Depending on who you ask, Marxism must evolve from an agrarian to an industrial/capitalist ‘look’ before true Communism can get to work and create the utopia we’ve been promised. But Marxism is an economic fairy tale told by an idgit that always ends the same way.
It’s a totalitarian autocracy or oligarchy that proves a government that promises you everything can take it away. Just ask the dissident Chinese, residents of Taiwan, and women in Iran (a faith-based Marxist/Fascist despotism) how it’s working out.
Let’s call it Communism with Communist characteristics.
Another soviet style tactic to enjoin the “take it away” clause is rapidly developing in the west. The disagreeable get diagnosed with a mental illness and treated accordingly (drugs, confinement, … reeducation).
COVID proved it was possible, and depending on where you live, being healthy without the benefit of “vaccination” could be grounds for therapy and the introduction of psychotropic drugs and observation with the option for restraint if you protest too much.
While not every “western nation” is ready to make that leap (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand seem prepared to run with it), other forms of Despotism along the Marxist/Fascist line are finding acceptance under the umbrella of saving the planet. Green was always red. Still, another thing COVID demonstrated was some tolerance for an authoritarian itch if you made it scary enough. The Watermellon Marxists have been at this for decades, but a few have decided it’s now or never.
In Oxfordshire, England, the local despots on the County Council have decided to take a more significant leap to the left and constrict the movement of the people with a WEF/NWO idea called the 15-minute city.
Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.
Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.
These experts will factionalize their territory with movement controls that will (presumably) require internal tracking/passports in the name of Climate Lockdowns. Oxfordshire, which includes Oxford College England, will test the program out in 2024, assuming the people don’t come to their senses and replace (depose) the county council that wants to impose it.
We’re talking Chinese smart-city 101, which leads to social credit scores, and the “everyone is an informant” carrot/stick culture that follows. Let’s call it England with Chinese Characteristics, though I think we can agree not so Great Britain has been on this road for some time, and the Oxfordshire County Council is what you get when you stay on that path.
I don’t imagine they can put up much resistance after decades of making excuses for allowing themselves to be disarmed by the government. And the brain trust at Oxford College is probably in love with the idea.
And I’d bet the real test isn’t whether climate lockdowns do any of the planet-saving things the climateers promise. It’s about the willingness of the peasants to be herded like the sheep their “leaders” believe them to be.
HT | WUWT
