MarxistPC
22nd June 2014, 22:56
I have become increasingly concerned over the past few months about the growing Fascist trend in the United States and throughout the world. There are dark, right wing forces of old, that we as the Left thought we had relegated to the trash bin of history during WWII. As many of you know the Nazis were an extension of the Catholic Right that had been festering in European Counter-Enlightenment thought for quite some time. They were well connected with the National Socialist Party of Germany and with the Corporate sector. But with the "Left" at the helm in the Soviet Union and Anti-Fascist Communists in Europe willing to fight the Nazis to the death, we finally could declare victory.
Now, however, as we look at America we are seeing these trends doing the same thing over again, and as an Anarchist, I urge my Communist, Socialist, Social Democratic, and Leftist brothers and sisters to unite our line against these forces.
I was reading a book called, "Invisible Hands: The Businessman's Crusade Against The New Deal", and it explained how Franklin Roosevelt, himself a capitalist but a social democrat, saw that Fascism was a grave threat to the Left's dream of what a capitalist Democracy would look like and so he forged, in what must have seemed in diamond to his right wing opponents, the New Deal Coalition. With the Industrial workers of the North, Farmer's of the West, poor of the South, and the newly created middle class, he created one of the most powerful political coalitions in modern history, causing Democratic victory after victory, and yanking the Republicans to the Left. But powerful heads of corporations like the head of Milton Steel, the DuPont Family, U.S. Steel and Oil, in conjunction with professors of economics from the Austrian School like Ludwig Von Mises, Hayek, and Milton Friedman, began associations and round tables for devising a way to "get our message out... tell the world our side of the story". Several of these groups were founded and nearly all of them failed, but beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s with the general strikes in the United States and around the world for higher wages they received large amounts of money from Coors Beer, U.S. Steel, G.M. and DuPont Chemical in order to break the strikes, and unfortunately for us they won.
They began to use Public Relations Industry for what Chomsky calls their, "true function... they proclaimed themselves in the 1920s the industry that controlled the minds of mankind", to push their Neo-Liberal message. We all know what the religion says, "markets are efficient, the public should be subject to market discipline, but not for the rich they need a powerful nanny state in order to bail them out". It's also very anti-union, and against what they call big government. That has meant for the population a major assault on social spending and the destruction of one of the only places where the working class can get together to have ideas in their class interest: Union meetings. But once again the hypocrisy, markets are good for you but not good for the rich, as union meetings are bad for the middle class and "kill jobs", but for the rich being able to meet together through meetings, dinners that cost more than their workers monthly salaries, retreats, and associations such as the American Enterprise Institute, The John Birch Society, The Heritage Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce, and Bilderberg Group, along with many others, this is just what's best for you.
But as suspected if you tell a middle class that has been, according to the Wall Street Journal "pampered for far too long",meaning that they must give up their health care, their children's college education, pension funds, strike and work environment protections, they are likely to put up some resistance. But what was the tranquilizer of the solution to be? As Marx recorded a century earlier in this response to Hegel's Theory of Right and probably the most misunderstood Marxian quote ever, "Religion is the opium of the people... not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and destroy it". And here came the Valium in the form of the Religious Right, the Jerry Falwell's, Pat Robertson's, John Hagee's, and Mike Huckabee's of the world. After over a decade under the Civil Right's Act of 1964 and the 1970s economic crisis, the New Deal Coalition was on the ropes and the seemingly strange bedfellows of the godless "Libertarians" and the Religious Dominionists got together to exploit the insecurities and fears of a racist and increasingly xenophobic poor southern industrial worker class in conjunction with the "law and order" policies in Northern Cities with the promise of stopping the fleeting of jobs into the third world. Forged in the policies of busing and integration, The Christian Right formed when many whites moved their kids out of public schools and into private christian academies where their "values" were upheld. Convinced that the old New Deal style preachers that engaged in the Vietnam War protests were apart of the problem of their children going out into the streets and protesting against their country which they had grown up in, which gave rise to feminism and LGBT Liberation, they switched around their churches and soon they became vehicles of profit as well.
The Religious Right offered the population answers to what must have seen an apocalyptic situation, their cultural station as "White Christians" had been stripped away by the Civil Rights Act, abortion had just been adjudicated to be legal, the LGBT community refused to be intimidated anymore demanded equal rights and dignity, along with their communities growing poorer, and beginning to resemble third world countries. So they turned their backs on the Left's message of worker solidarity and went with Nationalism, characterized as a Right Wing Ideology due to it's need of an outside force, namely the rest of world, in order to draw social ties. They began to, "confuse the iconography of the Christian religion with the patriotic symbolism of the United States" according to Chris Hedges in his book "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". Jingoism came in style and everyone was wearing it on their sleeves. Meshing together the Free Market Religion with that of the Christian Religion on the lines of it's protestant work ethic and need for Universal Truths such as responsibility (a mask for the laziness of blacks and minorities), and morality (their version of who you should go to bed with and in what position and what to do with a child if it is conceived), these forces found themselves in total control in the 1980 elections winning a landslide victory for the White House and Congress. Giving us our worst enemies in the Cabinet of the Reagan Administration, coming from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, the Oil Industry, the Arms Industry, and some of the most religious ceremonies and events in modern political history.
Holding God and Country Rallies, which were so disturbing to those who lived under the threat of the Swastika they were talked about in a very serious tone in intellectual circles and in the media throughout Europe. They pushed free market tenants, the Christian Religion, and what Forbes has called a "a culture of ignorance... that states my ignorance of the facts is just as valid as your informed opinion", as an assertion against intellectualism, internationalism, secularism, and a tolerant socially democratic open society. The things that we all hold dear as the Left, they have cast into the fire and are generating their political and social power with them.
Their economic policies have destroyed and alienated the middle class from one another, destroyed the hope of college education for most of society, impoverished the third world, and removed the Left as a incompetent force. Their Christian militarism in conjunction with the military industrial complex have created Christian soldiers out of the South that believe that they are fighting a war not against an ideology, but called upon by God to wage a Holy War against the Muslim infidels. Their social policies, best said by Christopher Hitchens, "have relegated women to a station not much above animals in that they are forced to have and carry children they do not want, destroyed the lives of homosexuals through lies and distortions, of whom they know nothing about, and created an atmosphere so toxic to intellectualism and unfettered investigations that in the 21st Century we are having to teach the equivalent of Alchemy in the form of Creationism". All of this has melded together in the radical snatching of the American Political spectrum to Right and incarnation of these forces in the Republican party. Opposed to the opening up of and connecting of the world, they have a long list of people they hate, including blacks, homosexuals, feminists, Muslims, the impoverished, Jews, intellectuals, liberals, and "Illegal Aliens", Republicans and their radical insurgency known as the Tea Party have come to claim the conversation and our former proletariat.
Fascism is always hard to understand and to conceive, mainly due to the fact that when you hear it, it's rhetoric sounds so much like the Left. If you go back to see Hitler's Speech he's often speaking about how in Germany under the National Socialist Regime,"it's not the rich who should take care of the poor, or the poor to the rich, but it's the job of every citizen to consider that every other German might me less fortunate than those above and below them". Along with many other ways that Fascism might take hold past the sort of co-opting of Left speech, in the eyes of Mussolini ,fascism meant the corporate sector taking over the State directly. When he came to power he dissolved the Parliament, and instituted in it's place the Fascistas Corporatisas Assembly, which was a governing body of the heads and representatives of Italian Corporations. Though this is what every Marxist, Anarchist, any person who has ever read and understood the Communist Manifesto, or any Leftist for that matter, calls their worst nightmare we must look to our own country today in order to understand what is happening and hopefully how we can stop it. There is a convergence of these two different conceptions of Fascism, both involving putting into control of the State the two utmost authoritarian institutions in human history: the Corporation and the Church. One in which orders come from the top down and if you don't carry them out you're fired and someone else far less nicer than you will carry them out and so on, in the latter case orders come from God and if you don't follow them you're damned to hell. But we are facing two branches of Fascism that openly embrace each other and want the same thing: Corporate control and Christian dominance in every conceivable social arena and corner of ideological casuistry.
In his essay on Fascism and what it is, Leon Trotsky identified some of it's characteristics that he described while he witnessed the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. He characterized it as Chris Hedges did, a failed revolution, one in which power employs the petty bourgeois as in order to assert their power and authority that comes from land owning in a State-Capitalist society, against social deviants in a Christian lens. In America's case it is homosexuals, blacks, feminists, along with all religions and denominations that do not as they. We must understand that this counter-revolution can come from a crisis of national security in the form of a terrorist attack which could happen at any time and be exploited by them.
We live in a time that corporate power has for all intents and purposes performed a coup d'etat of the State. They get what they want when they want irrespective of the public's needs. What's that, you want Universal Health Care? I'm sorry that's politically unpalatable or impossible because only the American Public wants it, now what about those tax breaks we were talking about? The Religious Right has been weakened greatly though, they have lost their Holy War that they labeled a "Culture War", against Gays, Abortion, Illicit Drugs, and daily through the actions of their last vestiges in the form of NOM (National Organization for Marriage) show how disillusioned the vast majority of the country has become to their casuistry. But in the form of the Tea Party it has stayed alive and with it's racist roots has become one of the most verbal and outspoken forces in American politics. It has become the source of outlet for a befuddled and angered working class and middle class that has found themselves in a world where they cannot survive in modern society on their own wages. So they have created Boogeymen out of undocumented workers who have taken their jobs and who are criminals just by being human in an area that we haven't allowed them into, violent lazy blacks who want your daughters even more than their welfare checks, and the homosexuals that are out to ruin their last social structure: the family. They want to restore honor and truth and responsibility to the country of which they feel has been taken from them.
This is documented quite well in modern political history. With what has been called the shocking defeat of the House Majority Leader Eric Cantor which is the first defeat of a sitting House Majority Leader in his own primary in history, by someone who calls himself a Tea Party Candidate, David Brat. White, straight, and rich he claims to be the voice of the people of those who were shut out of an earlier vote in the primary process. It goes without saying that the decisive issue in this campaign was immigration or what is called Asylum in Right-Wing circles, as if it was something terrible. But he was against the already condemned to fail immigration bill that might work its way through Congress and might get signed after it gets much worse. David Brat Tea Partyer and a professor of economics said repeatedly that he has his best to converge the three together: economics + religion +politics is his recipe for success in his case. Constantly going on about how "Universal Truths" should guide every function of political and social life, surprise surprise, they're all Christian tenants of faith melded together with a commitment to the "Free Market.... where all people are treated equally". Once again reaching back to truths that were laid down at the beginning of time, "Natural Law", as it's known.
But we all know that once he ascends to Congress and among the "responsible men" according to James Madison, he will likely follow in the same footsteps that his incumbent and the Congress as a whole, serving the rich and powerful. They have bred the Tea Party and modern Right-Wing in their laboratories of deceit and with the genes to be blissfully ignorant of the world around them, they march to the tune that their corporate masters have sounded off. As Emma Goldman stated about the majority that the bourgeoisie hypnotized in her day, "It clings to its masters, loves the whip, and is the first to cry Crucify! the moment a protesting voice is raised against the sacredness of capitalistic authority or any other decayed institution". They pray for a coming of Jesus Christ just as they wish for a "truly" free-market system that will unchain of itself of the only apparatus that could contain it, the State. Leaving it to maraud every corner of society tearing asunder every human relation that is left even in the R.E.C.D. (Really Existing Capitalist Democracy) we have today.
But to close with a warning and a hopefully the beginning of a fruitful conversation leading to action against the greatest threat to the world in human history. Though first that sounds from Mars in it's exaggeration, understand what the goals of the Corporate Fascists are, to have access to, exploit, and sell every commodity, natural resource, and human on the planet. If we assume that the Earth resources are infinite or that Climate Change isn't as drastic as scientists are saying then we have some time to figure out a plan of attack against the immense wealth, power, and ignorance that lie ahead. But with the continuing warning of scientists that are now filling up entire scientific journals weekly now with dire warnings growing worse every week, time is quickly running out. This isn't ozone, this is a global climate crisis caused directly by humans releasing billions of ton of CO2 into the atmosphere for the greater part of the past 300 years, and in recent years with continuing compound growth things are guaranteed to only get worse. Make no mistake Capitalism must go and they will fight us with all of the resources they can reach for in order to distract, distort, and stupefy the public who if they knew that they were joyously marching over a cliff would try and do something about it.
The greatest example of this is the Koch Brother's who themselves claim to be Christians and are the poster boys in American politics who funded the entire Republican/Tea-Party ticket in 2010, 2012, and intend to do even more damage in 2014 and 2016. They have funded the bus's that drew the Tea Party into the Capital dressed in costumes like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Musket men, they are those who head Koch Industries who are trying to outright maim the last carbon sinks in the world in Alberta,Canada, in the form of the Keystone XL Pipeline. They have fed and funded the Fox News network along with the right wing media in order to distract the proletariat from the real dangers in the world. And now that they have been exposed by people like Rachel Maddow and Cenk Uygur, they are running a massive propaganda campaign on the financial and Fox News Networks in order to keep the classes who matter to their cause in the dark. They are the embodiment of the Fascist threat that we face and they are directly engaged in what Christopher Hitchens called, "everything I love versus everything I hate".
Brothers and Sisters I call you to your feet in joining me in the fight against the Fascists and their aims. Our minds, our species, and our planet are on the line. If we do not fight now we might not have the chance. The Earth and our fellow proletariat who are in Plato's cave watching these machinations are calling us to their aid. Do not laugh at them, they are our working and middle classes, our brothers and sisters, the only place we can call home, they are lost looking for answers. We cannot be free, until they are free.
Realize that your chains are freely worn. Life has no inherent meaning. All meaning is man made. The canvas is blank, so paint your own. To The Daring Belongs the Future.
No Gods, No Masters, No States, No States, No Wars.
Now, however, as we look at America we are seeing these trends doing the same thing over again, and as an Anarchist, I urge my Communist, Socialist, Social Democratic, and Leftist brothers and sisters to unite our line against these forces.
I was reading a book called, "Invisible Hands: The Businessman's Crusade Against The New Deal", and it explained how Franklin Roosevelt, himself a capitalist but a social democrat, saw that Fascism was a grave threat to the Left's dream of what a capitalist Democracy would look like and so he forged, in what must have seemed in diamond to his right wing opponents, the New Deal Coalition. With the Industrial workers of the North, Farmer's of the West, poor of the South, and the newly created middle class, he created one of the most powerful political coalitions in modern history, causing Democratic victory after victory, and yanking the Republicans to the Left. But powerful heads of corporations like the head of Milton Steel, the DuPont Family, U.S. Steel and Oil, in conjunction with professors of economics from the Austrian School like Ludwig Von Mises, Hayek, and Milton Friedman, began associations and round tables for devising a way to "get our message out... tell the world our side of the story". Several of these groups were founded and nearly all of them failed, but beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s with the general strikes in the United States and around the world for higher wages they received large amounts of money from Coors Beer, U.S. Steel, G.M. and DuPont Chemical in order to break the strikes, and unfortunately for us they won.
They began to use Public Relations Industry for what Chomsky calls their, "true function... they proclaimed themselves in the 1920s the industry that controlled the minds of mankind", to push their Neo-Liberal message. We all know what the religion says, "markets are efficient, the public should be subject to market discipline, but not for the rich they need a powerful nanny state in order to bail them out". It's also very anti-union, and against what they call big government. That has meant for the population a major assault on social spending and the destruction of one of the only places where the working class can get together to have ideas in their class interest: Union meetings. But once again the hypocrisy, markets are good for you but not good for the rich, as union meetings are bad for the middle class and "kill jobs", but for the rich being able to meet together through meetings, dinners that cost more than their workers monthly salaries, retreats, and associations such as the American Enterprise Institute, The John Birch Society, The Heritage Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce, and Bilderberg Group, along with many others, this is just what's best for you.
But as suspected if you tell a middle class that has been, according to the Wall Street Journal "pampered for far too long",meaning that they must give up their health care, their children's college education, pension funds, strike and work environment protections, they are likely to put up some resistance. But what was the tranquilizer of the solution to be? As Marx recorded a century earlier in this response to Hegel's Theory of Right and probably the most misunderstood Marxian quote ever, "Religion is the opium of the people... not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and destroy it". And here came the Valium in the form of the Religious Right, the Jerry Falwell's, Pat Robertson's, John Hagee's, and Mike Huckabee's of the world. After over a decade under the Civil Right's Act of 1964 and the 1970s economic crisis, the New Deal Coalition was on the ropes and the seemingly strange bedfellows of the godless "Libertarians" and the Religious Dominionists got together to exploit the insecurities and fears of a racist and increasingly xenophobic poor southern industrial worker class in conjunction with the "law and order" policies in Northern Cities with the promise of stopping the fleeting of jobs into the third world. Forged in the policies of busing and integration, The Christian Right formed when many whites moved their kids out of public schools and into private christian academies where their "values" were upheld. Convinced that the old New Deal style preachers that engaged in the Vietnam War protests were apart of the problem of their children going out into the streets and protesting against their country which they had grown up in, which gave rise to feminism and LGBT Liberation, they switched around their churches and soon they became vehicles of profit as well.
The Religious Right offered the population answers to what must have seen an apocalyptic situation, their cultural station as "White Christians" had been stripped away by the Civil Rights Act, abortion had just been adjudicated to be legal, the LGBT community refused to be intimidated anymore demanded equal rights and dignity, along with their communities growing poorer, and beginning to resemble third world countries. So they turned their backs on the Left's message of worker solidarity and went with Nationalism, characterized as a Right Wing Ideology due to it's need of an outside force, namely the rest of world, in order to draw social ties. They began to, "confuse the iconography of the Christian religion with the patriotic symbolism of the United States" according to Chris Hedges in his book "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". Jingoism came in style and everyone was wearing it on their sleeves. Meshing together the Free Market Religion with that of the Christian Religion on the lines of it's protestant work ethic and need for Universal Truths such as responsibility (a mask for the laziness of blacks and minorities), and morality (their version of who you should go to bed with and in what position and what to do with a child if it is conceived), these forces found themselves in total control in the 1980 elections winning a landslide victory for the White House and Congress. Giving us our worst enemies in the Cabinet of the Reagan Administration, coming from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, the Oil Industry, the Arms Industry, and some of the most religious ceremonies and events in modern political history.
Holding God and Country Rallies, which were so disturbing to those who lived under the threat of the Swastika they were talked about in a very serious tone in intellectual circles and in the media throughout Europe. They pushed free market tenants, the Christian Religion, and what Forbes has called a "a culture of ignorance... that states my ignorance of the facts is just as valid as your informed opinion", as an assertion against intellectualism, internationalism, secularism, and a tolerant socially democratic open society. The things that we all hold dear as the Left, they have cast into the fire and are generating their political and social power with them.
Their economic policies have destroyed and alienated the middle class from one another, destroyed the hope of college education for most of society, impoverished the third world, and removed the Left as a incompetent force. Their Christian militarism in conjunction with the military industrial complex have created Christian soldiers out of the South that believe that they are fighting a war not against an ideology, but called upon by God to wage a Holy War against the Muslim infidels. Their social policies, best said by Christopher Hitchens, "have relegated women to a station not much above animals in that they are forced to have and carry children they do not want, destroyed the lives of homosexuals through lies and distortions, of whom they know nothing about, and created an atmosphere so toxic to intellectualism and unfettered investigations that in the 21st Century we are having to teach the equivalent of Alchemy in the form of Creationism". All of this has melded together in the radical snatching of the American Political spectrum to Right and incarnation of these forces in the Republican party. Opposed to the opening up of and connecting of the world, they have a long list of people they hate, including blacks, homosexuals, feminists, Muslims, the impoverished, Jews, intellectuals, liberals, and "Illegal Aliens", Republicans and their radical insurgency known as the Tea Party have come to claim the conversation and our former proletariat.
Fascism is always hard to understand and to conceive, mainly due to the fact that when you hear it, it's rhetoric sounds so much like the Left. If you go back to see Hitler's Speech he's often speaking about how in Germany under the National Socialist Regime,"it's not the rich who should take care of the poor, or the poor to the rich, but it's the job of every citizen to consider that every other German might me less fortunate than those above and below them". Along with many other ways that Fascism might take hold past the sort of co-opting of Left speech, in the eyes of Mussolini ,fascism meant the corporate sector taking over the State directly. When he came to power he dissolved the Parliament, and instituted in it's place the Fascistas Corporatisas Assembly, which was a governing body of the heads and representatives of Italian Corporations. Though this is what every Marxist, Anarchist, any person who has ever read and understood the Communist Manifesto, or any Leftist for that matter, calls their worst nightmare we must look to our own country today in order to understand what is happening and hopefully how we can stop it. There is a convergence of these two different conceptions of Fascism, both involving putting into control of the State the two utmost authoritarian institutions in human history: the Corporation and the Church. One in which orders come from the top down and if you don't carry them out you're fired and someone else far less nicer than you will carry them out and so on, in the latter case orders come from God and if you don't follow them you're damned to hell. But we are facing two branches of Fascism that openly embrace each other and want the same thing: Corporate control and Christian dominance in every conceivable social arena and corner of ideological casuistry.
In his essay on Fascism and what it is, Leon Trotsky identified some of it's characteristics that he described while he witnessed the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. He characterized it as Chris Hedges did, a failed revolution, one in which power employs the petty bourgeois as in order to assert their power and authority that comes from land owning in a State-Capitalist society, against social deviants in a Christian lens. In America's case it is homosexuals, blacks, feminists, along with all religions and denominations that do not as they. We must understand that this counter-revolution can come from a crisis of national security in the form of a terrorist attack which could happen at any time and be exploited by them.
We live in a time that corporate power has for all intents and purposes performed a coup d'etat of the State. They get what they want when they want irrespective of the public's needs. What's that, you want Universal Health Care? I'm sorry that's politically unpalatable or impossible because only the American Public wants it, now what about those tax breaks we were talking about? The Religious Right has been weakened greatly though, they have lost their Holy War that they labeled a "Culture War", against Gays, Abortion, Illicit Drugs, and daily through the actions of their last vestiges in the form of NOM (National Organization for Marriage) show how disillusioned the vast majority of the country has become to their casuistry. But in the form of the Tea Party it has stayed alive and with it's racist roots has become one of the most verbal and outspoken forces in American politics. It has become the source of outlet for a befuddled and angered working class and middle class that has found themselves in a world where they cannot survive in modern society on their own wages. So they have created Boogeymen out of undocumented workers who have taken their jobs and who are criminals just by being human in an area that we haven't allowed them into, violent lazy blacks who want your daughters even more than their welfare checks, and the homosexuals that are out to ruin their last social structure: the family. They want to restore honor and truth and responsibility to the country of which they feel has been taken from them.
This is documented quite well in modern political history. With what has been called the shocking defeat of the House Majority Leader Eric Cantor which is the first defeat of a sitting House Majority Leader in his own primary in history, by someone who calls himself a Tea Party Candidate, David Brat. White, straight, and rich he claims to be the voice of the people of those who were shut out of an earlier vote in the primary process. It goes without saying that the decisive issue in this campaign was immigration or what is called Asylum in Right-Wing circles, as if it was something terrible. But he was against the already condemned to fail immigration bill that might work its way through Congress and might get signed after it gets much worse. David Brat Tea Partyer and a professor of economics said repeatedly that he has his best to converge the three together: economics + religion +politics is his recipe for success in his case. Constantly going on about how "Universal Truths" should guide every function of political and social life, surprise surprise, they're all Christian tenants of faith melded together with a commitment to the "Free Market.... where all people are treated equally". Once again reaching back to truths that were laid down at the beginning of time, "Natural Law", as it's known.
But we all know that once he ascends to Congress and among the "responsible men" according to James Madison, he will likely follow in the same footsteps that his incumbent and the Congress as a whole, serving the rich and powerful. They have bred the Tea Party and modern Right-Wing in their laboratories of deceit and with the genes to be blissfully ignorant of the world around them, they march to the tune that their corporate masters have sounded off. As Emma Goldman stated about the majority that the bourgeoisie hypnotized in her day, "It clings to its masters, loves the whip, and is the first to cry Crucify! the moment a protesting voice is raised against the sacredness of capitalistic authority or any other decayed institution". They pray for a coming of Jesus Christ just as they wish for a "truly" free-market system that will unchain of itself of the only apparatus that could contain it, the State. Leaving it to maraud every corner of society tearing asunder every human relation that is left even in the R.E.C.D. (Really Existing Capitalist Democracy) we have today.
But to close with a warning and a hopefully the beginning of a fruitful conversation leading to action against the greatest threat to the world in human history. Though first that sounds from Mars in it's exaggeration, understand what the goals of the Corporate Fascists are, to have access to, exploit, and sell every commodity, natural resource, and human on the planet. If we assume that the Earth resources are infinite or that Climate Change isn't as drastic as scientists are saying then we have some time to figure out a plan of attack against the immense wealth, power, and ignorance that lie ahead. But with the continuing warning of scientists that are now filling up entire scientific journals weekly now with dire warnings growing worse every week, time is quickly running out. This isn't ozone, this is a global climate crisis caused directly by humans releasing billions of ton of CO2 into the atmosphere for the greater part of the past 300 years, and in recent years with continuing compound growth things are guaranteed to only get worse. Make no mistake Capitalism must go and they will fight us with all of the resources they can reach for in order to distract, distort, and stupefy the public who if they knew that they were joyously marching over a cliff would try and do something about it.
The greatest example of this is the Koch Brother's who themselves claim to be Christians and are the poster boys in American politics who funded the entire Republican/Tea-Party ticket in 2010, 2012, and intend to do even more damage in 2014 and 2016. They have funded the bus's that drew the Tea Party into the Capital dressed in costumes like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Musket men, they are those who head Koch Industries who are trying to outright maim the last carbon sinks in the world in Alberta,Canada, in the form of the Keystone XL Pipeline. They have fed and funded the Fox News network along with the right wing media in order to distract the proletariat from the real dangers in the world. And now that they have been exposed by people like Rachel Maddow and Cenk Uygur, they are running a massive propaganda campaign on the financial and Fox News Networks in order to keep the classes who matter to their cause in the dark. They are the embodiment of the Fascist threat that we face and they are directly engaged in what Christopher Hitchens called, "everything I love versus everything I hate".
Brothers and Sisters I call you to your feet in joining me in the fight against the Fascists and their aims. Our minds, our species, and our planet are on the line. If we do not fight now we might not have the chance. The Earth and our fellow proletariat who are in Plato's cave watching these machinations are calling us to their aid. Do not laugh at them, they are our working and middle classes, our brothers and sisters, the only place we can call home, they are lost looking for answers. We cannot be free, until they are free.
Realize that your chains are freely worn. Life has no inherent meaning. All meaning is man made. The canvas is blank, so paint your own. To The Daring Belongs the Future.
No Gods, No Masters, No States, No States, No Wars.