July 10, 2025

Painting of Karl Marx –
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Thursday:
My views on Socialism – July 10, 2025

I have stated multiple times that I wish to not discuss or write about politics on this blog and that is still my intention, but at some point it does also become unavoidable to not cover certain political grounds and waters, since the topics I write about very much pertain to the political situation I find myself in and indeed how the world seems to be constituted these days. I remain convinced that the current order, the Kali Yuga, shall be destroyed in a great conflagration between the force for good, the forces upholding the celestial order, and the evil and dark forces, the forces opposed to the very being of the moral order. Socialism then, is the rapid and inevitable expansion of the liberal paradigm to ever more and ever absurd heights—or lows, it is the logical conclusion of the humanist axiom in that it asserts the supposed progress and improvement of the human condition as the highest and only goal of man. Socialism is not apart from liberalism more than heat is apart from the sun; socialism is rather the most depraved and advanced form of liberalism, for it deems that man should not only be liberated from his immediate material circumstances as imposed by society, tradition, and deep time, but that man should also be liberated from his future, or that he should be set free from his own person, he should become the fundamental unit of the collective, as opposed to the fundamental unit of humanity. Verily, the socialist form of liberation demands always from others for it has completely erased the fundamental and sacred difference between men: all men are beastly, so all men should work towards the harmony of the beastly collective. Modern man's open rebellion against nature and the celestial order is rooted in his fundamental misunderstanding of his own nature as a being of transcendent worth and instead modern man is celebrating the nature of man alone, the man in his "natural" state as the "reasoned" man of free will, governed by his reason. Modern man is not celebrating the virtuous qualities of man, instead he is celebrating his perceived victory against nature, in the form of extra materialism, materialism for the sake of nothing else but materialism. The fundamental unit of the socialist society is not the individual, it is the final imposition of egalitarianism in human form: the super beast. Verily, the socialist dream of a new man goes even beyond the liberal call for the final solution to the human condition, for socialism calls for the erasure of man himself, even in the form of the liberated man—the individual man of the mass of other individuals, unchained and free from the celestial order. The socialist conclusion is a world of the reign of the lowest form: the destruction of civilization, and in this regard socialism should be viewed as an accelerated form of liberalism.

Hindu depicition of Shrinathji (श्रीनाथजी),
Krishna (कृष्ण) in child form

    Socialism is the state of liberalism tomorrow, and the beast will always move his goal post, and the contemporary liberal will oppose socialism today, but endorse it tomorrow. Liberalism is totalitarian and imperialist and socialism is merely the most totalitarian expression of liberalism. The call for the "collective ownership of the means of production" is the call for the utter destruction of the celestial order today, it is the call for the erasure of the human condition, while liberalism slowly works towards the same goal with slower means; socialism is rather somewhat more radical. The democratization of war is perhaps the most poignant example in modern times of how socialism complements liberalism: the liberal claims that the individual is the most fundamental unit of society, and he proves this by the special relationship between man and the state in the form of the citizenship; but the socialist on the other hand goes further, for he claims that the will of any individual man necessarily has to converge with the collective will in the form of the state. Liberalism will defend negative rights and to the candid world of negative rights the perpetual addition of positive rights is taken for granted as a function of democracy, while socialism will defend ever growing positive rights, until man has completely transformed into the beast.

    The duo of liberalism-socialism is the sign of our times, the Kali Yuga, for every aspect of life in the modern world is evermore dominated by fantastical notions of a life on the other side, the final victory of the material over the sacred and the transcendent on Earth. Do not fear, for the beast will be defeated and indeed he will help in his defeat, for he is misguided by his self love, his idolatry, and this is his Achilles' heel – the idolatry of the man in the form of the beast. In line with the formless man, socialism will erase and deprave man of himself, of his own consciousnesses, for man must be brought down to the lowest level, the level of the beast, such is the ways of egalitarianism. Depart the liberal paradigm, depart the material world, and embrace purity, for purity is the only bridge left, in the material domain, to the transcendent plane. Socialism is not the solution or the liberation, it is the call to sacrifice your soul for the material victory of sin and lust – it is the call for the anti-transfiguration.

Reginald Drax – July 10, 2025.