Lets face the facts! ...The world capitalist private enterprise economy is in the toilet and is about to go down the tubes. The world is on the brink of a necessary change from what was, .. to what will be. The desperate need for a world economy that satisfies the material need of the entire world needs to be realized.
Common sense tells us that for this to happen we must abandon the unplanned system of private enterprise and adopt a world wide planned economy that will utilize the world's modern technologies without prejudice or discrimination to satisfy the material needs of the people and environment of the world
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Don't rationalize! .. Nationalize!
The private sector is begging the hated public sector to bail them out so they can continue to fail in doing what they have been doing in the past in the same old non profitable way.
I say ..."Don't rationalize! Nationalize!
Let the government take over the Auto Industry and manage it so that the government can make a profit and with that profit the government can rebuild it's crumbling infrastructure and help those that can no longer help themselves in this tanking economy.
Capitalism is dying! The crying of the auto industry is the death rattle of a economic system that let easy credit slit it's throat and bury it in a pile of worthless debt. The unregulated captains of industry feeding off of unproductive wars and pure greed and exploitation are guilty of murderous, bloodletting and torture all over the world. ... Capitalism is dead! Good riddance!
I say ..."Don't rationalize! Nationalize!
Let the government take over the Auto Industry and manage it so that the government can make a profit and with that profit the government can rebuild it's crumbling infrastructure and help those that can no longer help themselves in this tanking economy.
Capitalism is dying! The crying of the auto industry is the death rattle of a economic system that let easy credit slit it's throat and bury it in a pile of worthless debt. The unregulated captains of industry feeding off of unproductive wars and pure greed and exploitation are guilty of murderous, bloodletting and torture all over the world. ... Capitalism is dead! Good riddance!
Monday, September 1, 2008
Haters of the Poor!
Republican voters suck up to the super rich because it makes them think that they are in the same class as the 1% of the population that control our economic and political life! ... How unconscious can you be, and still breathe and talk the stupid republican talk of government equals communist control of our lives!
I was under the impression that all those old communist hating and fearing republicans all died of old age and those that are still alive have invested their money heavily in the old Soviet Union and Communist China and have been converted from hate to "Let's do business!
When you look at all of the money and lives that was and is being spent on the Bush so called WAR in Iraq...A war that is bankrupting this nation! ...An obvious fact that the idiot republicans don.t mention, but instead beat the drums for eliminating social programs designed as a safety net, for the poor and those who are about to be poor!
Or as the republican super rich refers to them as the UNDERCLASS!
The way the capitalist economy is moving under the Bush regime, all you republican middle class haters of the poor, should take a second look at the safety net and social programs, that your republican friends want to eliminate!
I was under the impression that all those old communist hating and fearing republicans all died of old age and those that are still alive have invested their money heavily in the old Soviet Union and Communist China and have been converted from hate to "Let's do business!
When you look at all of the money and lives that was and is being spent on the Bush so called WAR in Iraq...A war that is bankrupting this nation! ...An obvious fact that the idiot republicans don.t mention, but instead beat the drums for eliminating social programs designed as a safety net, for the poor and those who are about to be poor!
Or as the republican super rich refers to them as the UNDERCLASS!
The way the capitalist economy is moving under the Bush regime, all you republican middle class haters of the poor, should take a second look at the safety net and social programs, that your republican friends want to eliminate!
Mass Transit / Public Housing
Why is it that no one in either of the two major political parties will advocate the only sane and responsible way to lessen and eventually end our dependence on foreign oil?
The answer is that both political parties have sold out to the oil monopolies!
The quickest and surest way to end our dependence on world oil, is to build nation wide "mass transit systems" that will lure americans away from their environment damaging car driving habit!
All other proposals will cause food prices to rise, damage our environment , take too long, and will cause more problems than it will solve.
What is drastically needed that the major political parties wont and are not talking about is "PUBLIC HOUSING" so as to house the rapidly growing population that are homeless and find it impossible to afford the low supply of rental units that are priced so high that it is becoming impossible for the increasing dispossessed to find shelter.
The answer is that both political parties have sold out to the oil monopolies!
The quickest and surest way to end our dependence on world oil, is to build nation wide "mass transit systems" that will lure americans away from their environment damaging car driving habit!
All other proposals will cause food prices to rise, damage our environment , take too long, and will cause more problems than it will solve.
What is drastically needed that the major political parties wont and are not talking about is "PUBLIC HOUSING" so as to house the rapidly growing population that are homeless and find it impossible to afford the low supply of rental units that are priced so high that it is becoming impossible for the increasing dispossessed to find shelter.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Life!
Life is a learning experience! Everything eventually will turn to it's opposite. "Ignorance" will eventually become "enlightenment." You cannot stop progress. "Competition" must eventually become "cooperation." ...It's "DIALECTICAL!" ..."Dogma" and "Superstition" will be replaced by the "Scientific Method!".. "Subjective believing" will be replaced by "Objective knowing!" ...The future is a freight train and those that stand in it's way will be run over and crushed and buried inside the trash can of the no longer relevant past.
Capitalism will turn to Socialism and Socialism will turn to Communism and the ignorant will never know what hit them and buried them.
You cannot stop the forward movement of history!
Wars will end when "Nation States" are transformed into a cooperative "global village" that is ruled from the bottom up, rather then from the top down!
Capitalism will turn to Socialism and Socialism will turn to Communism and the ignorant will never know what hit them and buried them.
You cannot stop the forward movement of history!
Wars will end when "Nation States" are transformed into a cooperative "global village" that is ruled from the bottom up, rather then from the top down!
Friday, June 13, 2008
McCain and the SURGE!
McCain's entire claim to the presidency is based on the big lie, that his promotion of the surge, and the convincing of the Bush administration, to take that route, has given our side a big victory in the war so that we can now see light at the end of the tunnel, where victory now is possible. McCain has to be out of his feeble mind to draw that kind of a conclusion. Our small number of troops that represented the so called surge, was like a mosquito biting an elephant! It did nothing to change what is occurring with regard to terrorism or the ending of the civil war. When will republicans realize that Iraq is no longer a nation. Iraq is a group of tribal factions in a civil war with other tribal factions for the control of what was once the nation of Iraq.
McCain for PRESIDENT!
I am for McCain! It's about time we have an old man for president, that remembers the good old days, where women knew their place, and would stay home and bake cookies, and not think that they are as good as their male counterpart!
Wild sex is for men folk! ...Decent women must set an example for their daughters by being obedient and non assertive so good decent men will marry them and take care of them, ..( as long as they do not stray from the path of righteousness!)
A President McCain will will not only keep our women-folk in line. he will also protect us from all our enemies everywhere on earth and beyond!
His Military Industrial Complex will not only destroy our enemies but we will make a lot of money as we destroy those that don't think like we do!
100 years of glorious war is a small price to pay for the benefits that we will gather as we conquer the world!
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Wild sex is for men folk! ...Decent women must set an example for their daughters by being obedient and non assertive so good decent men will marry them and take care of them, ..( as long as they do not stray from the path of righteousness!)
A President McCain will will not only keep our women-folk in line. he will also protect us from all our enemies everywhere on earth and beyond!
His Military Industrial Complex will not only destroy our enemies but we will make a lot of money as we destroy those that don't think like we do!
100 years of glorious war is a small price to pay for the benefits that we will gather as we conquer the world!
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Science Rules!
All philosophy is ideology that no longer has relevance in the modern world where SCIENCE RULES!
Philosophy is a outmoded subjective notion of a way to go to live a happy full life.
Science has made philosophy no longer viable in the 21st century!
The scientific method is an objective way of knowing!
Philosophy is a subjective way of believing, just like religion.
With science you can predict outcome by understanding the surrounding objective material conditions that exist in a surrounding environment! To be compatible with that environment can be objectively determined, therefor a subjective philosophy becomes no longer needed or necessary.
Knowledge is the understanding that is acquired by the scientific discovery of factual information. Philosophers may or may not use scientifically discovered factual information when putting together a philosophical concept.
Philosophy is is basically a concept that originates in a philosophers brain.
Scientific concepts originates from discovered provable facts.
Philosophy is subjective, if it was objective it would no longer be philosophy.
It would be science!
Philosophy is a outmoded subjective notion of a way to go to live a happy full life.
Science has made philosophy no longer viable in the 21st century!
The scientific method is an objective way of knowing!
Philosophy is a subjective way of believing, just like religion.
With science you can predict outcome by understanding the surrounding objective material conditions that exist in a surrounding environment! To be compatible with that environment can be objectively determined, therefor a subjective philosophy becomes no longer needed or necessary.
Knowledge is the understanding that is acquired by the scientific discovery of factual information. Philosophers may or may not use scientifically discovered factual information when putting together a philosophical concept.
Philosophy is is basically a concept that originates in a philosophers brain.
Scientific concepts originates from discovered provable facts.
Philosophy is subjective, if it was objective it would no longer be philosophy.
It would be science!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Globalization and Immigration
Globalization is the result of technology and a capitalism that has outgrown Nationalism!
It is no longer possible to keep people "down on the farm!"
The "browning of america" ..has caused white racists to loose their cool, and go crazy on the subject of "Immigration".
The "fear mongers" that promote race hatred like Lou Dobbs are out of touch of what is happening in the 21st century!
They are like scared children, fearful and ignorant of the progressive social evolution and revolution, that is taking place on the planet.
Political and social change is coming at us like a freight train, and the ignorant racists that represents our not enlightened past, should get out of the way, or they will be run over by this freight train that represents our future!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Obama Mystery Man!
I was impressed with Obama’s adult responses to his critics! It seems to me that he knows exactly how to move within the establishment.
I believe that Obama is smart enough to know what he can get away with and what he can’t get away with in a Washington environment! In that respect he is smarter than Dennis Kucinich that blew it in his race for the presidency!
Perhaps he is an intelligent opportunist and he is only for himself and is playing the game of we are all americans and their is not irreconcilable differences in America, that the differences are all in our mind so lets come together and become one happy family. and stop fighting among ourselves.
If he really believes that crap he is not as intelligent as he appears!
I believe that Obama is smart enough to know what he can get away with and what he can’t get away with in a Washington environment! In that respect he is smarter than Dennis Kucinich that blew it in his race for the presidency!
Perhaps he is an intelligent opportunist and he is only for himself and is playing the game of we are all americans and their is not irreconcilable differences in America, that the differences are all in our mind so lets come together and become one happy family. and stop fighting among ourselves.
If he really believes that crap he is not as intelligent as he appears!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
HISTORY LESSON!
President Truman betrayed the principals of FDR's "New Deal" Henry Wallace, Roosevelt's Vice president, was FDR's choice to be the president to follow him. Truman and the 80th congress laid the ground work for the takeover of this nation by the "Military Industrial Complex" The CIA that took over from "Army Intelligence" was infiltrated, with Truman's knowledge and approval by former Nazis of the 3rd Reich and was the beginning of the creation of the establishing of fascism here in America! Truman and the 80th congress put everything in motion that would make America a police state and paved the way for the Bush family to subvert our American democracy!
No Working Class Revolution!
Our Steel Industry, auto industry. Our heavy industrial base no longer exists and it is not mostly due to moving off shore. When workers threaten to strike for better conditions and higher wages, industry leaders threaten to move their factory out of the country or to automate them out of a job. What is happening is massive and entire regions in our industrial states are becoming extinct. Not only heavy industrial workers are being replaced by automation but also highly educated technical workers and skilled middle class professionals are being replaced by highly advanced technology. Artists are being replaced in advertising agencies by machines that can do a better job of drawing and painting, This is not what will happen in the future, this is what is happening now! Technology is decreasing the work force today!
The few workers that are fortunate to have jobs will be well paid and be a part of the system. The revolution will be led by the displaced no longer needed workers and the former middle class that can no longer function as a middle class and others that will be priced out of the economy because a super rich oligarchy of super rich dudes, seeking the highest rate of profit in the shortest period of time will limit production of goods and services to only those that could afford to pay their incredibly high price for those goods and services. The rate of profit, not just a profit will be the name of the game. Those that will be locked out of the system will be the people that will lead the revolution!
The few workers that are fortunate to have jobs will be well paid and be a part of the system. The revolution will be led by the displaced no longer needed workers and the former middle class that can no longer function as a middle class and others that will be priced out of the economy because a super rich oligarchy of super rich dudes, seeking the highest rate of profit in the shortest period of time will limit production of goods and services to only those that could afford to pay their incredibly high price for those goods and services. The rate of profit, not just a profit will be the name of the game. Those that will be locked out of the system will be the people that will lead the revolution!
Friday, May 23, 2008
RED NECK WORKERS!
Given the choice of voting their economic interests or their prejudices the southern white working class will vote against their economic interests every time!
The southern Dixicrats that at onetime proliferated inside of the democratic party are now represented inside the republican party and it is they that give the republican party it’s identity as a far right end of the world christian zionists, that want to fulfill christian prophesy, by bombing Iran, and bringing about the end of times, so that the second coming of Jesus will fly the good accepting christians to their concept of heaven!
These idiots that are such an influence in the Republican party are not an asset to a political party, yet the Blue Dog democrats are sacrificing the democrats ideological base, so as to lure back into the fold, those that are bigoted stupid and dangerous!
Automation has made these white ignorant red neck workers, no longer relevant!
The democrats that believe that these "Right Wing Fundamentalist Christian Workers" can be converted away, from their dogmatic hateful traditional beliefs, of intolerance, against everything modern, and everything different from their dogmatic entrenched bigoted belief system, are democrats that are, " blind, deaf and dumb".. to the realities of this fundamentalist mind set!
The ignorant unskilled and semiskilled workers that can't think for themselves, and are being manipulated into accepting everything that their fundamentalist preachers tell them with unquestioned loyalty and blind faith, are rapidly being replaced by automation and by job descriptions that demand that at the work place you must be able to make independent decisions and think for your self, .. if you are going to succeed at your job!
The ignorant "Red Neck" workers are a dying breed they are becoming obsolete, thanks to modern technology!
The democrats that think that this group of Red Neck workers are essential to the democratic party's success during an election, ... is in my opinion, out of touch, of what is happening at the work place!
The southern Dixicrats that at onetime proliferated inside of the democratic party are now represented inside the republican party and it is they that give the republican party it’s identity as a far right end of the world christian zionists, that want to fulfill christian prophesy, by bombing Iran, and bringing about the end of times, so that the second coming of Jesus will fly the good accepting christians to their concept of heaven!
These idiots that are such an influence in the Republican party are not an asset to a political party, yet the Blue Dog democrats are sacrificing the democrats ideological base, so as to lure back into the fold, those that are bigoted stupid and dangerous!
Automation has made these white ignorant red neck workers, no longer relevant!
The democrats that believe that these "Right Wing Fundamentalist Christian Workers" can be converted away, from their dogmatic hateful traditional beliefs, of intolerance, against everything modern, and everything different from their dogmatic entrenched bigoted belief system, are democrats that are, " blind, deaf and dumb".. to the realities of this fundamentalist mind set!
The ignorant unskilled and semiskilled workers that can't think for themselves, and are being manipulated into accepting everything that their fundamentalist preachers tell them with unquestioned loyalty and blind faith, are rapidly being replaced by automation and by job descriptions that demand that at the work place you must be able to make independent decisions and think for your self, .. if you are going to succeed at your job!
The ignorant "Red Neck" workers are a dying breed they are becoming obsolete, thanks to modern technology!
The democrats that think that this group of Red Neck workers are essential to the democratic party's success during an election, ... is in my opinion, out of touch, of what is happening at the work place!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
PROGRESS!
Change is on the horizon and it is apparent to those that have good vision and good sense!
The Global economy is here and it will not go away!…Modern technology is here and it will not go away!…Modern science is here and it will not go away!
The consequences of modern development is change that is different and the opposite from what existed in the past! ..And that is what makes the frightened little idiots that can’t let go of the past,… crap in their pants!
The modern humans of today are no longer content to stay down on the farm! …They no longer believe that they live in the best of all possible worlds.
Modern communication and modern transportation has inspired millions of people to leave their homeland and settle elsewhere in the world so as to make their lives more secure, more safe and more bountiful!
Large groups of immigrants are invading the more developed and advanced countries of the world because it is the only thing that they can do to survive!…
The global capitalists has allowed this to occur because the economy today is global and cheap labor from all over the world is the name of the game!
National interest is no longer relevant to the global capitalists! ..National economy is no longer relevant to the global capitalists. The nations workers are no longer relevant to the global capitalists. ..What is relevant is the global economy,.. and the rate of profit from that global economy!
Those that say that we have to rid ourselves of the global economy are whistling in the dark!…It will never happen under the system of capitalism!
You can become isolationist and revert to a national socialist or a national capitalist type of economic system but that type of isolated nationalism will become a national fascism, …introverted and paranoid about the outside world, and will eventually tear itself apart!
The only way that the human race will rid itself of a system of global capitalist fascism, is to struggle and organize, not nationally but globally for a socialist democratic society!
Regarding middle east terrorism! This is only a death rattle of those that are no longer relevant in a changing world! It is impossible to halt progress and move backwards into a barbaric past!
Humanity has traveled too far and is too experienced and too smart to be intimidated by tribal backwardness!
The western world and the eastern world and all worlds that existed in the past and exists in the present are on the brink of becoming extinct! They will all be replaced by a global village, and that global village will have the characteristics of a global fascist capitalist dictatorship, and that dictatorship will eventually be overthrown and replaced by a socialist non-capitalist dictatorship! and that dictatorship will be overthrown and replaced by a global village that has the characteristics of people that are so materially secure that they will not need a state apparatus to force them to be social, and you will have an administration of things! not an administration of people!
Those that think that they can stop this forward movement of history are fools!
The Global economy is here and it will not go away!…Modern technology is here and it will not go away!…Modern science is here and it will not go away!
The consequences of modern development is change that is different and the opposite from what existed in the past! ..And that is what makes the frightened little idiots that can’t let go of the past,… crap in their pants!
The modern humans of today are no longer content to stay down on the farm! …They no longer believe that they live in the best of all possible worlds.
Modern communication and modern transportation has inspired millions of people to leave their homeland and settle elsewhere in the world so as to make their lives more secure, more safe and more bountiful!
Large groups of immigrants are invading the more developed and advanced countries of the world because it is the only thing that they can do to survive!…
The global capitalists has allowed this to occur because the economy today is global and cheap labor from all over the world is the name of the game!
National interest is no longer relevant to the global capitalists! ..National economy is no longer relevant to the global capitalists. The nations workers are no longer relevant to the global capitalists. ..What is relevant is the global economy,.. and the rate of profit from that global economy!
Those that say that we have to rid ourselves of the global economy are whistling in the dark!…It will never happen under the system of capitalism!
You can become isolationist and revert to a national socialist or a national capitalist type of economic system but that type of isolated nationalism will become a national fascism, …introverted and paranoid about the outside world, and will eventually tear itself apart!
The only way that the human race will rid itself of a system of global capitalist fascism, is to struggle and organize, not nationally but globally for a socialist democratic society!
Regarding middle east terrorism! This is only a death rattle of those that are no longer relevant in a changing world! It is impossible to halt progress and move backwards into a barbaric past!
Humanity has traveled too far and is too experienced and too smart to be intimidated by tribal backwardness!
The western world and the eastern world and all worlds that existed in the past and exists in the present are on the brink of becoming extinct! They will all be replaced by a global village, and that global village will have the characteristics of a global fascist capitalist dictatorship, and that dictatorship will eventually be overthrown and replaced by a socialist non-capitalist dictatorship! and that dictatorship will be overthrown and replaced by a global village that has the characteristics of people that are so materially secure that they will not need a state apparatus to force them to be social, and you will have an administration of things! not an administration of people!
Those that think that they can stop this forward movement of history are fools!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Social Evolution!
Evolution can be understood scientifically!
society and how it changes, how it evolves can only be understood not by philosophy, only by science!
All you bigoted religionists and dogmatic philosophers and libertarians are headed to the trash can of historical ignorance!
The future generations will laugh at your kind!
society and how it changes, how it evolves can only be understood not by philosophy, only by science!
All you bigoted religionists and dogmatic philosophers and libertarians are headed to the trash can of historical ignorance!
The future generations will laugh at your kind!
EXPLOITATION!
It appears to me that the mass of the working class is destined to be replaced by automation and that nationalism and the national interest is rapidly going out of business, and that a global world because of capitalist necessity is rapidly becoming our reality!
If capitalism does not become a global totalitarian system it will die a premature death by stagnation!
The needed drive to maximize their rate of profit at the quickest time possible in order to stay competitive means that their will be an increase in the exploitation of the resources on the planet that will cause the world environment to suffer and the no longer needed workers to suffer, because they will be priced out of the marketplace, and locked out of the capitalist system! The system will produce goods and services to only those that can pay the inflated price for those goods and services!
A global village controlled by unrestrained and uncontrolled global capitalists will rape our planet and future generations and the only way life on this planet can be protected and saved from this gross exploitation is to become conscious of what is happening around us so that the global village can be controlled from the bottom up, rather than from the top down!
Socialism now! Communism later!
If capitalism does not become a global totalitarian system it will die a premature death by stagnation!
The needed drive to maximize their rate of profit at the quickest time possible in order to stay competitive means that their will be an increase in the exploitation of the resources on the planet that will cause the world environment to suffer and the no longer needed workers to suffer, because they will be priced out of the marketplace, and locked out of the capitalist system! The system will produce goods and services to only those that can pay the inflated price for those goods and services!
A global village controlled by unrestrained and uncontrolled global capitalists will rape our planet and future generations and the only way life on this planet can be protected and saved from this gross exploitation is to become conscious of what is happening around us so that the global village can be controlled from the bottom up, rather than from the top down!
Socialism now! Communism later!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Blind Believers!
I am an Athiest and do not believe!
I either know! Or I don’t know!
To believe is to say you know without proof!
That is why believers need blind faith to support their beliefs,.. and to overcome doubt!
You don’t know, and you don’t understand, but you don’t have to know, and you don’t have to understand, because you have FAITH!… BLIND FAITH of what is real and true!
To doubt is to question, and the act of questioning means that you are lacking in faith!
You must accept without questioning to be a true believer!
That is why people with strong beliefs are opposed to our modern society and modern science! Modern science tells us that when you try to discover if something is true or false that you have to gather evidence and approach that evidence with an open mind and not pre-judge the outcome until you have enough evidence to say that within the laws of probability that what you are trying to discover is true under certain specific conditions and as long as those specific conditions that are known remain somewhat the same the outcome will be somewhat the same!
I do not live in fear that I will be judged by a higher power that will cause me to burn in hell for an eternity, because I don’t worship him and kiss his feet!
That kind of an egotistical god can kiss my ass!
I respect all life! All living things! As far as I know, this is it! There is no life after death!…So it becomes my passion to respect and love all living things because we are all here together at this moment in time and when that moment is over we will all become dust and we all will in time be forgotten!
Unless science can prove otherwise!
Richard Walters
I either know! Or I don’t know!
To believe is to say you know without proof!
That is why believers need blind faith to support their beliefs,.. and to overcome doubt!
You don’t know, and you don’t understand, but you don’t have to know, and you don’t have to understand, because you have FAITH!… BLIND FAITH of what is real and true!
To doubt is to question, and the act of questioning means that you are lacking in faith!
You must accept without questioning to be a true believer!
That is why people with strong beliefs are opposed to our modern society and modern science! Modern science tells us that when you try to discover if something is true or false that you have to gather evidence and approach that evidence with an open mind and not pre-judge the outcome until you have enough evidence to say that within the laws of probability that what you are trying to discover is true under certain specific conditions and as long as those specific conditions that are known remain somewhat the same the outcome will be somewhat the same!
I do not live in fear that I will be judged by a higher power that will cause me to burn in hell for an eternity, because I don’t worship him and kiss his feet!
That kind of an egotistical god can kiss my ass!
I respect all life! All living things! As far as I know, this is it! There is no life after death!…So it becomes my passion to respect and love all living things because we are all here together at this moment in time and when that moment is over we will all become dust and we all will in time be forgotten!
Unless science can prove otherwise!
Richard Walters
Monday, May 12, 2008
Economic Systems!
Democracy can exist under any kind of an administration, Socialism or Capitalism, as long as the internal conditions are not a threat to a system’s economic base!
If the internal conditions within a Socialist or a Capitalist environment are a threat to the economic foundation of a political system, …that political system will circle the wagons and put in place a dictatorship of the capitalist class. This is defined as fascism! …
In the Soviet Union you had a Dictatorship of the working class!
The conflict between a socialist and a capitalist economy exists because they are opposites! Socialists believe in social planning and a planned economy, and capitalists believe in private enterprise and no government planning!
The conflict between the two systems has nothing to do with government or the administration of society! It has everything to do with economics!
The establishing and securing it’s economic base is what every economic system from the beginning of time has always attempted to do!
If the internal conditions within a Socialist or a Capitalist environment are a threat to the economic foundation of a political system, …that political system will circle the wagons and put in place a dictatorship of the capitalist class. This is defined as fascism! …
In the Soviet Union you had a Dictatorship of the working class!
The conflict between a socialist and a capitalist economy exists because they are opposites! Socialists believe in social planning and a planned economy, and capitalists believe in private enterprise and no government planning!
The conflict between the two systems has nothing to do with government or the administration of society! It has everything to do with economics!
The establishing and securing it’s economic base is what every economic system from the beginning of time has always attempted to do!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Dress Rehearsal for a Fascist Takeover!
The dress rehearsal for a fascist takeover is happening right now, in America!
No one seems aware of what is happening right under their noses. Perhaps they are aware of what is happening , but just don't give a damn.
The same thing happened in Germany under Hitler and the majority of the population stood idly by as the Nazi party rounded up Gypsies for not conforming to the rules of the Third Reich! Their crime was of being different!
After the Gypsies, others in the population that did not fit into the mold designed by the super race was persecuted!
Unquestioned loyalty was expected from the population.
Intellectuals and those that deviated from the strict rules laid down by the super race were arrested ' tortured and killed!
What is happening with regard to people that choose to isolate themselves from society and dare to be different by living a voluntary life style, a style that is not conforming to the ideas or values held by the majority of the population?
What is happening is a gross violation of their and our rights, under the constitution! What is happening is a dress rehearsal for fascism in america!
The population it seems are going along with this undemocratic, bigoted and fascist persecution of entire communities, by the allowing of the taking away of their children from their parents, by the morality police!
If this happened in China all americans would be screaming that it was a cruel violation of human rights!
The evidence of wrong doing with regard to child abuse is nowhere in sight but the authorities can get away with this gross violation of our rights protected by the constitution because of the silence and absence of outrage by the american public!
We are now like the good Germans that allowed the fascists to take over, without a public outcry!
No one seems aware of what is happening right under their noses. Perhaps they are aware of what is happening , but just don't give a damn.
The same thing happened in Germany under Hitler and the majority of the population stood idly by as the Nazi party rounded up Gypsies for not conforming to the rules of the Third Reich! Their crime was of being different!
After the Gypsies, others in the population that did not fit into the mold designed by the super race was persecuted!
Unquestioned loyalty was expected from the population.
Intellectuals and those that deviated from the strict rules laid down by the super race were arrested ' tortured and killed!
What is happening with regard to people that choose to isolate themselves from society and dare to be different by living a voluntary life style, a style that is not conforming to the ideas or values held by the majority of the population?
What is happening is a gross violation of their and our rights, under the constitution! What is happening is a dress rehearsal for fascism in america!
The population it seems are going along with this undemocratic, bigoted and fascist persecution of entire communities, by the allowing of the taking away of their children from their parents, by the morality police!
If this happened in China all americans would be screaming that it was a cruel violation of human rights!
The evidence of wrong doing with regard to child abuse is nowhere in sight but the authorities can get away with this gross violation of our rights protected by the constitution because of the silence and absence of outrage by the american public!
We are now like the good Germans that allowed the fascists to take over, without a public outcry!
American Christian Fascism!
CHRISTIAN FASCISM EXPOSED! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE THAT YOU WILL EVER READ!
This is an article by Chris Hedges that no major publication will print.)
Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School , told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the “Christian fascists.”
The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.
He was not a man to use the word fascist lightly. He was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as The Confessing Church, led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adams was eventually detained and interrogated by the Gestapo, who suggested he might want to consider returning to the United States . It was a suggestion he followed. He left on a night train with framed portraits of Adolph Hitler placed over the contents inside his suitcase to hide the rolls of home movie film he took of the so-called German Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi, and the few individuals who defied them, including the theologians Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer. The ruse worked when the border police lifted the top of the suitcases, saw the portraits of the Fuhrer and closed them up again. I watched hours of the grainy black and white films as he narrated in his apartment in Cambridge .
He saw in the Christian Right, long before we did, disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party, similarities that he said would, in the event of prolonged social instability or a national crisis, see American fascists, under the guise of religion, rise to dismantle the open society. He despaired of liberals, who he said, as in Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and impotent. Liberals, he said, did not understand the power and allure of evil nor the cold reality of how the world worked. The current hand wringing by Democrats in the wake of the election, with many asking how they can reach out to a movement whose leaders brand them “demonic” and “satanic,” would not have surprised Adams . Like Bonhoeffer, he did not believe that those who would fight effectively in coming times of turmoil, a fight that for him was an integral part of the Biblical message, would come from the church or the liberal, secular elite.
His critique of the prominent research universities, along with the media, was no less withering. These institutions, self-absorbed, compromised by their close relationship with government and corporations, given enough of the pie to be complacent, were unwilling to deal with the fundamental moral questions and inequities of the age. They had no stomach for a battle that might cost them their prestige and comfort. He told me that if the Nazis took over America “60 percent of the Harvard faculty would begin their lectures with the Nazi salute.” This too was not an abstraction. He had watched academics at the University of Heidelberg , including the philosopher Martin Heidegger, raise their arms stiffly to students before class.
Two decades later, even in the face of the growing reach of the Christian Right, his prediction seems apocalyptic. And yet the powerbrokers in the Christian Right have moved from the fringes of society to the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Christian fundamentalists now hold a majority of seats in 36 percent of all Republican Party state committees, or 18 of 50 states, along with large minorities in 81 percent of the rest of the states. Forty-five Senators and 186 members of the House of Representatives earned between an 80 to100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups - The Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma , has included in his campaign to end abortion a call to impose the death penalty on doctors that carry out abortions once the ban goes into place. Another new senator, John Thune, believes in Creationism. Jim DeMint, the new senator elected from South Carolina , wants to ban single mothers from teaching in schools. The Election Day exit polls found that 22 percent of voters identified themselves as evangelical Christians and Bush won 77 percent of their vote. The polls found that a plurality of voters said that the most important issue in the campaign had been “moral values.”
President Bush must further these important objectives, including the march to turn education and social welfare over to the churches with his faith-based initiative, as well as chip away at the wall between church and state with his judicial appointments, if he does not want to face a revolt within his core constituency.
Jim Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, who held weekly telephone conversations with K arl Rove during the campaign, has put the President on notice. He told ABC’s “This Week” that “this president has two years, or more broadly the Republican Party has two years, to implement these policies, or certainly four, or I believe they’ll pay a price in the next election.”
Bush may turn out to be a transition figure, our version of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck used “values” to energize his base at the end of the 19 th century and launched “Kulturkampt”, the word from which we get “culture wars,” against Catholics and Jews. Bismarck ’s attacks split the country, made the discrediting of whole segments of the society an acceptable part of the civil discourse and paved the way for the more virulent racism of the Nazis. This, I suspect, will be George Bush’s contribution to our democracy.
DOMINIONISTS AND RECONSTRUCTIONISTS
The Reconstructionist movement, founded in 1973 by Rousas Rushdooney, is the intellectual foundation for the most politically active element within the Christian Right. Rushdooney’s 1,600 page three-volume work, Institutes of Biblical Law, argued that American society should be governed according to the Biblical precepts in the Ten Commandments. He wrote that the elect, like Adam and Noah, were given dominion over the earth by God and must subdue the earth, along with all non-believers, so the Messiah could return.
This was a radically new interpretation for many in the evangelical movement. The Messiah, it was traditionally taught, would return in an event called “the Rapture” where there would be wars and chaos. The non-believers would be tormented and killed and the elect would be lifted to heaven. The Rapture was not something that could be manipulated or influenced, although believers often interpreted catastrophes and wars as portents of the imminent Second Coming.
Rushdooney promoted an ideology that advocated violence to create the Christian state. His ideology was the mirror image of Liberation Theology, which came into vogue at about the same time. While the Liberation Theologians crammed the Bible into the box of Marxism, Rushdooney crammed it into the equally distorting box of classical fascism. This clash was first played out in Latin America when I was there as a reporter two decades ago. In El Salvador leftist priests endorsed and even traveled with the rebel movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, while Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, along with conservative Latin American clerics, backed the Contras fighting against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the murderous military regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile and Argentina.
The Institutes of Biblical Law called for a Christian society that was harsh, unforgiving and violent. Offenses such as adultery, witchcraft, blasphemy and homosexuality, merited the death penalty. The world was to be subdued and ruled by a Christian United States. Rushdooney dismissed the number of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust as an inflated figure and his theories on race echoed Nazi Eugenics.
“The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture and the discipline and selective breeding this faith requires…,” he wrote. “The Negro is a product of a radically different past, and his heredity has been governed by radically different considerations.”
“The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of the magic are control and power over God, man, nature, and society. Voodoo, or magic, was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” (see The Religious Right , a publication of the ADL, pg. 124.)
Rushdooney was deeply antagonistic to the federal government. He believed the federal government should concern itself with little more than national defense. Education and social welfare should be handed over to the churches. Biblical law must replace the secular legal code. This ideology remains at the heart of the movement. It is being enacted through school vouchers, with federal dollars now going into Christian schools, and the assault against the federal agencies that deal with poverty and human services. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is currently channeling millions in federal funds to groups such Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing , and National Right to Life, as well as to fundamentalist religious charity organizations and programs promoting sexual abstinence.
Rushdooney laid the groundwork for a new way of thinking about political involvement. The Christian state would come about not only through signs and wonders, as those who believed in the rapture believed? , but also through theestablishment of the Christian nation. But he remained, even within the Christian Right, a deeply controversial figure.
Dr. Tony Evans, the minister of a Dallas church and the founder of Promise Keepers, articulated Rushdooney’s extremism in a more palatable form. He called on believers, often during emotional gatherings at football stadiums, to commit to Christ and exercise power within the society as agents of Christ. He also called for a Christian state. But he did not advocate the return of slavery, as Rushdooney did, nor list a string of offenses such as adultery punishable by death, nor did he espouse the Nazi-like race theories. It was through Evans, who was a spiritual mentor to George Bush that Dominionism came to dominate the politically active wing of the Christian Right.The religious utterances from political leaders such as George Bush, Tom Delay, Pat Robertson and Zell Miller are only understandable in light of Rushdooney and Dominionism. These leaders believe that God has selected them to battle the forces of evil, embodied in “secular humanism,” to create a Christian nation. Pat Robertson frequently tells believers “our aim is to gain dominion over society.” Delay has told supporters, such as at a gathering two years ago at the First Baptist Church in Pearland , Texas , “He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything I do and everywhere I am. He is training me, He is working with me.” Delay went on to tell followers “If we stay inside the church, the culture won’t change.”
Pat Robertson, who changed the name of his university to Regent University , says he is training his students to rule when the Christian regents take power, part of the reign leading to the return of Christ. Robertson resigned as the head of the Christian Coalition when Bush took office, a sign many took to signal the ascendancy of the first regent. This battle is not rhetorical but one that followers are told will ultimately involve violence. And the enemy is clearly defined and marked for destruction.
“Secular Humanists,” the popular Christian Right theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote in one of numerous diatribes, “are the greatest threat to Christianity the world has ever known.”
One of the most enlightening books that exposes the ultimate goals of movement is America’s Providential History , the standard textbook used in many Christian schools and a staple of the Christian home schooling movement. It sites Genesis 26, which calls for mankind to ” .have dominnion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” as evidence that the Bible callls for “Bible believing Christians” to take dominion of America.
“When God brings Noah through the flood to a new earth, He reestablished the Dominion Mandate but now delegates to man the responsibility for governing other men.” (page 19). The authors write that God has called the United States to become “the first truly Christian nation” (page 184) and “make disciples of all nations.” The book denounces income tax as “idolatry,” property tax as “theft” and calls for an abolish of inheritance taxes in the chapter entitled Christian Economics. The loss of such tax revenues will bring about the withering away of the federal government and the empowerment of the authoritarian church, although this is not explict in the text.
Rushdooney’s son-in-law, Gary North, a popular writer and founder of the Institute for Christian Economics, laid out the aims of the Christian Right.
“So let’s be blunt about it: We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” (Christianity and Civilization, Spring, 1982)
Dominionists have to operate, for now, in the contaminated environment of the secular, liberal state. They have learned, therefore, to speak in code. The code they use is the key to understanding the dichotomy of the movement, one that has a public and a private face. In this they are no different from the vanguard, as described by Lenin, or the Islamic terrorists who shave off their beards, adopt western dress and watch pay-for-view pornographic movies in their hotel rooms the night before hijacking a plane for a suicide attack.
Joan Bokaer, the Director of Theocracy Watch, a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University , who runs the encyclopedic web site theocracywatch.org, was on a speaking tour a few years ago in Iowa . She obtained a copy of a memo Pat Robertson handed out to followers at the Iowa Republican County Caucus. It was titled, “How to Participate in a Political Party” and read:
“Rule the world for God.”
“Give the impression that you are there to work for the party, not push an ideology.
“Hide your strength.
“Don’t flaunt your Christianity.
“Christians need to take leadership positions. Party officers control political parties and so it is very important that mature Christians have a majority of leadership whenever possible, God willing.”
President Bush sends frequent coded messages to the faithful. In his address to the nation on the night of September 11, for example, he lifted a line directly from the Gospel of John when he said “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it.” He often uses the sentence “when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law,” words taken directly from a pro-life manifesto entitled “A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern.” He quotes from hymns, prayers, tracts and Biblical passages without attribution. These phrases reassure the elect. They are lost on the uninitiated.
CHRIST THE AVENGER
The Christian Right finds its ideological justification in a narrow segment of the Gospel, in particular the letters of the Apostle Paul, especially the story of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus in the Book of Acts. It draws heavily from the book of Revelations and the Gospel of John. These books share an apocalyptic theology. The Book of Revelations is the only time in the Gospels where Jesus sanctions violence, offering up a vision of Christ as the head of a great and murderous army of heavenly avengers. Martin Luther found the God portrayed in Revelations so hateful and cruel he put the book in the appendix of his German translation of the Bible.
These books rarely speak about Christ’s message of love, forgiveness and compassion. They focus on the doom and destruction that will befall unbelievers and the urgent need for personal salvation. The world is divided between good and evil, between those who act as agents of God and those who act as agents of Satan. The Jesus of the other three Gospels, the Jesus who turned the other cheek and embraced his enemies, an idea that was radical and startling in the ancient Roman world, is purged in the narrative selected by the Christian Right.
The cult of masculinity pervades the ideology. Feminism and homosexuality are social forces, believers are told, that have rendered the American male physically and spiritually impotent. Jesus is portrayed as a man of action, casting out demons, battling the Anti-Christ, attacking hypocrites and castigating the corrupt. This cult of masculinity brings with it the glorification of strength, violence and vengeance. It turns Christ into a Rambo-like figure; indeed depictions of Jesus within the movement often show a powerfully built man wielding a huge sword.
This image of Christ as warrior is appealing to many within the movement. The loss of manufacturing jobs, lack of affordable health care, negligible opportunities for education and poor job security has left many millions of Americans locked out. This ideology is attractive because it offers them the hope of power and revenge. It sanctifies their rage. It stokes the paranoia about the outside world maintained through bizarre conspiracy theories, many on display in Pat Robertson’s book The New World Order . The book is a xenophobic rant that includes vicious attacks against the United Nations and numerous other international organizations. The abandonment of the working class has been crucial to the success of the movement. Only by reintegrating the working class into society through job creation, access to good education and health care can the Christian Right be effectively blunted. Revolutionary movements are built on the backs of an angry, disenfranchised laboring class. This one is no exception.
The depictions of violence that will befall non-believers are detailed, gruesome and brutal. It speaks to the rage many believers harbor and the thirst for revenge. This, in large part, accounts for the huge sales of the apocalyptic series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In their novel, Glorious Appearing , based on LaHaye’s interpretation of Biblical Prophecies about the Second Coming, Christ eviscerates the flesh of millions of non-believers with the mere sound of his voice. There are long descriptions of horror, of how “the very words of the Lord had superheated their blood, causing it to burst through their veins and skin.” Eyes disintegrate. Tongues melt. Flesh dissolves. The novel, part of The Left Behind series, are the best selling adult novels in the country. They preach holy war.
“Any teaching of peace prior to [Christ's] return is heresy.” said televangelist James Robinson.
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, instability in Israel and even the fighting of Iraq are seen as signposts. The war in Iraq was predicted according to believers in the 9 th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels “which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of men.” The march towards global war, even nuclear war, is not to be feared but welcomed as the harbinger of the Second Coming. And leading the avenging armies is an angry, violent Messiah who dooms millions of non-believers to a horrible and painful death.
THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE AND LAW
The movement seeks the imprint of law and science. It must discredit the rational disciplines that are the pillars of the Enlightenment to abolish the liberal polity of the Enlightenment. This corruption of science and law is vital in promoting the doctrine. Creationism, or “intelligent design,” like Eugenics for the Nazis, must be introduced into the mainstream as a valid scientific discipline to destroy the discipline of science itself. This is why the Christian Right is working to bring test cases to ensure that school textbooks include “intelligent design” and condemn gay marriage.
The drive by the Christian Right to include crackpot theories in scientific or legal debate is part of the campaign to destroy dispassionate and honest intellectual inquiry. Facts become interchangeable with opinions. An understanding of reality is not to be based on the elaborate gathering of facts and evidence. The ideology alone is true. Facts that get in the way of the ideology can be altered. Lies, in this worldview, become true. Hannah Arendt called this effort “nihilistic relativism” although a better phrase might be collective insanity.
The Christian Right has fought successfully to have Creationist books sold in national park bookstores in the Grand Canyon , taught as a theory in public schools in states like Alabama and Arkansas . “Intelligent design” is promoted in Christian textbooks. All animal species, or at least their progenitors, students read, fit on Noah’s ark. The Grand Canyon was created a few thousand years ago by the flood that lifted up Noah’s ark, not one billion years ago, as geologists have determined. The earth is only a few thousand years old in line with the literal reading of Genesis. This is not some quaint, homespun view of the world. It is an insidious attempt to undermine rational scientific research and intellectual inquiry.
Tom Delay, following the Columbine shootings, gave voice to this assault when he said that the killings had taken place “because our school systems teach children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud.” (speech Delay gave in the House on June 16, 1999 )
“What convinces masses are not facts,” Hannah Arendt wrote in Origins of Totalitarianism, “and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system which they are presumably part. Repetition, somewhat overrated in importance because of the common belief in the “masses” inferior capacity to grasp and remember, is important because it convinces them of consistency in time.” (p.351)
There are more than 6 million elementary and secondary school students attending private schools and 11.5 percent of these students attend schools run by the Christian Right. These “Christian” schools saw an increase of 46 percent in enrollment in the last decade. The 245,000 additional students accounted for 75 percent of the total rise in private school enrollment.
THE LAUNCHING OF THE WAR
Adams told us to watch closely what the Christian Right did to homosexuals. He has seen how the Nazis had used “values” to launch state repression of opponents. Hitler, days after he took power in 1933, imposed a ban on all homosexual and lesbian organizations. He ordered raids on places where homosexuals gathered culminating with the ransacking of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin . Thousands of volumes from the institute’s library were tossed into a bonfire. Adams said that homosexuals would also be the first “deviants” singled out by the Christian Right. We would be the next.
The ban on same sex marriages, passed by eleven states in the election, was part of this march towards our door. A 1996 federal law already defines marriage as between a man and a woman. All of the states with ballot measures, with the exception of Oregon , had outlawed same sex marriages, as do 27 other states. The bans, however, had to be passed, believers were told, to thwart “activist judges” who wanted to overturn them. The Christian family, even the nation, was under threat. The bans served to widen the splits tearing apart the country. The attacks on homosexuals handed to the foot soldiers of the Christian Right an easy target. It gave them a taste of victory. It made them feel empowered. But it is ominous for gays and for us.
All debates with the Christian Right are useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not mollified because John Kerry prays or Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School. These naive attempts to reach out to a movement bent on our destruction, to prove to them that we too have “values,” would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. They hate us. They hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution. Our opinions do not count.
This movement will not stop until we are ruled by Biblical Law, an authoritarian church intrudes in every aspect of our life, women stay at home and rear children, gays agree to be cured, abortion is considered murder, the press and the schools promote “positive” Christian values, the federal government is gutted, war becomes our primary form of communication with the rest of the world and recalcitrant non-believers see their flesh eviscerated at the sound of the Messiah’s voice.
The spark that could set it ablaze may be lying in the hands of an Islamic terrorist cell, in the hands of the ideological twins of the Christian Right. Another catastrophic terrorist attack could be our Reichstag fire, the excuse used to begin the accelerated dismantling of our open society. The ideology of the Christian Right is not one of love and compassion, the central theme of Christ’s message, but of violence and hatred. It has a strong appeal to many in our society, but it is also aided by our complacency. Let us not stand at the open city gates waiting passively and meekly for the barbarians. They are coming. They are slouching rudely towards Bethlehem . Let us, if nothing else, begin to call them by their name.
Chris Hedges, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School . His next book , Losing Moses on the Freeway: America ’s Broken Covenant With The Ten Commandments is published by The Free Press"
This is an article by Chris Hedges that no major publication will print.)
Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School , told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the “Christian fascists.”
The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.
He was not a man to use the word fascist lightly. He was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as The Confessing Church, led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adams was eventually detained and interrogated by the Gestapo, who suggested he might want to consider returning to the United States . It was a suggestion he followed. He left on a night train with framed portraits of Adolph Hitler placed over the contents inside his suitcase to hide the rolls of home movie film he took of the so-called German Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi, and the few individuals who defied them, including the theologians Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer. The ruse worked when the border police lifted the top of the suitcases, saw the portraits of the Fuhrer and closed them up again. I watched hours of the grainy black and white films as he narrated in his apartment in Cambridge .
He saw in the Christian Right, long before we did, disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party, similarities that he said would, in the event of prolonged social instability or a national crisis, see American fascists, under the guise of religion, rise to dismantle the open society. He despaired of liberals, who he said, as in Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and impotent. Liberals, he said, did not understand the power and allure of evil nor the cold reality of how the world worked. The current hand wringing by Democrats in the wake of the election, with many asking how they can reach out to a movement whose leaders brand them “demonic” and “satanic,” would not have surprised Adams . Like Bonhoeffer, he did not believe that those who would fight effectively in coming times of turmoil, a fight that for him was an integral part of the Biblical message, would come from the church or the liberal, secular elite.
His critique of the prominent research universities, along with the media, was no less withering. These institutions, self-absorbed, compromised by their close relationship with government and corporations, given enough of the pie to be complacent, were unwilling to deal with the fundamental moral questions and inequities of the age. They had no stomach for a battle that might cost them their prestige and comfort. He told me that if the Nazis took over America “60 percent of the Harvard faculty would begin their lectures with the Nazi salute.” This too was not an abstraction. He had watched academics at the University of Heidelberg , including the philosopher Martin Heidegger, raise their arms stiffly to students before class.
Two decades later, even in the face of the growing reach of the Christian Right, his prediction seems apocalyptic. And yet the powerbrokers in the Christian Right have moved from the fringes of society to the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Christian fundamentalists now hold a majority of seats in 36 percent of all Republican Party state committees, or 18 of 50 states, along with large minorities in 81 percent of the rest of the states. Forty-five Senators and 186 members of the House of Representatives earned between an 80 to100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups - The Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma , has included in his campaign to end abortion a call to impose the death penalty on doctors that carry out abortions once the ban goes into place. Another new senator, John Thune, believes in Creationism. Jim DeMint, the new senator elected from South Carolina , wants to ban single mothers from teaching in schools. The Election Day exit polls found that 22 percent of voters identified themselves as evangelical Christians and Bush won 77 percent of their vote. The polls found that a plurality of voters said that the most important issue in the campaign had been “moral values.”
President Bush must further these important objectives, including the march to turn education and social welfare over to the churches with his faith-based initiative, as well as chip away at the wall between church and state with his judicial appointments, if he does not want to face a revolt within his core constituency.
Jim Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, who held weekly telephone conversations with K arl Rove during the campaign, has put the President on notice. He told ABC’s “This Week” that “this president has two years, or more broadly the Republican Party has two years, to implement these policies, or certainly four, or I believe they’ll pay a price in the next election.”
Bush may turn out to be a transition figure, our version of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck used “values” to energize his base at the end of the 19 th century and launched “Kulturkampt”, the word from which we get “culture wars,” against Catholics and Jews. Bismarck ’s attacks split the country, made the discrediting of whole segments of the society an acceptable part of the civil discourse and paved the way for the more virulent racism of the Nazis. This, I suspect, will be George Bush’s contribution to our democracy.
DOMINIONISTS AND RECONSTRUCTIONISTS
The Reconstructionist movement, founded in 1973 by Rousas Rushdooney, is the intellectual foundation for the most politically active element within the Christian Right. Rushdooney’s 1,600 page three-volume work, Institutes of Biblical Law, argued that American society should be governed according to the Biblical precepts in the Ten Commandments. He wrote that the elect, like Adam and Noah, were given dominion over the earth by God and must subdue the earth, along with all non-believers, so the Messiah could return.
This was a radically new interpretation for many in the evangelical movement. The Messiah, it was traditionally taught, would return in an event called “the Rapture” where there would be wars and chaos. The non-believers would be tormented and killed and the elect would be lifted to heaven. The Rapture was not something that could be manipulated or influenced, although believers often interpreted catastrophes and wars as portents of the imminent Second Coming.
Rushdooney promoted an ideology that advocated violence to create the Christian state. His ideology was the mirror image of Liberation Theology, which came into vogue at about the same time. While the Liberation Theologians crammed the Bible into the box of Marxism, Rushdooney crammed it into the equally distorting box of classical fascism. This clash was first played out in Latin America when I was there as a reporter two decades ago. In El Salvador leftist priests endorsed and even traveled with the rebel movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, while Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, along with conservative Latin American clerics, backed the Contras fighting against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the murderous military regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile and Argentina.
The Institutes of Biblical Law called for a Christian society that was harsh, unforgiving and violent. Offenses such as adultery, witchcraft, blasphemy and homosexuality, merited the death penalty. The world was to be subdued and ruled by a Christian United States. Rushdooney dismissed the number of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust as an inflated figure and his theories on race echoed Nazi Eugenics.
“The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture and the discipline and selective breeding this faith requires…,” he wrote. “The Negro is a product of a radically different past, and his heredity has been governed by radically different considerations.”
“The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of the magic are control and power over God, man, nature, and society. Voodoo, or magic, was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” (see The Religious Right , a publication of the ADL, pg. 124.)
Rushdooney was deeply antagonistic to the federal government. He believed the federal government should concern itself with little more than national defense. Education and social welfare should be handed over to the churches. Biblical law must replace the secular legal code. This ideology remains at the heart of the movement. It is being enacted through school vouchers, with federal dollars now going into Christian schools, and the assault against the federal agencies that deal with poverty and human services. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is currently channeling millions in federal funds to groups such Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing , and National Right to Life, as well as to fundamentalist religious charity organizations and programs promoting sexual abstinence.
Rushdooney laid the groundwork for a new way of thinking about political involvement. The Christian state would come about not only through signs and wonders, as those who believed in the rapture believed? , but also through theestablishment of the Christian nation. But he remained, even within the Christian Right, a deeply controversial figure.
Dr. Tony Evans, the minister of a Dallas church and the founder of Promise Keepers, articulated Rushdooney’s extremism in a more palatable form. He called on believers, often during emotional gatherings at football stadiums, to commit to Christ and exercise power within the society as agents of Christ. He also called for a Christian state. But he did not advocate the return of slavery, as Rushdooney did, nor list a string of offenses such as adultery punishable by death, nor did he espouse the Nazi-like race theories. It was through Evans, who was a spiritual mentor to George Bush that Dominionism came to dominate the politically active wing of the Christian Right.The religious utterances from political leaders such as George Bush, Tom Delay, Pat Robertson and Zell Miller are only understandable in light of Rushdooney and Dominionism. These leaders believe that God has selected them to battle the forces of evil, embodied in “secular humanism,” to create a Christian nation. Pat Robertson frequently tells believers “our aim is to gain dominion over society.” Delay has told supporters, such as at a gathering two years ago at the First Baptist Church in Pearland , Texas , “He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything I do and everywhere I am. He is training me, He is working with me.” Delay went on to tell followers “If we stay inside the church, the culture won’t change.”
Pat Robertson, who changed the name of his university to Regent University , says he is training his students to rule when the Christian regents take power, part of the reign leading to the return of Christ. Robertson resigned as the head of the Christian Coalition when Bush took office, a sign many took to signal the ascendancy of the first regent. This battle is not rhetorical but one that followers are told will ultimately involve violence. And the enemy is clearly defined and marked for destruction.
“Secular Humanists,” the popular Christian Right theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote in one of numerous diatribes, “are the greatest threat to Christianity the world has ever known.”
One of the most enlightening books that exposes the ultimate goals of movement is America’s Providential History , the standard textbook used in many Christian schools and a staple of the Christian home schooling movement. It sites Genesis 26, which calls for mankind to ” .have dominnion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” as evidence that the Bible callls for “Bible believing Christians” to take dominion of America.
“When God brings Noah through the flood to a new earth, He reestablished the Dominion Mandate but now delegates to man the responsibility for governing other men.” (page 19). The authors write that God has called the United States to become “the first truly Christian nation” (page 184) and “make disciples of all nations.” The book denounces income tax as “idolatry,” property tax as “theft” and calls for an abolish of inheritance taxes in the chapter entitled Christian Economics. The loss of such tax revenues will bring about the withering away of the federal government and the empowerment of the authoritarian church, although this is not explict in the text.
Rushdooney’s son-in-law, Gary North, a popular writer and founder of the Institute for Christian Economics, laid out the aims of the Christian Right.
“So let’s be blunt about it: We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” (Christianity and Civilization, Spring, 1982)
Dominionists have to operate, for now, in the contaminated environment of the secular, liberal state. They have learned, therefore, to speak in code. The code they use is the key to understanding the dichotomy of the movement, one that has a public and a private face. In this they are no different from the vanguard, as described by Lenin, or the Islamic terrorists who shave off their beards, adopt western dress and watch pay-for-view pornographic movies in their hotel rooms the night before hijacking a plane for a suicide attack.
Joan Bokaer, the Director of Theocracy Watch, a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University , who runs the encyclopedic web site theocracywatch.org, was on a speaking tour a few years ago in Iowa . She obtained a copy of a memo Pat Robertson handed out to followers at the Iowa Republican County Caucus. It was titled, “How to Participate in a Political Party” and read:
“Rule the world for God.”
“Give the impression that you are there to work for the party, not push an ideology.
“Hide your strength.
“Don’t flaunt your Christianity.
“Christians need to take leadership positions. Party officers control political parties and so it is very important that mature Christians have a majority of leadership whenever possible, God willing.”
President Bush sends frequent coded messages to the faithful. In his address to the nation on the night of September 11, for example, he lifted a line directly from the Gospel of John when he said “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it.” He often uses the sentence “when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law,” words taken directly from a pro-life manifesto entitled “A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern.” He quotes from hymns, prayers, tracts and Biblical passages without attribution. These phrases reassure the elect. They are lost on the uninitiated.
CHRIST THE AVENGER
The Christian Right finds its ideological justification in a narrow segment of the Gospel, in particular the letters of the Apostle Paul, especially the story of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus in the Book of Acts. It draws heavily from the book of Revelations and the Gospel of John. These books share an apocalyptic theology. The Book of Revelations is the only time in the Gospels where Jesus sanctions violence, offering up a vision of Christ as the head of a great and murderous army of heavenly avengers. Martin Luther found the God portrayed in Revelations so hateful and cruel he put the book in the appendix of his German translation of the Bible.
These books rarely speak about Christ’s message of love, forgiveness and compassion. They focus on the doom and destruction that will befall unbelievers and the urgent need for personal salvation. The world is divided between good and evil, between those who act as agents of God and those who act as agents of Satan. The Jesus of the other three Gospels, the Jesus who turned the other cheek and embraced his enemies, an idea that was radical and startling in the ancient Roman world, is purged in the narrative selected by the Christian Right.
The cult of masculinity pervades the ideology. Feminism and homosexuality are social forces, believers are told, that have rendered the American male physically and spiritually impotent. Jesus is portrayed as a man of action, casting out demons, battling the Anti-Christ, attacking hypocrites and castigating the corrupt. This cult of masculinity brings with it the glorification of strength, violence and vengeance. It turns Christ into a Rambo-like figure; indeed depictions of Jesus within the movement often show a powerfully built man wielding a huge sword.
This image of Christ as warrior is appealing to many within the movement. The loss of manufacturing jobs, lack of affordable health care, negligible opportunities for education and poor job security has left many millions of Americans locked out. This ideology is attractive because it offers them the hope of power and revenge. It sanctifies their rage. It stokes the paranoia about the outside world maintained through bizarre conspiracy theories, many on display in Pat Robertson’s book The New World Order . The book is a xenophobic rant that includes vicious attacks against the United Nations and numerous other international organizations. The abandonment of the working class has been crucial to the success of the movement. Only by reintegrating the working class into society through job creation, access to good education and health care can the Christian Right be effectively blunted. Revolutionary movements are built on the backs of an angry, disenfranchised laboring class. This one is no exception.
The depictions of violence that will befall non-believers are detailed, gruesome and brutal. It speaks to the rage many believers harbor and the thirst for revenge. This, in large part, accounts for the huge sales of the apocalyptic series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In their novel, Glorious Appearing , based on LaHaye’s interpretation of Biblical Prophecies about the Second Coming, Christ eviscerates the flesh of millions of non-believers with the mere sound of his voice. There are long descriptions of horror, of how “the very words of the Lord had superheated their blood, causing it to burst through their veins and skin.” Eyes disintegrate. Tongues melt. Flesh dissolves. The novel, part of The Left Behind series, are the best selling adult novels in the country. They preach holy war.
“Any teaching of peace prior to [Christ's] return is heresy.” said televangelist James Robinson.
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, instability in Israel and even the fighting of Iraq are seen as signposts. The war in Iraq was predicted according to believers in the 9 th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels “which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of men.” The march towards global war, even nuclear war, is not to be feared but welcomed as the harbinger of the Second Coming. And leading the avenging armies is an angry, violent Messiah who dooms millions of non-believers to a horrible and painful death.
THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE AND LAW
The movement seeks the imprint of law and science. It must discredit the rational disciplines that are the pillars of the Enlightenment to abolish the liberal polity of the Enlightenment. This corruption of science and law is vital in promoting the doctrine. Creationism, or “intelligent design,” like Eugenics for the Nazis, must be introduced into the mainstream as a valid scientific discipline to destroy the discipline of science itself. This is why the Christian Right is working to bring test cases to ensure that school textbooks include “intelligent design” and condemn gay marriage.
The drive by the Christian Right to include crackpot theories in scientific or legal debate is part of the campaign to destroy dispassionate and honest intellectual inquiry. Facts become interchangeable with opinions. An understanding of reality is not to be based on the elaborate gathering of facts and evidence. The ideology alone is true. Facts that get in the way of the ideology can be altered. Lies, in this worldview, become true. Hannah Arendt called this effort “nihilistic relativism” although a better phrase might be collective insanity.
The Christian Right has fought successfully to have Creationist books sold in national park bookstores in the Grand Canyon , taught as a theory in public schools in states like Alabama and Arkansas . “Intelligent design” is promoted in Christian textbooks. All animal species, or at least their progenitors, students read, fit on Noah’s ark. The Grand Canyon was created a few thousand years ago by the flood that lifted up Noah’s ark, not one billion years ago, as geologists have determined. The earth is only a few thousand years old in line with the literal reading of Genesis. This is not some quaint, homespun view of the world. It is an insidious attempt to undermine rational scientific research and intellectual inquiry.
Tom Delay, following the Columbine shootings, gave voice to this assault when he said that the killings had taken place “because our school systems teach children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud.” (speech Delay gave in the House on June 16, 1999 )
“What convinces masses are not facts,” Hannah Arendt wrote in Origins of Totalitarianism, “and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system which they are presumably part. Repetition, somewhat overrated in importance because of the common belief in the “masses” inferior capacity to grasp and remember, is important because it convinces them of consistency in time.” (p.351)
There are more than 6 million elementary and secondary school students attending private schools and 11.5 percent of these students attend schools run by the Christian Right. These “Christian” schools saw an increase of 46 percent in enrollment in the last decade. The 245,000 additional students accounted for 75 percent of the total rise in private school enrollment.
THE LAUNCHING OF THE WAR
Adams told us to watch closely what the Christian Right did to homosexuals. He has seen how the Nazis had used “values” to launch state repression of opponents. Hitler, days after he took power in 1933, imposed a ban on all homosexual and lesbian organizations. He ordered raids on places where homosexuals gathered culminating with the ransacking of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin . Thousands of volumes from the institute’s library were tossed into a bonfire. Adams said that homosexuals would also be the first “deviants” singled out by the Christian Right. We would be the next.
The ban on same sex marriages, passed by eleven states in the election, was part of this march towards our door. A 1996 federal law already defines marriage as between a man and a woman. All of the states with ballot measures, with the exception of Oregon , had outlawed same sex marriages, as do 27 other states. The bans, however, had to be passed, believers were told, to thwart “activist judges” who wanted to overturn them. The Christian family, even the nation, was under threat. The bans served to widen the splits tearing apart the country. The attacks on homosexuals handed to the foot soldiers of the Christian Right an easy target. It gave them a taste of victory. It made them feel empowered. But it is ominous for gays and for us.
All debates with the Christian Right are useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not mollified because John Kerry prays or Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School. These naive attempts to reach out to a movement bent on our destruction, to prove to them that we too have “values,” would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. They hate us. They hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution. Our opinions do not count.
This movement will not stop until we are ruled by Biblical Law, an authoritarian church intrudes in every aspect of our life, women stay at home and rear children, gays agree to be cured, abortion is considered murder, the press and the schools promote “positive” Christian values, the federal government is gutted, war becomes our primary form of communication with the rest of the world and recalcitrant non-believers see their flesh eviscerated at the sound of the Messiah’s voice.
The spark that could set it ablaze may be lying in the hands of an Islamic terrorist cell, in the hands of the ideological twins of the Christian Right. Another catastrophic terrorist attack could be our Reichstag fire, the excuse used to begin the accelerated dismantling of our open society. The ideology of the Christian Right is not one of love and compassion, the central theme of Christ’s message, but of violence and hatred. It has a strong appeal to many in our society, but it is also aided by our complacency. Let us not stand at the open city gates waiting passively and meekly for the barbarians. They are coming. They are slouching rudely towards Bethlehem . Let us, if nothing else, begin to call them by their name.
Chris Hedges, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School . His next book , Losing Moses on the Freeway: America ’s Broken Covenant With The Ten Commandments is published by The Free Press"
Friday, May 2, 2008
A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC FUTURE!
Democracy is power coming from the bottom up! The opposite Fascism, is power coming from the top down!
Power is exercised by the state through political administrators and their political apparatus. Power is also exercised through those that hold the purse strings and therefor control our economic lives!
The private sector historically, has been at war with the public sector, because the private sector’s best interest is served by having power come from the top down, to have those that are the most successful within the economic system lead and control those that are not as competitive or as successful! The economic system fosters a desire not only for wealth but also for power and control!
Capitalism can only operate with power coming from the top down! When the administrators of our political system insist that political power should come from the bottom up and that politics should be democratic and representative of all of the people and their interests as a whole, the private sector screams “socialism or “communism and a witch hunt ensues to get rid of the subversives in our midst!
I am a dialectical materialist! That means that my understanding of history, and society and how it evolves is scientific!
Science is not a philosophy or an ideology or a religion, … it is a method that is used to predict outcome and to determine how things and forms evolve from the simple to the complex and then back to the simple, but a simple that is more refined and more complete than the simple form that existed in the past,.. and more complete and less crude and cumbersome than the complex form that it replaced!
To progress, is to move forward. Progress does not mean repeating itself being a copy of what existed in the past. To progress is to be more evolved and more complete and refined more streamlined than what occurred in the past!
The struggle for democracy in the USA is a struggle for relative democracy! The big question is, to what extent can the public sector remain relatively independent of the private sector!
No matter how you look at it the future is promising and bleak at the same time! We will go down the road to fascism, …rule from the top down, …and that situation will provoke the democratic forces to grow and to struggle in a increasingly more enlightened way than it had in the past!
Perhaps we will have a true revolution or perhaps we will have only a temporary reform!
Only time will tell!
What will society look like if a revolution takes place ?
Everything turns to the diametric opposite of what it formally was! What we have now is a global form of private ownership under the conditions of competition. a competition that is increasingly becoming totalitarian with less and less competition. … The diametric opposite of private ownership and competition is, .. social ownership and cooperation.
Those that administer this new revolutionary social arrangement will act in the same manner that previous societies had acted. They will do everything in their power to keep the new revolutionary society from being disrupted ,perverted subverted and overthrown! It will do what is necessary not what is desirable, to keep the new social order intact!
What will the future look like?
It is my view that in the not so distant future their will no longer be nations or individual nation states! ..Like it or not it seems clear that because of our advanced technology,in transportation, communication, and world commerce, and because of the absolute need for cooperation between all peoples of the world to achieve common goals, … that all what separates us will out of necessity be done away with, and global cooperation will become our new reality.
Like it or not, the new world order will rule a global village!
That global village will either be ruled from the top down, or from the bottom up! That will be the choice of those that come after us!
Power is exercised by the state through political administrators and their political apparatus. Power is also exercised through those that hold the purse strings and therefor control our economic lives!
The private sector historically, has been at war with the public sector, because the private sector’s best interest is served by having power come from the top down, to have those that are the most successful within the economic system lead and control those that are not as competitive or as successful! The economic system fosters a desire not only for wealth but also for power and control!
Capitalism can only operate with power coming from the top down! When the administrators of our political system insist that political power should come from the bottom up and that politics should be democratic and representative of all of the people and their interests as a whole, the private sector screams “socialism or “communism and a witch hunt ensues to get rid of the subversives in our midst!
I am a dialectical materialist! That means that my understanding of history, and society and how it evolves is scientific!
Science is not a philosophy or an ideology or a religion, … it is a method that is used to predict outcome and to determine how things and forms evolve from the simple to the complex and then back to the simple, but a simple that is more refined and more complete than the simple form that existed in the past,.. and more complete and less crude and cumbersome than the complex form that it replaced!
To progress, is to move forward. Progress does not mean repeating itself being a copy of what existed in the past. To progress is to be more evolved and more complete and refined more streamlined than what occurred in the past!
The struggle for democracy in the USA is a struggle for relative democracy! The big question is, to what extent can the public sector remain relatively independent of the private sector!
No matter how you look at it the future is promising and bleak at the same time! We will go down the road to fascism, …rule from the top down, …and that situation will provoke the democratic forces to grow and to struggle in a increasingly more enlightened way than it had in the past!
Perhaps we will have a true revolution or perhaps we will have only a temporary reform!
Only time will tell!
What will society look like if a revolution takes place ?
Everything turns to the diametric opposite of what it formally was! What we have now is a global form of private ownership under the conditions of competition. a competition that is increasingly becoming totalitarian with less and less competition. … The diametric opposite of private ownership and competition is, .. social ownership and cooperation.
Those that administer this new revolutionary social arrangement will act in the same manner that previous societies had acted. They will do everything in their power to keep the new revolutionary society from being disrupted ,perverted subverted and overthrown! It will do what is necessary not what is desirable, to keep the new social order intact!
What will the future look like?
It is my view that in the not so distant future their will no longer be nations or individual nation states! ..Like it or not it seems clear that because of our advanced technology,in transportation, communication, and world commerce, and because of the absolute need for cooperation between all peoples of the world to achieve common goals, … that all what separates us will out of necessity be done away with, and global cooperation will become our new reality.
Like it or not, the new world order will rule a global village!
That global village will either be ruled from the top down, or from the bottom up! That will be the choice of those that come after us!
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