Memo: 12/25/89: CONFIDENTIAL
To: Lt. Col. Vladimir V. Putin
From: Dr Aleksandr Jakubovitch Berman
This memo has five objectives:
1. Predicting the fall of the Soviet Union, its reasons, and the extremely unstable US hegemony which will follow.
2. Predicting the retribution through extreme economic hardships, hyperinflation and personal humiliations to which the US will subject what will soon again be Russia in a hard transition to capitalism under the guise of humanitarian aid.
3. Predicting and outlining the conditions of extreme instability of an American hegemonic empire.
4. Outlining how to use ideological subversion to maximize Russia's retrenchment as a world power.
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The internet provides far greater means for connection, communication, and connection through miscommunication, and therefore greater means than ever for ideological subversion. Furthermore, both the right wing and left wing of the new era's ideological reorientations have no innoculation against ideas which used to be belong to the other side. Nationalism still has no experience of universal movements that find enormous common ground between people of different continents, and socialism still has no experience of viewing identities as particular, and therefore, upon both sides, the ideas of one side can be embraced to the other with the most revolutionary fervor because neither side has any experience of its trevails.
Through the internet, we may disseminate old Marxist theories in a new adapted guise that sound like nationalism, but thereby create a new international, universalist nationalism that finds common cause between countries in the shared resentments of cosmopolitan progressive elites. Should the Soviet Union fall, this transnational movement must led by Russia. We could create a new nationalist mythology in the United States whose elemental whiteness is just barely implicit, and based upon Republican's loathing for all taxes and government regulation, and belief in states rights. In order to disguise its association with longing for the white pride which came with segregation and slavery, one could use the Boston Tea Party of 1773 as its principal ikon.
Simultaneously, we must use the internet to disseminate old nationalist theories to create a new socialism in America based upon particulars of identity that used to be the basis of nationalism. But to create a new concept of socialism, it must take root in the United States of America, the transnational country which defeated both nationalism and socialism. And perhaps we could create a new American socialism based on old theories of nationalism - reinventing concepts of the workers paradise into a world of social justice, metamorphosing theories of class structure to a hierarchical structure of identity that gives preference to which demographics suffered most over the course of American history, thereby exploiting the resentments of the American marginalized.
The imperative of class warfare would be metamorphosed into identity politics that would gradually introduce more revolutionary concepts into the American discourse year by year until this new nationalist social movement was receptive to arguments in favor of violent resistance.
To instill the new right-wing nationalism, we can incorporate the 19th century media structure of new Marxian pamphlets written every week for the 21st century with a television network from which propagandists may transmit ideologically approved content 24 hours a day, with stories spun to seem more dramatic and provocative every week that gradually convince viewers that the world operates according to a conspiracy of affluent cosmopolitan liberals who mean to take everything from the rural lower middle class.
Meanwhile, as the worldwide left-wing is no longer among the establishment, they will gravitate to the newest forms of communication. It is the view of this analyst that the internet's most effective means of communication will be through a vehicle still in its theoretical stage, referred to by developers and theorists as 'social media', hosting sites upon which people hold conversations in public with both friends and enemies - as there is no physical reprecussion for such conversations, the chances for discourse to grow rancorous are nearly infinite. Many further objections have been made to the concept of social media, because citizens can easily be convinced to publicly declare their most private information in public, but it's precisely this feature which could be used to our advantage. Perhaps there would no longer be need for a KGB in such an era, because through falsely created identities created by our own soldiers and programmers, we can amplify any story we find destructive to the US's self-belief."
Explain how Edward Said wrote Orientalism, which took the beliefs of Herder and Spengler in the inability of different nations to properly perceive the context of one another's ideas,.and how Said turned that bulwark of German nationalism into the powerful vision identitarian Socialism yet has. But Herder did not count upon that the great strength of American liberal Democrats, largely comprised by demographics as the children of once oppressed and marginalized, is their ability to assimilate ever new contributions and worldviews from an ever wider array of people. So therefore charges of cultural colonialism would flummox any further liberal attempt to uplift the marginalized through assimilation, and thereby stymy any further liberal efficacy to adapt the world to its worldview. Perhaps we can supervise a series of millions of internet postings which people charging that any attempt to utilize the work of another culture is a colonization of that culture - though perhaps one could use a subtler word to hide our motive like 'appropriation.'
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