it’s all about their ego for others still it’s a matter of their ideological convictions but generally the point is simply to make Western elites cooperate with the Soviets. Lennon’s 1921 memo to Chicherin: telling the truth is a bourgeois superstition on the contrary the end justifies the lies. Capitalists from across the globe chasing profits on the Soviet market will turn a blind eye to reality. Thus turning into blind death news who will be more than willing to give us bank loans enabling us to support communist parties in their homelands and providing us with necessary materials. They will rebuild our military industry which will facilitate our victorious attacks against our providers in other words they’ll be busy paving the way for their own suicide”