War, National Security and World
Government
excerpted from the book
The Global Economic Crisis
The Great Depression of the XXI
Century
Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew
Gavin Marshall, Editors
Global Research, 2010, paperback
Michel Chossudovsky
p195
Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's heroin. The underlying
military and intelligence objective is to protect the cocaine
and heroin markets, which feed billions of narco-dollars into
the Western banking system. Drug trafficking constitutes "the
third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the
arms trade." Afghanistan and Colombia are the largest drug
producing economies in the world, which feed a flourishing criminal
economy. These countries are heavily militarized. The drug trade
is protected. Amply documented, the CIA has played a central role
in the development of both the Latin American and Asian drug triangles.
p195
There are powerful business and financial interests behind narcotics.
From this standpoint, geopolitical and military control over the
drug routes is as strategic as oil and oil pipelines. The bulk
of the revenues associated with the global trade in narcotics
are not appropriated by terrorist groups and warlords... Intelligence
agencies, powerful business, drug traders and organized crime
are competing for the strategic control over the heroin routes.
p195
A large share of the multibillion dollar revenues of narcotics
are deposited in the Western banking system. Most of the large
international banks together with their affiliates in the offshore
banking havens launder large amounts of narco-dollars.
p197
NATO's sphere of influence includes Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania,
Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, as well Israel, all of which are members
of NATO's Mediterranean Initiative. Through this mechanism, the
Mediterranean Sea has virtually become a NATO lake, surrounded
almost entirely by NATO members or de facto [associate] NATO members.
p198
A cohesive U.S.-NATO-Israel military axis emerged. This powerful
alliance is dominated by Washington. The Pentagon ultimately controls
the overall process of military decision making to the extent
that neither Israel nor a NATO member state can undertake a separate
military without the Pentagon's green light. Moreover, since 2009,
Israel's air defense system is integrated into that of the U.S.
and NATO.
p199
The U.S.-NATO-Israel axis constitutes the most powerful military
alliance in world history. America's allies are the NATO member
states, NATO associate member States and partners under the Istanbul
Initiative (including Israel), the Mediterranean Dialogue, the
Partnership for Peace, and various other bilateral agreements
(New Zealand, Australia, Colombia, Mongolia, Singapore). All in
all, the U.S.-NATO-Israel military axis includes more than fifty
countries.
p199
In early 2008, following the assassination of Benazhir Bhutto,
U.S.-NATO military extended its operations into Pakistan under
the disguise of the "Global War on Terrorism". A report
by the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast
a "Yugoslav-like fate" for Pakistan "in a decade
with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial
rivalries seen recently in Baluchistan. According to the NIC-CIA,
Pakistan was slated to become a "failed state" by 2015,
"as it would be affected by civil war, complete Talibanization
and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons".
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto as
well as the installation of a weak "democratic" successor
government in Islamabad created conditions which paved the way
for the destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a nation
state.
p200
The U.S. agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout
the broader Middle East Central Asian region. U.S. strategy, supported
by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic
and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements,
while also weakening the institutions of the central government.
... The surge in the number of troops
to Afghanistan in 2010 is intended to allow for the deployment
of a significant number of U.S. forces inside Pakistan. The broader
objective is to foment separatist movements, fracture the Nation
State and redraw the borders of Pakistan.
Continuity, characterized by the dominant
role of the Pakistani military and intelligence, is being scrapped
by the U.S. administration in favor of political breakup and balkanization
of Pakistan.
... The U.S. course consists in fomenting
social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation,
including the territorial break-up of Pakistan.
p202
Washington's design consists in destabilizing and breaking up
Pakistan as a Nation State, fomenting long-standing divisions
between Pakistan and India which could result in a regional war,
and developing a military and strategic alliance with India, which
would be directed against China
p203
U.S. and NATO military installations have been established directly
on the borders of Russia and China.
p203
Neither Russia nor China have the clout, in terms of their national
banking institutions, to establish an alternative currency system
which could challenge the dominion of the dollar and the Euro
on global currency markets.
p204
The U.S.-NATO military alliance supports the hegemony of both
the U.S. dollar and the Euro. These two dominant global currency
systems are intricately related. They are controlled and regulated
by overlapping financial interests. The U.S.-Euro monetary arrangement
and its imposition as a global currency system are protected by
the Atlantic Alliance, which constitutes the military arm of the
Western corporate establishment.
p205
Throughout the Third World, currency devaluations ordered by the
IMF have triggered hyperinflation and the collapse of national
monetary systems.
p205
Sovereignty over monetary policy is foregone. Central banks are
under the surveillance of their external creditors. National currencies
in the developing , countries and in the former Soviet Bloc countries
have become de facto proxy currencies linked either to the U.S.
dollar or the Euro.
p205
The alliance in military affairs, namely the U.S.-NATO partnership,
tears a direct relationship to the global monetary architecture...
Washington plays a dominant role in strategic decision making
within the Atlantic Alliance. Historically, NATO has been subordinate
to the Pentagon. Similarly, under a U.S. dominated Atlantic Alliance,
the Euro will not be allowed to undermine the hegemony of the
dollar.
p206
Money creation in Europe and the U.S. is controlled by private
financial interests. The Federal Reserve System is composed of
twelve constituent Federal Reserve banks, which are privately
owned. The Federal Reserve board is formally a public institution.
The European Central Bank is formally a state institution controlled
by a handful of private European banks.
p206
The United States is by far the most indebted country on earth.
The public debt has been monetized. Money has been "created
out of thin air".
p206
U.S. military might supports the worldwide hegemony of the U.S.
dollar. The Pentagon's "long war" endorses America as
a creditor nation. It fosters the imposition of the "weak"
U.S. dollar as a world currency. America is the largest debtor
nation, and at the same time it is the world's creditor. "Creating
money out of thin air", while at the same time imposing the
U.S. dollar as a global currency constitutes the ultimate instrument
of conquest and imperial domination.
The U.S. monetary system is supported
by the most powerful military power on earth. The dollar is backed
by U.S. military might, which constitutes a means for displacing
national currencies and imposing the U.S. dollar. In this regard,
the Federal Reserve's overwhelming powers of money creation constitute
an essential lever of an imperial monetary agenda.
... The Western banking system controls
a worldwide electronic banking network. The control of money creation
at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrument of economic
and social domination. The creation of fiat money provides a command
over the real economies of countries worldwide. The ultimate lever
of the U.S.-NATO imperial design is to override and destroy national
currencies.
p206
Economic interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states
as well as the persistent threat of military intervention have
played a crucial role in sustaining and imposing the U.S. dollar
as the defacto international currency.
Washington's military agenda, which includes
all out war as well as the latent threat of military intervention,
constitutes a means to displacing and ultimately destroying the
financial and banking institutions of sovereign countries.
p207
The 2009-2010 decline of the dollar ... is in large part driven
by large scale speculative trade in the currency markets (e.g.
short selling) which pushes the dollar down and then, at an opportune
time, once a turning point is reached, pushes the dollar up again.
... Wall Street is speculating against
the dollar, pushing it down, with a view to ultimately pushing
it up again.
p208
The IMF, acting on behalf of Wall Street, calls the shots on the
reform of national monetary systems. National currencies in Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia are in large
part controlled by Western financial institutions.
p208
Under the brunt of IMF economic medicine, imposed on developing
countries, national central banks are prevented from expanding
the supply of money thereby shunting the process of credit creation.
Once these measures are imposed, which literally dismantle the
central bank as an institution, the only way to finance public
and private investment is through dollar denominated foreign loans.
What this signifies is that Wall Street and the U.S. Federal Reserve
control the domestic credit market of developing countries, namely
the expansion of credit in domestic currency.
p208
A global "imperial currency", where all other national
monetary systems are subordinate to the U.S. dollar, is the means
to achieving worldwide economic hegemony.
p208
The ultimate control over the world economy is achieved through
command over money creation: through fiat money, by creating money
from nothing. The "long war" is intended to instate
the hegemony of the U.S.-EU financial system as well as the contours
of "world government".
***
Michael Hudson
p212
Large amounts of surplus dollars are pouring into the rest of
the world. Central banks have recycled these dollar inflows towards
the purchase of U.S. Treasury bonds, which serve to finance the
federal U.S. budget deficit. Underlying this process is the military
character of the U.S. payments deficit and the domestic federal
budget deficit... the "dollar glut" is what finances
America's global military build-up. It forces foreign central
banks to bear the costs of America's expanding military empire.
p213
When the U.S. payments deficit pumps dollars into foreign economies,
these banks are being given little option except to buy U.S. Treasury
bills and bonds which the Treasury spends on financing an enormous,
hostile military build-up to encircle the major dollar-recyclers:
China, Japan and Arab OPEC oil producers. Yet these governments
are forced to recycle dollar inflows in a way that funds U.S.
military policies in which they have no say in formulating, and
which threaten them more and more belligerently.
p215
China holds nearly two trillion dollars in U.S. securities, way
more than it needs or can use, inasmuch as the United States government
refuses to let it buy meaningful U.S. companies.
p215
America remains the world's most protected economy. It alone is
permitted to protect its agriculture by import quotas, having
"grandfathered" these into world trade rules half a
century ago. Congress refuses to let "sovereign wealth"
funds invest in important U.S. sectors.
p215
The U.S. Treasury prefers foreign central banks to keep on funding
its domestic budget deficit, which means financing the cost of
America's war in the Near East and encirclement of foreign countries
with rings of military bases. The more "capital outflows"
U.S. investors spend to buy up foreign economies' most profitable
sectors, where the new U.S. owners can extract the highest monopoly
rents, the more funds end up in foreign central banks to support
America's global military build-up. No textbook on political theory
or international relations has suggested axioms to explain how
nations act in a way so adverse to their own political, military
and economic interests. Yet this is just what has been happening
for the past generation.
p217
Finance today is acting in a way that de-industrializes economies,
not builds them up. The "plan" is austerity for labor,
industry and all sectors outside of finance, as in the IMF programs
imposed on hapless Third World debtor countries.
p218
The International Monetary Fund's Articles of Agreement prevent
countries from restoring the "dual exchange rate" systems
that many retained down through the 1950s and even into the 60s.
It was widespread practice for countries to have one exchange
rate for goods and services (sometimes various exchange rates
for different import and export categories and another for "capital
movements"... Governments that did not buy into this ideology
were excluded from membership in the IMF and World Bank or were
overthrown.
p218
The only way a nation can block capital movements is to withdraw
from the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization
(WTO). For the first time since the 1950s this looks like a real
possibility, thanks to worldwide awareness of how the U.S. economy
is glutting the global economy with surplus "paper"
dollars.
***
Peter Dale Scott
p221
The U.S. military had been training troops and police in "civil
disturbance planning" for the last three decades. The master
plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, or "Operation
Garden Plot," was developed in 1968 in response to the major
protests and disturbances of the 1960s.
p229
In the 1990s in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
... PNAC's goals were stated very explicitly in their document
"Rebuilding America's Defenses": to increase defense
spending so as to establish America's military presence throughout
the world as an unchallengeable power.
This would entail permanent U.S. forces in central as well as
East Asia, even after the disappearance of Saddam Hussein.
PNAC's program was a blueprint for permanent
overseas American empire, a project they recognized would not
be easily accepted by an American democracy... The document admitted
that "the process of transformation... is likely to be a
long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a
new Pearl Harbor."
***
Bill Van Auken
p259
President Barack Obama has named several retired four-star military
officers to serve in his cabinet... This unprecedented representation
of the senior officer corps within the new Democratic administration
is indicative of a growth in the political power of the U.S. military
that poses a serious threat to basic democratic rights.
... The Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence
establishment are preparing for what they see as a historic crisis
of the existing order that could require the use of armed force
to quell social struggles at home.
p260
"Known Unkowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense
Strategy Development" a 2008 report by the U.S. Army War
College
Widespread civil violence inside the United
States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities
in extremis to / defend basic domestic order.
... Under the most extreme circumstances,
include use of military force against hostile groups inside the
United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would
be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity
of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict
or disturbance.
The phrase - "an essential enabling
hub for continuity of authority" - is a euphemism for ...
Under the most extreme circumstances, include use of military
force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further,
DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential
enabling hub for the continuity of political authority [military
dictatorship] in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or
disturbance."
p260
A sharp intensification of the unfolding capitalist crisis accompanied
by an eruption of class struggle and the threat of social revolution
in the U.S. itself could force the Pentagon to call back its expeditionary
armies from Iraq and Afghanistan for use against American workers.
***
Andrew Gavin Marshall
p262
The global political economy is being transformed into a global
government structure at the crossroads of a major financial crisis...
these changes are planned, organized, socialized and institutionalized.
The process towards creating a global government is not a new
one; several institutions and organizations throughout the world
have slowly been directing the world down this path.
p263
Nearing the end of the 19th century, American bankers and industrialists,
specifically J.P. Morgan, were gaining close connections with
major European banking interests. On the European side, specifically
in Britain, the elite was largely involved in the Scramble for
Africa at this time. Infamous among them was Cecil Rhodes, who
made his fortune in diamond and gold mining in Africa, monopolizing
the gold mines with financial help from Lord Rothschild. Interestingly,
Rhodes could not have won his near-monopoly over South African
diamond production without the assistance of his friends in the
City of London: in particular, the Rothschild bank, at that time
the biggest concentration of financial capital in the world.
p263
historian Carroll Quigley
In 1891, three British elites met with
the intent to create a secret society. The three men were Cecil
Rhodes, William T. Stead, a prominent journalist " of the
day, and Reginald Baliol Brett, a "friend and confidant of
Queen Victoria, and later to be the most influential adviser of
King Edward VII and King George V." Within this secret society,
"real power was to be exercised by the leader, and a 'Junta
of Three.' The leader was to be Rhodes, and the junta was to be
Stead, Brett, and Alfred Milner.
p263
historian Carroll Quigley
[In 1901, Cecil Rhodes chose Alfred Milner as his successor within
a secret society of which the purpose was]:
The extension of British rule throughout
the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United
Kingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all lands wherein
the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor, and enterprise...
[with] the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as
an integral part of a British Empire, the consolidation of the
whole Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial Representation
in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the
disjointed members of the Empire, and finally the foundation of
so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote
the best interests of humanity.
p264
[In 1901, Cecil Rhodes chose Alfred Milner as his successor within
a secret society of which the purpose was ... a British-led cosmopolitical
world order, one global system of governance under British hegemony.
Among key players within this group were the Rothschilds and other
leading banking interests.
p264
The creation of the Federal Reserve in the United States in 1913,
cemented the connection between European and American banking
interests, as the Fed created a very distinct alliance between
New York and London bankers.'
p265
historian Carroll Quigley
The Milner Group, the secret society formed
by Cecil Rhodes ... founded the Royal Institute of International
Affairs in 1919 and still controls it.
p265
[The Milner Group, the secret society formed by Cecil Rhodes ...
founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1919 and
still controls it.]
... There were other groups founded in
many countries representing the same interests of the secret Milner
Group, and they came to be known as the Round Table Groups, preeminent
among them were the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham
House), the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States,
and parallel groups in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
and India.
p265
The CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] worked to promote an internationalist
agenda on behalf of the international banking elite.
p265
The CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] worked to promote an internationalist
agenda on behalf of the international banking elite. It was to
alter America's conceptualization of its place within the world
from an isolationist industrial nation to an engine of empire
working for international banking and corporate interests. Where
the Fed took control of money and debt, the CFR took control of
the ideological foundations of such an empire, encompassing the
corporate, banking, political, foreign policy, military, media
and academic elite of the nation into a generally cohesive overall
world view. By altering one's ideology to that of promoting such
an internationalist agenda, the big money that was behind it would
ensure one's rise through government, industry, academia and media.
p265
Before America even entered World War II in late 1941, the CFR
[Council on Foreign Relations] began a project called the War
and Peace Studies, in which top CFR members collaborated with
the U.S. State Department in determining U.S. policy, and the
object was entirely financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The
post-War world was already being designed by members of the Council
who would then go into government in order to make those designs
into a reality.
p267
Following World War II, the CFR's [Council on Foreign Relations]
main finances came from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation
and most especially, the Rockefeller Foundation.
p267
In 1954, the Bilderberg Group was founded in the Netherlands,
holding secretive meeting once a year, drawing roughly 130 of
the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North
America and Western Europe.
... The Bilderberg Group acts as a "secretive
global think-tank" with an original intent to "to link
governments and economies in Europe and North America amid the
Cold War". One of the Bilderberg Group's main goals was unifying
Europe into a European Union.
p271
In 1970, David Rockefeller became Chairman of the Council on Foreign
Relations, while also being Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan.
In 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote Between Two Ages: America's
Role in the Technetronic Era, in which he called for the formation
of "A Community of the Developed Nations" consisting
of Western Europe, the United States and Japan... In 1972, David
Rockefeller and Brzezinski "presented the idea of a trilateral
grouping at the annual Bilderberg meeting." In 1973, the
Trilateral Commission was former address these issues.
p273
The WTO was an organ of the western banking elite to be used as
a tool in expanding and institutionalizing their control over
world trade.
p273
The term New World Order emerged in the early 1990s. It described
a more unipolar world, addressing the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the newfound role of the United States as the sole and unchallenged
global power. The New World Order was meant to represent a new
phase in the global political economy in which world authority
rested in one place, and for the time, that place was to be the
United States.
p275
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration
Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;
all states will recognize a single, global authority.
p275
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration
All countries are basically social arrangements,
accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent
and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are
all artificial and temporary. Through the ages, there has been
an overall trend toward larger units claiming sovereignty and,
paradoxically, a gradual diminution of how much true sovereignty
any one country actually has.
p281
On March 23, 2005 ... the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
... announced "the establishment of the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America."
... The process of integration is still
underway, and the formation of a North American Community is not
far off, only to be followed by a North American Union, modeled
on the structure of the European Union with talk of a North American
currency
p283
[A Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC) has emerged, and that
this TCC is a global ruling class. It is a ruling class because
it controls the levers of an emergent transnational state apparatus
and of global decision making. This class has no borders, and
is composed of the technocratic, media, corporate, banking, social
and political elite of the world.
p283
There is no dissent within the ruling class on the aims of achieving
a world governing body; the dissent is in how to achieve this,
and in terms of what kind of structure, theoretical, philosophical
leanings and political orientation such a government would have.
To achieve these ends, however, all classes
must be transnationalized, not simply the ruling class. The ruling
class is the first class to be transnationalized, because transnationalization
was the goal of the ruling classes based in the powerful Western
European nations, and later in the United States, that started
the process of transnationalization or internationalization. Now
that there is an established "Superclass" of a transnational
composition, the other classes must follow suit. The middle class
is targeted for elimination because most of the world has no middle
class, and to fully integrate and internationalize a middle class,
this would require industrialization and development in places
such as Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin America,
and would represent a massive threat to the Superclass, as it
would be a valve through which much of their wealth and power
would escape them. Their goal is not to lose their wealth and
power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguish
the notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated,
labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimate
wealth and power.
The economic crisis serves these ends,
as whatever remaining wealth the middle class holds is in the
process of being eliminated, and as the crisis progresses, or
rather, regresses and accelerates, the middle classes of the world
will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of the
world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will suffer
the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction in
population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped"
or "Third World" states.
p284
With the rise of the Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC), there
is also a rise in the apparatus of a Transnational State (TNS)...
Among the economic apparatus of the TNS we see the IMF, World
Bank, WTO and regional banks. On the political side we see the
Group of 7, Group of 22, United Nations, QECD, and the European
Union. This was further accelerated with the Trilateral Commission,
"which brought together transnationalized fractions of the
business, political, and intellectual elite in North America,
Europe, and Japan. The World Economic Forum has made up an important
part of this class, and the Bilderberg Group.
p285
William J. Robinson and Jerry Harris "Towards a Global Ruling
Class"
The TNS [Transnational State] apparatus
have world class universities, transnationally oriented think
tanks, the leading bourgeois foundations, such as Harvard's School
of International Business, the Ford, Rockefeller and the Carnegie
Foundations, [and] policy planning groups such as the Council
on Foreign Relations.
p285
The Bilderberg Group is the quintessential transnational planning
body of the TCC [Transnational Capitalist Class], as it is composed
of the elite of the elite, totally removed from public scrutiny,
and acts as "a secretive global think-tank" of the world's
130 most powerful individuals.
p285
Bilderberg [Group] is the most influential planning body, sitting
atop a grand hierarchy of various planning bodies and institutions,
and is if a key part of the apparatus of the formation of a Transnational
State ... It is a global think tank, which holds the concept of
a "world government" in high regard and often works
to achieve these ends.
p285
former Bilderberg attendee Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, December
2008
International governance tends to be effective,
only when it is? # anti-democratic.
p288
United States National Intelligence Council report, November 2008
By 2025, nation-states will no longer
be the only - and often not he most important - actors on the
world stage and the international system will have morphed to
accommodate the new reality.
p289
United States National Intelligence Council report, November 2008
The better economic performance of many
authoritarian governments could sow doubts among some about democracy
as the best form of government... In many well-established democracies,
surveys show growing frustration with the current workings of
democratic government and questioning among elites over the ability
of democratic governments to take the bold actions necessary to
deal rapidly and effectively with the growing number of transnational
challenges.
p289
French scholar Daniel Guerin
The bourgeoisie resorts to fascism less
in response to disturbances in the street than in response to
disturbances in their own economic system.
p289
What we are seeing is an increased trend toward totalitarianism.
The nature of totalitarianism is such that it is a global project
that cannot be fully accomplished in just one community or one
country. Being fuelled by the need to suppress any alternative
orders and ideas, it has no natural limits and is bound to aim
at totally dominating everything and everyone.
p290
David Lyon in "Theorizing Surveillance"
The ultimate feature of the totalitarian
domination is the absence of exit, which can be achieved temporarily
by closing borders, but permanently only by a truly global reach
that would render the very notion of exit meaningless. This in
itself justifies questions about the totalitarian potential of
globalization... Is abolition of borders intrinsically (morally)
good, because they symbolize barriers that needlessly separate
and exclude people, or are they potential lines of resistance,
refuge and difference that may save us from the totalitarian abyss?...
If globalization undermines the tested, state-based models of
democracy, the world may be vulnerable to a global totalitarian
etatization.
p291
A principle of Italian corporatism, and economic fascism in general,
is that private property and business ownership are permitted,
but are in reality controlled by government through a business-government
'partnership'.
p291
In fascist Italy, businesses were organized into "syndicates"
controlled by the government.
p291
an Italian social critic wrote that during Mussolini's reign
[In a corporatist system] it is the state,
i.e., the taxpayer, who has become responsible to private enterprise...
In Fascist Italy the state pays for the blunders of private enterprise...
profit remained to private initiative, [in times of economic crisis]
the government added the loss to the taxpayer's burden. Profit
is private and individual loss is public and social.
p291
economics professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo in a essay "Economic
Fascism"
Corporatism was a massive system of corporate
welfare.
p292
economics professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo in a essay "Economic
Fascism"
From an economic perspective, fascism
meant (and means) an interventionist industrial policy, mercantilism,
protectionism, and an ideology that makes the individual subservient
to the state.
p292
French scholar Daniel Guerin, in the book "Fascism and Big
Business"
The bourgeoisie resorts to fascism less
in response to disturbances in the street than in response to
disturbances in their own economic system.
p292
French scholar Daniel Guerin, in the book "Fascism and Big
Business"
During a great economic crisis, the state
"rescues business enterprises on the brink of bankruptcy,
forcing the masses to foot the bill. Such enterprises are kept
alive with subsidies, tax exemptions, orders for public works
and armaments ... such maneuvers are difficult under a democratic
regime because the masses still "have some means of defense"
and are "still capable of setting some limit to the insatiable
demands of the money power." Thus, "in certain countries
and under certain conditions, the bourgeoisie throws its traditional
democracy overboard."
p292
Because the elite class is now transnationalized, democracy is
being removed from the global political economy as a whole. Government
rescue packages around the world are corporatist in their very
nature, as they save the capitalists at the expense of the people.
At the same time, moves are being undertaken to establish a "new
order" in the form of global governance.
p293
The governments of the world are restructuring their economies,
and the global economy as a whole, into a corporatist structure.
Thus, this new international economic system being constructed
is one representative of economic fascism. The governments now
work directly for the banks, democracy is in decline everywhere,
and the militarization of domestic society into creating "Homeland
Security states" is underway and accelerating.
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George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One
does establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture
is torture. The object of power is power.
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Global Economic Crisis - The Great Depression of the XXI Century
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