If
you wish to understand my communism, you must first understand my
individualism. On one hand, I regard the individual capacity for independent
thought to be the first and last defense against the most oppressive tyranny,
and I crusade daily to liberate this capacity from the depraving confines of
the tribe. On the other hand, its greatest internal menace, its foulest
temptation, is the individual will, which turns individual thought towards the
service of a more oppressive, narcissistic and myopic master: the individual
body. Only the State can protect the individual from the tribe, and that State
must also do its best to temper the Individual will. We must never have to seek
what we need, for the moment that we allow ourselves to be our foremost concern
we descend into egocentric madness and depravity. The State must therefore
provide all that we need so that we can continue to provide for it, thus
fulfilling our duty to one another. No other form of government seems sensible
to my mind. I have spent a lifetime trying to discover how to lead a happy life
by finding all the proper virtues. I am told that virtue ought to be its own
reward, so I should not expect for it to serve me, and I ought to die alone,
starving and celibate. Yet I don’t see this selflessness within the common
person, and I know that were it there our altruism would be vindicated by being
reciprocated, and all would prosper. I must conclude that the only way for me
to live is for my example to be mandated, and in turn I look forward to having
a more powerful and virtuous entity, blessed with a surpassing wisdom and
tradition of righteousness, to mandate those dictates which would further my
spiritual development.
Dmytri.
[({Dm.A.A.)}]
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