The problem that ordinary people have with socialists is that we think they are just like us. That they are worried for their families, their jobs, their future, and their nation. And we keep making this mistake all the time. We cannot identify with their psyche, which is nihilistic, evil, misanthropic, and eager to dance on the fires of the destruction of our civilisation. Sometimes, however, the paradox of their proclamations of a better life, at the same time as their great efforts to make life as bad as possible, comes out so clearly that it is difficult to ignore them. One such example is the socialist pogrom against the third lane of the motorway, which we desperately need. The other is the PR promotion of nationalisation on the public broadcaster, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). It would be difficult to understand such attempts as if they were truly made by people acting in good faith. In reality, it is a conspiracy and an attack on our civilisation.
“The expectations that the Motorway Company of the Republic of Slovenia (DARS) has for its citizens, that wider motorways will put an end to traffic jams and waiting, are futile; wider motorways attract even more traffic, especially freight traffic, for which Slovenia is a dream destination,” Boštjan Udovič argues in an article on the “depoliticised” Siol.net web portal. This is an old rumour that more lanes will attract more traffic, which may have been true in the 1990s, when not every family had two cars, and when foreign freight forwarders had not yet chosen Slovenia as a transit country to southern Europe due to a number of factors. Now, the number of cars is almost saturated, as is the number of trucks, because all those who were planning to travel through Slovenia are already doing so, with or without a third lane, because 40 minutes of waiting in a traffic jam does not mean much to a logistician, given the fact that drivers have to take a long rest according to the tachograph in any case.
“Let us bring this imbecilic ludicrous logic to its logical conclusion and simply close the motorways. Let’s dedicate them to children for roller-skating, hockey, and chalk drawing on the asphalt,” said Žiga Turk, a former “superminister” in the second Janša government.
It is clear that the arguments against the third lane are empty, on the verge of “fooling” the citizens (especially those who wait “before the customs” in Lukovica every day and lose an hour of their lives on the way to the office every day. But at least these are arguments, even if they are stupid.
N’toko in favour of the class struggle
At least Udovič’s fantasising is wrapped in a cellophane of apparently rational arguments that conceal the real socialist agenda. However, the far-leftist Miha Blažič, with the artist name N’toko, a columnist for the Mladina magazine, is more outspoken. He wrote the following about the possible expansion of the motorway cross near Ljubljana: “The next subsidy we will pay to the owners to preserve their economy will be the construction of new lanes on the bypasses. Clearly, we will not get affordable public housing and workspaces, but more concrete on which to get stuck on our commutes. This economy must be brought to an end. Moving outside of the ring road, as the former residents of Rog have done, cannot be a permanent solution to the class struggle that needs to happen in Ljubljana.”
What is the message of the far-leftist N’toko? He is so angered by the construction of the third lane on the bypass that he predicts a “class struggle” that “must happen in Ljubljana”. But what is the class struggle in the Balkan sense anyway? Marx imagined it as the class struggle of the proletariat to defeat the bourgeoisie, to abolish class division and private property. Only the collapse and destruction of capitalism, he imagined, would make possible the rise of true “democracy”. Marx thought it would happen through consensus, but Lenin and his Parisian admirers had already realised that the only way to separate people from their private property was through brutal violence. The Balkan communists had also applied this model consistently. The call for class struggle and the calls for the end of the economy are, therefore, direct calls for violence. Private property is not only constitutionally protected, it is also one of the basic values of the Euro-Atlantic way of life, which makes the West rich, free and innovative, and all other parts of the world poor. No one will let these rights be taken away from them without a fight.
The extreme ideologue on the front page of RTV
The government’s manoeuvres in the energy sector are evidence that this is already happening, as are the PR articles in their biggest prey this term – the “liberated”, “depoliticised” RTV Slovenia, because it is on the national media outlet’s website that the far-leftist Max Ajl is promoting the “people’s green deal”, which in reality, represents the confiscation of ownership of the means of production, agricultural land, factories and other infrastructure.
“Max Ajl is a sociologist who belongs to Marxist sociology. We sociologists are not trained to carry out analyses that could form the basis for proposing such radical changes. Google Scholar also says that Max Ajl has not trained further in such analyses, so he is an ideologue and a bluffer. The problem is that such people enter lecture theatres and stand before young people who have not been socialised into the profession, and such people then speak with the authority of a professor. I was lucky to have some teachers at the faculty who gave me the right guidance,” responded Professor Dr Borut Rončević to the article, while Turk was even more direct: “A very clear example of how the environment is just an excuse to impose a dictatorship. Very similar to the National Liberation Movement.”
The big question is why an article by such an extremist, who promotes an ideology that is unconstitutional in Slovenia, is on the front page of a public media outlet’s website. In any other country, this would be a scandal. But not here. Of course, the article goes hand in hand with the complete centralisation and nationalisation of Slovenia’s energy sector, with which the Golob government is preparing to build itself a comfortable cover for the time when the people will vote him out of the energy sector. Crony capitalism (which, in reality, has nothing to do with real capitalism) therefore goes hand in hand with the class struggle promoted by the ideologues.
Preparations for nationalisation
Every day, we seem to be getting closer to the realisation of the programme of the Left party (Levica), which envisages the gradual abolition of private property. It still seems like a distant goal today, but if someone had told you in 2005 that the European Union was going to ban the sale of internal combustion engines, you would have told them they were crazy. Today, this is the reality. It is hard to imagine what the reality will be tomorrow if we are ruled by hard-line socialists at home and the European Union has a parliament that is heavily tilted to the left. In any case, it would be naïve to expect Europe to help when the next elected new-faced caviar socialist comes for your car, your home, and your holiday house.
Mitja Iršič
