When Ed wrote this (Yes, “They Are The Fascists” … But It Has Little To Do With Censorship), my first thought was that he would be referring to what I wrote here (They Are The Fascists).
The latter was about systematized government suppression of speech and the Fascist relationships between the government and Big Tech that facilitate it. Ed’s piece wasn’t about that at all. He shares some important facts, like how Fascism is just another type of socialism and how much Fascism looks like the current Democratic party agenda—that thing they sometimes refer to as Democratic Socialism.
Not anything most of us don’t know, but a refresher is often necessary, especially when you bring receipts. Not every reader will rasp the details or have read connections that add meat to the bones of the conversation.
Totalitarianism By Another Name
They are the same socialist whore in different dresses, which is timely because it all looks like what filmmaker Richard Jeffs describes as Stakeholder Communism. A top-down command-and-control economy that does business as a government because you need a police state to keep everyone in line. Something Klaus Schwab and the Davos globalists are working to develop across the globe. They call it many things, including a Great Reset, but what it is, is Stakeholder Communism or just communism.
The government (local or global) controls the means of production without owning it. Oligarchs, who serve at the pleasure of The State, manage ‘industries,” projects, or sectors, and wealth is not prohibited among these proxies unless or until they find themselves out of favor. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, if you are useless, they kill you and take your water. Under the Chinese model, they kill you and take your organs. There is no freedom, no free speech, and mobility, and individual activity is monitored or controlled by the state to ensure everyone serves the state.
The political class includes the economic class, and everyone else serves their needs.
Schwab et al. are after a parallel system that is effectively global fascism, and the Chinese, if they don’t like it, will call it that. If you recall (or if you missed it), last Summer, I shared some reading I’d done explaining how, until Mao, Fascism was seen correctly and proudly as a kissing cousin of Communism.
During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Chinese Communists and their water carriers in the West adopted the idea that everything to the Right of Mao was fascism, including Soviet Communism. Who knew there was something further Left until Mao?
Self-proclaimed Western Intellectuals were smitten with the Marxism of the early 20th century, Mussolini’s Fascism, and Maoist doctrine after it adopted the idea. Failure, poverty, and pogroms were just necessary “ingredients” then as they are now. But it was at this point (more or less) that all capitalism became Fascism. If it was not Mao, it was Fascism, and while future generations of Marxist thinkers in China may have moved past that internal designation (at least openly), American socialists doing business as the Democratic Party can still be heard shouting it from every rooftop.
If it is not what theirs is, it is Fascism.
As is often the case, they are not admonishing the system but projecting their erstwhile desire for it to be the manner in which Americans and the West conduct themselves.
Stakeholder Communism is Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, which is simply a different version of National Socialism. Control of the memes of production without having to own all of it, but the owners exist only at the pleasure of the State or those who answer to it. Everything else is an affectation. A feudal arrangement, none of which has ever been anywhere near the individual small government liberty side of any political spectrum.
American Democrats calling us Fascists doth protest too much.
