Saturday, March 4, 2006

The fascist program; anti- Western, jihadic, and contemptuous of the individual

From Sargon the Great, to Hitler, to Islam, the fascist program is similar

by StFerdIII

All fascist theories are premised on a hatred of Western civilization. Though each will mandate different implementations their objectives are the same. This is the key element – not whether Hitlerism was exactly akin to Stalinism, or if Mohammed was a direct copy of Hitler. Of course national and cultural prerogatives force the fascist ideology to conform to local tastes in order to acquire power. The name might change but that is all. As one expert on fascism predicted; “Practically speaking, it will make little difference whether totalitarian movements adopt the pattern of Nazism or Bolshevism, organize the masses in the name of race or class, pretend to follow the laws of life and nature or of dialectics and economics.’ Such an observation can be extended to Islam. All of these movements hate modernity.

The fascisms evidenced in orientalism, Islam, Russian Tsarism, or German Nazism, all share a deep hatred and antipathy towards Western society and those virtues which are ‘Liberal’ – in the orthodox, enlightenment sense of that word. Fascist ideologies mock and sneer at the modern world, with its technology, ‘liberal’ values, middle class, stringent laws, and political debate. They always cry the same refrain – ‘the west is decadent, corrupt, soft, and anti-heroic.’ Illiberal ideas have of course a very long historical pedigree and galvanize populations into mass acts of madness whether it is volk support for Hitler’s campaign to enslave Europe and exterminate the Jews; the Russian’s mindless enthusiasm for Soviet world-wide domination; or Muslims demanding Sharia Law in Western nations. Fascism’s appeal seems timeless and mutable.

Unfortunately even in the West, a hatred of Western ideals persists. In the recent past left wing small l liberal Western intellectuals have greatly aided in establishing anti-Western concepts. Marx of course was paramount in predicting the collapse of Western economic capitalism and by extension its entire society. Gobineau and others by looking at the fall of civilizations and culture thought they saw patterns, trends and similarities, with many predicting the end of man. The German philosopher Spengler predicted the fall of Western civilization 30 years before Nietzsche declared that religion was unnecessary and the West riven and rotted with Roman-styled decadence – all thanks to liberal democracy. George Sorel built on the preceding ideas and offered a radical innovation – that myths and unreal ideas were important for their transformative effects, not their realism or truth. In this vein Mussolini became convinced he was a Roman Caesar, Hitler that he was the new Barbarossa, Stalin the modern Ivan the Terrible, and Bin Laden the new Suleiman the Magnificent or Saladin. Edward Said and other Islamic fundamentalists apologizing for Islam did much the same in invoking the lost glory of pure Arabic culture and Koranic submission, as superior to anything produced in the West. In the fantasy world of the fascists you are not a Russian more than a Communist, not a German more than a Nazi and you are a radical Muslim more than a Pakistani. You are simply one of the chosen tribe that must follow the chosen word.

Modernity thus frightens fascists. Fascists are always convinced that they must destroy the ‘bourgeois liberal order’, the modern world, and the civilizational arrangement that defends the rational enlightenment. Of course what fascists end up creating is nothing more than the antithesis of what they had first hoped to achieve. Fascism results in economic scarcity, intellectual stagnation, poverty, corruption, hopelessness and a population of decidedly anti-heroic mediocrities, sly conformists scared of their own shadows and mafia or gang rule. Fascist societies are really only death cults with terrorized cowardly populations. Though the fascists might hate Western civilization, in the modern era fascist ideologies have not forwarded any compelling alternatives to replace Western ideals. It seems that fascism is more motivated by a hatred of modernity than by any logical plan to replace it.

Fascism by its very nature is always in a state of war and an ideologically based war at that. Whether it is fascist Islam or the one party madness of Stalin, fascist states need to eradicate races, be they Jews, Americans, Western capitalists, Anglo-Saxons, Slavs, untermensch or imperialists. Some concept, race or creed is the obstacle to the realization of a fascist world utopia. A fascist state needs all the energies of its population supporting its divine or civic religion to promote revolution and regeneration and take those things that are familiar to the fascist society and make them globally dominant. Fascist regimes and ideologies are not tolerant of others, nor do they much care about modern liberal ideas of multi-culturalism, peaceful co-existence or cross-cultural respect.

Given their inability to coexist with any other ideology fascist tribes and states have world domination as their goal. Fascists are convinced that individual liberty, modernity, liberal society, or the chaos of civilization is unsustainable and irrelevant. Control, regulation, mass acceptance, and the destruction of liberty are necessary and if any nation exists that is not fascist, then it poses a danger to the fascist state. Due to this all non-fascist states must be eradicated. There can be no compromise between the fascist ideology and other constructs.

The irresolute and indomitable character of fascism renders it immune to compromise. Fascism in any form does not feel compelled to negotiate with any competing set of ideas. This is as true for Islam today as it was for Hitlerism. Fascism is always guided by some 'true' principle - the dialectical march of history, social Darwinism, the Law of Nature, Allah’s Will, the Chinese Middle Kingdom’s greatness and so on. This march to world domination means that fascism must be premised on strict laws and regulations. It is not a system of anarchy. To dominate the world requires exacting laws, obedience, and blind loyalty to the great ideal. Fascist utopias are based on an immutable and singular source of authority. There is only one law under fascism, one leader or prophet and one way to organize society. In order to survive the fascist ideology in question must convert the non-believers and wage war to expand its power.

War provides the fascist leadership with a myriad of political and social opportunities to implement their plans. Hitler, Stalin, and current Islamic fascists have all used the guise of war, or the threat of annihilation at the hands of ‘unbelievers’, as pretexts to institute their terror and death cults. Goebbels in his diaries states clearly that Hitler started World War II to further consolidate power and impose terror, and on the day that war broke out Hitler decreed that all incurably sick were to be murdered. Goebbels wrote, “the war had made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times….the Jews will certainly be the losers [p.341].’ Of course not only the Jews would be annihilated. Under the cover of war the Nazis had plans to liquidate 170 million Russians, the Dutch, the people of Alsace and Lorraine, the Poles, Ukrainians, and in Germany all those who were considered aliens.

Stalinism, Islam, Chinese exceptionalism and repression all share the similar ideal that Hitlerism cherished – use war to provide a cover to achieve the objectives of the cult. The Soviets in their purge in the 1930s and during the Second World War and the Cold War implemented similar plans of eradication for various ethnic groups, killing over 30 millions by 1960. Today Islam embarks on the same madness with millions murdered in the past decade in Africa, Asia, and beyond, and with terrorism a preferred and generally supported Islamic tool of war which kills mostly innocents. Whether it is the 7th century AD dogma of pagan Arabism or the neo-Romanic empire of Mussolini’s military state, fascism exists to spread terror, war and engage in erasing lesser creeds from its path.