lenin saw clearly through all this and how one of the traits of "dying capitalism" consists of digging its own grave, being forced by the mechanism it set in motion (through industrialization, proletarianization, and europeanization) to unleash forces that eventually will react against it and against the white man's societies: the representatives of "progress" are not aware of it, and so the process snowballs.  in the socialist systems that claim to be the rightful heirs of a capitalism doomed to perish because of its inner contradiction, the enslavement of the single individual is reaffirmed rather than alleviated; it is sanctioned no longer simply de facto, but de jure as well. in socialist regimes this enslavement obeys a collective imperative. if the great entrepreneur devotes his entire self to economic activity, turning it into some kind of drug that has a vital importance to him--the consequence of an unconscious self-defense mechanism, for he suspects that if he ceased the activity he would see the emptiness surrounding him and feel the utter horror of a life devoid of meaning--in the ideologies of the opposing side an analogous situation is made to correspond to an ethical imperative. this imperative is also accompanied by anathemas and repressive measures against those who intend to raise their heads and reclaim their freedom from everything that is work, production, productivity, and social ties.
National Bolshevik