philistinism [Theme]

Two principles constantly struggle in a person, of which one attracts him to the active activity of the spirit, to spiritual work in the name of the ideal, and the other seeks to paralyze this activity, to drown out the higher needs of the spirit, to make existence carnal, meager and vile. This second beginning is true philistinism; the tradesman sits in every person, always ready to lay his deadening hand on him as soon as his spiritual energy weakens. It is in the struggle with oneself, which includes the struggle with the outside world, that moral life consists, which therefore has as its condition this fundamental dualism of our existence, the struggle of two souls that live in one body not only in Faust, but also in every person.

But it is characteristic of the present day that vulgar, philistinist souls, aware of their mediocrity, boldly declare their right to vulgarity, and everywhere.

In Russia we are experiencing (the third year after the overthrow of the bourgeoisie) the first steps of transition from capitalism to socialism or the lower stage of communism. Classes have remained and will remain everywhere for years after the conquest of power by the proletariat. Except maybe in England, where there are peasants (but there are small proprietors!), this time will be less. To destroy classes means not only to drive out the landlords and capitalists - that we relatively easy to do - it also means to destroy small producers, and they cannot drive, they cannot be suppressed, they have to get along, they can (and should) change, re only very prolonged, slow, cautious organizational work. They surround the proletariat on all sides the petty-bourgeois element, it is impregnated with it, corrupting it to him, cause constantly inside the proletariat relapses petty of being spineless, of fragmentation, of individualism, of the transitions from passion to depression. Need the strictest centralization and discipline within a political party of the proletariat to resist to the organizational role of the proletariat (which is his main role) to carry out correctly, successfully, victoriously. The dictatorship of the proletariat is a stubborn struggle, bloody and bloodless, violent and peaceful, military and economic, pedagogical and administrative, against the forces and traditions of the old society. The force of habit of millions and tens of millions is a most formidable force. Without a party of iron and tempered in struggle, without a party enjoying the confidence of all honest in the given class, without a party, able to follow the mood of the masses and to influence it, to conduct such a struggle successfully is impossible. To win large centralized bourgeoisie is a thousand times easier than to "vanquish" the millions and millions of small proprietors, and they are their everyday, routine, invisible, elusive, demoralizing activity is carried out by the same results which the bourgeoisie need, which restore the bourgeoisie. Anyone who weakens the iron discipline of the party of the proletariat (especially during its dictatorship), actually helps the bourgeoisie against the proletariat.

The monopolistic position of England singled out "labor aristocracy", promisance, opportunistic, from the "masses". The leaders of this labour aristocracy moved permanently to the side of the bourgeoisie, was, directly or indirectly, on the contents of it. Marx won himself the honourable hatred of the bastards for what was openly branded them traitors. Modern (twentieth century) imperialism created a monopoly-a privileged position for a few advanced countries, and on this basis everywhere in the II international described the type of leaders traitors, opportunists, social-chauvinists, defending the interests of his profession, his stratum of the labor aristocracy. Created isolation of the opportunist parties from the "masses", ie from the widest layers of workers, most of them, from Nahodka paid workers. The victory of the revolutionary proletariat is impossible without a struggle against this evil, without disclosure, opatrenia and expulsion opportunistic, social-traitorous leaders.

I remember one of his relative, who said: "Pushkin? A womanizer, libertine, king wrote, humiliated, asked for money... Gogol? Punter, a cleric, sneak... Tchaikovsky? Bugger, sir, lived by his mistress... parsnips? Jew or not a Jew, still shit." Attack on identity - here is another dastardly deed tradesman.

The ideology and morality of the burghers napravleny to ensure it is possible tight and hard to tie will and the human mind, aimed in the direction of collectivism.

A tradesman thinks not about how to live and how to look.

I always have to take a deep breath of it as I go? As the smell of wax, which is smeared floor, and a faint flavor of turpentine together with the mahogany, washed leaves and all the way create fragrance, create the highest expression of bourgeois cleanliness, thoroughness and accuracy of duty and faithfulness in the small. Don't know who lives here, but behind that glass door should be a Paradise of purity, of the petty bourgeoisie without a single speck of dust, a Paradise of order and timidly touching devotion to the little habits and responsibilities.

There is a power that even you cannot overcome. I mean philistinism. The inertia of the little man. Townspeople not to win by force, because they'd have to physically destroy. And you can't beat them because the petty bourgeoisie is limited and does not accept any ideas.

A tradesman is a person who quietly lives in a completely unknown world.

Malokulture - the essence of the necessarily narrow-mindedness. Militant philistinism - bound mini-fascism.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than his "I" (very immature). The price of completeness, therefore, it achieves safety and security gets is obsession with God, a quiet conscience, instead of pleasure - the pleasure, instead of freedom - convenience, instead of deadly heat - a pleasant temperature. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses, anxious, fearful in any way to sacrifice his "I", easily managed. Therefore, he put in place of power - the majority, in place of the power - law, the place of responsibility - the voting procedure.

Not bad that she's petty-bourgeois kind, and that the soul of her bourgeois rise to wants.

Why do I not like? I want to live a normal life, want vulgar bourgeois happiness, want to be a citizen. Ant in the anthill.