Bulletin N° 1026
"Maus: A Survivor's Tale" (1981)
by Art Speigelman
(154 pages)
This non-fiction book depicts the
author, Art Spiegelman, interviewing his father about his experiences as
a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques
and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs,
the British as fish, the French as frogs, and the Swedish as deer. Critics have
classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix
of genres. In 1992, it became the first and so far only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer
Prize (the Special Award in Letters).
In the frame-tale timeline in the
narrative present that begins in 1978 in New York City, Spiegelman talks with
his father Vladek about his Holocaust experiences, gathering material and
information for the Maus project he is preparing. In the narrative past,
Spiegelman depicts these experiences, from the years leading up to World War II
to his parents' liberation from the Nazi concentration camps. Much of the story
revolves around Spiegelman's troubled relationship with his father, and the
absence of his mother, who died by suicide when he was 20. Her grief-stricken
husband destroyed her written accounts of Auschwitz. The book uses a minimalist
drawing style and displays innovation in its pacing, structure, and page
layouts.
&
« Au revoir les enfants » (1987)
https://gloria.tv/post/2yr1WQ4EWqP9DRWQuD8AbKmjp
with English subtitles
(1:44:45)
This
film is based on events in the childhood of the director, Louis Malle, who at
age 11 was attending a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau. One
day,(1944) he witnessed a Gestapo raid in which three Jewish students and a
Jewish teacher were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz. All four were gassed
on arrival. The school's headmaster, Lucien Bunel - Carmelite Father "Père
Jacques de Jesus", was arrested for harboring them and sent to the
concentration camp at Mauthausen. He died shortly after the camp was liberated
by the American Army, having refused to leave until the last French prisoner
was repatriated. Forty years later Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to
the victims of the Holocaust, granted Père Jacques the title of Righteous Among
the Nations.
Subject: Popular
Responses: Reactive, Proactive and the work of agents provocateurs.
February 21,
2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
The propensity for an overwhelming conformity to the will of our oppressors is a lesson that is not lost on those who would profit from a hierarchy of domination and control. To change the social order from below (viz. to truly democratize society), requires an understanding of a historical context that is favorable to the attempt and a society in good health. With one of these two conditions lacking, control will fall into the hands of a few at the top of the hierarchy, while the rest will engage randomly in non-democratic activities and futile attempts to distract themselves from their miseries.
To continue our presentation of the final section of Barrington Moore, Jr.’s comparative study of the social origins of dictatorship and democracy, we open now chapter eight, “Revolution from Above and Fascism.” Here Moore examines the social conditions which produced “the second main route” to the world of modern industry (after his analysis of “the democratic route to modern society” in the preceding chapter). The “capitalist and reactionary route is exemplified most clearly by Germany and Japan.”
There
capitalism took hold quite firmly in both agriculture and industry and turned
them into industrial countries. But it did not without a popular revolutionary
upheaval. What tendencies there were in this direction were weak, far weaker in
Japan than in Germany, and in both were diverted and crushed. Though not the
only cause, agrarian conditions and the specific types of capitalist
transformation that took place in the countryside contributed very heavily to
these defeats and the feebleness behind any impulse toward Western democratic
forms.
There
are certain forms of capitalist transformation in the countryside that may
succeed economically, in the sense of yielding good profits, but which are for fairly
obvious reasons unfavorable to the growth of free institutions of the
nineteenth-century Western variety. Though these forms shade into each other,
it is easy to distinguish two general types. A landed upper class may, as in
Japan, maintain intact the preexisting peasant society, introducing just enough
changes in rural society to ensure the peasants generate sufficient surplus
that it can appropriate and market at a profit. Or a landed upper class may
devise wholly new social arrangements along the lines of plantation slavery.
Straightforward slavery in modern times is likely to be the creation of a class
of colonizing intruders into tropical areas. In parts of eastern Europe,
however, indigenous nobilities were able to reintroduce serfdom, which
reattached the peasants to the soil in ways that produced somewhat similar
results. This was a halfway form between the two others.
Both
the system of maintaining peasant society intact but squeezing more out of it
and the use of servile or semiservice labor on large units of cultivation require
strong political methods to extract the surplus, keep the labor force in its
place, and in general make the system work. Not all of these methods are of
course political in the narrow sense. Particularly where the peasant society is
preserved, there are all sorts of attempts to use traditional relationships and
attitudes as the basis of the landlord’s position. Since these political
methods have important consequences, it will be helpful to give them a name.
Economists distinguish between labor-intensive and capital-intensive types of
agriculture, depending on whether the system uses large amounts of labor or
capital. It may also be helpful to speak of labor-repressive systems, of which
slavery is but an extreme type. The difficulty with such a notion is that one
may legitimately ask precisely what type has not been labor-repressive. The
distinction I am trying to suggest is one between the use of political
mechanisms (using the term ‘political’ broadly as just indicated ) on the one
hand and reliance on the labor market, on the other hand, to ensure an adequate
labor force for working the soil and the creation of an agricultural surplus
for consumption by other classes. Those at the bottom suffer severely in both cases.
To
make the conception of a labor-repressive agricultural system useful, it would
be well to stipulate that large numbers of people are kept at work in this
fashion. It is also advisable to state explicitly what it does not include, for
“example, the American family farm of the mid-nineteenth century. There many
have been exploitation of the labor of family members in this case, but it was
done apparently mainly by the head of the household himself with minimal
assistance from the outside. Again, a system of hired agricultural laborers
where the workers had considerable real freedom to refuse jobs and move about, a
condition rarely met in actual and preindustrial agrarian systems are not necessarily labor repressive if there is
a rough balance between the overlord’s contribution to justice and security and
the cultivator’s contribution in the form of crops. Whether this balance can be
pined down in any objective sense is a moot point best discussed in the
following chapter when the issue arises in connection with the causes of
peasant revolutions. Her we need only remark that the establishment of labor-repressive
agrarian systems in the course of modernization does not necessarily produce greater
suffering among the peasants than other forms. Japanese peasants had an easier
time of it than did English ones. Our problem here is in any case a different
one; how and why labor-repressive agrarian systems provide an unfavorable soil
for the growth of democracy and an important part of the institutional complex
leading to fascism.
In
discussing the rural origins of parliamentary democracy, we noticed that a
limited degree of independence from the monarchy constituted one of the
favorable conditions, though one that did not occur everywhere. While a system
of labor-repressive agriculture may be started in opposition to the central authority,
it is likely to fuse with the monarchy at a later point in search of political
support. This situation can also lead to the preservation of a military ethic
among the nobility in a manner unfavorable to the growth of democratic
institutions. The evolution of the Prussian state constitutes the clearest example.
Since we have referred to these developments at several points in this work, it
will be appropriate to sketch them very briefly here.
In
northeastern Germany the manorial reaction of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, about which we shall have still more to say in quite another
context, broke off the development toward the libration of the peasantry from
feudal obligations and the closely connected development of town life that in England
and France eventually culminate in Western democracy. A fundament cause was the
growth of grain exports, though it was not the sole one. The Prussian nobility
expanded its holdings at the expense of the peasantry which, under the Teutonic
Order, had been close to freedom, and reduced them to serfdom. As parts of the
same process, the nobility reduced the towns to dependence by short-circuiting
them with their exports. Afterward, the Hohenzollern rulers managed to destroy
the independence of the nobility, and crush the Estates, playing nobles and townsmen
off against one another, thereby checking the aristocratic component in the
more toward parliamentary government. The result in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries was the ‘Sparta of the North,’ a militarized fusion of
royal bureaucracy and landed aristocracy.
From
the side of the landed aristocracy came the conceptions of inherent superiority
of the ruling class and sensitivity to matters of status, prominent traits well
into the twentieth century. Fed by new sources, these conceptions could later be
vulgarized and made appealing to the German population as a whole in doctrines
of racial superiority. The royal bureaucracy introduced, against considerable
aristocratic resistance, the ideal of complete and unreflecting obedience to an
institution over and above class and individual - prior to the nineteenth
century it would be anachronistic to speak of the nation. Prussian discipline,
obedience, and admiration of the hard qualities of the soldier come mainly from
the Hohenzollern efforts to create a central monarchy.
All
this does not of course mean that some inexorable fate drove Germany toward fascism
from the sixteen century onward, that the process never could have been
reversed. Other factors had to intervene, some very important ones, as
industrialization began to gather momentum during the nineteenth century. About
these it will be necessary to speak in a moment. There are also significant
variants and substitutions within the general pattern that has led to fascism,
subalternatives on might say if one wished to be very precise and technical,
within the major alternative of conservative modernization through revolution
from above. In Japan the notion of total commitment to authority apparently
came out of the feudal, rather than the monarchical, side of the equation.
Again in Italy, where fascism was invented, there was no powerful national
monarchy. Mussolini had to go all the way back to ancient Rome for the
corresponding symbolism.
At a
later stage in the course of modernization, a new and crucial factor is likely
to appear in the form of a rough working coalition between influential sectors
of the landed upper classes and the emerging commercial and manufacturing
interests. By and large, this was a nineteenth-century political configuration,
though it continued on into the twentieth. Marx and Engels in their discussion
of the abortive 1848 revolution in Germany, wrong though they were on other
major features, put their finger on this decisive ingredient: a commercial and
industrial class which is too weak and dependent to take power and rule in its
own right and which therefore throws itself into the arms of the landed
aristocracy and the royal bureaucracy, exchanging the right to rule for the
right to make money. It is necessary to add that, even if the commercial and
industrial element s weak, it must be strong enough (or soon become strong
enough) to be a worthwhile political ally. Otherwise a peasant revolution,
leading to communism may intervene. This happened in both Russian and China
after unsuccessful efforts to establish such a coalition. There also appears to
be another ingredient that enters the situation somewhat later than the formation
of this coalition: sooner or later systems of labor-repressive agriculture are
liable to run into difficulties produced by competition from more technically advanced
ones in other countries. The competition of American wheat exports created
difficulties in many parts of Europe after the end of our Civil War. In the context
of a reactionary coalition, such competition intensifies authoritarian and
reactionary trends among a landed upper class that finds its economic basis
sinking and therefore turns to political levers to preserve its rule.
Where
the coalition succeeds in establishing itself, there has followed a prolonged
period of conservative and even authoritarian government, which, however, falls
far short of fascism. The historical boundaries of such systems are often somewhat
blurred. At a rather generous estimate, one might hold that to this species
belong the period from the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in Germany to the end of
the First World War and, in Japan, from the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate to
1918. These authoritarian governments acquired some democratic features:
notably a parliament with limited powers. Their history may be punctuated with
attempts to extend democracy which, toward the end, succeeded in establishing
unstable democracies (the Weimar Republic, Japan in the twenties, Italy under
Giolitti). Eventually the door to fascist regimes was opened by the failure of
these democracies to cope with the sever problems of the day and reluctance or
inability to being about fundamental structural changes. One factor, but only
one, in the social anatomy of these governments has been the retention of a
very substantial share in political power by the landed élite, due to the
absence of a revolutionary breakthrough by the peasants in combination with
urban strata.
Some of the semiparliamentary governments
that arose on this basis carried out a more or less peaceful economic and
political revolution from above that took them a long distance toward becoming
modern industrial countries. Germany travelled the furthest I, this direction,
Japan only somewhat less so, Italy a great deal less, Spain very little. Now,
in the course of modernization by a revolution from above, such a government
has to carry out many of the same tasks performed elsewhere with the help of a
revolution from below. The notion that a violent popular revolution is somehow necessary
in order to sweep away ‘feudal’ obstacles to industrialization is pure
nonsense, as the course of German and Japanese history demonstrates. On the
other hand, the political consequences from dismounting the old order from
above are decidedly different. As they proceeded with conservative modernization,
these semiparliamentary governments tried to preserve, as much of the original
social structure as they could, fitting large sections into the new building
wherever possible. The results had some resemblance to present-day Victorian
houses with modern electrical kitchens but insufficient bathrooms and leaky pipes
hidden decorously behind newly plastered walls. Ultimately the makeshifts
collapsed.
One
very important series of measures was the rationalization of the political
order. This meant the breakup of traditional and long established territorial
divisions, such as feudal han in Japan or independent states and
principalities in Germany and Italy. Except in Japan, the breakup was not
complete. But in the course of time a central government did establish strong
authority and a uniform administrative system, and a more or less uniform law
code and system of courts appeared. Again, in varying degrees, the state
managed to crate a sufficiently powerful military machine to be able to make
the wishes of its ruler’s felt in the arena of international politics. Economically
the establishment of a strong central government and the elimination of
internal barriers to trade meant an increase in the size of the effective
economic unit. Without such an increase in size, the division of labor
necessary for an Industrial society could not exist, unless all countries were
willing to trade peacefully with one another.
. . .
Still another
aspect of the rationalization of the political order has to do with the making
of citizens in a new type of society. Literacy and rudimentary technical skills
are necessary for the masses. Setting up a national system of education is very
likely to bring on a conflict with religious authorities. Loyalty to a new abstraction,
the state, must also replace religious loyalties if they transcend national
boundaries or compete with one another so vigorously as to destroy internal
peace. Japan had less of a problem here than Germany, Italy, or Spain. (pp.433-439)
Moore goes on to observe that “conservative modernization” require certain conditions, not the least of which was exceptionally competent leadership.
… it takes very able leadership to drag along the
less perceptive reactionary elements, concentrated among, though not
necessarily confined to, the landed upper classes. .
. . Reactionaries can always
advance the plausible argument that modernizing leaders are making changes and
concessions that will merely arouse the appetites of the lower classes and
bring on a revolution. Similarly, the leadership must have at hand or be able
to construct a sufficiently powerful bureaucratic apparatus, including the
agencies of repression, the military and the police . . . , in order to free
itself from the influence of both extreme reactionary and popular or radical
pressures in the society. The government has to become separate from society,
something that can happen rather more easily than simplified versions of Marxism
would allow us to believe.
In
the short run, a strong conservative government has distinct advantages. It can
both encourage and control economic growth. It can see to it that the lower
classes who pay the costs under all forms of modernization do not make too much
trouble. But Germany and, even more, Japan were trying to solve a problem that
was inherently insoluble, to modernize without changing their social structures.
The only way out of this dilemma was militarism, which united the upper
classes. Militarism intensified a climate of international conflict, which in
turn made industrial advance all the more imperative, even if in Germany a
Bismarck could for a time hold the situation in check, partly because
militarism had not yet become a mass phenomenon. To carry out thoroughgoing structural
reforms, i.e., to make the transition to a paying commercial agriculture
without the repression of those who worked the soil and to do the same in
industry, in a word, to use modern technology rationally for human welfare was
beyond the political vision of these governments.* Ultimately these systems crashed in an
attempt at foreign expansion, but not until they had tried to make reaction
popular in the form of fascism.
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*On this score, Germany and Japan are not of course unique. Since the
Second World War, Western democracy has begun to display more and more of the same
traits for broadly similar reasons that, however, no longer have much to do
with agrarian questions. Somewhere Marx remarks that the bourgeoisie in its
declining phase reproduces all the evils and irrationalities against which it
once fought. So indeed did socialism in the effort to establish itself, thus
allowing twentieth-century democracy to fly its muddy and blood-spattered
banner of freedom with something short of outright cynical hypocrisy.(pp.441-442)
. . .
Why was this reactionary upsurge no more than a passing phase in
England? Why did not England continue along this road to become another Germany?
Anglo-Saxon liberties, Magna Charta, Parliament and such rhetoric will not do
for an answer. Parliament voted repressive measures by huge majorities.
An
important part of the answer may be found in the fact that, a century before,
certain extremist Englishmen had chopped off the head of their monarch to
shatter the magic of royal absolutism in England. At a deeper level of
causation, England’s whole previous history, her reliance on a navy instead of
an army, on unpaid justices of the peace instead of royal officials, had put in
the hands of the central government a repressive apparatus weaker than that
possessed by the strong continental monarchies. Thus the materials with which
to construct a German system were missing or but feebly developed. Still, by
now we have seen enough great social and political changes out of unpromising
beginnings to suspect that the institutions could have been created if
circumstances had been more favorable. But fortunately of human liberties they
were not. The push toward industrialism had begun much earlier in England and
was to render unnecessary for the English bourgeoisie any great dependence on
the crown and the landed aristocracy. Finally, the landed upper classes
themselves did not need to repress the peasants. Mainly they wanted to get them
out of the way in order to go over to commercial farming; by and large,
economic measures would be enough to provide the labor force they needed.
Succeeding economically in this particular fashion, they had little need to
resort to repressive political measures to continue their leadership. Therefore
in England manufacturing and agrarian interests competed with one another for
popular favor during the rest of the nineteenth century, gradually extending
the suffrage while jealously opposing and knocking down each other’s more
selfish measures (Reform Bill of 1832, abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846,
gentry support of factory legislation, etc.)
In
the English phase of reaction there were hints of fascist possibilities, particularly
in some of the antiradical riots. But these were no more than hints. The time
was still too early. Fascist symptoms we can see very much more clearly in another
part of the world at another point in time – during a brief phase of extremism
in Russia after 1905. This was extreme even by Russian standards of the day;
one could make a strong case for the thesis that Russian reactionaries invented
fascism. Thus this phase of Russian history is especially illuminating because
it shows that the fascist syndrome 1) can appear in response to the stains of advancing
industrialism independently of a specific social and cultural background; 2)
that it may have many roots in agrarian life: 3) that it appears partly in
response to a weak push toward parliamentary democracy; 4) but cannot flourish
without industrialism or in an overwhelmingly agrarian background - points, to be sure, all suggested by the
recent histories of China and Japan too, though it is illuminating to find stronger
confirmation in Russian history.
Shortly before the Revolution on 1905 the tiny Russian commercial and
industrial class showed some signs of discontent with repressive tsarist autocracy
and a willingness to flirt with liberal constitutional notions. Worker’s
strikes, however, and the promise obtained in the Imperial Manifesto of October
17, 1905, to meet some of the demands of the strikers, brought the
industrialists safely back within the tsarist camp. Against this background appeared
the Black Hundreds movement. Drawing partly on American experience, they made
‘lynch’ into a Russian word and asked for the application of zakon lyncha,
lynch law. They resorted to violence in storm-trooper style to suppress ‘treason’
and ‘sedition.’ If Russia could destroy
the ‘kikes’ and foreigners, their propaganda asserted, everyone could live
happily in a return to ‘true Russian’ ways. This anti-Semitic nativism had considerable
appeal to backward, precapitalist, petty bourgeois elements in the cities and
among the smaller nobility. However, in still backward peasant Russia of the
early twentieth century, this form of rightist extremism was unable to find a
firm popular basis. Among the peasants it succeeded mainly in area of mixed
nationality, where the explanation of all evil as being due to Jews and
foreigners made some sense in terms of peasant experience. As everyone knows,
to the extent that they were politically active, the Russian peasants were
revolutionary and eventually the major force in exploding the old regime.
In
India, which is equally if not more backward, similar movements have likewise
failed to obtain a firm basis among the masses. To be sure, Subhas Chandra Bose,
who died in 1945, expressed dictatorial sentiments, worked for the Axis, and
had a very large popular following. Though his fascist sympathies were
consistent with other aspects of his public record and do not seem to be the
outcome of momentary enthusiasm or opportunism, Subhas Chandra Bose has gone
down in Indian tradition mainly as an extreme and perhaps misguided anti-British
patriot. There has also been a scattering of fascist Hindu political organizations,
some of which developed the autocratic discipline of the European totalitarian party.
They have reached the peak of their influence so far in the chaos and riots
surrounding Partition, during which they helped to promote anti-Muslim riots
and served as defense organs for Hindu communities against Muslim attacks, led,
presumably, by similar organizations on the Muslim side. Their programs lack economic
content and appear to be mainly a form of militant, xenophobic Hinduism,
seeking to combat the stereotype that Hindus are pacific, divided by caste, and
weak. So far their electoral appeal has been very small.
One
possible reason for the weakness of the Hindu variant of fascism to date may be
the fragmentation of the Hindu world along cast, class, and ethnic lines. Thus
a characteristically fascist appeal addressed to one segment would antagonize
others, while a more general appeal, by taking on some color of universal panhumanism,
begins to lose its fascist qualities. In this connection it is worth noticing
that nearly all the extremist Hindu groups have opposed untouchability and
other social disabilities of cast. The main reason, however, is probably the
simple fact that Gandhi had already preempted the antiforeign and
anticapitalist sentiment of huge masses of the population: peasants and artisans
in the cottage industries. Under the conditions created by the British
occupation, he was able to tie these sentiments to the interests of a large
section of the business class. On the other hand, the landed élite generally
stood aloof. Thus reactionary trends have been strong in India and have helped
to delay economic progress since Independence. But as a mass phenomenon the
large movements belong to an historical species distinct from fascism.
Though it might be equally profitable to undertake a parallel consideration
of democratic failures that preceded fascism in Germany, Japan, and Italy, it
is enough for present purposes to notice that fascism is inconceivable without
democracy or what is sometimes more turgidly called the entrance of the masses
onto the historical stage. Fascism was an attempt to make reaction and conservatism
popular and plebeian, through which conservatism, of course, lost the
substantial connection it did have with freedom, some aspects of which were
discussed in the preceding chapter.
The
conception of objective law vanished under fascism. Among its most significant features
was a violent rejection of humanitarian ideals, including any notion of
potential human equality. The fascist outlook stressed not only the inevitability
of hierarchy, discipline, and obedience, but also posited that they were values
in their own right. Romantic conceptions of comradeship qualify this outlook
but slightly; it is comradeship in submission. Another feature was the stress
on violence. This stress goes far beyond any cold, rational appreciation of the
factual importance of violence in politics to a mystical worship of ‘hardness’
for its own sake. Blood and death often acquire overtones of erotic attraction,
thought in its less exalted moments fascism was thoroughly ‘healthy’ and
‘normal,’ promising return to a cosy bourgeois, and even prebourgeois peasant,
womb.
Plebeian anticapitalism thus appears as the feature that most clearly
distinguishes twentieth-century fascism from its predecessors, the nineteenth-century
conservative and semiparliamentary regimes. It is a product of both the
intrusion of capitalism into the rural economy and of strains arising in the
postcompetitive phase of capitalist industry. Hence fascism developed most
fully in Germany where capitalist industrial growth had gone the furthest within
the framework of a conservative revolution from above. It came to light as only
a weak secondary trend in such backward area as Russia, China, and India. Prior
to World War II, it failed to take root in England and the United States where
capitalism worked reasonably well or where efforts to correct its shortcomings
could be attempted within the democratic framework and succeed with the help of
a prolonged war boom. Most of the anticapitalist opposition to big business had
to be shelved in practice, though one should not make the opposite error of
regarding fascist leaders as merely the agents of big business. The attraction
of fascism for the lower middle class in the cities, threatened by capitalism,
has often been pointed out; here we may confine ourselves to a brief review of
the evidence on its varying relationships to the peasantry in different countries.** In Germany the effort
to establish a massive conservative base in the countryside long antedated the
Nazis. As Professor Alexander Gerschenkron points out, the basic elements of
Nazi doctrine appear quite distinctly in the Junkers’ generally successful
efforts, by means of the Agrarian League established in 1894, to win the
support of the peasants in non-Junker areas of smaller farms. Führer worship, the
idea of a corporative state, militarism, Anti-Semitism, in a setting closely
related to the Nazi distinction between ‘predatory’ and ‘productive’ capital,
were devices used to appeal to anticapitalist sentiments among the peasantry.
There are a good many indications that in subsequent years down to the
depression the substantial and prosperous peasants were slowly losing ground to
dwarf peasants. The depression constituted a deep and general crisis to which
the main rural response was National Socialism. Rural support for the Nazis came
to an average of 37.4 percent, practically identical with that in the country
as a whole in the last relatively free election of July 31, 1932.(pp.444- 449)
_______
**Special
studies too provide evidence for the view that the ‘little fellow’ who was
having a hard time of it under capitalist conditions was the one most receptive
to the Nazi appeal. In Schleswig-Holstein the village communities where the
Nazis won 80 to 100 percent of the vote were in what is known as the Geest,
an area of small farms on poor soil, heavily dependent on sensitive markets for
young cattle and hogs. . . . Near Nuremberg, too, the Nazi vote ranged from 71
to 83 percent in an area of relatively low land values, middle-sized family
farms, and generally marginal agriculture dependent on the urban market. . . .
Further evidence point in the same direction is summarized and cited in
Bracher, et al, Machtergreifung, 389-390.
. . .
Italian fascism displays the same pseudoradical and propeasant features
found in Germany and Japan. In Italy, on the other hand, these notions were
more of an opportunistic growth, a cynical decoration put on to take advantage
of circumstances. Cynical opportunism as present in Germany and Japan too, of
course, but seems to have been much more blatant in Italy.
Immediately after the 1914 war, there was a bitter struggle in the countryside
between Socialist and Christian-Democratic trade unions on the one hand and the
big landowners on the other. At this point, i.e., 1919-1020, Mussolini,
according to Ignazio Silone, paid no attention to the countryside, did not
believe in a fascist conquest of the land, and thought fascism would always be
an urban movement. But the struggle between the landowners and the unions, representing
the interests of hired labor and tenants, gave fascism an unexpected
opportunity to fish in troubled waters. Presenting themselves as the saviors of
civilization against Bolshevism, fasci – bands of idealists,
demobilized army officers, and just plain toughs – broke up rural union
headquarters , often with the connivance of the police, and during 1921
destroyed the leftist movement in the countryside. Among those who streamed
into fascist ranks were peasants who had climbed into the middle ranks of
landowners, and even tenants who hated the monopolistic practices of the
unions. During the summer of this year
Mussolini made his famous observation that ‘if Fascism does not wish to die or,
worse still, to commit suicide, it must not provide itself with a doctrine . .
. . I do wish that during the two months which are still to elapse before out
National Assembly meets, the philosophy of Fascism could be created.
Only
later did Italian fascist leaders begin to declare that fascism was
‘ruralizing’ Italy, championing the cause of the peasants, or that it was
primarily a ‘rural phenomenon.’ These claims were nonsense. The number of owner
operations dropped by 500,000 between 1921 and 1931; that of cash-and-share
tenants rose by about 400,000. Essentially fascism protected big agriculture
and big industry at the expense of the agricultural laborer, small peasant, and
consumer.
As we
look back at fascism and its antecedents, we can see that the glorification of
the peasant appears as a reactionary symptom in both Western and Asiatic
civilization at a time when the peasant economy is facing severe difficulties. In
part the Epilogue I shall try to indicate some of the recurring forms this glorification
has taken in its more virulent stages. To say that such ideas are merely foisted
on the peasants by the upper classes is not true. Because the ideas find an
echo in peasant experience, they may win wide acceptance, the wider, it seems,
the more industrialized and modern the country is.
As
evidence against the evaluation that such glorification constitutes a
reactionary symptom, one might be tempted to cite Jefferson’s praise of the
small farmer and John Start Mill’s defense of peasant farming. Both thinkers,
however, in the characteristic fashion of early liberal capitalism, were
defending not so much peasants as small independent property owners. There is in
their thought none of the militant chauvinism and glorification of hierarchy
and submission found in the later versions, though there are occasional
overtones of a romantic attitude toward rural life. Even so, their attitude toward
agrarian problems and rural society does indicate the limits that liberal
thinkers had reached at their respective points in time. For such ideas to
serve reactionary purposes in the twentieth century, they have had to take on a
new coloring and appear in a new context; the defense of hard work and small property
in the twentieth century has an entirely different political meaning from what
it had in the middle of the nineteenth or the latter part of the eighteenth
centuries.(pp.451-452)
We encourage readers to contemplate the significance of this information and to evaluate the importance of these events as they affect the lives of all of us.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
--
Professeur
honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
“Fake
War With Russia Is Being USed To Hide War On YOU & Ukraine's White
Supremacist Breeding Ground”
with Ryan
Cristián
(2:38:15)
+
“With
Its Doomsday Clock at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists Calls for Escalating US Aggression Against Russia”
by Roger D.
Harris
+
“Hype,
Lies & Psyops: How The False Flag Ukraine Narrative Was Bungled”
with Ryan
Cristián
(3:21:48)
+
“Russian
UN ambassador responds to US 'war propaganda' in interview w/Grayzone”
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/02/15/russian-un-ambassador-us-war-propaganda-grayzone/
with Max
Blumenthal and Aaron Maté
(1:36:03)
+
“False
Predictions About Russia Invading Ukraine Are Making People Fear WW3”
by Robert
Inlakesh
+
“What
Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?”
by Medea
Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
===========
b.
“Do You Want a War Between Russia and
NATO?”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56994.htm
by Pepe
Escobar
+
“Young
Ukrainians – Everyday Fears, Military Propaganda and Chauvinism”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/young-ukrainians-everyday-fears-military-propaganda-chauvinism/5771108
or https://thescotfree.com/canada/young-ukrainians-everyday-fears-military-propaganda-and-chauvinism/
by Konrad
Rękas
+
“Donetsk
Republic shelled – ‘Evacuate to Russia now!’”
with George
Galloway
(26:01)
+
“War
in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-war-in-europe-and-the-rise-of-raw-propaganda/279713/
by John
Pilger
+
“US
Confused On False Flag Definition In Ukraine Psyop & UK Boosted Account For
60% COVID Hosp./Death”
with Ryan
Cristián
(3:42:25)
+
“Ukraine:
The Tip of the Spear for the Imperialist Project”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-tip-spear-imperialist-project
by Ajamu
Baraka
===========
c.
“COVID-19 The Great Reset – ‘Delete’ Humanity”
by Peter Koenig
+
“War
racket EXPLAINED: Business booming for US 'defense' contractors”
or
https://www.rt.com/shows/news-on-rt-america/549782-war-racket-explained-business-booming/
with Chris Hedges
(25:44)
+
“The
Real Reason Why Blackstone Is Courting The Pentagon”
by Whitney Webb
+
"US
Billionaires 10 TIMES RICHER Over Last 2 Years"
with
reallygraceful
(7:02)
+
“New
Data: Billionaires Bought The US Government For $14 Billion”
or https://leecamp.com/new-data-billionaires-bought-the-us-government-for-14-billion/
with Lee Camp
(28:25)
+
“Harmful Gig Economy”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBnThKNzFmbGpqsBdtQTHVKp?projector=1
with Chris Hedges
(26:18)
+
“Julian Assange's Psychological Torture“
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBnVdCszXzXsZGkZhPHFPpDt?projector=1
with Trinity Chavez
(25:52)
===========
d.
“On
the ground in Ukraine on 'invasion day' & Trudeau's Martial law (w/ Gonzalo
Lira)”
with Gonzalo Lira
(audio, 1:40:04)
+
From:
Reclaim The Net <hello@reclaimthenet.org>
Date: Feb 17, 2022
Subject: Canada to freeze assets of anyone who "indirectly" supports
protests
|
||
What was once a rating metric reserved for businesses and
lenders - the ESG score - is now rather alarmingly coming to individuals as
well. These attempts at "convergence" of tracking and evaluating
people and business entities is by no means unique or new, but if reports are
to be believed, it is gaining momentum - while private citizens seem to be
largely oblivious to it. |
EXTREME |
On Monday, the Canadian government announced drastic plans
to freeze
the bank accounts of protesters associated with the Freedom Convoy - a
movement that's standing against vaccine mandates. However, the
government document containing these plans, which was published by
the Canadian government late Tuesday night, reveals that the financial
restrictions will extend far beyond bank accounts and can be used to target
anyone who's deemed to have "indirectly" engaged in the protests.
These entities have also been granted full immunity
against civil lawsuits for any actions they take to comply with this order. |
|
Reclaim The Net accepts no advertising and is funded
entirely by the community. If you support free speech, the eradication of
cancel culture and restoring privacy and civil liberties, please become a
supporter here. |
|
LOCKED OUT |
Raechel Allan-Nicholls, a businesswoman from Kelowna, a
city in British Columbia, had her personal Facebook account and the Instagram
page of her business suspended. She believes the accounts were suspended
because she is an admin for Freedom Convoy 2022 Facebook group. |
FACING THREATS |
The Stella Luna Gelato Café in Ottawa had to close this
week after the staff received threats. |
BLOCKED |
The website of Hong Kong Watch, a rights group based in
the UK, is now inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong. |
CONTENT REMOVAL
DEMAND |
Five Senators from the Democratic Party signed a letter to
YouTube, asking the platform to crack down on “ghost gun” videos. The
senators urged the platform to more strictly enforce its policy against
showing how to make firearms. |
Reclaim The Net exists because of readers like you. Keep
us going and become a supporter. We appreciate your support. |
Thanks for reading, |
===========
e.
“Canadian truckers respond to
crackdown warnings l Digital Originals”
or
https://ussanews.com/canadian-truckers-respond-to-crackdown-warnings-l-digital-originals/
(2:53)
+
“Truckers react to Trudeau
invoking Emergencies Act: 'Gained more freedom fighters’”
by Lisa Bennatan
(audio, 3:24)
+
“Like Father, Like Son: How the
Trudeaus Manufacture Crises to Justify ‘Emergency Measures’”
by Matthew Ehret
+
“Justin Trudeau is a Groomed
Politician Controlled by Klaus Schwab on Behalf of Big Money”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
+
“Video: Trudeau & Cabinet
Trained By Global Economic Cabal – Admits WEF Chairman”
with Jimmy Dore
(5:51)
+
“Trudeau - Is This Your Liberal
Hero?”
https://rumble.com/vv9vp7-trudeau-is-this-your-liberal-hero.html
with Russell Brand
(16:09)
+
“Repressing the Freedom Convoy:
Will Trudeau’s Act of Desperation Succeed?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/will-trudeau-act-desperation-succeed/5770789
by Kim Petersen
+
“Jonathan Turley: Justin Trudeau
threw gas on the fire”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/justin-trudeau-trucker-freedom-convoy-turley-draconian-measures
with Fox News Staff
(1:07)
===========
f.
“Video: Ottawa. Freedom Convoy.
Livestream, February 19”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-ottawa-freedom-convoy-livestream-february-19/5771293
with Global
Research News
(2:47:21)
+
“Was the hacking of Ottawa trucker
convoy donors a US-Canadian intelligence operation?”
by Kit Klarenberg
+
“Divisions and Chaos within the
Ottawa Police. Violence and Brute Force Ordered by Trudeau Government”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
+
“As Trudeau’s Crackdown Shows, No
Protest Will Ever Be Worthy Enough for the Left”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/trudeau-canada-truckers-protest-state-of-emergency/279727/
by Jonathan Cook
===========
g.
“What the Media Won't Tell You
About Canada”
with reallygraceful
(12:16)
+
“Canada Data Showing Vaccinated
Mostly Infected”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-data-showing-vaccinated-mostly-infected/5770780
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
===========
h.
“I Read The Great Narrative (So You
Don't Have To!)”
https://www.corbettreport.com/greatnarrative/
with James Corbett
(59:54)
Remember when the World Economic Forum held
a conference on "The Great Narrative"? And remember when Klaus Schwab
threatened to release a book on the topic? Well, guess what? It's heeeere.
That's right, I read The Great Narrative and now I'm spilling the beans on
the globalists plans for the technocratic future . . . and revealing the truth
that we have the power to write our own narrative.
===========
i.
“Lee Camp and Roger Waters on Assange, Human
Rights, & More”
https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/19/lee-camp-and-roger-waters-on-assange-human-rights-more/
with Lee Camp and Roger Waters
(24:59)
+
“Free Julian Assange: Snowden,
Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing”
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/25/belmarsh_tribunal
with Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali
(59:02)
+
“‘We want him out of prison now’:
Julian Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson”
with Jennifer Robinson
(3:14)
+
« L'Assemblée
nationale refuse l'asile politique en France à Julian Assange »
par Graziella L.
===========
j.
“Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA
Vaccinations”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/excerpts-from-new-most-important-research-article/5770776
by Joel S.
Hirschhorn, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Dr. Greg Nigh, Dr. Peter McCullough, and et
al
+
“Letter
from a Coerced Mother”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/letter-coerced-mother/5771148
by Dr. Robert Malone
+
“Jack
Dorsey, the CIA and Twitter Censorship in the Age of Covid-19”
by Vanessa Beeley
+
“‘Frequent
Boosters Threaten Immune System’ – European Experts”
with Jimmy Dore
(14:25)
+
“Here’s
how to detox from the COVID spike protein – from the jab or the virus”
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
·
If you had COVID-19 or received a COVID-19 injection, you
may have dangerous spike proteins circulating in your body
·
Spike proteins can circulate in your body after infection or
injection, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs
·
The World Council for Health has released a spike protein
detox guide, which provides straightforward steps you can take to potentially
lessen the effects of toxic spike protein in your body
·
Spike protein inhibitors and neutralizers include pine
needles, ivermectin, neem, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and glutathione
·
The top 10 spike protein detox essentials include vitamin D,
vitamin C, nigella seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin, milk thistle extract, NAC,
ivermectin and magnesium
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k.
de
: News from Underground
envoyé : 16 février 2022
à : nfu@simplelists.com
objet : Daily digest for
nfu@simplelists.com
1.Those whose "sudden deaths" made news just this
past week (February 8-14) by Mark Crispin Miller (15
Feb 2022 19:13 EST) Friends, please read, and share it far and wide. (People
interested in keeping track of all such deaths going forward may subscribe to
my Substack.) https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/they-all-died-suddenly-just-this?r=m6kl7 2."Biden wants to inoculate as many people as
possible," says veteran FDA commissar by Mark
Crispin Miller (15 Feb 2022 20:41 EST) The banality of evil, 2.0 *CLICK
HERE TO TWEET OUT THE VIDEO* Project Veritas released a new video
today exposing Food and Drug Administration [FDA] Executive Officer,
Christopher Cole,
who inadvertently revealed that his agency will eventually announce that
annual COVID vaccinations will become policy. Here are some of the highlights from today’s video: FDA Executive Officer, Christopher Cole: “You’ll have to
get an annual shot [COVID vaccine]. I mean, it hasn’t been formally announced
yet because they don’t want to, like, rile everyone up.” You can watch the full video by CLICKING
HERE. Why is the FDA potentially hiding the fact that annual
COVID shots will be enforced? Is the FDA worried about upsetting the American
people with that alleged information? A lot of questions remain unanswered, and the public
deserves to know the truth. *CLICK HERE
TO TWEET OUT THE VIDEO* Stay tuned for PART 2…coming out tomorrow… James Project Veritas You are receiving this email because you signed up for our
email alerts. 3.Bill Gates' dearest wish is coming true! by Mark
Crispin Miller (16 Feb 2022 09:57 EST) Empty Message 4.Thousands occupying streets outside Australia's Parliament by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 10:32 EST) Please share whatever you may know about what's happening
there. Anti-vaccine Mandate Protesters Occupy Streets Outside
Australia Parliament By TRT World Asia-Pacific Research, February 15, 2022 TRT
World 13
February 2022 Region: Oceania 1 0 5 6 All Global Research articles can be read in 51
languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the
top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected
articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram at @globalresearch_crg. *** Thousands of people have occupied streets outside the
Australian parliament in the capital Canberra as days-long rallies continue
against Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Australian police have protesters until the end of Sunday
to leave occupied areas. Several thousand protesters remained in place at Canberra’s
major showgrounds, while fewer than 100 demonstrators were gathered near the
federal parliament building, an Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police
spokesperson told Reuters. No protesters in Canberra had been arrested so far on
Sunday after three were detained on Saturday. “They must be out by today,” the police spokesperson said,
declining to say what action authorities would take if protesters refused to
comply with demands to leave. Meanwhile, in New Zealand’s Wellington, demonstrators
protesting Covid-19 mandates gathered for a sixth day, despite heavy rain and
strong winds lashing the city. Click on the link for the rest. 5.Things to tell Justin Trudeau (and all those who agree
with him) by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 10:57 EST) From Margaret Anna Alice (whose Substack I strongly
recommend): I keep asking Justin if he’s read
my letter to him (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-justin-trudeau) yet, and he never responded ;-) For anyone still on Twitter who would like to join me in my
pestering campaign, here are a few examples of my tweets at him: • “You had the opportunity to choose between diplomacy and
despotism, democracy and dictatorship. History will not forget which
direction you have chosen, Justin.” (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493394811126046721) • “There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would
be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a
moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral
responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —MLK Jr. (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493394483693588482) • “The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the
name of the noblest causes.” —Thomas Paine (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493396254193115136) • “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” —Thomas Jefferson (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493396400465268737) • So let me get this straight. You are threatening to steal
money from freedom-defending truckers and the patriots who support them while
simultaneously offering financial assistance to a foreign country. Wake up to
your hypocrisy, Justin. (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493417402029068289) • “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the
truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its
people.” —John F. Kennedy, Address on the 20th Anniversary of the
Voice of America (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493418787781054465) • Maybe if you worked on your daddy issues, you might be
less inclined to take out your aggression on the Canadian citizens. Here's an
article to help you come to grips with your parentage, Justin: https://gummibear737.substack.com/p/deep-dive-is-fidel-castro-the-father (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493436714668281862) • “A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies
becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and
he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.… And it all comes from
lying—lying to others and to yourself.” —Dostoevsky (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493437191539757058) • “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” —C.S. Lewis (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493437371471183872) • “Where do your loyalties lie, Justin, with Klaus
Schwab/WEF/Davos or the Canadian people? If the former, as is evident from
your actions and words, doesn't that make you a traitor to Canada? If you're
not a traitor, prove it by talking to your people. Millions await.” (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493593067793747968) 6.Today's Substacks on Trudeau, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein
and a great rap video on Dr. Fauci by Mark
Crispin Miller (16 Feb 2022 13:54 EST) https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/justin-trudeau-is-hallucinating https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-drove-this-man-as https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/justin-trudeaus-shock-doctrine-has https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/samson-drops-a-bomb-on-dr-fauci 7.Ed Dowd (once at BlackRock) on the Pfizer fraud, as cover
for the ultimate financial scam (MUST-SEE/SHARE) by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 14:08 EST) https://banned.video/watch?id=620c0babf8b550051cae335c 8.How to remove graphene oxide from the body by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 14:13 EST) https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/16/how-to-remove-graphene-from-the-body/ 9."To live in constant fear of death is living
death": Ed Curtin on "the courage not to be" by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 14:21 EST) Feb 13, 2022 The Fear Not to Be Edward Curtin This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the
theologian Paul Tillich’s famous book, The Courage to Be. Widely read in the
days when an educated public read books, it is long forgotten. In it, Tillich surveys the history of anxiety and fear and
their relation to courage, religious faith, and the meaning of life. His closing sentence – “The courage to be is rooted in
the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt” –
became acclaimed as an astute description of the existential need to find a
foundation for faith and courage when their foundations were shaking. His writing profoundly influenced many, even when they
didn’t wholly agree with him. Click on the link for the rest. 10.Bad news for Trudeau: Doug Ford backs off by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 14:27 EST) From Tom Woods: Nobody expected it, but all eyes are on Canada now. http://www.SupportingListeners.com Tom Woods This email was sent to bruce@millertrade.com why
did I get this? unsubscribe
from this list update
subscription preferences Tom Woods · PO Box 701447 · Saint Cloud, FL 34770 · USA 11.Is this the guy who hacked GiveSendGo? If so (or if not),
he's clearly nuts by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 16:02 EST) He's hard to watch in any case. https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1494029019414765575 12.Query by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 17:06 EST) If anyone out there can help track "sudden
deaths" reported in South American media, please let me know. 13.Street journalist (and lawyer) Viva Frei on the propaganda
activism of Canadian media (GREAT DISCUSSION) by Mark Crispin Miller (16
Feb 2022 17:44 EST) https://www.bitchute.com/video/sA72NpYldkQ/ --- |
===========
l.
“Is
It Too Late to Protect Our Privacy in the Internet Age?”
by Neil Richards
+
“‘It
Can’t Be Illegal to Help a People’: The Persecution of Alex Saab”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cant-illegal-help-people-persecution-alex-saab/279661/
by Leonardo
Flores
+
“How
an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified
Networks”
by Whitney
Webb
Through its main investors, SoftBank and
Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but
has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and
secretive networks.
+
“What
Happens After U.S. COLLAPSE?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8V22hM3fZU&feature=youtu.be
with Chris
Hedges
(4:06)
+
|
||||||||||
Following the data
breach of GiveSendGo and the leaking of over 90,000 donors to the Freedom
Convoy campaign, it’s a good time to refresh on the ways to go over the
principles of anonymity and to help protect yourself against bad actors -
especially when engaging with activism towards causes you believe in. |
SUPPRESSING
INDEPENDENT VOICES |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has reiterated the platform's
commitment to boosting what she described as "authoritative"
sources and "experts" over the independent creators that helped
build the video-sharing site into what it is today. |
|
Reclaim The Net accepts no advertising and is funded
entirely by the community. If you support free speech, the eradication of
cancel culture and restoring privacy and civil liberties, please become a
supporter here. |
|
CONTACTING DONORS |
On February 13, crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, which
was being used to fundraise for the Freedom Convoy protests, was hacked. The
personal information of more than 90,000 people who donated to the Freedom
Convoy 2022 campaign was stolen. |
"Good morning.This is David Fraser and Guy
Quenneville from CBC Ottawa.We're working on a story about the people who
allegedly contributed funds, through GiveSendGo, to the ongoing Freedom
Convoy protest in Ottawa, according to the public release of hacked data from
the site. |
REVERSAL OF BAN |
Update 1:47pm: Twitter has
reversed its decision to ban Defiant L's after public outcry. |
Defiant L’s released the following statement: |
In 2012, Trudeau tweeted “When a government starts trying
to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is when it's rapidly losing its moral
authority to govern -Harper in 2005.” |
SURVEILLANCE STATE |
Despite the fact civil rights and privacy advocates are
consistently warning against deploying more facial recognition technology, as
mass surveillance-susceptible and insufficiently accurate policing solutions,
mayors like New York City's Eric Adams are adamant about moving in the
opposite direction. |
SPEECH LAWS |
The UK government is working on the Online Safety Bill to
reduce the spread of “harmful” content through online platforms. |
Reclaim The Net exists because of readers like you. Keep
us going and become a supporter. We appreciate your support. |
Thanks for reading, |
===========
m.
"Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HendU4zRg9A
with Alfred
McCoy
(22:24)
+
“USA v China : Michael Hudson”
with Michael
Hudson
(15:08)
+
“USA
v China: with Michael Roberts”
with Michael Roberts
(24:21)
+
“How
the USA has LOST IT"
with Chris Hedges
(7:26)
+
“How
and Why the US Cannot Recover: Is It a Failed State?”
with Michael
Hudson
(1:16:12)
+
“Economic
Update: ‘Fascism’”
https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/fascism
with Richard
Wolff
(audio,
28:59)
===========
n.
“Australia
in 2021: What the Media Won't Tell You (Part 2)”
https://youtu.be/wxMtKvuiJRIhttps://www.bitchute.com/video/6sE8DoGunxF3/
with reallygraceful
(8:40)
===========
o.
“Sheikh
Jarrah family fights state-backed expulsion”
by Tamara
Nassar
+
“Labour
blew $1.3 million pursuing "anti-Semitism" leakers”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/labour-blew-13-million-pursuing-anti-semitism-leakers/34026
by Asa Winstanley
+
“Terrell
Starr and Black Support of Imperialism”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/terrell-starr-and-black-support-imperialism
by Margaret
Kimberley
===========
p.
“Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of
Underdevelopment in Latin America”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/along-belt-and-road-breaking-cycle-underdevelopment-latin-america
by Carlos Martinez
+
“The
Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies”
by Daniel Melo
+
“Why We
Need A "Mau Mau" in Amerikkka”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/why-we-need-mau-mau-amerikkka
by Dedan
Waicuri and Yusuf Askari wa Watu
+
“Renegade
Inc | Russia - A Recent
History Lesson”
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/549863-russia-recent-history-lesson/
with Ross Ashcroft, Vladimir Golstein, Andrei
Nekrasov
(27:40)
===========
q.
From:
CJ Hopkins <cjhopkins@substack.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2022
Subject: The Naked Face of New Normal Fascism
The Naked Face of New Normal Fascism
I told you this part wasn’t going to
be pretty. The collapse of fascist ideological movements and fanatical death
cults never is. The New Normal is proving to be no exception. After three weeks of non-violent civil
disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other
Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to
forced “vaccination,” Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of
militarized riot police (and other
unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into
trucks and arresting
people, and beating them
with batons and the butts of their rifles. In one particularly ugly episode, the New Normal
stormtroopers rode their horses directly into a crowd of non-violent
protesters, trampling an elderly lady with a walker. She had just finished saying
something to the police along the lines of “you break my
heart … this is about peace, and love, and happiness.” Then they knocked her down and rode
their horses over her. Despite an abundance of video evidence
clearly depicting exactly what happened, the Ottawa Police tried to spin it
this way … Here’s an overhead photo of the
incident … The big red arrow (courtesy of The Marie Oakes) points to the lady’s walker, or the
alleged “horse-assaulting bicycle.” Presumably, the face of the gentlemen
above her also caused the horse “to trip,” or was in the process of causing
the horse “to trip,” at the moment that this photo was taken. And that wasn’t all. Oh no, far from
it. The “show of force” was just getting started. After all,
this was not a “mostly peaceful” outbreak of rioting, looting, and arson.
This was non-violent civil disobedience, with children’s bouncy castles,
makeshift saunas, honking, dancing, illegal barbecuing, and other forms of
“terrorist” activity, which had to be crushed with an iron fist. On Saturday, the goon squads
broke out the stun grenades, the pepper spray, and the big wooden sticks. By Sunday morning, they were
shooting people with “non-lethal,
mid-range impact weapons.” Tow truck
operators in horror-movie ski masks were brought in to haul away the big rigs. Before he turned the goon squads loose
on Friday, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, suspending the Canadian constitution,
which he had already suspended back in 2020 due to the “apocalyptic
pandemic,” which is why the protesters were protesting in the first place.
Parliament was scheduled to debate his authority to declare another “state of
emergency,” but, of course, the debate was
abruptly suspended
due to the massive “police operation” that his invocation of the Act had
enabled. Acting under the Emergencies Act, he
immediately cancelled the right of assembly, outlawed the protests, and
started threatening to
kill people’s dogs
and take away their
kids. Then he and his
fascist New Normal lieutenants started freezing the bank accounts of anyone
and everyone even vaguely connected to the trucker protest. According to a Bloomberg report: “The emergency orders
require virtually
every participant in the Canadian financial system — banks, investment firms,
credit unions, loan companies, securities dealers, fundraising platforms and
payment and clearing services — to determine whether they possess or control
property of a person who’s attending an illegal protest or providing supplies
to demonstrators.” And, as if all that wasn’t fascist
enough, Ottawa’s police chief has made it clear that, once the “crackdown” is
finally over, they will hunt
down anyone involved in the protests, arrest them and charge them with
“criminal offenses,” subject them to
“financial sanctions,” and
otherwise destroy their lives and families. The crackdown in Ottawa is hardly an
aberration. As my readers might recall, New Normal
Germany outlawed protesting against the New Normal (i.e., the new official
ideology) back in September of 2020, and the German
police have been absolutely brutal. Anyone deemed a
“Covid denier” is subject to surveillance by Germany’s Intelligence services. The US
Department of Homeland Security designates us “domestic violent extremists.” Same story in Australia, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and assorted other countries. I have been describing the New Normal
as a new form of
totalitarianism (or
fascism, if you prefer) for the past two years, and I have been documenting
it from the very beginning (see, e.g., these Twitter threads from March 2020 and April 2020, which the OffGuardian editors have
preserved for posterity). It has been there all along, right out in the open,
but rendered invisible by the official Covid narrative. The official narrative is rapidly
dissolving, rendering the fascism of the New Normal visible. This is
happening now because those of us who have seen it from the beginning — and
have been resisting it all along — have held out long enough to run out the
clock. GloboCap can’t keep the narrative going, so all they have left is
brute fascist force. We need to make GloboCap deploy that
force, and to shine a big, bright spotlight on it, as the truckers and
protesters in Ottawa have just done. In case anyone is confused about the
tactic, it’s called classic non-violent civil disobedience. I described it in
a recent column: “In other words, we need to make
GloboCap (and its minions) go openly totalitarian … because it can’t. If it
could, it would have done so already. Global capitalism cannot function that
way. Going openly totalitarian will cause it to implode … no, not global
capitalism itself, but this totalitarian version of it. In fact, this is
starting to happen already. It needs the simulation of ‘reality,’ and
‘democracy,’ and ‘normality,’ to keep the masses docile. So we need to attack
that simulation. We need to hammer on it until it cracks, and the monster
hiding within in appears. That is the weakness of the system … New Normal
totalitarianism will not work if the masses perceive it as totalitarianism,
as a political/ideological program, rather than as a response to a deadly
pandemic.” The official narrative is dead, or
dying. The Covidian
Cult is coming apart.
No one but the most fanatical New Normals believes there is any real
justification for imposing mandatory “vaccination,” “quarantine camps,”
segregation of “the Unvaccinated,” or any of the other “Covid restrictions.”
“The virus” is no longer an excuse for mindlessly following ridiculous orders
and persecuting those of us who refuse. Apocalyptic Pandemic Theater is over.
It is a purely political fight from now on. Ottawa is not the end. It is just the
beginning. Protests and other forms of civil disobedience are growing all
around the world … yes, even here in New
Normal Germany. That
does not mean it is time to relax. On the contrary, it is time to step up the
pressure. It is time to make the monster show itself, in all its naked
fascist ugliness, and to force everyone to pick a side. There are only two sides
… fascism or freedom. |