Actually 'natural law', as dictated by genetics, has always created feudal or caste systems.
"Natural law" might best be defined as the state in which humans lived for the majority of our time on earth. That's about 200,000 to 300,000 years. For 95% of that time (and 99.5% of the time for hominids), we lived in tribes of about a hundred people.
A hundred people is way, way too small for feudalism or castes. They were largely patriarchies with a leader and a shamen. The highest, wealthiest member of the clan might have a slightly bigger hut and some more elaborate jewelry.
Sounds like you're just sad that the anti-semitic plans of Nazi Germany and the Eastern-European countries were thwarted by the USSR so you make up stories about the supposed "really, really, very antisemitic" nature of the USSR. Where was the Soviet version of the Nuremberg laws or something similar? That's right, it was nowhere to be found.
This may be the single least informed statement I have ever read on any subject in any forum ever.
First of all, you appear to equate the government of the USSR with the Russian people. You argue that since the government carried out no official policy, they are somehow better than the Nazis and Poles. Yet the original question was whether an economic system could solve racism. The question was, in essence, whether communism could shape and/or change human nature.
The answer is no.
The Soviet Union is a prime example. There is no doubt that the government of the USSR was established with the intention of equality for all. And the stated policies of the government were sort of consistent with that.
However, the Russian people never stopped being antisemitic. They never stopped hating and marginalizing Jews. That resulted in tremendous suffering, including more than sufficient premature deaths.
It used to be that one's religion was listed on their Soviet passport. There was a saying in Russia about Jews into at least the 1980's taught to me by an ex-girlfriend and Soviet refugee: Your face is your passport.
That's antisemitism.
Just making stuff up again? The Soviets never organized any anti-Jewish pogroms.
Nope, never organized them. Happily looked the other way as Russian people committed heinous acts of cruelty, denied them jobs and promotions, denied them equal housing, denied them equal justice in courts, imposed additional bureaucratic hurdles, denied them the ability to leave the country, and basically did whatever Americans have been doing to our non-white minorities for over a hundred years - yeah, that they did.
And I find Loss Leader's accusations against the USSR on the basis of anti-semitism (and your outright invention of Soviet anti-Jewish pogroms to support said accusations) to be despicable, especially given that in the context they are made in (the take-over of Poland and Eastern-Europe in WW2) they can only be taken as tacit support for the Polish and Eastern-European policies on the matter.
You have once again invented a false equivalency. There is no "more" or "less" antisemitic. The Nazis and Poles murdered Jews. The Nazis did it as an official government policy. But that fact does not mean that the Russians weren't antisemitic. Just because they didn't openly round up and exterminate Jews doesn't mean their people didn't find plenty of ways to discriminate.
The original question, again, was whether communism could solve basic discrimination. In that context, any antisemitism that translates into any discriminatory practice tends to disprove that. The Russian people were (and still are) at least as terrible to their ethnic minorities, including Jews, as Americans.
One wouldn't argue that America wasn't racist anymore because we freed the slaves. We found plenty of ways to be racist, despite the fact that pure capitalism shouldn't allow for such behavior. The Russians found plenty of ways as well, despite the fact that pure communism shouldn't allow for such behavior either.
Yes, it says nothing whatsoever about the Soviets organizing any anti-Jewish pogroms. If it did, then surely you can quote the part that states it? Or keep digging, your choice.
And yet my family fled Russian pogroms for the United States, with my grandparents able to recount horrific details from their childhoods - details that didn't tend to be much different whether that grandparent had been born in Poland, Romania, or Russia.
