I have been thinking about dehumanization.
Over thousands of years, our planet underwent a slow process called “evolution,” which placed species here and there until it culminated in the appearance of a species destined to assume control over everything that exists. It was called the “human being.”
Unlike other creatures, it had a superior capacity to love, to care, and to connect with others—so much so that it could even sacrifice itself for them. And also unlike other creatures, this condition did not develop as a result of a fixed genetic pattern, but had to be learned, practiced, and cultivated.
A person’s success, their fulfillment, lies in the development of their humanity—that combination of love, empathy, kindness, mercy…
A society is more or less successful to the extent that it promotes or hinders the humanity of its people. From this perspective, Marxist doctrine can only lead to a failed human being.
Those who adhere to Marxism seek power while speaking of freedom and democracy, and once they come to power, they suppress freedom and democracy, initiating a growing process of social enslavement that corrodes the foundations of the individual and gradually leads them down a slow but systematic path of dehumanization.
They prevent free elections to guarantee their permanence in power. It is them—only them. Them and their own.
They outlaw and harass every dissenting voice—with threats, imprisonment, exile, even death.
They eliminate freedom: freedom of the press, of expression, of political association, of alternative lines of thought.
They monopolize education and the media, deploying a system of social indoctrination at every level so that people normalize their enslavement, look upon their oppressors with benevolence, even defend them, and become convinced that everything that goes wrong is always the fault of an “external enemy.”
They banish God and persecute religion, because faith is the best antidote against mental oppression and the ultimate remedy against fear.
They attack the family, divide it, fragment it, separate it, because a human being without a family is a broken person—and what is broken is easier to manipulate.
They sow fear, division, and distrust.
They promote informing on others, intolerance, revenge, violence against those who do not submit, and the plundering of one person by another.
They live in opulence—sometimes discreetly, other times openly—while keeping the population in hardship, in the daily and exhausting struggle for survival, turning people’s lives into a continuous chain of needs that are never resolved.
And they corrupt. They corrupt the mechanisms of justice, they corrupt the military structure, they corrupt all those who enable them to maintain power and control. By corruption I mean that mixture of fear, indoctrination, and privileges that destroys humanity, that prevents seeing others as brothers and sisters, and that leads to others being attacked, condemned, treated without compassion or mercy.
In the end, society becomes sick—sick with dehumanization—and the moment arrives when it either rises up and saves itself, or sinks into brutality and regression.
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