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An
excerpt
: "When the world's two great
propaganda
systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some
intellectual
effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by
Lenin
and
Trotsky
and molded further by
Stalin
and his successors has some relation to
socialism
in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of
contradiction
.
It is clear enough why both major
propaganda
systems insist upon this
fantasy
. Since its origins, the
Soviet
State
has attempted to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed people elsewhere in the service of the men who took advantage of the popular ferment in Russia in
1917
to seize
State
power
. One major ideological weapon employed to this end has been the claim that the State managers are leading their own society and the world towards the
socialist
ideal; an impossibility, as any
socialist
-- surely any serious
Marxist
-- should have understood at once (many did), and a
lie
of
mammoth proportions
as
history
has revealed since the earliest days of the
Bolshevik
regime. The taskmasters have attempted to gain legitimacy and support by exploiting the aura of
socialist
ideals and the respect that is rightly accorded them, to conceal their own
ritual
practice as they destroyed every vestige of
socialism
.
As for the world's second major propaganda system, association of
socialism
with the
Soviet Union
and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce
conformity
and
obedience
to the
State capitalist
institution
s, to ensure that the necessity to rent oneself to the
owners
and
managers
of these
institution
s will be regarded as virtually a
natural law
, the only alternative to the '
socialist
'
dungeon
." --
Noam Chomsky
,
Our Generation
, Vol. 17, No. 2 (
Spring
/
Summer
1986
) pp. 47-52
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