0025 Hazony points to the obvious.  Humans evolve in social circles where there are many relationships between a more powerful individual and a less powerful one, starting with mom, dad and their children.  The organizational structure of this foundational institution is discussed in A Primer on the Family.

0026 The family starts in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.  So, there is more.

We must add the unconstrained social and labor specializations that characterize our current Lebenswelt.

Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

0027 The organizational structures of civilization_B is a topic worthy of consideration.  The institution_aC and sovereign_bClevels of the society tier_C contextualize the organization tier_B.  The organization tier_B encompasses production_aB, exchange_bB and assessment_cB.  The organization tier_B emerges from (and situates) the individual in community_A.

Too bad inquiry into the organization tier_B is yet to be initiated.

Advancements are blocked by marxist theory, in its various guises.  Marxist theory offers a “scientific” model that forecloses intellectual exploration of the organizations tier_B.

0028 The model goes like this:

The diverse relations between more powerful and less powerful individuals in the organization tier_B are equivalent to the relation between oppressors and oppressed.

The two are more than equivalent.  They are contiguous.

0029 What does contiguity imply?

Peirce’s category of secondness consists of two contiguous real elements.  The contiguity is not a real element, it is the substance that causally binds the two real elements.  The marxist substance carries the character of equivalence, but that is not enough.  Ask any marxist.  The causality is systemic.

Anyone who disagrees speaks with what Jacques Lacan calls, the master’s discourse.  Here is the oppressor.

Anyone who agrees speaks, to me_3b, in discourses that Lacan labels, hysteric (for some) and scientific (for others).  For the most part, I find it hard to tell the difference.  I suppose the label depends on the slogan_2a.   Each slogan_2a addresses the one who asks what does this mean to me_3b.

“Me_3b” is a placeholder, virtually situating the person’s reflection_3b in the marxist mirror of the world_3a.

0030 Oppressed? Or oppressor?  Find a location within the abundance of asymmetric relations contained within the organization tier_B.

Here is a diagram of the marxist interscope, as far as this discussion sees.

0031 From the masterwork, How To Define the Word “Religion“, one finds that there are three tiers to the presence underlying the word, “religion”.

They are the society_C, organization_B and the individual in community_A.

The society tier_C puts the organization tier_B into perspective.  The organization tier_B emerges from (and situates) the individual in community_A.

Each tier is diagrammed as a three-level interscope.

0032 So, let me talk business.

When an young individual in community_A enters the organization tier_B, by going to work, “he” engages a number of asymmetric relations.

How does a young person_A navigate these relations_B?

Obviously, the individual in community_A relies on what “he” has been taught.

0033 American classical liberals teach that the individual should have a dream_2a.

French classical liberals instruct the individual with tropes about equality, freedom and human brotherhood_2a.  These expectations_2a encourage asymmetric business relations to be “win-win”.

Marxist (il)liberals indoctrinate slogans raising awareness of how asymmetric relations between individuals somehow cause (are contiguous with) systemic oppression_2a.

0034 Liberalism offers a dream.  Marxism offers a nightmare.  Choose your false consciousness.

0035 Hazony describes the pairing as a dance.  In this dance, one party negates the other.  Thus, the dance is more like the mating ritual between the male and the female praying mantis.  The dance ends when liberalism gets devoured as food for the fertilized egg sacs of marxism.  Afterwards, an all-consuming fecund marxism dies from her own contradictions, in the winter of her totalizing reign.

0036 Why do I say this?

Compare the perspective-level actualities_2c for American enlightenment and postmodern marxism.

0037 When the American enlightenment is reflected in the mirror of the world_3a, slogans_2a call for individuation_1b.  The asymmetric relations characterizing the organization tier are depicted as opportunities and hazards for fashioning a dream_2a based on one’s talents and dispositions_1a.  When confronted with oppressors, the individual should learn how to detect, avoid and escape.  When confronted with mentors, the individual should figure ways to flourish.

0038 Indeed, in America, opportunities_1b for success are manifold, ask any movie actress_2b promoted by the notorious Harvey Winerock, who turns out to be a postmodern marxist_2a,b,c.

In contrast, millions of less-promoted actresses now live in movies of their own, the comedies and tragedies of life in the family_2aB, the traditional portal to the organization tier_B.  For every one actress who reaches an accommodation_2b with Harvey, by playing through his disgusting game_1b, millions of women discover that the asymmetric relations inherent in the family realize_2b their dreams_2a.

Who should be teaching whom?

Surely, a Hollywood actress stands in asymmetric relation to innumerable mothers, among others.

So, what does she preach?

Marxist slogans_2a?

Why?

In order to attain her dream_2b, she is required to become so oppressed_2c that she cannot recognize herself as an oppressor_2c.  She lives out the scientific truth of marxism_2c. She submits_1b and receives both rewards and marxist illumination_2b.

0039 Why are so many civic institutions of American liberalism now controlled by marxists?

The marxist perspective translates the asymmetric relations of the organization tier_B into the languages of oppressor and oppressed.  Mirroring this perspective_2c, slogans_2a emerge from a righteousness_1a that demands submission of the oppressors_1b.  One party in all asymmetric relations_B is already guilty of oppression_1a on the basis of participation in the system.  That party cannot be the marxist, who represents the oppressed.

By definition, the oppressed_2c, such as Harvey Winerock and the Hollywood actress, are exempt because each is a marxist occupying a powerful position in a once civic, now marxist, institution.  Each, in his and her own way, is a victim in an asymmetric relation with a more powerful individual.

For the actress, that more powerful individual is Harvey.

For Harvey, that more powerful individual is the one who bought his soul.

0040 Harvey Winerock is the poster boy of the marxist endgame.

Here is a character at home with the cruelty of the organization tier_B, where asymmetric relations among individuals is contiguous with systemic oppression.  Harvey stands as a gatekeeper for the studios of Hollywood.  He is a gargoyle.  Actresses and actors must speak the proper slogans_2a and submit to the proper humiliations_1b in order to pass into the bewitched enclave where every asymmetric relation stinks of systemic exploitation.  Welcome to an institution filled with marxists.

0041 Harvey lives the marxist dream.

Until, of course, he does not.

Why?

Others can play the game.  The organization tier_B changes, every so slightly.  The identification of oppressor and oppressed_2c shifts out of his favor.  Harvey and the actress point fingers in a house of mirrors.

0042 Hazony writes of marxism as the end of democracy.

It is really the end of sanity.

Why do French liberals (aka, “old time democrats”) and American liberals (aka, “tea party republicans”) find common cause in 2020?

They both gaze into the house of mirrors that is postmodern modernism.

There is one encouraging feature about the current scene.  American academics, hatching the mantis eggs of the Frankfurt school, succinctly articulate their ever-expanding agendas.  Hazony comes close to appreciating the paradox, where any asymmetric relation within the organization tier_B may be interpreted as systemic oppression_2c.  If this actuality_2c is true and if the organization tier_B is full of asymmetric relations (not just full, but bursting with them), then systemic oppression_2c is everywhere, except for once-liberal institutions under the control of marxists_2b.

0043 What a joke.

Institutions_cC contextualize organizations_B.  Institutions_cC justify organizations_B on the basis of righteousness_2a.  Marxists act as if they are institutions_cC without the trappings of an organization_B.  Yet, organized they are.  They demand sovereign power_3b in order to achieve the organizational goals_2b that actualize their slogans_2a.  Harvey Winerock and the movie actress both exemplify the exceptional character of marxists.  They are exempt from the marxist critique_2c because they self-identify as marxists.

Harvey is promoted by other marxists within the studio system, just as homosexual priests promote their confreres, actresses promote their marxist causes, and public school teachers protest for better wages, in order to get better working conditions.  No, nobody here engages in asymmetric relations that characterize the organization tier_B.  Instead, the avatars of the “be little men” movement say that men must become aware how systemic oppression is built into their life, their liberty and their pursuit of happiness.

No, marxists cannot see their reflections in the mirror of the world_3a, because their illumination_2c is supposed to be reflected in the mirror of the world_3a.  They see their illuminance_2c, not themselves, in their slogans_2a.

 0044 Academic postmodern marxist disciplines are inquiries into how this or that asymmetric relation in the organization tier_B somehow causes (is contiguous with) a relation between oppressor and oppressed_2c.   Marxists destroy once-liberal civic institutions from within, simply by identifying and promoting others who are self-identified victims (and extollers_2a) of particular types of systemic oppression_2c.  Indeed, their organizational objectives_2b force others into submitting_1b to slogans_2a that assign guilt for participation in systemic oppression_1a.

0045 Ultimately, sovereign power_3b is required in order to promulgate their organizational objectives_2b.  And, this is the ultimatum that Hazony fears.  What happens when marxists gain control of the levers of state power?

Yoram Hazony’s article is an intimation of what will be exposed when conservative, Christian and nationalist citizens challenge Big Government (il)Liberalism, the hidden and the complete perversion of the Enlightenment tradition.

0046  Five related works are available at www.smashwords.com.

A Primer on the Category Based Nested Form

A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

How To Define the Word “Religion”

A Primer on the Family

A Primer on the Organization Tier (First and Second)