The ideology of capitalism; Liberalism and Socialism personalities
- The Liberal Personality
- RÊBER APO – From the book “To insist on socialism is to insist on humanity”
- What is Liberalism
4. b) The characteristics of the liberal personalities
As we have shown, liberalism is not just a theory. Liberalism is the ideology of the capitalist system. Because it is an ideology, it built a personality according to its own interests and lets this personality live. Like any system, capitalism wants to assert and justify itself in society through its ideology. Because no system can ensure its continuity by force alone.
On this basis, we should know how liberalism affects society, how it has created a personality that has an impact on our struggle. It is the nature of man to be social and societal. Society and individual build each other in harmony. A person cannot be thought of without society; an individual becomes a person with his social identity and can play a role in society.
In human nature, society and individual complement each other, they are one: society is free and individual is free within society. The ruling civilization system is based on the division of society and accordingly, throughout its history, has developed associated ideologies and created individuals/individualism that live by them. The capitalist system with its ideology of liberalism has taken this to the highest and most aberrant level.
They have written the most sacred values of humanity, such as freedom, equality and democracy, in large letters on their foreheads, committing the greatest fraud. The result of this is a person who deceives himself to the end. This person accepts his slavery in the name of freedom. He not only accepts it, he loves it.
Rêber APO says:
“Liberalism that expresses inferiority and degradation in the field of ethics is not freedom, it is the most shameful form of slavery supported by a sham autonomy.”
Through liberalism, capitalist forces have taken the fragmentation of society to the highest level. They have created every human being in our time like “God,” that is, they believe it this way. They say, you can be yourself only with me, if you always work well, you can become bourgeoise, you can also be capitalist, that is, you are “free”. With the philosophy that came from America today, they deceive their people and humanity, calling it the “American dream” – that is, wash the dishes today and become a millionaire tomorrow. This is the biggest deception, because there is no such thing. There may be one or two exceptions, but this system is built on the logic of the slave owner and it works according to that logic.
In order for a few people to be in power, for a few people to fill their bellies without working and live in palace mansions, people must be poor, hungry and without willpower. They devour people’s diligence, plunder countries, massacre people, drink the blood of humanity and legitimize and justify this in the name of “freedom”, “human rights” and “democracy”. For this to happen, they disempower society. The strength of society comes from its unity, not from its division.
Liberalism separates individuals from each other, cuts them off from each other, eliminates the connection of the individual with society. Ethics is eliminated and a man is formed who is focused on his instincts and acts according to his personal interests. This man is selfish and has no culture, he is alienated from his history, his nature, his identity. He lives a life that reflects death.
Like an animal, this man thinks only of his drives: to eat, to drink, to reproduce and to protect himself. This man is against his society, against his people, a thief, sexist and brutal. Liberalism defines and enforces the wrong as the right.
Liberalism kills the reflexes of society, holds society in its claws, does not let go and dissolves it. Like poisoned sugar, it is sweet on the tongue but deadly in its essence. In revolution, in the struggle for freedom and socialism, liberalism is the greatest danger. Liberalism is absolutely anti-revolutionary and anti-socialist.
That is, the liberal personality is also an anti-revolutionary and anti-socialist personality. A liberal person can only serve the enemy, but not the people. When there is a void, a little weakness in the socialist personality, when there are weak individuals in the ranks of the revolution, liberalism enters there like a virus.
Liberalism knows how to exploit even the smallest weaknesses. In this way, it takes its place, it does not reveal itself, but like acid, it gradually undermines unity, softens standards, weakens cohesion and creates internal problems. As a virus, it acts as an individual. Like a poison, it suppresses mind, spirit, thoughts and feelings, killing them step by step. Every moment without struggle is an opportunity, a possibility and a ground for liberalism.
Liberal people do not criticize, they complain. Either they are silent, just convincing, or they are totally sectarian, broken and dogmatic. Their criticism is based on their personal concerns and reactions. Criticism they themselves do not accept, scold, get angry, show reflexes and make personal calculations. The liberal personality cannot make friends, prefers close relationships and “friend-leader” relationships.
They do not express their opinion in front of people, but they say everything behind their back, they do not want to have the right to speak in the meeting, but after the meeting they can discuss everything. They don’t see faults in themselves, they always blame the outside. Liberal people cannot live collectively and cannot work collectively. They live a selfish life and want to impose themselves on their environment.
Some characteristics of a liberal personality:
- Selfish, self-centered and individualistic;
- Is opportunistic;
- Proprietary, i.e. always looking for private/personal property;
- Superficial, careless, irresponsible
- Lives on the values of the struggle in the revolution;
- Essentially counter-revolutionary;
- Personal competition for personal interests, careerist;
- Hypocritical;
- Is not a fighter, convinces and protects the existing voices;
- Is too flexible, changes its values quickly;
- Chooses its own relations, shape and color according to its interests;
- Authoritarian, dogmatic, sexist, modernist;
- Softens everything;
To Be Continued…
