The Unintentional Revolutionary
Without pulling together an army ofrevolutionaries, and obviously without killing anyone, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed to citizens from all over worlds that had been hidden from them – worlds that he himself was unfamiliar with
This is Mark Zuckerberg. It is doubtful that he read Marx’s writings, but he most certainly has brought about a revolution larger than that of the father of Marxism. And he did it without the use of force and without the pretention of creating a new science.
Marx is considered the father of Marxism. He claimed that the economy was based on science, and a certain type of economy – capitalism – discriminates and enslaves hundreds of millions of people. Lenin, who relied on Marx, claimed that in order to correct the capitalist injustice, any means is permissible. The ends, in his eyes, justified the means of even murder and forced labor.
Marxism and Leninism brought about the losses of the lives of millions of people, and the negation of freedom for tens of millions. The communist revolution conquered not only Russia, but also its neighbors, including the enormous China. Stalin, their disciple, took pride in the number of military divisions in his control. At the end, all of this collapsed and communism went bankrupt.
Mark Zuckerberg never killed a soul, he never negated anyone’s freedom and never preached a revolution. He merely discovered the capabilities of social media on the Internet, which changed the face of the world. His conclusion was called Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg comes from a Jewish family, and Jews, as is known, are called the People of the Book. A nation that believes that everyone was created in the image of God, despite the fact that God’s image is unknown. He transcends space and time. He blows like the wind and does not need legions of revolutionaries or managers.
Karl Marx created thousands of revolutionaries, but the revolution itself failed. Mark Zuckerberg did not recruit revolutionaries, but the revolution that he started changed the face of the world – and continues to spread out and cause change. With one word, “share,” Zuckerberg’s revolution reached places that it is doubtful that he even had any inkling about. From the spring of youth to the Arab spring.Facebook showed people from everywhere worlds that were hidden from them. All of the Iron Curtains, the proletariat dictatorship, the Marxist economic doctrine – they all collapsed and dissipated.
It became clear that it is indeed possible to base economics on technology and science, but economics itself is not science. It can, perhaps, analyze economic processes that happened in the past, but it is unable to predict what will happen tomorrow. Science is novel and surprising. It breaks down axioms of the past and exposes secrets that had been hidden. In these revelations, it exposes to us, humankind, a new future. What was – was, and it cannot be changed and it cannot be recreated.
What will be is not a repetition of what was, since science changes the order of Creation. Every revelation hints that there is a long line of revelations to be discovered, and we cannot design them nor ignore them. Ironically, most of the revelations are exposed by the human mind. The one that enabled Zuckerberg to create his artificial mind, and that mind rests on our shoulders and does not
ask our opinion. We are in constant negotiations with it, and every time we win – we change and the world changes.
Communism tried to create one revolution. It paid a heavy price and went bankrupt.
Mark Zuckerberg provided wings to another revolution, and it has continued to fly and to reveal to us new continents and heavens that we have not fully explored. Marx, who alienated himself from the Jewish people, made one comment worth remembering: “Whoever wants to understand Judaism should not only seek it in the realm
of religion. He should learn it by studying man and his hidden strengths.”
