35960 ¥293 socialist humanism ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HAS TAKEN A VERY DIFFERENT COURSE. SOCIALISTS BLAME LIBERALS FOR FOCUSING OUR ATTENTION ON OUR OWN FEELINGS INSTEAD OF ON WHAT OTHER PEOPLE EXPERIENCE. YES, THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL MEANING, BUT THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND ALL OF THEM ARE JUST AS VALUABLE AS I AM. WHEREAS LIBERALISM TURNS MY GAZE INWARDS, EMPHASIZING MY UNIQUENESS AND THE UNIQUENESS OF MY NATION, SOCIALISM DEMANDS THAT I STOP OBSESSING ABOUT ME AND MY FEELINGS AND INSTEAD FOCUS ON WHAT OTHERS ARE FEELING AND HOW MY ACTIONS INFLUENCE THEIR EXPERIENCES. Global peace will be achieved not by celebrating the distinctiveness of each nation, but by unifying all the workers of the world; and social harmony won't be achieved by each person narcissistically exploring their own inner depths, but rather by each person prioritizing the needs and experiences of others over their own desires. A liberal may counter that by exploring her own inner world: she develops her compassion and her understanding of others. But such reasoning would have cut little ice with Lenin or Mao?! They would have explained that individual self-exploration is an indulgent bourgeois vice, and that when I try to get in touch with my inner self, I am more than likely to fall into one or another capitalist (s)trap? My current political views, my likes and dislikes, and my hobbies and ambitions do not reflect my authentic self! Rather, they reflect my upbringing and social surroundings. They depend on my class, and are shaped by my neighborhood and my school? Rich and poor alike are brainwashed from birth. The rich are taught to disregard the poor, while the poor are taught to disregard their true interests. No amount of self-reflection or psychotherapy will help, because the psychotherapists are also working for the capitalist system. Indeed, self-reflection is likely only to distance me even further from under-standing the truth about myself, because it gives too much consideration to personal decisions and not enough to social conditions...... If I am rich, I conclude that it is because I made shrewd choices. If I am mired in poverty, I must have made some mistakes?! If I am depressed, a liberal therapist is likely to blame my parents & to encourage me to set some new aims in life!? If I suggest that perhaps I am being exploited by capitalists, and because under the prevailing Social System I have no chance of realizing my aims, the therapist may well say that I am projecting onto 'the social system' my own inner difficulties, and I am projecting onto 'the capitalists' unresolved issues with my mother.

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