We are now dealing with a merger of fascism and Marxism, or what I call fasco-Marxism. As in the 1920s and 1930s, people are confused, befuddled and bamboozled… all in return for a promise that led back then, respectively, to a Germany in rubble, and a Russia in a Stalinesque hell-hole… or what one wit called “a Chad (i.e., the country) with missiles.” There’s a reason why Germany ended up in rubble, and why people died trying to flee from the Iron Curtain to the West, why there was a Berlin wall, and more.
In a nutshell, fascism, as defined by its originator Benito Mussolini, and as enumerated in his 1932 The Doctrine of Fascism, downloadable here for free https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf defines fascism as the merger of the socialist state with co-opted, crony big biz. Can you say Google? Amazon? Pfizer? Or in Hitler’s Germany, it was IG Farben, Krupp, Bayer (who went from making Xyclon B to kills Jews and others for their ovens to today making glyphosate) etc. If you can tell the difference, I can’t. In contrast, Marxism has the state directly own the means of production. Fascism also has nationalism as hallmark, Marxism internationalism, which is a clear difference. Otherwise, although there are definitely distinctions, both are clearly socialist COUSINS. Don’t believe me? Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers’ Party, German Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), which adopted explicitly socialist planks at its first convention, Munich, Feb. 1920, and of course the USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Even the mildly observant will notice the word “socialist” in both!
If a formal architect of fascism can be identified, it would be Benito Mussolini, who was formerly a Marxist editor who broke with the them during World War I, later becaming Italy’s leader in 1922 in the post-war chaos (Italy was with the Allies, you may recall). Mussolini distinguished fascism from capitalism in his 1928 autobiography, writing: "The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for them the duties they have to fulfill." (p. 280) “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini. Verify the quote by reading The Doctrine of Fascism here https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf
“Corporatism?” “Merger of state and corporate power?” Missing this clear as day statement is worse than thinking that yes, Russia really got Trump elected in 2016, Hunter’s laptop really was just a collection of innocent documents… or that Katie Hobb’s really did win the Arizona election of 2022.
Similarly, Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said: "The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property." (Barkai 1990, pp. 26–27)
Do you really think Krupp, if Hitler told them to stop making refrigerators and instead turn to making tanks, would say no? Sheldon Richman in EconLib writes: “Cartels controlled all manufacturing, commerce, finance, agriculture, etc. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms. Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission. Levels of consumption were dictated by the state, and “excess” incomes had to be surrendered as taxes or ‘loans... The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan… Hitler’s regime eliminated small corporations (can you say “Covid lockdowns on small biz, but NOT for Walmart and other big biz??”) and made membership in cartels mandatory. The Reich Economic Chamber was at the top of a complicated bureaucracy comprising nearly two hundred organizations organized along industry, commercial, and craft lines, as well as several national councils.”
EconLibrary.org says “As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer.”
Fascism also made heavy use of street thugs – in Hitler’s Germany, they were called brownshirts (Braunhemden) while in Italy the wore black shirts. Yes, the same colour as Anifa; even the Antifa flag roughly resembles one of the fascist flags. The goal was simple – the violent intimidation of opponents. just like Anifa. In Hitler’s world they were also called Sturmabteilung, literally "Storm Detachment.” Read more here on them. Also called the SA. One famous incident was November, 1938’s Night of the Broken Windows, Kristallnacht that inaugurated the following police state.
Now, compare to the present day, Hilary backed brown/blackshirts Antifa (they chose Mussolini’s black vs. brown.) – with their calling card broken windows… exactly like Brownshirts. Do a simple web search, e.g., “Antifa broken windows yourself. “ And I personally watched Antifa burning books in Portland (since removed from YouTube, of course), but nevertheless, instead of bonfires today, we just have have digital book burnings from the campus speech and thought police. And Christians, conservatives, libertarians, etc. as you saw fake president Biden announce in that Hitleresque blood red speech a couple fall 2022 ago, backed by marines (who, incidentally, were violating their oath by being there), calling them now all “enemies of the state.”
Then why did Hitler invade Russia people ask? I.e, why did the National Socialists (Nazi) invade the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Fascism and Marxism are cousins, and just like the Hatfields and McCoys, (e.g., both mostly fought for the Confederates; in fact, Roseanna McCoy had a relationship with “Devil” Anse’s son Johnson, etc.); or think the Montague’s and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet.
If this Nazi vs the Soviet Union question is such and issue, then answer me this: Why did the USSR have a major war, the Ussuri River war, starting in 1969 with China (see https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB49/index2.html.) In fact, it is believed that Leonid Brezhnev went to Nixon and asked if he nuked Mao, would the US get involved. Nixon said yes, so it never happened. Or, think about Communist China twice invading Communist Vietnam starting in the late 1970s, after the US had long left. Why? They were both communist! Similarly, communist Vietnam attacked Pol Pot’s communist Cambodia. Truth is, internecine wars are always the worst.
As you saw above, Schwab has Leninist leanings. Yet, Schwab’s Swiss father, Eugen, worked for the Escher Wyss company, locatedi n Ravensburg, Germany, and was protected not only by Hitler, but employed slave labour, and even making flame throwers to use against those fighting for freedom. Adara Press, in an article by Geri Ungurean, adds “Klaus’ mainstream media and academia propagandists have hidden his Nazi past in a blizzard of awards, WEF programs, ghost-written books, speeches, interviews, honorary professorships and doctorates from all over the world.” The article also notes Ravensburg was a transport hub for stolen Nazi gold to the Swiss Bank for International Settlements, manufactured key nuclear bomb-making technologies for Adolf Hitler, and was named a National Socialist Model Company by Adolf Hitler.
Frantically, the fake news avers the elder Schwab, now gone to meet the Judge of all mankind, was not an "intimate confidant of Hitler.” Very true, and no one is saying he partied down weekly the Der Fuhrer. But he was involved and complicit, just like many other Nazi underlings. This red herring is typical of the fake news.
As many of you know, Justin Trudeau’s “brain,” Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was four levels removed from reporting directly to Hitler. Even leftist Ottawa Citizen admits this - see here . No, we dare not blame someone for their grandparents’ action. But I can, and do blame someone when they double down on the actions of their grandparents, as Chrystia Freeland has!
They say the science of theology was created in Germany, corrected in England, and corrupted in the US. We now have something similar, where much of Nazism was created in Germany, and much of communism was also created in Germany (yes, we all know Marx wrote in a London library… but he did, e.g., study law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin). Fascism and communism are now merged with technocracy, such as “First, Do Only Evil” Google, Amazon, and others, and trans-humanism. ( And please! If you are still using Google - the crocodile that is only planning to eat you later the same afternoon - DON’T. Use instead the Brave browser - brave.com - along with its search engine, or SwissCows, PreSearch or FreeSpoke).
We also have the biggest challenge ever, in human history, most of it due to the morally lazy, entitled, “where’s my money"?, baby boom generation that was more interested in watching Dancing with the Half Naked Stars and the Kartrashians than remembering that the price of freedom, as the founding fathers warned, is eternal vigilance.
Our response now is unclear, but we must non-violently and legally refuse, resist and remain firm in the cause of freedom
Yes, I think you are spot on. And I have seen a few others now barking up this same tree.
BTW, did you know Trudeau's brain, Deputy PM Chrytia Freeland's grandfather, was four levels down from reporting directly to Hitler? Hardly conspiracy theory.... even the Ottawa Citizen had an article on it https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation/wcm/df7aa228-84d1-4e2f-a128-28fbd9eed342/ (I am a dual US/Canadian citizen, living in the Chicago area, the People's Socialist Republik of Venezuellinois as I call it!
Shwab's father Eugen, while Swiss, was also heavily involved with the Nazis. Appears Operation Paperclip ended up with the Nazis taking over the victors!
I am woefully behind on reading these articulate articles found on Substack! I thank you for not only a history lesson, but a true history lesson! Put into todays context makes it all very clear the evil at work not only for a hundred years, but thousands of years! They’d have half the nation brainwashed to accept this fascist Marxism with open arms! Particularly, the indoctrination of the college students in this country! 30 and below. Capitalism has become something it was never intended to be! Those corrupt, greedy, egotistical leeches have ruined the American Dream that made our country great. No longer.
Zig Ziglar in his wisdom, made a statement years ago that’s cemented into my mind!
“Money makes you more of what you already are!” The hearts of men…………….