The world socialist enterprise is easier to grasp if you think of it as a kind of beehive. As a beehive has a queen, workers, and drones, all of whom cooperate by spontaneous instinct, so the Socialist Hive includes Communists, socialists, social democrats, and liberals. All of them aim at magnifying the state in human life. With that tacit bond amongst them, they act in harmony against common enemies: entities like the United States, the Catholic Church, and the present government of Chile, and institutions like the family, religion in general, private education, private property—anything that resists satellization by the state. Conspiracy is marginal; a bee needn’t comprehend the hive’s system in order to subserve it.
With this in mind I watched the public-television showing of the BBC-produced Nuclear Nightmares, a documentary about the horrors of total war. The usual stuff: maps, interviews, film clips, agglutinated by the narration of Peter Ustinov. All very monitory—and pure Hive propaganda. Most public TV is, to some extent. The state is very self-flattering.
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