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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

Green – the positive and creative niches of the economic system;

Yellow – the ballast niches of the economic system;

Red – the negative or destructive niches of the economic system:

As in any totalitarian state, primarily, they created a professional army, the
prosperity of which totally depended on the will of the new “elite” — the class of
slave-owners. Its main function was to protect their property and life from the en-
croachment of persons interested in taking their place, mainly from other bands of
outcasts, which they had been until quite recently. Also the army became a supplier
of new slaves, into which both the warriors captured in battle and the peaceful popu-
lation of seized lands or all those whom they could take by raiding neighbours were
turned. In principle, the basis of the slave-owning society was war and slavery.
A relatively small part of the social organism fully owned, in the direct and fig-
urative sense of this word, the rest of it, which was considerably greater. Thus, the
outcast parasitic elements of the communal society created a new social organism —
the slave-owning one which existed simultaneously with the first one and differed in
that the parasitic elements took key positions in the social economic niches and in the
considerably extended category of passive economic niches plus the substitution of
free labour for that of slaves.

Because of the fact that most tribes of the black, red and yellow races were at a
lower evolutional level, the conquering white race outcasts “lifted” the level of evolu-
tional development of the tribes they subdued to a level close to that of the white
race. Certainly, they did this not because of their “warm-heartedness” or because they
“cared” for “poor” natives; they simply needed to keep their domination. Where win-
ners lowered themselves to the level of the subdued tribes, often they quickly became
the slaves of subsequent waves of outcasts.

It should be noted that there had been no slavery in the tribes of the white
race during the whole history of their existence. The outcasts of the white race
“adopted” the idea of slavery from the tribes of the black or red races where this phe-
nomenon was very widespread. Mostly because these races occupied climatic zones
which favoured the development of a parasitic attitude toward nature, from which it
is easy enough to take the step toward the idea of parasitizing on other people. It was
a norm for the tribes of the black and red races to turn people of neighbouring tribes
into slaves. Often the prisoners became dinner or supper for the winners.

In order to simplify the matter of retaining the subdued in slavery, the conquer-
ors created legends and myths about their being “chosen” and hammered them into
the heads of those over whose bodies and souls they exercised their dominion. Also
they created religions which justified the existent state of affairs and suggested to the
slaves the idea of obedience which will be rewarded after death. It was especially
easy to carry out when the outcasts of the white race possessed knowledge and abili-
ties which were considerably higher than the evolutional level of the people they sub-
dued. Egypt occupies a special place among ancient slave-owning societies and I will
touch upon its special role later on, and meanwhile let us continue the analysis of the
economic systems and their evolution...

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