Incorporating S.W.O.T. Strategy Into “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising

 Abstract:

The University of Victoria admitted me to the Diploma in Public Administration Program, and I accomplished it (2008-2010). I enrolled in a Project Management course and learned the strategy of S.W.O.T. I used the system to overcome racism, gain employment and make the next move in my miserable life in Canada.

I am using my capital knowledge to illustrate what we need to do to liberate Iran from the tyranny of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Otherwise, Iranians can march out of their homes and shout their voices as loud as possible. They will fail to do regime change. After all, they fail to comprehend the concept of the Art of War because they do not know themselves and do not know their enemy.

Acronym:

Islamic Republic of Iran=IRI

Players:

1. Crown Prince, Heir to Peacock Throne, Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza)
2. Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih)
3. Hamed Esmaeilion (@esmaeilion)
4. Golshifteh Farahani (@Golshifteh)
5. Nazanin Boniadi (@NazaninBoniadi)
6. Abdullah Mohtadi (@AbdullahMohtadi)
7. Shirin Ebadi (#ShirinEbadi)
8. Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL)
9. George Soros (@georgesoros)

Defining Concept:

What does revolution mean? According to author Terrence Bell’s “Political Ideology and the Democratic Ideal” page 11, revolution refers to a return to an earlier condition. Like the earth’s revolution around the sun, a political revolution going back to a starting point.

In this case, the notion of the revolution can be defined in light of war where citizens of Iran deemed the Islamic Republic of Iran an illegitimate state when, during the 2021 presidential election, a large majority of the Iranian population did not vote for any presidential candidates. Ebrahim Raisi was selected for the president’s office but needed more consent and the people’s will to govern Iran. 

Military Strategy:

Rule number one: The biggest mistake in combat is when the superior force underestimates the inferior army’s strength, losing the battle, a recipe for disaster. 

Rule number two: “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Rule number three: In 2007, I realized I was surrounded by white Canadians who murdered the First Nations to exploit their lands by kidnapping African individuals to profit from them. It was the moment that I understood I was a special soldier behind the enemy line, live or die. The same rule applies to those individuals who are engaged in an uprising in Iran, s/he will die or stay alive until the Islamic Republic of Iran collapse.

Objective:

Regime change by removing the Islamic Republic of Iran and allowing people to decide on a type of state during a national referendum, whether a republic or a constitutional monarchy system.

Snap Shot of Post the 1979 Revolution:

The Pahlavi Dynasty collapsed due to The Guadeloupe Conference, a meeting in Guadeloupe from January 4th to January 7th, 1979, involving leaders of four Western powers: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and West Germany. They allowed the revolutionary forces to bring down the Pahlavi Dynasty.

Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran after the collapse of the Pahlavi Dynasty. The other actors from the left side of the political spectrum and the religious-nationalist factions did not want an Islamic state. Khomeini’s security forces began to push the left-wing and national religious factions underground.

Securing the Religious Kingdom:

Phase One:

The religious, left-wing and religious-nationalist factions agreed that the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces remained loyal to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with the possibility of a coup to return the King to Iran. Thus, the religious, left-wing and religious-nationalist factions decided to purge the top-ranking military officers as Khomeini issued a ministerial decree to execute top-brass military officers. 

As a result, some officers decided to save Iran from the tyranny of the Islamic Republic of Iran by forming an underground group name “Saving Iran’s Great Uprising.” It was a military coup exposed in the public domain before 18 Tir-Iran’s calendar, or July 10th, 1980. 

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a totalitarian regime and created Revolutionary Guard Corps against Iranian Armed Forces to prevent a further threat from the Revolutionary Guard Corps or Iranian Armed Forces against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Phase Two:

Elimination of all sources of threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a state, including the left-wing and religious-nationalist factions.

Phase Three:

The war between Iran and Iraq broke out and dragged on for eight years, from 1980 to 1988, to create a smoke screen for their incompetency as the leaders of Iran.

Phase Four:

Suppression of voice of liberty by introducing the notion of reform. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s actors, like Mohammad Khatami, selected to the president’s office who promised to reform Iran’s domestic and foreign policies from an ultra-conservative approach to more pragmatic ways of approaching domestic and foreign policies.  

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s security forces identified university students and individuals who disliked the ultra-conservative policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and attacked them. The regime killed some of them, some faced prison times, and some escaped Iran and took refuge in western countries.

Phase Five:

The 2016 Cyrus the Great Revolt was a pro-monarchy Iranian protest at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great on Cyrus the Great Day, which inaugurated a series of ongoing demonstrations and increasing calls for regime change.

The protest was triggered by rising pro-Monarchy sentiment, governmental corruption and opposition to Islamic rule. It took place on Cyrus the Great Day, at the tomb of Cyrus the Great, to celebrate Persia’s pre-Islamic glory. Cyrus the Great Day, which began in the early 2000s as an invented tradition on the internet and social networking websites, observed by Iranian nationalists and monarchists and democrats to pay homage to Iran’s pre-Islamic history, had by the mid-2010s become an unofficial holiday in Iran, being known amongst Iranians as “Cyrus the Great Day” as early as ten years prior (2006) to the protest, as well as an increasingly popular and explicitly anti-government occasion.

Phase Six:

Public protests took place in several cities in Iran beginning on December 28th, 2017 and continued into early 2018. The first protest took place in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city by population, and initially focused on the economic policies of the country’s government; as protests spread throughout the country, their scope expanded to include political opposition to the theocratic regime of Iran and its longtime Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The Iranian public showcased their fury in the protests with many chants aimed at the regime and its leadership. According to The Washington Post, protesters’ chants and attacks on government buildings upended a system with little tolerance for dissent. Some demonstrators even shouted “Death to the dictator!”—referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—and asked security forces to join them.

Phase Seven:

The 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests took place across Iran from early 2018 until mid-2019 against the country’s economic situation and the Iranian government as part of the broader Iranian Democracy Movement.

Phase Eight:

In 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched several rockets at the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq. It caused infrastructure damage, and no person sustained any form of injury. The U.S. contemplated a military strike against the regime in Iran by killing Qasem Soliemani. The Islamic Republic of Iran wanted to avoid the war with the U.S. and shot down #PS752. 

Phase Nine:

In 2022, the security forces killed Mahsa Amini because she did not observe the compulsory hijab laws. 

Phase nine introduced the below players as a marriage of convenience. 

1. Crown Prince, Heir to Peacock Throne, Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza)
2. Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih)
3. Hamed Esmaeilion (@esmaeilion)
4. Golshifteh Farahani (@Golshifteh)
5. Nazanin Boniadi (@NazaninBoniadi)
6. Abdullah Mohtadi (@AbdullahMohtadi)
7. Shirin Ebadi (#ShirinEbadi)
8. Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL)
9. George Soros (@georgesoros)

The above entities are waiting for phase ten of the upheaval in Iran.

The S.O.W.T. system has two parts. One part examines and discusses the internal factors, such as strengths (helpful) and weaknesses (harmful); the last part discusses the external factors, such as opportunities (helpful) and threats (harmful). 

Internal Factors:

Strengths (helpful)

1. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is pivotal in bringing the IRI down with the blood and sweat of Iranians. 
2. Crown Prince Pahlavi’s vision for Iran’s future is without foreign nations’ military intervention.
3. Crown Prince Pahlavi is a prominent figure among international dignitaries.
4. Crown Prince Pahlavi does not have a political ideology.
5. Crown Prince Pahlavi does not advocate for a constitutional monarchy.
6. Crown Prince Pahlavi supports a republic political apparatus. 
7. Class consciousness. I am using Karl Marx’s concept to understand the dynamic of revolution. Iranians are united against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran used ethnicity as a significant factor to divide Iranians and cause ethnic tension among them. However, Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish girl who travelled to Tehran for a visit when the moral agents apprehended her and caused her death while in their custody. All Iranians from different parts of Iran revolted against the establishment. 

Weaknesses (harmful)

The below individuals failed the security clearance, which is vital in being trusted by people and forming a coalition. It is not a coalition; it is a convenience of marriage. Simply put, each person desires to be here and not a conviction. 

Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih)

1. Ms. Alinejad worked for Mohammad Khatami and advocated for a reform movement in Iran. As it turned out, the reform movement did not intend to shift from ultra-conservative domestic and foreign policies to pragmatic ones.
2. Ms. Alinejad left Iran, and it needed to be clarified what her income source was. She claims to work for Voice of America. However, she has a luxurious lifestyle.
3. Ms. Alinejad associates with the Iranian separatist for Kurdistan, Mr. Abdullah Mohtadi (@AbdullahMohtadi).
4. Ms. Alinejad gave two public speeches besides other speeches, and each time, she called Iran the root cause of all problems and must be destroyed.
5. Ms. Alinejad posted on her Twitter account that she came from an impoverished and ultra-conservative family, and now she poses for pictures with high-profile individuals.
6. Ms. Alinejad is a compulsive liar. She claimed when she met the president of France, Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron). She asked the president to acknowledge the “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolution in Iran, and he did. However, Ladan Boroumand (@LadiKhanom) refuted Alinejad’s claim.
7. Ms. Alinejad has a close relationship with Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL), who works on a private project for Iran. Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL) is a warlord posing a threat to the safety and security of Iran and other nations.

Hamed Esmaeilion (@esmaeilion)

1. He is a dentist and has no background in social science or any activity prior shot down of #PS752. After the PS752 was shot down, his wife and daughter were killed.
2. His action was inspired by hate and anger toward Iran.
3. He regularly travelled to Iran, and the social injustice did not bother him.
4. It is well-known that individuals like him travelled to Iran and teased Iranians with their Canadian passports.
5. Notably, he was part of the IRI and wore the IRI’s flag as a shirt.
6. Cleric Abolghasem Eghbalian’s daughter Parisa married Esmaeilion.
7. Esmaeilion rejected Iran’s Lion and Sun flag like Khomeini when Khomeini arrived in Iran; he ordered removing the Lion and Sun emblem from the flag because it symbolized revolt. It is a direct assault on Iran’s national identity and cultural heritage.
8. Esmaeilion lacks credibility because he is a compulsive liar, as people claimed he wanted to become a candidate for the future presidential election. He denied it and called himself a coordinator. However, he plays a role in what appears to bring the regime down!
9. Esmaeilion secretly assisted surviving families of the PS752 with close ties with the IRI to immigrate to Canada.
10. Esmaeilion was crucial in arranging for Maryam Rajavi, the head of MEK, to appear at the Parliament of Canada and speak with federal politicians. The content of the discussion remained private and confidential. Iranians dislike MEK for two reasons. One, MEK is another version of the IRI with a touch of Marxism. Last, during Iran and Iraq War, it sided with Iraq and attacked at Iranian Armed Forces and killed Iranian soldiers.
11. Campaign of misinformation that Iran’s Armed Forces brought down the PS752. However, the Revolutionary Guard Corps brought down the PS752. He knows Iranians have respect for Iran’s Armed Forces, and Iranians despised the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Golshifteh Farahani (@Golshifteh)

1. Ms. Farahani is born into a communist family who has no loyalty to Iran’s cultural heritage. She persistently put down Iran’s cultural heritage like the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2. She advocates for the self-autonomy of Kurdistan. The idea of Kurdistan as a country will cause a security threat to Syria and Turkey. Thus, they will use maximum forces to maintain the national integrity of their countries.
3. She has a close relationship with Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL).
4. She is also a porn star.

Nazanin Boniadi (@NazaninBoniadi)

1. She is an obscure character. She has no social science academic background or any activity toward the liberation of Iran.
2. She has more question marks on herself.

Abdullah Mohtadi (@AbdullahMohtadi)

1. Mr. Mohtadi is a Kurdish Peshmarg. Peshmarg means someone who embraces death. In 2015, some Kurdish fighters wanted to meet federal politicians; I wrote a letter to the dignitaries that these Peshmarg were not different than Osama Bin Laden. Please do not say that you did not know. Canada stopped the meeting with the Kurds.
2. He advocates for a federal system. I have written research papers about the federal system as a dysfunctional political system. In essence, Iran is not a young nation like Canada or US, where people are coming together to ally. Iran has existed as a nation-state since the dawn of history. 

Shirin Ebadi (#ShirinEbadi)

1. Ms. Ebadi worked for the reform project of the IRI to deceive Iranians that the IRI would stop its ultra-conservative policies. 
2. She also travelled the world and praised the IRI’s domestic and foreign policies.
3. She used her position to enable her daughters to attend McGill University to complete their degree in communication.
4. She is a communist and believes the revolution must continue like Karl Marx.

The below individuals are warlords.

1. Bernard-Henri Lévy (@BHL)
2. George Soros (@georgesoros)

In 1996, the US drafted a blueprint titled “A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing Realm.” This policy stipulates Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia must be divided among their ethnic groups and cause tension among them to weaken them. As a result, Israel’s security would be maintained. Iraq and Syria are already in states of civil unrest.

Psychology:

Crown Prince Pahlavi thought that post the collapse of the IRI, he would use his reputation to bring the plurality of Iran toward one common cause of Iran. However, the other players are street-smart, and they will outmaneuver him. Someone like Nazanin Boniadi is hungry for power and does not care about anything. She had sex with a movie star to become a movie star.

Tactic:

1. It is a reactionary system and not a pro-action.
2. It promotes street movement and not a national uprising.
3. Street movements are easily controlled and maintained by the police. It is like a ghetto because police can micro-manage it.
4. One reason the US lost the war in Vietnam was that the US soldiers at one hill were captured and let go.
5. The revolt actors and actresses are not targeting high-profile assets.

 External factors

Opportunities (helpful) 

1. Iranians do not have external factors to assist them because they did not lay the foundation to build an uprising in Iran.
2. Some politicians in the west sought to assist Iranians in overthrowing the IRI. There are two issues with them. One, they are elected to the office to represent the will of their constituency and not intercontinental affairs. Last, these actors are shifting their position occasionally and sometimes on different paths toward the liberation of Iran.

Threats (harmful)

1. Iranians are relying on western countries to assist them in overthrowing the IRI.
2. Iranians claim the economic sanctions are preventing them from sending financial aid to them. However, it goes back to the original part. Iranians failed to develop a network worldwide to send financial assistance to Iran to support victims of the IRI. 
3. The IRI agents are posing as supporters of Iranians striving for the liberation of Iran to defuse their cause.
4. The IRI has lobby groups around the world.
5. The IRI has journalists in countries that publish articles favouring the IRI.

In conclusion, the IRI was different from what Iranians wanted since 1979. They wish to decide on a state, republic or constitutional monarchy system utilizing a referendum. The design of the Islamic Republic caused a power struggle between Iranians and the clerics in power. Iranians will not stop until the IRI collapse. Iranians are coming out of their homes and putting their lives in harm’s way to liberate Iran from the tyranny of the IRI. However, they cannot do this because they do not know their enemies and play in the hands of their enemies.

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Book Review: “United States of Socialism” by Dinesh D’Souza

 

Peyman ADL DOUSTI HAGH

Advocate | Author | Karate Instructor

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Book Format:

Author: Dinesh D’Souza

Book Title: “United States of Socialism“

Publisher: All Points Books

Published: 2020

Chapter: 6 (six)

Pages: 290

The Objective of the Author:

Bernie Sanders was a key figure in perpetuating socialism in the US who exploited others for financial gains, such as buying several properties.

The author believes political actors like Sanders caused the socialist system to encompass all facets of the US economy and must be replaced with a libertarian political economy.

It is an enigma for the author of the socialist system reviving during human history. Especially the US defeated the former Soviet Union, and no one should expect socialism to wake in his adopted home town the US.

Introduction:

Page 15-“socialism involves a restraint on economic freedom and on individual freedom in general-meaning you no longer have the right to keep what you earn, or what you want, or even say what you think-the socialist answer that, in restricting your freedom, socialism advances a different type of freedom: the freedom of a people to govern themselves through democratic self-rule.”

The author uses the above frame of thought to define socialism which is ambiguous and does not make sense whatsoever. How does socialism restrain the economy and infringes on individual freedom? How does socialism advance a people’s freedom to govern themselves through democratic self-rule?”

The author fails to illustrate what he means by socialism and what he means by capitalism. 

Overall, it is the responsibility and accountability of every citizen to pay their taxes to their government to support the judicial system, the executive body, and the legislative body.

The author disliked Ocasio-Cortez’s recommendation: “You have a right to a job, a right to an education, a right to a dignified home, a right to a dignified retirement, and a right to healthcare” because the author asserts it is an entitlement mentality. Page 22

The author lives in the US and is aware of gun violence as a number one threat to US domestic safety and security. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published their book “The Spirit Why Equality is Better for Everyone” asserted in their research book that gun violence in countries that they have one form of the socialist system is low compared to the US economy, which has the highest gun violence in the developed world.  

Mr. Dinesh D’Souza said he dislikes the recommendation of Ocasio-Cortez for a right to a job. Let’s discuss this idea of what happens when people have a job. They are less likely to commit crimes because they have much to lose. 

Let’s discuss the idea of education. When people have proper education, they are enlightened and approach complex questions harmoniously with others. The chances of gaining employment, not relying on social assistance and creating jobs are going upward compared to someone who needs proper education. Higher education means better jobs, income and paying taxes.  

Let’s discuss the notion of a good home. When people have a good and clean home, they are most likely to be good citizens and engage in civic activities because they are part of their communities. They are taking care of their homes and neighbours.

Let’s discuss the promotion of dignified retirement. When people are working, they deserve to save money aside to use during cold seasons when they cannot work. Only some people have the right kind of financial advisor to help them. Thus, the government is responsible for providing financial security for people during their old age. Plus, people pay taxes when they work. It is time to rip the benefit from their past work. 

Let’s discuss the right to healthcare. When people are working and paying their taxes, it is financially wise for the government to take over the role of healthcare because the cost of healthcare is expensive. Michael Moore’s documentary “Sicko” illustrated how private healthcare insurance hired doctors to decline surgery for cancer patients. However, when there is universal healthcare, patients’ health comes first, and people live a happy and vibrant life. 

The author dislikes socialism because “capitalism has allocated virtually all its reward to the very rich, the “top 1 percent.” Consequently, we must cure this market failure and adopt socialist schemes to redistribute the rewards.” Page 23.

The author claims, “Think about it this way: most people would not dream of going into their neighbour’s house, eating from his refrigerator and helping themselves to his wallet. It’s just not right. So, the only way to involve honest people in a theft scheme is to convince them that their neighbours have been stealing from them. Their neighbour has filled his refrigerator with provisions that belong to you.” Page 30.

The above statement clearly states that he is a sexist person. He uses possessive pronouns as his in his sentence.

C. Wright Mills, in his book “The Power Elite,” illustrates how the 1% is controlling the legislative body to control the US economy by paying fewer taxes. 

Let’s talk about food in the refrigerator. On Thursday, February 23rd, 2023, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) released a report about the “Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday as the Canadian retailer was boosted by its pharmacy business and a continued demand for groceries. The company says it earned a profit available to common shareholders of $529 million.”1

Dalhousie University’s report “predicts a 5% to 7% food price increase in 2023, with the most substantial increases in vegetables, dairy, and meat. The report forecasts that an average family of four, including a man (age 31-50), woman (age 31-50), boy (age 14-18), and girl (age 9-13) will spend up to $16,288.41 per year on food, an increase of up to $1,065.60 from what was observed in 2022.”2

Therefore, it is a reality that the rich have a full fridge with people’s hard-earned monies because the cost of food increased, and Loblaw made $529 million profit from people.

Chapter One:

The author says, “Marx called America a “bourgeois society” and later noted that capitalism had developed in America “more rapidly and more shamelessly than in any other country.” Page 33.

The author asserts that the US had economic growth due to individuals like “Benjamin Franklin. The founders, let’s recall, were not career politicians or mere “men of letters.” They were scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and builders – in other words, practical men of varied talents.” Page 40. 

As I (Peyman) mentioned in my book review for:

Book Format:

Book title: “The Problem with Socialism“

Publisher: Regnery Publishing: A Division of State Media

Copyright © 2016 by Thomas DiLorenzo

Pages: 226

Chapters: 1-16

The History Channel released an article titled “Slavery in America” that began in August 1619.1 On September 20th, 2020, the History Channel released an article titled “How Slavery Became Economic Engine of South.” It illustrated how “slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.”3

Therefore, it was not the capitalist system which caused economic growth in the US. It was the slavery system which exploited workers to work on the land and not receive any form of wages. 

Most importantly, the European settlers stole lands from the First Nations. Therefore, the European settlers did not work hard to acquire land.

The author attacks Bernie Sanders’s character by saying, “main output to that point was a child produced out of wedlock with a woman named Susan Campbell Mott.” Page 42.

“The Federalist. “The first object of government,” Madison writes in the tenth book of The Federalist, is “the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property.” Page 49

“Hamilton in the twelfth book of The Federalist continues this theme. He notes that all statesmen now recognize “a prosperous commerce” to be “a primary object of their political cares.” Consequently, “by multiplying the means of gratification,” the new government can ensure that “the assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer…all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation, and growing alacrity, to this pleasing reward of their toils.” Page 49.

The US political system adopted the federal system, which allows each state to have its legal jurisdiction and ignores the other states’ legal jurisdiction. The federal political system is the most dysfunctional because the systems are disconnected and contribute to the slow motion of the political process. After all, each state safeguards its interest against another state. Thus, the US economy is moving slowly, which may lead to an economic crash.

The author discusses the noble idea of the self-made man. The author should say the self-made person. 

In 2016, Netflix’s documentary, “13th,” illustrated how the US legislative body legislated laws to keep African-Americans behind bars. How can African-Americans prosper in the US while the executive body victimizes them?

During the COVID-19 crisis, African-Americans faced a higher proportion of employment rates than other races. 

Therefore, the notion of the self-made person does not exist because we are not living in a meritocracy. 

Chapter Two:

The author illustrates a vital point s a warning sign for other nations that they are not a republic system. George Washington “understood that the American Revolution was not merely a rejection of British monarchy; it was a rejection of monarchy itself.” Page 63 

I completed a diploma in Heraldry at the Center of Excellence; the online academic institute also mentions the US political system rejects the monarchy system and its values and merits.

Therefore, the US foreign policy will always threaten the countries with a monarchy system.

The author says, “Surveys show that American take socialism more seriously than ever before. A Gallup survey from 2019 has 51 percent of US adults saying socialism would be a bad thing for the country, but a respectable 43 percent say it would be a good thing…Gallup, surveys from the post-World War II era recorded only 15 percent of Americans saying they wished to see the country “go more in the direction of socialism.” Page 64

Why are more Americans asking to move toward socialism compared to post-World War II? Let’s look at the author’s statement in a retroreflective. Jean Jacques Rousseau asserts private property is a source of social inequality because it creates a class system. A class system means those who have power and those who do not have power. The source of power stems from private property. Therefore, a class system creates a barrier the class does not have from happiness. To remove the barrier for all classes by creating a classless society begins to abolish private property. 

What does 1% of the US power elite have? They have private property who are controlling the US legislative bodies on how to pass laws to pay fewer taxes. 

On February 28th, 2023, Salesforce reported paying “Matthew McConaughey $10 million a year to act as a ‘creative adviser’ despite laying off 8,000 employees last month.”4 McConaughey is not bothered by the fact that 8,000 people lost their jobs, and he makes $ 10 million a year. 

Combining Rousseau’s political philosophy with the current affair of the US, like Matthew McConaughey’s $10 million a year to act as a ‘creative adviser.’ Naturally, people want to have job security and would advocate for socialism.

Chapter Three:

The author says on page 100, “America went from class socialism to identity socialism.” The US moved from class socialism to identity socialism because identity is a source of a barrier for a subculture to be accepted in society as an equal partner in a heterosexual, white male-dominated culture. During the COVID-19 crisis, a higher proportion of African-Americans lost their jobs compared to white people in the US. 

The author says on page 102 that Italian communist Antonio Gramsci’s “Hegemony” was Gramsci’s key concept. He insisted that the capitalists did not rule solely on the basis of economic power. Rather, they rule through “bourgeois values” that permeated the cultural, educational and psychological realm of society. Economics, Gramsci insisted, is a subset of culture.”

How to distinguish socialism from communism:

The author says, “Marx thought that a proletarian uprising was the only way to have socialism and then communism. Marx advanced his theory as scientific.” Page 111

Socialism is not the same as communism. They are two distinct concepts. Socialism allows having private property. However, communism abolishes private property because it creates a class system leading to societal inequality.

Let’s call communism science-fiction, and socialism is a science because communism is a way of romantically approaching social, political and economic. However, socialism is extracting the lessons from communism to produce sound policies for everyone’s benefit.

The author verbally abuses them for not sharing his views and begins name-calling them; on page 116, he says, “Opposite messages, delivered by the same type of idiot. In some cases, delivered by the very same idiots themselves.”

On page 121, the author admires England for colonizing India because England built a railroad in India.

The author is shortsighted in his conservative views because when England colonized India, it exploited its natural resources and the railroad built to plunder India’s resources at higher speed. Consequently, India needed to catch up in modern times of development. 

It is a well-known fact India has advanced mathematics compared to other countries. When England attacked India, it caused India’s institutions to fall apart.

Chapter Four:

Why is socialism work in Scandinavian countries? At the beginning of chapter four, the author refutes the idea that socialism works in Scandinavian countries. However, on page 153, the author says that “The Finnish use the term talkoot, which means “doing work together” or more generally, “we are all in the same boat.”

Therefore, the Scandinavian countries have a culture of working together as a team. However, the US needs a culture of community rather than focusing on individualism. 

On page 158, the author says that Canada has universal health care and is falling apart. Canada has universal healthcare, and it is untrue what the author says. Canada will never have a two-tier healthcare system because the constitution protects universal healthcare.

Chapter Five:

The author dedicated this portion of the chapter to claim that capitalism is social justice warrior by claiming that “the vote costs him nothing except inconvenience if going to the polls or sending it.” Page 186

According to political philosopher Immanuel Kant, the vote has power because it enables voters to elect a candidate to the office to represent their views in the legislative body. Like this book’s author, how can anyone think that vote costs nothing?

The author says, “Consumers have the right to vote for the products they want and, in this sense, to elevate the entrepreneurs who produce those products. If they make foolish choices, that is regrettable, but it is their right. Capitalism, like democracy, is rooted in popular will and popular consent. Thus, capitalism, like democracy, is a form of social justice.” Page 187

Capitalism is not like democracy. Capitalism is focused on economic growth by keeping costs down, such as paying employees the least amount. Thus, the employer or owner of the means of production begins to exploit workers. Aristotle discussed the notion of democracy as a concept of socialism. Therefore the capitalist system is not social justice because the capitalist system is designed to exploit workers, and the social justice system is designed to reduce the degree of the exploitation of people in the capitalist system.  

Chapter Six:

The author discussed the ovarian lottery as baseless in the US and claimed that people in the US live in a meritocracy, and their hard work determines where they stand on the mountain of success. 

The author says that he was convicted because the law enforcement agencies decided to use all kinds of legal tactics to make him guilty of crimes he did not commit because of his campaign contribution to US President Trump, who was elected to the White House.

The author says one day, US President Trump invited him to the White House and pardoned him for his crimes because Trump found the guilty verdict was baseless.

In conclusion, the ovarian lottery is confirmed by the author’s above claim because those individuals who do not have a connection in high places were found guilty due to their ascribed status and live with a guilty verdict for the rest of their lives. 

The ovarian lottery determines whether someone will have a good life or not. 

The book’s author requires exploring the world from a broad perspective to feel people’s pain to understand the world.

Endnote:

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