What is society?

Louis XIV

What is society?

The next text can be compressed in the question "who or what is the society"? Is it the same man, who said: "I am the state"? That man was the King of France, and would the private entrepreneur Henry Ford modify that quote "I am the society"? 

Putting society over the individual is a good goal, but sometimes, we should think about what means "society". In history was the man the King of France, Louis XIV, who said that "I am the state". That famous quote candies everything, what we should know about society, and sometimes the leader of the company could say, that "I am the society". 

So when we are looking at society, we must remember to describe that word. Does society mean that everybody has the same value, or has somebody got higher value than others? And is the top of this society the man, who got his value and rank from somebody, who was his father? 

Of course, we would ask should we other people have an effect, who is that person, who leads? But if we want a different opinion we might ask from Louis XIV, should the people elect the leader of the state. That man might say, that the leader should be above and outside the system, that he can use the power, what is given to that leader. 

Far-wing radicalism and nationalism is always a thing, that is hand to hand. That means that the far-wing movements are turning to far-wing nationalism, and that thing is one of the most interesting things, what we can see in history. 

Communism was the ideology, what started from far-wing radicalism, and the deputies of that ideology promised peace, and at the same time those countries built very powerful weapons, and the thing was that the communists were working for peace, but they used the weapons in that purpose, what gave very bad mark for that ideology. 

But in those countries, communist governments marketed themselves that they were something, what is above politics. This is the way, what normal far-wing groups are selling their ideology. The ideology of those people is something, what is above the politics, and the solution, what they are offering is always the same. Answer for every problem is a dictatorship and authoritarian government. 

So if we are thinking about the utopia, we must understand that the communists used the "community first" ideology in their politics. 

That meant that the purpose of life is living and producing goods for people, "comrades", who were also working for the common goal. The thing, that they forgot was that what happens if the person would not please the leader of the society. When we are looking at things like leadership and other kinds of things, sometimes somebody might ask, "who would you rather be, leader of the work or worker"? 

You know the answer. The problem is that everyday work seems boring. Weapons and another kind of things are more interesting than making book-keeping or agriculture. In utopia, the key thing is that the community works for the common goal, and that would seem a very nice thing. But the problem was that the goods were started to accumulate to the people, who were rulers of the government. 

That meant that Marx's theory of accumulation worked also in communist nations. The leaders of the group got the best parts of everything, and that is the thing, that caused hate in the capitalist society. So when the communists raised to a power, nothing changed in the life of workers. They made everyday work in society, and that thing made those societies stop. 

One thing that was to stop the advantage in society was bureaucracy. The idea of that society was that the supervisors and leaders of the work were higher in the social pyramid. Those people were not made work and why the leaders of society should change anything? Everything was fine, and production goals were filled. That was the role of people in society. 

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