{"id":406,"date":"2008-09-21T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=406"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:23:32","slug":"mirror-mirror-theyre-all-bolsheviks-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/mirror-mirror-theyre-all-bolsheviks-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror, Mirror: &#8216;They&#8217;re All Bolsheviks, Now . . .&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I<\/b>t could be that Star Trek episode, you know the one.  Evil Spock with the goatee.  &#8220;Mirror, Mirror&#8221; (Season 2, Episode 33 for the geeks).   <\/p>\n<p>Instead here it is early 1921.  A Politburo meeting.  The topic?  How to prevent a systemic collapse after excesses of dogmatically ideological government and economic policies.  Ad hoc &#8216;interventions&#8217; fail to stabilize the situation.  Let&#8217;s listen in . . .<\/p>\n<p><center>  <a href='http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?attachment_id=407' rel='attachment wp-att-407' title='Henry Paulson\u2019s Mirror Mirror'><img src='http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/paulsons_mirror_mirror.jpg' alt='Henry Paulson\u2019s Mirror Mirror' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>________________________<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strike>Nikolai Bukharin:<\/strike> Bernanke:  You&#8217;ve seen the news.  The interventions we implemented earlier <strike>such as Tukhachevsky&#8217;s smashing of the Tambov uprising<\/strike> such as Bear Stearns and the GSEs are not working to restore order.  The <strike>sailor revolt in Kronstadt<\/strike> AIG situation is more systemic than we realize.  <Strike>Brutal suppression<\/strike> Our $85 billion bridge loan failed to stabilize <strike> the Party&#8217;s revolutionary control<\/strike> markets.  The economy and our entire system is headed for a free fall if we don&#8217;t act now.  We must do so and be seen to do so in a major way. <\/p>\n<p><strike>Aleksei Rykov:<\/strike> Paulson:  We must act now. This is not how I would like us to operate in theory. <strike>Marx taught us that class revolution . . .<\/strike> We all here today remain in favor of <strike> unrelenting ideological struggle against class enemies<\/strike> deregulation and market forces.  These are cards we are dealt.  We must intervene now and seize the &#8216;commanding heights&#8217; of the economy.  We will stimulate regulatory and other incentives to allow market clearing forces to function at the <strike><i>krai<\/i><\/strike> local and <strike>soyuz<\/strike> Union levels.  <\/p>\n<p>We are calling this our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~lnp3\/mydocs\/economics\/nep.htm\">New Economic Policy (NEP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a temporary measure, to signal stabilization to the <strike>peasants and workers<\/strike> financial markets.  From the excesses of the recent years.  We will nationalize those assets that are too big to <strike>fail<\/strike> allow others to control and allow <strike>primitive capitalization to occur<\/strike> people to feel safe in their mutual funds.<\/p>\n<p><strike><a href=\"http:\/\/econc10.bu.edu\/economic_systems\/Theory\/Marxism\/Soviet\/preobrazhensky.htm\">Evgeny Preobrazhensky<\/a><\/strike> Eric Cantor:  No. We must continue to pursue the policies of <strike>market forces<\/strike> War Communism even more so now.  Those polices if we don&#8217;t panic will work.  Only <strike>market forces<\/strike> the State can effectively <strike>allocate<\/strike> seize control and end the <strike>liquidity crisis<\/strike> scissors crisis. <\/p>\n<p><strike>Lev Kamenev:<\/strike>Mitch McConnell:  Exactly so.  You are asking us to give you <strike>a blank check<\/strike> bourgeois freedom to the masses and force the burden onto the backs of <strike>the American people<\/strike> revolutionary consciousness.  I tell you <strike>nationalization<\/strike> private markets are a betrayal in principle and in practice to superior State planning we already had in place under <strike>Alan Greespan<\/strike> War Communism.   <\/p>\n<p>We are in a crisis, no doubt. And we should act.  But <strike>nationalization<\/strike> unfettered class retreat is not what is called for.<\/p>\n<p><strike>Grigory Zinoviev:<\/strike> Jim Bunning: When I picked up the morning paper, I thought for a minute we were living in America, not Moscow.  I see that <strike>socialism<\/strike> capitalism is thriving here in the heart of the <strike>free market<\/strike> world revolution.  The whole point of <strike>capitalism<\/strike> a dictatorship of the proletariat is to <strike> allow markets to function.   Force individuals take responsibilities for their own actions.  Especially if other people they don&#8217;t know (who are our friends) screw them<\/strike> crush all opposition to building socialism. <\/p>\n<p><strike>Lev Kamenev:<\/strike> Mitch McConnell: In the end, we are all <strike>Americans<\/strike> Party Members and we adhere to the rule of <strike>putting the American people first<\/strike> Party solidarity and ending factionalism.  <Strike>My friends<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/22\/business\/22talkshow.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">Comrades, we must join together and act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strike>Chuck Schumer:<\/strike> Chuck Schumer:  This is a somber moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be that Star Trek episode, you know the one. Evil Spock with the goatee. &#8220;Mirror, Mirror&#8221; (Season 2, Episode 33 for the geeks). Instead here it is early 1921. A Politburo meeting. The topic? 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