Why Red?

Why to be Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Leftist...? Why not Conservative, Reactionary, Fascist, Liberal or even ambiguous? 

Because, while that could pay off in a selfish sense, it does not pay in the social, political and historical sense of what's to be of Humankind. And I'm not really interested in having lots of money and golden toilets: crap is crap after all and my prole toilet works fine enough.

Principles of Right and Left

Let's be frank, behind all pretext, the real ideology of the Right is homo hominis lupus (man is men's wolf), meaning that we are our own predators or, in other words: the so-called Social-Darwinism, which has nothing to do with Darwin actually but is rather a manipulation or misinterpretation of the principle of survival of the fittest (again not a Darwinian concept but a conservative ideological invention by reactionary ideologist H. Spencer, who was actually Lamarckist, not Darwinian).

For the Right, justice, cooperation, solidarity, social pact, human rights... are not workable social principles but if anything something to include in the propaganda: pretexts for criminal wars, lies for the electoral discourses, a flowery garden to cover the graves and secret dungeons. 

For them, oppressing, exploiting and abusing others is the normal thing to do, one just has to be smart about how he or she does it in order to keep doing it for longer. Crime (legal or not, ethical crime) is perfectly acceptable for them, they just use cover ups in order to remain at large and keep their prey, you, oblivious to their intentions. 

For them this brutal competition is natural: survival of the fittest, they say in their rare moments of, still apologetic, sincerity. 

In contrast the Left demands and attempts to organize a society in which cooperation (instead of competition) and solidarity (instead of predation) are the main rules. There are also biological basis to that, probably much more solid than for Social-Darwinism. 

Certainly humans are social animals, empathic, communicative and most often (there seems to be a minority of exceptions, which we can well consider pathologic) solidary, generous, altruistic.

But regardless, both concepts or ideologies could well be and have probably been in dynamic equilibrium through much of human history and even prehistory: intra-species predators (cannibals, vampires or just your usual capitalists) are surely only viable if there is a cooperative majority in fact.

However that is not possible anymore because Right's ideology of exploitation is dramatically endangering our survival as species (and of much of life as we know it). And there is no survival of the fittest when all the species is dead, nor there will be people to scam and exploit when all are extinct.

Inviability of the Right-wing ideology in the 21st century

Exploitation has many facets but essentially we can divide it in the three following aspects:

• Class exploitation: when exploiters prey on producers and other workers
• Patriarchal exploitation: probably a more primitive form in which (some) adult men prey on women and children
• Ecological exploitation: exploitation of non-human elements of reality, such as animals, plants or Earth in general. While this is absolutely natural, our species has such power and has expanded it so much that Earth can hardly support our thoughtless exploitation anymore and we are bringing the planet to a crisis that has very few precedents, all them known as mass extinctions.

A mass extinction is probably, maybe depending on the fine print, a type of crisis that Humankind cannot survive. And the Right-wing ideology of hyper-competition and general exploitation is precisely what has brought us to this historical and evolutionary cul-de-sac.

And there is no exit within that ideology: eco-fascism is an illusory oxymoron, space colonization is not likely to be a realistic option in many centuries and eco-friendly capitalism is nothing but marketing (propaganda). 

So we need an alternative and that alternative already exists at least in seed form: it is the ideology of the Left: solidarity, cooperation, total democracy (people's power) and, very specially, respect, not just among us humans but for the environment as well (and very critically at this juncture).

Even being so many, we can probably manage to live quite well (all, not just some) on these principles, which are principles of justice that we all can easily understand at emotional (instinctive) level (if you do not, visit your psychiatrist, seriously). But the sooner we implement these and make real a sustainable, democratic and solidary Humankind, the softer the landing will be.

So that is why I am a commie after all... not just for morals or ideals... not just for a deep sense of raging justice... That also, true, but very specially because there is no option for the actual survival of our species once we throw Spencer to the trash bin.