20th-Century Absurdities: Soviet-Style Regimes' Destruction of the Symbiosis between Self-Interest and Fairness and Their Organizational Behavior Dysfunction Resulting from Deviating from the Underlying Protocols

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Abstract

The biases in the theory and practice of Soviet-style socialism, particularly the misperceptions in the understanding of power, not only destroyed the symbiosis between self-interest and fairness but also left the people with neither private ownership nor fairness to speak of. While the power-holding stratum professed socialist "fairness and justice," they had, in essence, "betrayed" the moral norms preserved through human evolution. They were compelled to rely on absurd means such as violence, lies, falsification, and blockades to sustain severely imbalanced social interactions. Under the discipline of alienated power, this repeatedly gave rise to multiple major catastrophes in the 20th century.

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