"But why is the Soviet Union in danger?" Ivanov interrupted. "We have had seventy years of successful running. People are happy. I see no danger on the horizon. Communism is here to stay forever. The Soviet Union has become the third and final Rome."

      Anibal turned to Nic. "I think you can answer that," he said and reached his hand out as an invitation.

      "I don't know why it is collapsing," said Nic. "I only know that things don't work anymore. Something is missing. The Soviet Union has become hollow. It is falling apart from within, just as the Roman Empire did. I am certain that Palmerston, through Marx, planted the seed for this emptiness, and that this emptiness is now killing us. Still, nobody knows why."

      "Marx didn't plant a seed of destruction," I said to Nic. "It seems to me that Marx planted a black hole. That's what makes the Soviet system identical with the British/Venetian imperial system. The imperial system is a black hole designed for looting. The Soviet system is a black hole designed for draining society of its humanity, for using society up. The Soviet system lacks the principle of the Second Renaissance, the Principle of the Advantage of the Other. It has no center that creates a human civilization. It glorifies human labor, instead of glorifying the human potential to multiply the effectiveness of human labor with the power of scientific and technological progress and to apply this process to uplift the whole of society. That's the effect of Palmerston's Trojan Horse."

      I turned to Anibal. "The American System is designed to function like a sun. It says to the people, you are human beings. What do you need to develop your full potential for the good of us all? What is your happiness? The pursuit of Happiness is a capital item in the US Declaration of Independence, equal with Life and Liberty. Happiness is derived from achieving, from developing what is human, especially through achievements by the power of the human intellect for the common good. For this, the people said to each other, we need low cost financial credits to develop industries, and to create infrastructures for industries, and regulations to protect our industries, and education, health care, and social support structures, to protect our people which are the most precious resource a society has. In other words, the real economic principle reflects the power of universal love. The Soviet system has a lot of these features also, except it lacks the platform to activate them for good, the platform of the Principle of Universal Love. And the reason for this lack is, that the Soviet system was designed by Marx to function as a Hobbesian system, a black hole, a system without love, much less universal love."

      "You must be joking," said a woman of the conference delegates that had come to hear Anibal. She hadn't said anything before. Now she raised her voice and cut me off. "Hobbes died aeons ago!" she said and sat down as if this were enough.

      Anibal replied that while Hobbes was long dead, his ghost of evil intentions was still very much kept alive, just as the ghost of Aristotle was still alive in an entire class of people that bears his name, the aristocracy. "Thomas Hobbes was and still is the Venetian Empire's most favorite philosopher. He earned his reputation as a socially destructive force during the Venetian Empire's cultural war against the Golden Renaissance. He was one of many such gems of the war-philosophers breed, which had reduced the image of the human being to something of less than zero value. He defined the human being as a creature so 'small' and so intrinsically evil that society must be ruled by a Sovereign for its own protection, to safeguard it from its inherent evil tendencies. Under this absolute rule by the Sovereign, any notion of love was deemed inapplicable, except in the smallest private sphere, while society was demanded to yield to the Sovereign and his will in total obedience. That became the law. That law destroyed the society that had hailed it, especially in the Thirty Years War. Consequently the Empire loved the process. That is what communism was modeled after. It looks like that the Hobbesian law that outlawed love as a universal principle became the law of the communist universe."

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