You may be politically colorblind, and not even know it. We can remedy that condition.
While “a rose is a rose is a rose,” it is not necessarily the case that “red is red is red.”
By long-standing tradition going back to Europe, political movements have colors. For instance, when I lived in then-West Germany (1980-1985), “green” referred to environmentalist-anarchists, as it does here (though in today’s America, "environmentalist" groups are often communist fronts); “black” referred to conservatives; “brown” to Nazis; “blue” to libertarians; and “red” to socialists and communists. Indeed, “red” had long been the worldwide expression and color of communism, by agreement of both Marxists and their enemies, though Marxists hated their enemies identifying them as such.
(When I lived in West Germany, it was only socially acceptable to make fun of Austrians in general as “brown;” living, West German Nazis were powerful and had legal privileges, such that calling a real Nazi “brown” could lead to a ruinous civil suit. Practically everybody who was anybody was a “former” Nazi, and even old workingmen Nazis were heroes to many of the younger German men they worked with.)
Blood Red
A competing, contemporary use of “red” is by genocidal black supremacists, who wear clothing, buttons, and such based on the red-black-green “pan-African flag” designed by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), the Jamaican-born founder of the back-to-Africa movement. While the black stands for the “black” race, and the green for “our land,” the red is for the blood of whites that the wearer hopes to shed.
Garvey sought to lead blacks in a worldwide racial Armageddon, in which they would kill all whites, and take their place as the world’s dominant race.
The Red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race.
Notwithstanding their wearing of black-green-red accessories in the shape of Africa, the land that genocidal “Africans” seek to gain is that of the good, old USA.
(Though I no longer see it used as much, during the 1990s, the black, green, and red were typically joined with yellow, as an expression of tenured City College of New York black supremacist Leonard Jeffries’ teaching that blacks are the “sun people,” the moral, intellectual, and biological superiors to the white “cave people.”)
“Brown Power!”
“Brown” also has an interesting contemporary significance. It is the political color of Reconquista, of the pan-Mexican, mestizo racial supremacy of groups like MEChA and “La Raza” (“The Race”). Note that the Reconquistas seek not just land that Mexico lost to America in the first Mexican-American War (and for which America compensated Mexico), as opposed to the current one, but vast lands to the North and West of those, including Colorado and Washington, which they claim belong to “Aztlan,” a mythical, ancient Hispanic/Indigenous nation. And since “Aztlan” exists only in their fevered imaginations, I suppose that those lands do belong to it.
And that’s what they admit to. Like the black supremacists, the Reconquistas aim to conquer all of America and kill off all whites, or as the Reconquistas say, send them “back to Europe.”
Keepin’ It Red
But my color of concern is traditional red.
Since at least the Great Depression, American reds have sought to manipulate “blacks” into fighting their revolution for them. (Most American “blacks” would more accurately be termed “browns.”) In Woody Strode’s (1914-1994) 1990 autobiography, Goal Dust (as told to ghostwriter Sam Young), the legendary athlete-turned-actor told of his folks warning him against getting sucked into the communist vortex, when he was a young man in Los Angeles. The reds would sponsor mixers at which pretty white girls would seek to seduce promising young black men into the movement.
(One generation later, the reds would finally succeed, when they joined with black preachers in creating the so-called Civil Rights Movement.)
White American socialists and communists — I call ‘em SCWs (socialist/communist/whatevers) — have no more regard for blacks than does your average WS/NN/W (white supremacist/neo-Nazi/whatever).
Twenty-two years ago in Brooklyn, I rented a room from a well-to-do, white political operative. I suspect he was a communist, because while socialists occasionally lapse into honesty, this guy could lie in his sleep. Anyway, he lived in an integrated, luxury co-op, with blacks who hated whites, Asians who hated whites, and whites who hated whites. The street around the corner from the building was working-class and poor black. Although that street was dilapidated and desolate, with a numbers parlor hiding behind a phony fried chicken storefront, it had a lovely little Sinclair’s bakery (no longer there), a seedy (since buppified) supermarket, and even a butcher (I’m not sure if that’s still there).
If I was hungry, and knew that there were stores open, I went to that street and got something to eat, day or night, just as I would do anywhere else.
Not so, my landlord. (He called the set-up a “share,” but the sharing went one-way. What was mine was his, and what was his was his. While claiming to be against private property, reds are as greedy as your average venture capitalist.) Although he was almost a foot taller than me, and unlike me was trim and athletic-looking, and had all the right beliefs about treating blacks better than whites — whereas I said that blacks should be treated just as lousy as whites are — this guy was so terrified of blacks that he wouldn’t set foot on that street at high noon, accompanied by his dog, even though the next overpriced, yuppy shopping area was almost a mile in the opposite direction. Eventually, he hired a black West Indian woman to do all his family’s grocery shopping and cooking.
Or consider another red political operative I used to know (based on her rare lapses into honesty, I’m guessing she was only a socialist). In the late spring of 1988, long after it was obvious to everyone that Tawana Brawley and the Three Stooges (Alton Maddox, C. Vernon Mason, and Al Sharpton) had engineered the most despicable race hoax in modern American history, many blacks, their media sycophants, and non-media reds still refused to admit it. At that point, this particular operative remarked to me in private, “You can’t expect blacks to participate as equals in public discourse.”
Translated into clear English, she was saying that blacks are mentally retarded. Of course, had the operative made that statement publicly, her professional career would have been over, and she would have had to leave New York and change her name. And not only was that 19 years before James Watson, but her belief was more radical than his. But that’s life in the red zone.
In mixed company, meanwhile, that same operative would ape black supremacists, with phrases like, “We need unity against those who would divide us.”
As Tonto says in the apocryphal joke, “Who is ‘we,’ Kimosabe?”
Since the 1960s, reds have likewise sought to conscript “browns” into the revolution, notwithstanding that blacks and Hispanics (with some exceptions, such as New York Puerto Ricans) have always hated each other. Reds’ solution to overcoming black-Hispanic hostility was to engage in ever more intense anti-white rhetoric and practices. It never seems to occur to the reds that: 1. Racism is evil; and 2. They are white!
If you spend years indoctrinating blacks (who need no invitation to hate whites, in the first place) and Hispanics in anti-white racism, and give them incentives to violently assault whites, at some point, they are going to notice that you are the same color as the “racist” whites. If you don’t believe me, just take a look at the apartheid and genocide already well underway in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Even then-82-year-old, “anti-apartheid” (read: red) writer Nadine Gordimer, who was rewarded for her literary activism with a Nobel Prize for literature, was targeted last year by racist black thugs, who robbed and beat her in her Johannesburg home. Or just take a look at the past forty-odd years of life in America’s cities.
America’s reds think that the “blacks” and “browns” they seek to exploit politically are simple-minded and easily manipulated. Unfortunately for the reds, the blacks and browns know this.
Towards the end of the Weimer Republic (1919-1933) and the beginning of the Nazi Era (1933-1945), reactionary, “black” monarchists, who helped the Nazis ascend to power, thought the same way about Hitler and his henchmen. Hitler saw through their vanity. By the time the “blacks” realized their folly, they were climbing the steps to the gallows.
Red Hysteria
According to Democrat Party legend and the New York Times, if you’ll pardon the redundancy, the 1950s were an age of McCarthyite “red-baiting” and “hysteria.” On June 19, 2003, a New York Times house editorial commemorated the 50th anniversary of the execution of communist traitors and Soviet spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, for instance, by fabulating in Marxist language that they were the “victims” of “anti-communist hysteria” and “McCarthyism,” and called their case, including the execution of Julius, an “injustice.”
In other words, as far as the New York Times is concerned, treason — giving our mortal enemies atom bomb secrets which helped them build their own bomb — is not a crime.
But then, the Times has since 1992 been run by “Pinch” Sulzberger, Jr., who during the War in Vietnam supported the North Vietnamese communists, and who has never changed. And long before Sulzberger’s time, Timesmen Walter Duranty wrote propaganda for Stalin, covering up the latter’s Ukrainian Holocaust (for which Duranty was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize), and Herbert Mathews provided similar services for Castro.
Also typical of the Left was Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne’s August 18, 2005 assertion that people merely “alleged” that the Hollywood Ten were communists. Such claims are on a par with Holocaust-deniers saying that Jews merely “allege” that the Holocaust occurred. But that’s what the Left has been engaging in for over 40 years — communism-denial.
It can be hard, at times, to say where Marxist evil leaves off and Marxist ignorance begins. But if someone repeats a lie out of ignorance, he’s still a liar. For instance, for over fifty years, leftists have repeated the lie whereby Richard Nixon coined the term “the Pink Lady,” in referring to Democrat California Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, his opponent in the 1950 U.S. Senate race. As historian Irwin Gellman showed in his exhaustively researched Nixon-biography, The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946 to 1952, Nixon did not coin the term, Douglas’ Democratic primary opponent, Ralph Manchester Boddy, the publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, did.
If anything, calling Douglas, then one of the two most radically left members of Congress “pink,” was too gentle a description; “red” would have been more accurate.
The other congressman I alluded to above, East Harlem communist Vito Marcantonio, also lost the 1950 election, to Democrat James Donovan, who had stressed Marcantonio’s refusal to vote in favor of war against communist North Korea. (Marcantonio’s claim, “I vote my conscience,” was a code phrase for his following the Party – as in, Communist Party — line.)
However, the left-wing campaign against Nixon, continued by dead-enders even today, 13 years after the man’s death, was always based less on his electoral victories over congressmen Jerry Voorhis (in 1946) and Helen Gahagan Douglas, than on his successful 1950 prosecution of Alger Hiss, who had earlier been the number-two man in the State Department, for perjury. Hiss had in fact been a traitor and a Soviet spy, but the statute of limitations precluded prosecuting him for those hanging offenses.
Left-wing ignorance is so pervasive, that in an unintentionally comical moment in the 2005 propaganda film, Good Night, and Good Luck, red director/screenwriter George Clooney felt the need to have his character, CBS News producer Fred Friendly, point out to another character — without irony — that the House Un-American Activities Committee is in the House, while Sen. McCarthy is in the Senate.
But leftist propagandists have always worked hard to ensure that everyone in America is as ignorant and confused as the average lefty. Thus, they have since the 1960s labeled any political action or criticism opposing them, “McCarthyism.”
The tactic of calling opponents “McCarthyites” serves the dual purpose of making them look evil, and of reinforcing a fictional history, according to which, on the one hand, Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were victims, rather than traitors, and the State Department was not, as McCarthy revealed it to be, lousy with communist infiltrators.
Conservative writer Ann Coulter returned to this issue in her 2003 book, Treason, vindicating the memory of McCarthy. Conservative journalist M. Stanton Evans has just published his 672-page swan song, blasting the left-wing, anti-McCarthy tradition, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America's Enemies.
Republicans and conservatives have unwittingly aided and abetted the Left by referring since circa 1989 to left-wing totalitarianism on college campuses and in the nation’s schools as a “new McCarthyism.” That unfortunate rhetorical habit is a form of surrender that it will take more than Evans to overcome.
Another form of surrender long practiced by Republicans and conservatives is in referring to “liberal bias” by the mainstream media. The media figures in question do not think of themselves as “liberals,” they think of themselves as socialists or worse.
But the socialist MSM’s ultimate victory in table-turning was in monolithically imposing, during the 2000 presidential election, the usage of the phrase “red states,” in referring to Republican-majority states, and “blue states,” in referring to Democrat-majority states.
Socialist MSM types no doubt cluck, whenever they get a non-leftist to speak of Republican areas as “Red America,” or “red-state America,” but the phrase “Red America” rightfully refers to America’s newsrooms and faculty lounges.
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And here's what red white and blue American style fascists do, how they operate, and how they have conspired and nearly succeeded in taking over the country…
First of all they adopt a certain language and jargon…"Liberty" for example becomes not quite its dictionary definition but rather the freedom to believe and behave as they…"Traitors" are those who dare question anything about capitalism or those who benefit most by it…"Communist" or "socialist" or even "liberal" is used to dismiss anyone much to the left of David Duke or Ayn Rand.
Some even deny the reality of Mccarthyism…
But I jump ahead of myself…
Ever since the great depression showed the flaws and dangers inherent in pure laissez-faire mammonism, closet fascists pretending to be patriots have been organizing and conjuring up red boogeymen in order to protect their fortunes or just lash out at that which they cannot comprehend/stomach - like pretty white girls getting with bestial black men or accursed atheists being allowed to speak freely or whatever. If not for the vaguely socialist mixed economic policies of that awful old class traitor FDR the 30’s might have seen the break-up of the country or even a wall street fascist takeover, which of course fascists like Prescott Bush would have loved… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot.
Well, then WW2 came along and obvious, outward, honest, undeniable black wearing skull and crossbones goosesteppin' jew gassin' foriegn fascism had to be opposed, so closeted red white and blue fascists rolled up their sleeves, sang the star spangled banner, cursed fascism, pretended to stomach uncle Joe, and made an ass of moolah. God bless the USA!
And as the only capitalist economy intact at the end of the whole mess, for almost 30 years the vaguely socialist policies of the New Deal which had helped so many average schmuks share the benefit of our collective sacrifice were harder to begrudge, so bounteous were the returns for our investment.
Not that some fascists did not begrudge, mind you. No matter how much they have, the worshippers of mammon never have enough, and no matter how they wrap themselves in the mantles of god and country, their only concern is wealth and the power to guard it. So Birchers and McCarthyite fascists went to work as soon as the open fascists were hanging high and did indeed cause misery to a few…but times were so good and the mass media was yet not owned by them…
For that awful old class traitor, FDR, had enacted "commernist" laws that prohibited monopolizing of media and ownership of news providing organs by a wealthy and politicized few…and by God it worked!
The schmuks saw for themselves what an evil, self aggrandizing, fascist, demagogue Senator McCarthy was and years later they found out how rotten our own government had become in its fanatical, amoral war against "commernism", how close to fascism we had grown, manufacturing lied-into wars in far flung corners of the globe and spending buzillions of taxpayer dollars to enrich a bloated arms industry. Then the schmuks saw their very own president committing felonies, lying about the same, and nudging us toward some kind of fascist abomination.
This is when fascists like Cheney and Schlaffly and Scaife and all the others began to look around and ask themselves how they could undo the damage. How could they bring about fascism in America? This is also when the seeds of that evil, soulless amoral Russian hysteric, Ayn Rand, began to resonate and lend a veneer of intellectual respectability to the ridiculed and discredited Goldwater style John Birch psuedo fascists…
So what must be done? Well, the first and most obvious impediment was a dispersed, rigorous, fact checking, independent media. In fact, the way a democratic people got their news was just about the only way they could make informed decisions.
Lets digress a tad…fascism…what does that mean? Well, the classic model was Mussolini/Hitler/Franco. An anti democratic political party seizes power, co-ops business, and rules undemocratically. Fascism in many ways is the ultimate development of nationalism and relies on a sense of shared national identity to overcome class division. Shared, cherished cultural ideals are indispensable to fascists….and this caused American would be fascists some problems… Sure, they may personally, secretly have had no problems with jackboots and all the satanic paraphernalia of fascism, but there's no way the masses of schmuks would swallow that. "Freedom" and "democracy"…that stuff was part and parcel of American national identity, an indispensable element of the American psyche that flies in the face of the concept of fascism…hmmm…
But ideology, like religious theology, always finds it must adapt when applied to a new culture, and fascism did indeed evolve into an Americanized form in the late twentieth century…
So the American fascist overmen, drawing on the satanic economic nihilist philosophy of Ayn Rand much as the Germans reveled in the militarist mystical humanist nihilism of Nietzsche, came up with a slick, Madison Avenue, yankee-doodle dandy form of fascism - obverse democratic fascism…
Obverse - unlike classical European jackboot fascism, where the politicos co-opt capitalists, in American style fascism the capitalists co-opt the politicos…not so hard to do with a corrupt, buyable election system, just kind of costly…but oh the returns!
Democratic – yeah sure, give the schmuks their elections, but control the selection of candidates and – more importantly and essential to the whole scam – control the media, and PRESTO BLAMMO – SHAM DEMOCRACY!
Fascism – remember Ike’s farewell address when he warned about the growing influence of the military industrial complex? Remember the red scare of Mr. McCarthey? Rabid anti-commernism is oh so close to fascism already… Hey look! Another lied-into unnecessary war! WE NEED A BIGGER MILITARY! THE REST OF THE WORLD IS OUT TO GET US! THE U. N. IS OUT TO GET US! Hmmm…
So, ok, back to the late seventies, early eighties… Satano-aynrando-corporatist fascists begin looking around and figuring out what the will need to take control of the country and institute a façade democracy behind which lurks the real edifice of fascism. People are disillusioned with politics after the Nixon fiasco and the Vietnam lies – that’s good. But there’s that damned, irritating, meddling, “fourth branch of government” the media! So the fascist buzillionaires began financing an alternative press/media, as well as a bogus, propagandized, faux scholarly establishment of “think tanks” to support the outrageous lies of their pocket press as well as systematically debunk anything that reputable, peer reviewed academia might put out that contradicted fascist ideology.
Synchronous to the birth of this satano-aynrando corporatist fascist movement was the growth of reactionary christo-fascist fundyvangelist Cromwellian movements such as the presumptuously and Orwellianly self anointed “moral majority”. Ah…now the randian fascists had a highly motivated legion of low IQ religious nut dupes to use as voting power! Sure, true Randian overmen found them silly and absurd, but true randian overmen swallow their distaste in a heartbeat in order to realize and implement their elitist satanic fantasies. Besides…no matter how many silly christo-fascist laws and regulations those dumbass Jesus freaks may force on poor schmuk nation…NOBODY tells an uber-wealthy uberman what to do! The ubermencsh get abortions, prostitutes, drugs, whatever they want, no matter how depraved, regardless of the “godly” hell those nutty evangelicals inflict on the masses of the undermen!
So, the unholy American fascist alliance of the demiurge was forged…satano-aynrando-corporatist fascists supported by Christo-fascist cromwellian-luddite fundyvangelist masses… Truly a marriage made in hell!
So little by little the fascists chipped away, subverting, corrupting, perverting, and purchasing one politician and institution after another. Ever was there a slick, smart sounding justification by some “distinguished fellow” at some high falootin’ sounding “institute” out there like “The Cato Institute” or “The Heritage Foundation” to counter the voices of caution and reason. Indeed, repeat a lie persistently enough… And chiming in were a chorus of lowbrow radio zombie masters, telling angry white men self gratifying and infuriating bald faced lies… And year after year there were the bought and paid for politicos of BOTH parties selling their souls, scmuk nation’s asses, and any shred of national conscientiousness or constitutional dignity to our Randian, corporatist, fascist overlords!
Little by little they chipped away at the old media laws and proceeded to buy up almost all the media, until the “fourth branch of government” became little more than a slick, hypnotic, entertaining, bullhorn for Fascist Americorporation… Some, like Faux News, are directed at the true duped moron. They use the most obvious Orwellian doublespeak and slanted propaganda. Although this fools only the borderline retarded, the less obvious fascist owned organs are therefore able to slip their more subtle fascist slanted propaganda/news to increasingly sophisticated segments of the population. From “FoxLite” ABC, through GE owned NBC, to supposedly “liberal” CBS, with a similarly arrayed group of cable outlets, the American public is presented with a spectrum of news/opinion that supposedly flows smoothly from right to left, but in fact flows from far right to perhaps barely left of center, if that…
In between, the American public is continually bombarded with a constant stream of ever more trivial and idiotic drivel, interspersed by inescapable commercials urging morons to spend themselves into debt slavery and rather than demand a fairer cut in the economic pie while CEOs pay themselves multi-hundred million dollar a year salaries. All the while these pop culturally lobotomized consumer zombies grow more ignorant and disconnected from reality, watching IQ lowering reality TV, dreaming of becoming famous, playing video games and taking out car title loans to pay for a vacation or afford an ass of stupid Christmas gifts for their fat, ingrate kids, spouses, and gaggle of other irritating friends and relatives…
And with control of the media, and control of the polity, the fascists are able to cheat into power a mushmouthed Manchurian candidate gagged on a silver spoon moron that the average Springer person or good ole dimwitted christo-fascist borderline retard can look at and say, “Hey…he’s kinda like me…think I’ll vote fer him!”
And the mushmouth puppet fascist, who mouths fundyvangelist platitudes and repeats what his handlers whisper into his hidden earpiece receiver, continues sending well paying schmuk jobs overseas where exploited commie workers make toxic, cheap plastic crap that ever more impoverished American schmuks can afford, because median income has been falling since 1970… Every year as job after job gets outsourced, fascists get richer and scmuks get poorer. But the fascists control the media, and the schmuks just get stupider and more indebted, in that the fascists need the schmuks to keep buying more crap even though they don’t want to pay said schmuks more to enable this. You see, even the satan-aynrando fascists’ IQ is lowered at least a standard deviation by their uncontrolled mammonist greed.
So they outsourced the manufacturing jobs and told the scmuks to “Go back to school! Get retrained! The future’s in the service industry!” And of course stupid, patriotic, trusting, schmuk nation believed them and flipped burgers while struggling through night school to learn how to program computers or balance books – you know…service sector jobs… But now the satano-aynrando corporate fascists…are outsourcing THOSE JOBS TOO! So what’s a schmuk kid to do these days to get ahead?
Exactly what the satano-aynrando fascist self styled demigodly military-industrial complex owning overmen wanted all along…JOIN THE MILITARY!!!!
But when the christo-fascists and the duped schmuks send their kids/spouses/parents to war against someone who did not even attack them for their satano-aynrando obverse democratic fascist corporate overlords, they’re not just too butt ignorant to know any of this (partly as a result of the fascist owned media, granted), but many are too butt ignorant to even point to the country their loved ones, are dying in on a map!
AND THIS IS EXACTLY HOW OUR SATANO-AYNRANDO CORPORATE FASCIST OVERMEN WANT IT! OBVERSE DEMOCRATIC FASCISM – THE NEW AMERICAN WAY! GAWD BLESS THUH YEEEOOO ESSS AIYYYY! UHMURUHKUH!
Comment by ibbleblibble | November 28, 2007
I hope you didn't expect me to read your entire rant. I read seven or eight graphs, and skimmed a few more, and have thus far wasted on you at least ten minutes of my life that I shall never get back. I hope you're happy.
I see that you posted a Wikipedia link. I once read the entry in question, but since the communist-dominated Wikipedia has zero credibility on any political subject, posting that link was perfectly in intellectual character with your … lack thereof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
"Lets digress a tad…fascism…what does that mean? Well, the classic model was Mussolini/Hitler/Franco."
What “model” might that be? There is no “Mussolini/Hitler/Franco” model, “classic” [sic] or otherwise. What common ideology or social model did those three men embrace? The answer is, None. Mussolini believed in a corporatist society led by a “great man.” That’s fascism. Neither race nor genocide played any role.
Conversely, Hitler promoted “national socialism.” There was no German “facist” party (as the word was then spelled in English). National socialism was based on a notion of a racial community (master race) that finds itself in a fight to the death against its racial enemies, which also happen to be its racial inferiors—Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, etc. Genocide is as integral to national socialism as is racial community.
In the English-language world and in Europe, most people use the same misleading term, “fascism,” to describe both actual fascism and national socialism. That they do so, remains one of communism’s enduring triumphs. Following Hitler’s 1933 seizure of power, communists initiated the tradition of using the same term to describe both of communism’s European insurgent rivals for total power, that is, when they weren’t allying themselves with national socialists. (That’s where Orwell got the idea for the constantly changing, murderous alliances he depicts in 1984). As communism was itself an insurgent form of tyranny, having first imposed itself on a nation in 1917, three separate insurgencies were then fighting for domination of Europe, with liberal democracy a rapidly falling star.
Communists came up with this idea based on: 1. Stupidity (they couldn’t comprehend the fundamental differences that distinguish fascism from national socialism; 2. Stupidity (for them, all anti-communist systems are indistinguishable and/or part of a grand, capitalist conspiracy); 3. Tyranny (it has always been imperative to communists to force everyone to mouth their moronic pieties); and 4. Tyranny (until communists aggrandize sufficient power to imprison, torture, and murder all dissidents, it has always been imperative to them to intimidate anyone disagreeing with them).
I am sure that other observers will be able to come up with additional forms of communist stupidity and tyranny.
Comment by Nicholas Stix | November 29, 2007
Comment by Nicholas Stix | November 29, 2007
i will respond in more detail later - pressed for time at the moment.
actually i liked your article, though i think you over-identified communist/socialist influences. thus the constant repetition of the word "fascism" or its derivatives in my super screed/rant.
again, i liked the article despite some disagreement and look forward to responding to your response soon.
Comment by ibbleblibble | November 29, 2007
"Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the interests of the state. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, and opposition to political and economic liberalism.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Some of the governments and parties most often considered to have been fascist include Fascist Italy under Mussolini, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, Spain's Falange, Portugal's New State, Hungary's Arrow Cross Party, and Romania's Iron Guard. Some authors reject broad usage of the term or exclude certain of these parties and regimes.[8] Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, there have been few self-proclaimed fascist groups and individuals. In contemporary political discourse, fascist has become a slur, used by adherents of some ideologies to describe their opponents".
from wiki…
as pointed out above, the term, like "communist" or "socialist" canrefer to a wide variety of systems. indeed what i referred to as "classic" fascism, the fascist systems of early to mid twentieth century europe, did indeed manifest itself in variant versions.
but my point was that these forms of fascism were spearheaded by political parties who co-opted private economic entities, as opposed to the american style of OBVERSE fascism, where private economic concerns co-opt the political process. its stated clearly in my gigantic screed, by the way.
indeed, people do often use the term "fascism" as a slur…much as other people slur anything opposed to utter laissez faire capitalism and nihilistic aynrandism (the bedrock for levayan satanism, which is why i often slur it as satanic, or mammonistic)
as "communism" or "socialism".
in all honesty years ago i began fabricating my "obverse democratic fascism" mantra as a sort of focault's pendulum intellectual excercise aimed at countering the absurd hyper-partisan right wing hyperbole that bandied about "socialist" and "communist" to slur opponants when "liberal" simply failed to demonize enough.
as i researched i found one silly, mean spirited, delusionary lie and historical misinterpretation after another being vomitted forth from right wing press/media figures and upjumped mercenary mind hacks, swallowed hook line and sinker by an alarming and depressingly large number of pop culturally lobotomized ignoramuses and angry know nothings looking for someone to blame for their childish misery.
and, much like in eco's book, the more i researched in an effort to fabricate a "fascist threat" absurd alarmist counter-lie to the absurd alarmist "commernist threat" initial lie…the more it started actually making sense…
yes, virginia! there IS a great right wing conspiracy! and why not go ahead and call it what it is indeed a form of, "fascism"? because if the right can resort to hyperbolic use of ideological terminology to slur its opponants, why can't the left do the same?
in fact i detest both communism and fascism and consider both to be abominations to the human spirit, but after years of researching and trying to get beyond our stupidifying concentrated ownership, murdoched media…
i have to say that we are a hell of a lot closer to some 21st centry form of nightmarish fascism than communism.
Comment by ibbleblibble | November 30, 2007
i dont use capital letters or punctuation and like to castigate my brain dead fascist right wing detractors for their use of hyperbolic rhetoric by applying equally brain dead hyperbolic left wing rhetoric in a shining example of irony that is lost on the truly ironic and try to make up for the hopeless lack of intellectual content that my mindless ramblings contain by using words that i hope will make me appear intelligent and by the sheer volume of both words and characters per post as well as posts per topic so i can overwhelm the conversation by simply posting a lot of words without ever saying anything meaningful or addressing the posts of people who point out that my posts contain nothing of any real substance.
i need to have a paragraph break here so that i can continue typing and take up more screen real estate but im really out of things to say. i guess now i should probably post something about the neo-proto-christo-fasco-globo-pseudo-imperial-industrial-complex troglodytic rovian halliburton profiteering blood-mongering war-for-oil scandal-ridden orwellian totalitarian racist homophobic misogynistic hermaphroditic satanic evangelical masonic Zionist theocratic cronyist neo con bush administration and its role in plotting the 9/11 attacks in order to rob the entire middle east of all its oil through criminal globo-expansion-wilsonian-interventionist saber rattling genocidal maniacal imperialist neo-nazi terrorist warfare. okay i think i've written enough now that nobody will finish reading what i wrote and theres lots of words here so that means i must have said something important and i win. i look forward to everyones responses this was a good article even if youre a crazed leftist socialist and i had a lot of fun. thanks everybody bye bye.
Comment by Patrick Mulligan | December 14, 2007