"In the West, public policy has been privatised" by Stephen Karganovic

 

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In the West, public policy has been privatised

Stephen Karganovic

July 29, 2025

Gates and his fellow psychopaths do not need the informed consent of their intended victims.

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Gerald Celente was slightly but forgivably off when he quoted Mussolini on the definition of fascism to the effect that it denotes the fusion of state and corporate power. That is technically correct, except that the “corporations” Mussolini referred to originally are not the exactly same as the corporations that Celente has in mind. Mussolini was referring to collective entities representing the various sectors of society. In the system he proposed the state would play a central role in controlling these corporations and mediating their disputes. In theory at least, Mussolini’s system was intended to create a unified, harmonious society where class conflict would be eliminated through the integration of workers, employers, and the state.

When Celente refers to corporate power, he does not mean entities representing and acting on behalf of a cross section of major professional, craft, trade, cultural, and economic segments of society. He is referring to an essentially different type of “corporation,” as found in Western capitalist societies, with a specific relationship to state structures. Such corporations are disinterested in social harmony since they are business enterprises engaged in the predatory pursuit of material gain and frequently they transcend state boundaries.

The definitional nuance is significant for at least two reasons. Firstly, much as in practice the Corporatist system advocated by Mussolini diverges from its theoretical model, its postulated objective was to achieve a measure of social harmony and cooperation. That objective is completely foreign to the agenda of corporations which operate within the liberal capitalist system today. Secondly, corporations as the term is currently used manifestly are not subordinate to the state, as would have been the case under classical fascism, but increasingly assert their dominance over it. If comparisons may be drawn between the contemporary state and its interaction with corporate entities, on the one hand, and the classical scheme of fascism as described by Mussolini on the other, the picture we get today is of a reversal. The state has lost its attribute of controller and referee and is no longer empowered or asked to mediate between conflicting social interests. It is instead marginalised and replaced by private corporate interests and their agenda as the predominant power.

If such a role reversal may still be regarded as “fascism,” so be it.

An important feature of that arrangement, evidence of which we can observe all around us, is that some of the most fundamental functions of the state have been usurped and are being exercised by private corporate, often transnational, entities. Those private entities set the public agenda and through their control of the media determine the bounds of public discourse on all issues of significance. Unlike governmental organs, which theoretically are endowed with some semblance of democratic legitimacy, the corporate entities which have usurped their functions do not submit to any form of public supervision, other than the control exercised by their stockholders.

The global depopulation agenda, symbolised by the “golden billion” meme, since further reduced to a mere 500 million helots, is being insistently promoted by some of the wealthiest and most influential members of the world corporate elite. In contrast to Planned Parenthood, a related organisation that is supportive of their agenda, the elite are no longer seeking merely to slow down population growth. They advocate the application of “active measures” designed to achieve a more radical goal: to drastically reduce the world’s population. The philosophy behind it was crudely articulated by Yuval Noah Harari of the World Economic Forum as “getting rid of useless eaters.”

Professor Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research has warned that physical extermination on a vast scale is precisely the plan that is being pursued by a powerful cabal of corporate billionaires. In an article originally posted on 29 September 2021 but republished recently, Prof. Chossudovsky states that “for more than ten years, meetings have been held by billionaires described as philanthropists to reduce the size of the world’s population, culminating with the 2020-2024 Covid crisis.”

He recalls the 26 May 2009 Wall Street Journal report headlined “Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population,” disclosing that “billionaire philanthropists met behind closed doors at the home of the president of The Rockefeller University in Manhattan. This secret gathering was sponsored by Bill Gates. They called themselves ‘The Good Club’. Among the participants were the late David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey and many more. The emphasis in their discussion was not on population growth (i.e. Planned Parenthood) but on “Depopulation”, i.e. the reduction in the absolute size of the world’s population.”

According to the Sunday Times, which also reported on that meeting, “the philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.”

The referent of the deceptive euphemism “change” was subsequently made plain by Bill Gates in a lecture he gave a few months later, in February 2010:

“First, we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”

What according to Gates is the purpose of vaccines and health care: to preserve or to extinguish human lives?

The question is appropriate because according to Gates’ statement the demographic “change” that he and his fellow corporate moguls are working to impose consists of an absolute reduction of the World’s population, in the initial phase of the order of at least 680 million to 1.02 billion. How can such a population reduction be achieved? Will the 680 to 1.02 billion excess human beings (useless eaters) slated to die voluntarily commit suicide in order to meet the numerical quotas set by Bill Gates’ psychopathic programme?

That is highly unlikely. But Gates and his fellow psychopaths do not need the informed consent of their intended victims. They have at their disposal all the required scientific instruments to realise their homicidal objectives without seeking anyone’s permission or approval.

In a compilation of texts (see here) authored by scholars and scientists and also published by Global Research, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and Dr. John Campbell show that the tools necessary to implement the nefarious population reduction scheme are available, were used during the recent fabricated global health emergency, and will most likely be used again when required.

The depopulation agenda that is being pursued by the corporate cabal of the rich and powerful is but one, though exceedingly perverted and gruesome, facet of measures deliberately designed to the detriment of billions of human beings. They are pursuing that agenda self-confidently and with a sneering sense of impunity. The agenda fits to a “T” the criminal plan to destroy human life that is denounced in the Genocide Convention.

Indeed, one of the leading ideologues of this and other monstrous plans, billionaire “philanthropist” Bill Gates, who has a long record of investing world-wide in projects whose ultimate common denominator is organised mass homicide on a hitherto unimaginable scale, was recently sued by a number of private parties in the District Court of Northern Netherlands for acts of genocide, biological warfare, and crimes against humanity. Unsurprisingly, “Gates never showed up. He didn’t send lawyers. Instead, he arrogantly dismissed the Dutch court like a medieval king waving off the peasants. But the judges didn’t flinch. They ruled that the case against Gates will go ahead,” political analyst Jim Ferguson has stated, praising the court’s decision.

Of course, whilst the court’s readiness to hear such a landmark case is a significant step toward establishing accountability, that does not guarantee that the merits of the charges will be properly heard or adjudicated. The disparity in power and influence between the Plaintiffs and the Accused is too pronounced and will probably determine the further course and outcome of the proceedings.

However, this Dutch court’s willingness to bring an accused of Gates’ calibre in the dock and to hear evidence assembled against him does, ever so slightly, restore trust in the integrity of at least some parts of the judicial system. It should send a resonant message to “philanthropic” corporate killers everywhere that even if these proceedings ultimately do not result in an effective conviction the day of reckoning, in some form, inexorably draws closer.

"Fascism: What’s in a Word?" by Greg Godels

 

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Fascism: What’s in a Word?

by Greg Godels / June 1st, 2024

The word “fascism” is a lightning rod. No one wants to be called a fascist. Everyone is ready to call someone else a fascist.

Like many highly charged words, the more common its usage becomes, the more inexact its meaning becomes.

Today, Trump is a fascist, Putin is a fascist, Modi is a fascist, Radical Islam is Islamofascism, the House and Senate members who passed the FISA renewal are fascists, Ukraine is a fascist country, political correctness is fascism, anti-Zionists are fascists, Zionists are fascists, and so on….

Clearly, the word “fascism” in these contexts is most often an expression of extreme disapproval– a kind of expletive.

A problem arises when the claimant– the person using the word– has something more definite in mind, something more exacting. A problem arises when the user of the word intends to draw an association with the real, historically concrete phenomena of fascism that emerged in the aftermath of World War I and rose tragically to ravage and terrorize nearly the entire world.

The idea that people or organizations are preparing to organize Blackshirts, Brownshirts, Silver Shirts or whatever to intimidate or overthrow conventional political processes is understandably reprehensible. But to conjure such an image in order to influence the political process, though without sufficient warrant, is misleading.

In a highly charged political context, it is not only misleading, but also unhelpful, and even incendiary.

Even a policy as sanctified by much of the left as the New Deal has been called fascist, proto-fascist, or fascist-tinged by commentators from across the political spectrum. And the “sainted” FDR has been labeled fascist by many. Critics from both left and right have seen parallels between elements of the New Deal and Mussolini’s corporatism. Still others have found similarities between the Rooseveltian Civilian Conservation Corps and Hitler’s German Labor Services. Since the New Deal was a mish-mash of trial-and-error pragmatism, it is a disservice to wed it with any particular ideology.

Of course, “fascism” depends on how we define it. Problems of definition arose immediately after World War II and the defeat of the major fascist powers. The emerging Cold War led to the US and its allies accepting a narrow definition when it came to new-found allies among former Nazis and Nazi collaborators. In its conflict with the Soviets, US leaders relied on Germans and Eastern Europeans with dubious, fascist ties to advance weapons programs, utilize intelligence, and bolster anti-Communism. Vetting of fascists by ideology was a haphazard process at best.

On the other hand, attempts to link fascism to Communism was an ongoing project. Determined efforts to find common features to justify anti-Communism led to a construct called “totalitarianism.” Popularized by Hannah Arendt, Cold Warriors wanted and got a tally of supposed similarities that served their purposes and served to generate a common definition of two disparate ideologies.

Thus, the Cold War created both a narrow and broad interpretation of fascism– one for practical purposes, the other for propaganda purposes.

As the Cold War warmed in the 1980s, academics like Stanley Payne (Fascism, Wisconsin, 1980), made attempts at more independent, nuanced, and objective definitions of “fascism.” Payne engaged in comparative historical analysis and arrived at his typological description of fascism. Unfortunately, it suffered somewhat from raw empiricism and a failure to properly weigh the factors disclosed. To its credit, it undercut the Cold War conflation of Communism and fascism by emphasizing anti-Communism as a common feature of fascism, and not conflating it with Communism.

Further, Payne in 1980 recognizes the historically met concept of “liberal authoritarianism” — a form of illiberal liberalism– that might serve to explain much of the confusion of our anti-Trump left today, who are anxious to dispense with the Bill of Rights to save “our” democracy.

In a recent essay regarding the “fascism is eminent” fashion of today, noted liberal commentator, Patrick Lawrence, riffs on the concept of “liberal authoritarianism.” Lawrence declares in his article “This Isn’t Fascism,” posted on Consortium News, that “I cannot quite tell what people mean when they speak of fascism in our current circumstances. And [as] far as one can make out, a lot of people who use the term, and maybe most, do not know what they mean, either.”

Unfortunately, while Payne still serves as a keystone for contemporary Western academic scholarship, the old Cold War conflation of Communism and fascism has resumed, particularly under a new wave of retro-Cold Warriors like Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder.

But more consequentially, the charge of fascism — invoked irresponsibly — has served as a weapon in electoral politics. Specifically, many in the Democratic Party — bereft of an appealing program — charge that a vote for Biden is a vote against fascism. Given that Biden’s failure on inflation and his bloody war-mongering are rejected, especially by youth and the Party’s left wing, portraying Trump as a fascist is an act of desperation, but an act that will ultimately do little to forego the rise of Trump and his ilk.

Again, invoking Lawrence:

Much of this, let’s call it the pollution of public discourse, comes from the liberal authoritarians. Rachel Maddow, to take one of the more pitiful cases, wants us to think Trump the dictator will end elections, destroy the courts, and render the Congress powerless. The MSNBC commentator has actually said these things on air.

One-man rule is the theme, if you listen to the Rachel Maddows. The evident intent is to cast Donald Trump in the most fearsome light possible, as it becomes clear Trump could well defeat President Biden at the polls come Nov. 5.

We can mark this stuff down to crude politicking in an election year, surely. There is nothing new in it. But this is not the point.

Opportunistic voices on the left will often draw a crude analogy with the rise of Nazism. They argue the simplistic and false case that disunity on the left opened the door for Hitler’s ascendency to the Chancellorship of Germany in 1933. They repeat an old whitewash of history — dismissing Hitler’s backing by the German capitalists, the perfidy of the weak government, and the betrayal of the Social Democrats. They ignore the economic crisis, the rulers’ failure to address the crisis, and the peoples’ desperate search for a radical answer to that failure. An unquestionable sign of that desperation was the continuing growth of the votes for the Communist Party, along with the decline in votes for the Social Democrats, and other centrist parties.

Nazism was not inevitable, but ushered in on a fear of revolution, of workers’ power, by a despairing ruling class. That was the reality wherever fascism seized power in twentieth-century fascism.

Today, the answer to a deepening crisis of capitalist rule that is losing its legitimacy in the eyes of the masses is not rallying support around the failed policies that created and deepened the crisis. The answer is not to cry wolf or remind the people that matters could get worse. They know that!

The answer is to develop real answers to the despair facing working people– reducing inequality, raising living standards, guaranteeing health care, increasing social benefits, improving affordable public transportation, protecting the environment, improving public education, and so on. These issues have existed for many decades, worsening with each passing year. There is no mystery. We are offered only two parties and they are determined to evade these issues.

Lawrence makes a similar point:

I suppose it might make America’s many-sided crisis — political, economic, social — more comprehensible if we name it [fascism] to suggest it has a frightening antecedent. But this is profoundly counterproductive. So long as we, some of us, go on persuading ourselves we face the threat of fascism or Fascism, either one, we simply obscure what it is we actually face.

We name it wrongly… I do not see fascism in any form anywhere on America’s horizon. To call it such is to render ourselves incapable of acting effectively.

But that still leaves us with the question: What is fascism? Is there no cogent definition?

Indeed, there is one that springs forth from a deep and thorough study by the late Marxist thinker, R. Palme Dutt. Published in 1934, soon after Hitler’s rise to power, Fascism and Social Revolution (International Publishers) locates fascism in the cauldron of the rise of Communism, a deep economic crisis, and the collapse of capitalist class legitimacy.

Dutt, unlike servile academics weaving a bizarre, historically challenged link between Communism and fascism, discovers direct ties between capitalism and fascism (p. 72-73).

Fascism manufactures its ideology around its practice. Dutt explains:

Fascism, in fact, developed as a movement in practice, in the conditions of threatening proletarian revolution, as a counter-revolutionary mass movement supported by the bourgeoisie, employing weapons of mixed social demagogy and terrorism to defeat the revolution and build up a strengthened capitalist state dictatorship; and only later endeavoured to adorn and rationalize this process with a “theory” (p. 75).

Dutt’s operational definition contrasts favorably with the failed attempt by writers like Payne who attempted to engage comparative studies in order to arrive at a superficial typography of fascism.

Dutt further adds the class dimensions, absent in nearly all non-Marxist definitions:

Fascism, in short, is a movement of mixed elements, dominantly petit-bourgeois, but also slum-proletariat and demoralized working class, financed and directed by finance-capital, by the big industrialists, landlords and financiers, to defeat the working-class revolution and smash working-class organizations (p. 82).

Elegant in its simplicity, robust in its comprehensiveness, Dutt’s explication of fascism aptly characterizes historic fascism from the march on Rome to the Generals’ coup in Indonesia and Pinochet’s regime in Chile. When social conditions deteriorate drastically and workers and their organizations threaten the capitalist order, the rulers throw their support behind counter-revolutionaries prepared to defend and strengthen the capitalist order, even at the expense of bourgeois democracy.

These institutions and organizations fester within bourgeois society as latent counter-revolutionary forces ready to be unleashed at the right moment by a desperate capitalist ruling class.

Clearly, Dutt’s study and elucidation of fascism clears the muddy waters stirred by today’s alarmists and opportunists. There is no imminent threat of revolution; the revolutionary left and the workers’ organizations currently pose little threat to the capitalist order, unfortunately.

There is no emergent organized mass movement responding to a counter-revolutionary call. The mass movements of the right — the Black Legions, the KKK, the Proud Boys, the militias, etc. — do exist, should conditions ever ripen for a mobilization against the working class; but for today, they remain unacceptable to most of the ruling class.

For the most part, the capitalist class, especially its dominant monopoly sector, is satisfied to conduct its business within the confines of bourgeois democracy. “Finance-capital… the big industrialists, landlords and financiers…” defend and protect the two-party system because they regard it as functioning adequately, though the “lawfare” attacks piling up on Trump and the rabid media attacks against him show that an important section of the ruling class considers his unpredictability to be a threat to stability.

Others think that his buffoonery and bluster serve as a safety valve for the discontent infecting the citizenry, much as Berlusconi’s clown-act pacified and entertained Italians unhappy over their political fate for three decades.

In any case, Trump does not pose the threat of fascism that many would like us to believe.

We need to find other words to describe the deep crisis of bourgeois legitimacy that we are enduring, words that do not force us into a frenzied defensive posture that deflects us from finding real solutions to a real and profound problems facing working people.

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"Extremism" by Simon Elmer

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Extremism

Posted onMARCH 15, 2024CategoriesPoems

Because I do not own a rifle
My loaded words must serve as bullets
And when you tell me they’re not legal
I’ll know exactly where to shoot it.

Under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, a statutory duty was placed on U.K. police, education, health and local authorities to prevent terrorism by identifying citizens they believe hold extremist views counter to what the Government referred to — but did not define — as ‘fundamental British values’.

In February 2023, 7 months after I wrote this short poem, it was revealed that the Government’s flagship counter-terrorism scheme, Prevent, had identified, as indicators of such ‘extremism’, the reading of Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson and Kipling — the author of the poem voted ‘The Nation’s Favourite’ in 2009.

This week, the Government introduced a new legislative definition of  ‘extremism’ that will come into force under UK law next week, and which includes the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance that aims to: 1) negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or 2) undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights; or 3) intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in (1) or (2).

As examples of the above, I would cite: the UK Government selling arms to criminal regimes like the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, supporting apartheid and colonial ideologies like Zionism, or passing legislation that censors and criminalises disagreement with the orthodoxies of woke; 1) enforcing lockdown restrictions on our movement and association for 2 years, imposing experimental mandatory gene therapy as a condition of employment for care workers; creating a surveillance state of CCTV and ULEZ cameras, enclosing UK citizens in 15-minute cities, or introducing bans on consumptions on the justification of stopping global warming; and 2) ruling the UK between March 2020 and March 2022 under a de facto state of emergency during which 537 coronavirus-justified regulations were made into law without parliamentary approval, or implementing authoritarian technologies for our surveillance and control, including facial recognition, a system of Digital ID and Central Bank Digital Currency, without a mandate from the British people; and 3) subjecting the UK population to the rule of unelected transnational technocracies, including the UN’s Agenda 2030 and the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty, the obligations to which infringe on the national sovereignty of the UK and the human rights of UK citizens.

Under this new definition, our Government, Parliament, civil service, municipal and local authorities, military, police, financial and business sectors, media, medical, education, entertainment and culture institutions are all extremist — and the definition is correct. The UK is a fascist state.

Simon Elmer

"Where Have All The Nazis Gone?" by CJ Hopkins

 

Click here for Exit the Cuckoo's Nest's posting standards and aims.  Click here to sign the People's Proclamation and send it to everyone you know. Source: A Plague on Both Houses Where Have All The Nazis Gone? CJ HOPKINS DEC 18   READ IN APP   So, I missed the latest hissy fit about “Substack Nazis.” Apparently, a writer named Jonathan M. Katz published an article in The Atlantic — that bastion of literary anti-fascism whose editor-in-chief is a former IDF prison guard who helped bamboozle the American public into launching a war of aggression against Iraq based on a lie about WMDs — demanding that the senior Substack executives answer to him (i.e., Katz) and the Substack Antifa regarding Substack’s “platforming and promotion of Nazis,” which triggered a Nazi-related shitstorm on Substack Notes … or something more or less along those lines. Whatever it was that happened, exactly — and I don’t care enough to delve into the details — most of it appears to have happened last week while I was busy harassing German journalists and offering free lessons on “The Fascist Mentality” on Twitter. I found out about it because Matt Taibbi posted a piece responding to Katz, which I read, which prompted me to check my Substack Notes feed, which I hadn’t done in a while, and there it was, the shitstorm. Open letters had circulated. Apoplectic notes had flown back and forth. Vicious insults had been traded. Clearly, a bona fide Nazi-related brouhaha had broken out, and I had missed the whole thing. But I don’t mean to make light of the ongoing threat of Imminent Nazi Insurrection that has been tearing away at The Fabric of Democracy and loosening the bowels of supercilious ninnies like Katz & Co. for the last eight years. We’re talking LITERAL NAZIS here, folks, not just a pathetic subculture of attention-seeking, Hitler-heiling geeks posting anti-Semitic garbage on the Internet! Drastic measures must be taken! What we need to do is haul Christopher Best and Hamish McKenzie in front of some kind of formal Nuremberg-style tribunal (comprised of Katz and the Substack Antifa, of course), make them answer for their “monetization of Nazis,” and then carry out a systematic Substack-Denazification campaign … or at least publish a few more open letters hysterically demanding “accountability” and shrieking about “NAZI TERFS!” Anyway, all this reminded me of a column I published in August of 2018, back when Literal Russian-Asset Hitler was still in office and Putin-Nazi paranoia was sweeping the nation. My Substack archives don’t go back that far, so I’m reposting that column here (i.e., in the Oddments section of my Substack) for your amusement. I hope you enjoy it. Plus ça change … and so on. Where Have All the Nazis Gone? First published in CounterPunch, August 17, 2018. So, it appears Antifa has scared Trump’s army of emboldened Nazis back into their hidey holes, or at least that’s the spin the Resistance is putting on the deeply weird events of last Sunday. In case you missed it, what happened was, thousands of “anti-fascist” protestors converged on the streets of the nation’s capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other. The organizer of this idiotic fiasco (i.e., the racist fiasco, not the protest thereof) was the same attention-seeking, racist idiot that had organized the original “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville in 2017. During that weekend, as I’m sure you’ll recall, a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing a woman, numerous other people were assaulted, and a few hundred racists in polo shirts and khakis marched around with tikki torches hollering neo-Nazi gibberish in an attempt to launch some sort of race war, or protest the removal of a statue, or something. Last Sunday was a bit less dramatic. Basically, these twenty or thirty racists were escorted by hundreds of riot police and Secret Service to Lafayette Square, where they found themselves surrounded by thousands of protesters, many of whom intended to stomp their guts out. This must have been a bit unsettling, because the racists reportedly fled their own “rally” before they had even had the chance to holler any Nazi gibberish at each other. This was extremely disappointing for the militant “anti-fascist” contingent, which had been counting on another balls-out street fight. According to The New York Times, a group of frustrated militant types tried to burn a Confederate flag, but it wouldn’t catch fire, so they were forced to rip it apart with their hands and jump up and down on it. Other militant “anti-fascists” threw anti-Nazi eggs at the cops, presumably as a form of “preventative self-defense,” or just to ensure that Breitbart had some video to paint them as “terrorists” with. The not-quite-so-militant “anti-fascist” contingent, most of whom never even caught a glimpse of the “emboldened” Nazis they had come to resist, apparently dispersed without incident. The corporate media and the rest of the Resistance had been flogging this event for months. That infamous photo of the tikki torch Nazis had been repeatedly reprinted all summer long. Features on Kessler, the organizer, whose activities seem to have been mostly funded by his grandmother, with whom he had also been living, had been published in major international broadsheets. The coverage peaked going into the weekend. On Saturday, he was featured on National Public Radio, where he shared his views on “racial intelligence.” Go ahead, google him, and marvel at the amount of free publicity bestowed on this geek. And it wasn’t just the corporate media. No, the militant “anti-fascist” left had also been also promoting this so-called “rally” as the Return of the Revenge of the Bride of Charlottesville. Affinity groups had been activated. “Anti-fascist” posters had been printed. Militant Twitter hashtags created. Snappy “anti-fascist” slogans, like “It takes a bullet to bash the fash,” and “Drive out Trump/Pence fascist regime,” had been applied to signs and banners. By Sunday morning, social media was buzzing with thousands of tweets and posts by people hoping to “punch a Nazi.” Antifa was obviously looking forward to some hardcore “preventative self-defense” … all they needed were a few hundred Nazis. So it was a little embarrassing, to put it mildly, when only a dozen or two racists showed up, instead of the hordes of swastika-tattooed, Sieg-heiling Nazis the Resistance was hoping for. After all the energy and money they’ve invested in convincing millions of credulous liberals that America is being existentially threatened by legions of fascists “emboldened” by Trump (and somehow connected to Vladimir Putin), to then have this paltry bunch of racist misfits show up for “the big Nazi rally” … well, it kind of makes a mockery of the official narrative they’ve been selling everyone. According to that official narrative, which the global capitalist ruling classes and the corporate media have been disseminating since Hillary Clinton lost the election, America and democracy are under attack by a vast conspiracy of Russians and Nazis (I’ve been referring to them as “the Putin-Nazis“), nominally led by Donald Trump, but actually controlled by Vladimir Putin, who is trying to annihilate “the West” and establish a Russian-Nazi Empire which he will personally rule with an iron fist. As the story goes, back in 2015, Putin and his Russian Nazis, infuriated at us for fomenting a coup with our Ukrainian Nazis on their southern border, finally activated Donald Trump, who they had recruited back in the 1980s (and then blackmailed with a sex tape twenty years later) and who had been posing as a narcissistic billionaire ass clown while awaiting the “go code” from his handlers in Moscow. Trump sprang immediately into action, announcing his candidacy on June 16, and set about “emboldening” the millions of American Nazis who had been patiently waiting for the day when a racist New York real-estate huckster would rise from the depths of reality television to lead them to victory in RaHoWa, or whatever. Up until Trump announced his run, these American Nazis had been keeping a low profile by having swastikas tattooed on their faces, flying Confederate flags in their yards, burning crosses, posting calls for genocide on Nazi websites, and occasionally murdering people of color and bombing churches and day care centers. Once Trump hit the hustings, however, the Nazis abandoned all restraint and got right down to the business of posting Nazi frogs on social media, touring campuses with Nazi book tours, and gathering in upscale Italian restaurants to be photographed mimicking Hitler-salutes. All this emboldenment culminated in the infamous rally in Charlottesville last summer, which, as the Resistance pointed out, was just like Kristallnacht … except that Charlottesville was not a pogrom and ninety-one Jewish people weren’t murdered. But, aside from that, it was exactly the same. Trump emboldened it, then openly condoned it, and given that he’s a Russian agent, we can assume the orders came directly from Putin, who presumably has agents in the fascist underground, possibly in Kessler’s grandmother’s basement, and who’s been poisoning people randomly in Salisbury (i.e., Putin has, not Kessler’s grandmother), and possibly orchestrating Jeremy Corbyn’s Nazification of the Labour Party, and who has been influencing people with Facebook posts, and God knows what other horrors he’s been up to … at this point, it’s hard to keep it all straight. In any event, following the Charlottesville Kristallnacht, the Resistance went to work hunting down Nazis, getting them arrested or fired from their jobs, or just showing up at their pathetic little gatherings and stomping the living Hitler out of them. Being mostly idiots, they weren’t hard to find … or at least not the tikki torch Kessler variety. We’re not talking about the Aryan Brotherhood here. We’re talking about creeps like the Crying Nazi, Richard Spencer (another media darling), Andrew Auernheimer, a/k/a “weev,” groups like the Proud Boys (who you’ve probably never heard of unless you travel in “anti-fascist” circles), and other such idiots who have absolutely nothing to do with wielding actual power in the United States, or anywhere else. Which, of course, is the point of the Nazi hysteria the Resistance has been barraging us with, that is, when they are not too busy barraging us with the Trump-is-a-Russian-Agent hysteria. As I have outlined in several other essays, there is no “Russian Attack on Democracy,” nor is there any “blood-dimmed tide” of emboldened neo-Nazism menacing the West. All that is really happening is, the global capitalist ruling classes are conducting a counterinsurgency PSYOP, the objective of which is to put down “populist” resistance to the spread of global capitalism. There is no clutch of global capitalists sitting in a room conspiring to do this. It is simply the system responding (as a system) to eliminate an internal threat and reestablish control of its environment, which in this case happens to be the whole planet (as global capitalism has no external enemies). One part of this counterinsurgency PSYOP is to delegitimize anyone and anything that stands in the way of global capitalism. It does not matter one iota whether the opposition stems from what most of us think of as the “left” or the “right.” Global capitalism does not care. It simply cannot have major disruptions like the Brexit referendum and the election of Trump screwing with its Privatization of Everything (which it began in the early 1990s, immediately after the end of the Cold War). Such populist insurgencies feed each other. One day, it’s the nationalists abandoning the EU, the next day, it’s socialists boycotting Israel, the day after that it could be Americans demanding universal healthcare, subsidized college education, or demilitarization of the nation’s police. Things could get out of control pretty quickly. The other part of this counterinsurgency PSYOP is manufacturing as much mass hysteria and paranoia about Russian agents and emboldened Nazis as humanly possible. This aspect of the PSYOP sells itself … opposing global capitalism is difficult work and not very rewarding. It’s so much easier (and much more fun) to hunt down imaginary Russians and Nazis. And if you don’t know any Russian operatives, or can’t find any actual Nazis, no worries, there are plenty of Assad-apologists, Putin-apologists, Alex Jones-apologists, terrorist-apologists, transphobic racists, anti-Semitic British socialists, and crypto-Red-Brown fascist entryists, not to mention Susan Sarandon and everyone else who didn’t vote for Clinton. You can hunt them down and call them names on Facebook from the comfort of your home. I’m relatively sure the Internet monitors at the Atlantic Council won’t mind if you do. Just watch what you say about the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the other valiant corporations and non-governmental organizations that are “working together to secure the future.” Oh and if you do see any of those actual Nazis crawling up out of their hidey holes, or anyone who looks they might be about to commit an act of verbal genocide, go ahead and gouge their eyes out or something … because we can’t afford to give these Nazis an inch. Have a nice day, and happy hunting!