The Opposite of Marxism

Marxism is a philosophy based on two main ideas:

1. Nothing should be private to anyone
2. Everything is a struggle between two opposites

Given this definition, the opposite of Marxism would be something like this:

1. Everything should be private to everyone
2. Nothing is a struggle between two opposites

From this, it's easy to see that the opposite of Marxism is not Fascism as most Marxists claim. Fascism is merely a variant of Marxism, and a more realistic one at that because all things are naturally private in the first place. There is no collective will. Will resides in individuals. Therefore, any collective must be ruled by a club of private individuals.

Fascism is thus defined as:

1. Everything should be private to some individuals, but not others
2. Everything is a struggle between groups and/or individuals

This is why far-left and far-right groups love to fight each other. Whatever the far-left proposes, the far-right opposes. It's all a battle, aimed at control. However, the battle is not one centred on ideas, because the ideas expressed by Marxist always decay into Fascism when tried out in real life, and the reasons for this are obvious.

The first problem with Marxism is the idea that things can be anything but private. How exactly are we to determine the private thoughts of others? How do we avoid secrets? How do we deal with individual preferences? All of this would require a continuous stream of confessions into a collective that again must judge the information by divulging all private thoughts pertaining to these secrets. The process would be never ending, and hence, a comity of experts must be installed, which constitutes the first tenet of Fascism. 

The second problem of Marxism is that the world is not a black and white place. The world is endlessly complex. No conflict is ever precisely like another. Hardly any conflict involving more than two individuals is a strictly two sided issue. A Marxist comity must therefore deal with complexities far beyond the black and white imagined in theory. Groups must be divided and sub-divided. Privileges and duties must be dished out accordingly, and the resulting order of things becomes the second tenet of Fascism, a never ending conflict between groups and/or individuals.

Marxism is not attainable in practice. It's a pipe dream that decays into Fascism. So the opposite of Marxism is by necessity also the opposite of Fascism, and that opposite is Liberty.

Liberty fully acknowledges the fact that all things are private. Every individual is unique, and any grouping is merely superficial. There's no special value attached to skin colour, gender, social status and so on. It's up to us to deal with this complexity as best we can, and cooperation rather than conflict is encouraged by expanding our private sphere to include that which we create ourselves and that which we possess. Anything else results in endless conflicts, with Fascism as the end station.

Liberty