Interesting to hear what kind of extent of corruption had been made around a food in the CCCP that didn't and still doesn't play a role as much here in Central Europe. (There were other items here which similar behavior was kept with.)
And, yes, this problem of man still being instinctively determined to be a glutton is something which I find missing in Communist ideology and preaching from the past. It's like... when you're a bit too overenthusiastic about something. When you rate the human species and its conscious will too high as a source of acting and making decisions. (Somehow, the Enlightenment also got this wrong and rated this too high.) And come up, coupled with that, with the reproach of individual weakness that must be overcome (but actually can't).
Of course this isn't going to work!
Rhetorically, I find, whether people had believed it or not, but it would have been better to straight tell them the truth how things really were economically instead of coming up with ideologically-tainted phrases which everyone with a brain could look through that it was a pathetic excuse for being unable to deliver what they demanded. With straight telling something like "people, the whole country can get to produce this much every year of that good, and you buy and eat it like crazy whenever you can get some - what do you think this is supposed to head at? do you seriously think, under that conditions, we can offer you masses to buy of it daily, like there is an endless flow?", reminding them a bit of their being gluttony, at least I imagine, this is a totally different base to operate than always trying to force them to believe in something which they easily smell it isn't true. At best you even tell them clearly, if someone wants to draw the comparison with capitalism out of the hat - capitalism doesn't produce, it robs from the rest of the world. That's why it always has plenty of the goods you want to have, seemingly in an endless amount. It plunders the world and ruins nature/the environment, and what's going to come out of that is still partly unforeseen. The least we can easily say is: It can't be good. Because if you fish a river empty, don't complain you can't eat any fish anymore...
And, yes, this problem of man still being instinctively determined to be a glutton is something which I find missing in Communist ideology and preaching from the past. It's like... when you're a bit too overenthusiastic about something. When you rate the human species and its conscious will too high as a source of acting and making decisions. (Somehow, the Enlightenment also got this wrong and rated this too high.)
And come up, coupled with that, with the reproach of individual weakness that must be overcome (but actually can't).
Of course this isn't going to work!
Rhetorically, I find, whether people had believed it or not, but it would have been better to straight tell them the truth how things really were economically instead of coming up with ideologically-tainted phrases which everyone with a brain could look through that it was a pathetic excuse for being unable to deliver what they demanded. With straight telling something like "people, the whole country can get to produce this much every year of that good, and you buy and eat it like crazy whenever you can get some - what do you think this is supposed to head at? do you seriously think, under that conditions, we can offer you masses to buy of it daily, like there is an endless flow?", reminding them a bit of their being gluttony, at least I imagine, this is a totally different base to operate than always trying to force them to believe in something which they easily smell it isn't true.
At best you even tell them clearly, if someone wants to draw the comparison with capitalism out of the hat - capitalism doesn't produce, it robs from the rest of the world. That's why it always has plenty of the goods you want to have, seemingly in an endless amount. It plunders the world and ruins nature/the environment, and what's going to come out of that is still partly unforeseen. The least we can easily say is: It can't be good. Because if you fish a river empty, don't complain you can't eat any fish anymore...
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