“Fascism seeks out in each national culture those themes that are best capable of mobilizing a mass movement of regeneration, unification, and purity, directed against liberal individualism and constitutionalism and against Leftist class struggle.  The themes that appeal to fascists in one cultural tradition may seem simply silly to another.”[1]

Chapter One:  Fascism and its long historical pedigree

Fascism in all its various guises has been the historical norm for human organization and not the exception.  Only during the past 500 years thanks to Western civilization and progress in the realms of individualism, economics, political governance, morality, science, and caring for the sick and unfortunate, has fascism and fascist ‘cultism’, been faced with another competitive and distinctly superior form of societal organization – Western Enlightenment Liberalism.  There is however, no guarantee that our Western civilization will always be in the ascendant or the most powerful ideological force in the world.  Fascism is persistent, mutable and always dangerous. 

The Western Enlightenment tradition is the big L Liberalism which is vastly different than the small l liberalism used today to denote left wing groups, socialists, new Marxists or the big statists that dominate the welfare state.  Big L Liberalism references the orthodoxy and intent of the Western Enlightenment tradition – a tradition reliant on free and fair trade, limited government, division of powers in government, democracy, the rule of law, individuality, freedom of speech, human rights, and Judeo-Christian ethics, morality and charity.  It is the most powerful societal model ever developed.

The fullness of the Western Enlightenment Liberal model encompasses all matters economic, social, political, moral and spiritual in which the individual, the elected governing class and society at large, are bound by contracts – legal, ethical, professional and societal.  Only in this model, infused with Judaic-Christian ideals and virtues [not values which are just political tools], has mankind managed to achieve the creation of a society that is just, considerate and prosperous.  The factors mentioned above are the main constructs of a moral, wealthy and caring society.  There is simply no alternative to the Western model unless one wants to return to some variant of pagan, cultish, fascist or oriental organization.[2] 

Historically pagan cultism, oriental organization and fascism have presented themselves in various forms employing an array of trickery, gimmickry, and utopian promises to gain support.  Whether it manifests itself in orientalism, Russian-Tsarism, Castroism, Chavezism, Hitlerism, Maoism, Peronism, Caliphates, extremist Islam, extreme left-liberal secularism, or China’s current one party state, fascism and its ‘cult of belief’, is a historical power which is not easily defeated or erased from human activities.  What is unique is that the West did find a way out of the trap of millennia old fascist orientalism, and thereby assumed world domination and supremacy.  The irony is that the very wealth of the West has now spawned small l liberal movements and thanks to petro-dollars, fascist Islam, both of whom wish to destroy the very system that has given the greatest material and moral progress in mankind’s history.

Both Islamic fascists and small l liberals will no doubt be pleased to know that fascism has really been the default organizational principle of human society.  The West and its civilization is a historical anomaly.  Citizens and ingrates that live in the West, who ridicule innovation, ‘carbon-based societies’, competition, or progress, should try living under an oriental or fascist regime before commenting on cultural relativity or descrying that the West is immoral, decadent or abusive.  Left-liberalism and the current modern form of utopian socialism and Marxism is a naïve and dangerous Western based disease that has much in common with orientalism and fascism.  Small l left-liberalism, much like fascism is a virus of the mind – a pathology that negates modernity and progress and elevates the utopian ideals of collectivism and cultural equality and relativity.  Both small l liberalism and fascism lead to ruin.

Fascism in all its forms has always been open about its intention to destroy the current world and rebuild it according to the utopian values of the fascist movement in question.  This makes fascism dangerous, violent and hateful of individual rights and prerogatives.  It leads to widespread murder, desecrations, and suffering in many forms.  But the fascists are in one perverted and deranged sense, refreshingly blunt, obvious and cruelly straightforward.  It is of course wise to listen to what people say and then see what they do.  Action not words is important.  But oftentimes action does follow words.  Totalitarians, fascists, islamists and orientalists, whatever their somewhat minor differences in thought, philosophy or action, have been remarkably clear throughout history about their intentions both in word and deeds. They express themselves publicly, in writing, in speeches, sometimes in great detail and volume, about their desire for control, world domination and the elimination of freedom.  In observing modern fascism, deeds have followed words. 

Modern fascism gives us many examples of such directness in rhetoric and activity. Hitler and Mussolini sneered and jeered at the West during the 1930s in books, speeches, rallies, and in the media, citing Western democratic lethargy, immorality and weakness. Even an old and experienced democrat and liberal such as Churchill was fooled by Mussolini and fascist efficiency.  Totalitarians in the 1930s predicted that fascism would be the dominant world-wide religion.  Stalin and Khrushchev were likewise open about their ambitions and the capability of their communitarian totalitarianism to crush the weak, effeminate West.  Russian incursions across the world during the Cold War backed up this world view.  Soviet central planning, organized power and nationalist esprit de corps would supposedly roll over the weak, frightened and disorganized Western democracies. 

Islam follows the same pattern.  Islam through various declarations, religious codes, fatwa’s, wars of aggression and racial hatred, is rather obvious in its intention to convert or destroy Israel and the West, and replace them with a supposedly superior system.  Indeed Muslims demand and expect that the world must submit to Islam or be forcibly converted.  We can hear excitable anti-Western Mullah’s on the TV and radio, view terrorist groups killing innocents, read Islamic web-zines spreading hate literature, and feel ourselves assaulted whilst we hear the ravings of militant Islamic leaders and Islamic politicians descrying Westerners and Jews.  The message is clear and we should understand it.  The tangible hatred of the immoral degenerate West, with its perverted vision of freedom and secularist consumerism must submit to Allah and Islam for purification.  Such an ideal is no different than Hitler’s dream of world domination through disciplined Nazism, or of the Lenin-Stalin pronouncements foretelling the submission of the West to a Godless worker’s paradise. It is the fascist objective of annihilating freedom.

Such oriental concepts of ‘burying’ the individual and freedom in a panoply of cultish, state manufactured oppression is not historically novel.  It is as old as Sargon the Great’s Near Eastern empire of 4500 years ago in which slaves and not citizens served a divinely appointed leader.  Private property, rights, social mores, and free-thinking were not tolerated.  Such social designs find their modern expression in Russia, Islamic states, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and other nations in which cults of obedient automatons are whipped into nationalist frenzies by government media and lies, to serve the whims of the corrupt few.  It is oriental cultism on the march.

Orientalism is in short the antithesis of our modern big L Liberalism or occidentalism.  There is little if any similarity between the two creeds and belief systems.  Orientalism does not denote a racist creed or apply a chauvinistic label.  Contrary to what Arab apologists like Edward Said [Arab scholar and critique of orientalist studies], state in order to sell book copy, orientalism is the world of non-Western history and culture.  It is the acceptance of Asian, Near Eastern and Arabic differences in the life of society, politics, culture, art and thought. It is a necessary category of study to understand world conflict and the threat posed by both orientalism and fascism to freedom.  I use fascism deliberately and equate it with orientalism.  As it will be shown the main ideas of both orientalism and fascism are the same.

Orientalism is as wide and valid a category as is ‘Christendom’ or the ‘West’, which is used by orientals to denote nations as different in texture and taste from Finland, Chile, and Canada.  Yet much like the categories ‘Western’, or ‘Occidental’, orientalism and its disparate sets of groups, tribes, nations, religions and beliefs all do share some common denominators.  This is a clear upon analysis and is as valid as remarking that Canada, Chile and Finland all share in varying measures the Judeo-Christian-Romano-Greco philosophies that inform all Western states.

Fascist and oriental doctrines all share one common theme – their utter failure.  One needs to ask - what is the purpose of societal ideas, of philosophy and of religion?  A core objective of societal organization including religious doctrine must be to provide a road map for living and to help humans caught in a seemingly puzzling and anarchic world.  Rules, patterns, and types of acceptable behavior and attitudes are codified.  In the religious sense people are expected to follow such decrees or face punishment from a God or spirit who will pronounce eternal life or eternal damnation depending on how one lived.  In the social context people operate within ‘laws’ or ‘rules’ and are punished if they disobey.  The most important fact is however the result.  Does the society in question – religious, secular, fascist, or liberal - deliver spiritual, social and economic ‘goods’ that benefit its members?

An ‘ideology’ or philosophy of life has to demonstrate some tangible and worldly benefits. If not it sinks into mysticism and dogma. If there are no concrete, observable and definable assets delivered by the government, ideology, religion and its leadership to its followers, it is hard to comprehend the purpose of the doctrine. For instance is it really enough in the religious context if the ‘roadmap in life’, means that all benefits accrue to the ‘believer’ in an afterlife when the bodily organism is dead? Shouldn’t religious ideals help those in this life and deliver other ‘goods’ such as well-being, safety, self-realization and comfort?

In the current modern world we can state that the fascist–orientalist structure of society is a failure. This includes Islam.  It does not mean that the people who believe in Islam for example are failures. Of course they are not. Nor does it mean that the West is perfect – far from it.  But the point is rarely made in the West since it is not politically correct to do so, that Islam [and fascism in general] is an economic, social, spiritual fraud.  Many politicians in buying votes, trip over themselves running to the local mosque to ensure that compassionate voters and the liberal media elite understand that they too love one of the world’s ‘great religions’.  This is disingenuous poppycock.  Islam is not a religion but a political-state construction premised on the age-old paganism of fascist-oriental philosophies.  It is the philosophy of anti-civilizational development, and the sooner the world realizes this, the faster Western policies can be adapted under the Bush doctrine to the real threat facing modernity:

“But this much is clear: The United States is now at war with the totalitarians of radical Islamism. And in prior conflicts with the totalitarian impulse of the Industrial Counterrevolution, the United States has been undefeated. Americans triumphed first over fascism, then over Communism — movements with ideologies of potentially global appeal, and with political bases in militarily formidable great powers. Americans will rise again to this latest challenge. … However long the present war must last, and however costly it must be, the final outcome cannot be doubted: interment of Islamist totalitarianism in what President Bush so stirringly referred to as “history's unmarked grave of discarded lies…”[3]

It is not just the US however but Western civilization which is at war.  Sadly but not unexpectedly, only America along with some rather select allies has the will to fight.  Islam is of course not the only fascist strain in the orientalist creed attacking modern freedom.  Russia under ‘Putinism’ offers another modern example, albeit one that is different in substance and in threat.  China, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba, provide some other obvious examples of fascism at work.  Islam is however a more near term and terminal threat and has demonstrated its modern savagery through the murder of millions of Muslims and non-Muslims during the past 1380 years.

Ambivalence towards fascism by the Western media and its political elite has a long history.  Communism and National-Socialism were dismissed by the Western media and associated political analysts as being simply programs of national rejuvenation.  Hitler was applauded as the greatest leader in German history by much of the Western press.  Stalin was likewise commended for his efforts to modernize a poor and backwards nation.[4]  For the past 40 years in spite of overwhelming evidence, there is nary a tear shed in the mass Western media about the victims of fascist aggression.  In Algeria 150.000 non-Muslims have been killed in the past 10 years.  In the past 20 years there have been two million ‘darker skinned’ Muslims and non-Muslims liquidated in the Sudan by a fascist Islamic theocracy.  Tens of thousands of innocent Orthodox believers have been destroyed by the Russians and their Islamic rebel opponents in Chechnya.  Hundreds of thousands more non-Muslims have been killed or tortured in China, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, North Korea, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and during Hussein’s rule, in Iraq.  These fascist and ideologically inspired atrocities elicit barely a mention in the mainstream Western media.

The Western media with its anti-Jewish, anti-American bias does however repeat ad-nausea stories on the dastardly Jews building apartment blocs in the West bank; why Chile’s Pinochet should be condemned to death; or the travails of the crusading Americans abusing a handful of prisoners in Iraq or in Cuba.  They say almost nothing of the mass murders taking place at the hands of fascist and Islamic regimes, much as they ignored the 30 million dead under Stalin’s brutal fascist regime.  The destruction in one generation of literally millions of lives elicits yawns from most politicians and liberal media pundits with the usual demands for more international dialogue, understanding terrorist or Arab ‘pain’ and endless recitation of academic nonsense on root causes in which low self esteem, Israel, US imperialism [while ignoring massive US aid given to Islamic countries and the 14 wars fought by the US for various Muslims] and poverty cause Islamic terror. 

Poverty has nothing to do with terror or with crime for that matter.  Why ignore the obvious?  It is the creation of fascist societies, fascist ideologies, combined with ignorance, hate, envy, failed policies, brain-washing, violent Mullahs and corruption which are the root causes of Islamic terror.  It is not very intelligent to blame Marxian dialectics and exogenous factors to explain away Arab-Islamic violence and extremism.  This politically correct opinion offered by smiling, toothy politicians, well groomed media experts, and the liberal-UN jet set chattering elite is not only insipid but dangerous.

Fascism is real, animated and like a virus can mutate and take different forms to kill its host.  After all it did not take long for Stalinism to kill 30 million Russians and non-Russians, Hitlerism to exterminate 6 million Jews, and Maoism to erase 30 million Chinese.  This says nothing of the historical record of Islam in which millions of Hindu’s, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Animists have been butchered. Ein reich, ein volk, ein fuehrer, [one state, one people, one leader], is a pithy description of all of these ideologies.  It is a mistake and an act of irrational stupidity to assume that fascism either does not exist today, and that it will not rise again tomorrow.  Military tyranny, oriental despotism and fascist repression have been the common organizational principles of human society.  Western civilization is a historical late comer to the game of societal organization.[5]

The commonality in Orientalism, Totalitarianism and Fascism

Organizing society and its economy is described through many ‘isms’.  Unfortunately the various ‘isms’ which exist are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed – liberalism, capitalism, socialism, fascism, communism, totalitarianism, catholicism, islamicism, orientalism –all these and more serve some purpose in describing societal organization.  All ‘isms’ provide a template and set of authoritative ideals that allows the average human to deal with their world.  Yet in the human story there emerges out of the complexity of the various ‘isms’ two predominant theories of state-societal and market organization.  There is on the one side the concept of freedom epitomized by the Western Enlightenment doctrine based upon Judeo-Christian values, a Constitutional division of powers, freedom of speech, private property rights, Roman law and Greek individuality, and on the other side orientalism and fascism with its various sub categories [such as Marxism and statism], in which the individual is submerged into the state.

Most people in the West do not know nor care about the fascist and oriental philosophies that have attacked freedom through human history.  Most do not even accept the threat posed by big governments and ever-expanding governmental power and control.  In an age of mild globalization the socialists and United Nations supporters talk endlessly of the destruction of the state.  In the past 50 years states have acquired more power, more tax revenues, and more control than ever.  Large government does not necessarily lead to, nor is indicative of fascism or orientalism.  Yet it is also a truism to state that totalitarian philosophies can certainly be implemented through coercive large governmental structures in which freedom and individuality are subsumed into the state.  Fascist governance can also be directed through the merger of civil, political and religious institutions into one all controlling structure, such as Islam or other examples of so-called religious empires [utopian religious settlements come to mind].

The threat to the West comes from within as well as from without.  The internal threat can be linked to the external threat through various channels. We have coercive governments limiting freedom in the name of high taxes, porous borders, massive spending, decrepit military and intelligence services [in most Western nations], and unfathomably high Islamic immigration.  There exist in all democratic lands Islamic 5th columns and terror cells, which enjoy autonomy from their host Western societies while propagating hate and racism.  These terror groups receive aid from the terrorist regimes of Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia whilst returning money and arms to various militant terrorist groups in the Middle East.  In North America and Europe countless Muslim organizations and mosques preach violent hatred against the West and the establishment of Caliphates to replace our nation state structures.  The 5^th column of Islam inside Western lands is real, pulsating and well funded.

Western society has never been very good at identifying, early in their life cycles, ideological threats to its own existence.  Today we can see that Western governments [with great media support], are implementing liberal socialist values referencing not virtues [which are more relevant and important than ‘values’], domestic constitutions, history, or culture; but flaccid, corrupt, immoral internationalism and ‘relative’ multi-cultural politics.  There is also the widespread and mistakenly blind belief that international institutions should dictate local matters.  This is exemplified in the EU socialist model which is becoming a multi-layered quasi-Marxist, high taxed, unproductive, non-democratic, illiberal experiment, prone to future economic and social failure.  The same is happening in Canada and the US with legal, moral and constitutional matters being changed due to interest group pressures, the desire for more government power, and deference to UN mandates and protocols, or even in imitation of EU precedents.  How silly.  Such internal threats are epitomized in the differing visions offered by the US and the EU and the destruction of Western culture is another topic covered elsewhere, but that threat is real.

More pertinent to this discussion is the external threat faced by the West.  This exogenous challenge has been posed throughout the ages in various guises but it has broadly been a fascistic-orientalist program aimed at destroying liberty and consuming individuality. The fascist-oriental philosophy has been a powerful limiting force on world development providing tribes, leaders and demagogues with philosophical concepts and tools of control.  Throughout history such ideals have formed and developed society in an anti-Western tradition.  Their base appeals have energized leaders and populations.  However, the corruption in thought and practice leads to societal ruin, war, stagnation, immorality, decline and a descent into evil.

Indeed the core component of orientalism has been and always will be, fascist and totalitarian in nature. It is the intellectual clash and the mental and physical war between two irreconcilable philosophies which has informed history and which now puts the Western democracies, whether their populations and leaders understand it or not, at war with a lingering strain of fascism, replete with oriental historical beliefs and baggage.  Totalitarianism is in fact nothing more than a broad term for fascism.  Fascisms might encompass different approaches and styles but in essence they all have the same objective [total domination] and use predominantly similar methods [terror, war, propaganda].  The only difference between fascisms will be the details of their plans for world domination, their enemies and slight variations in controlling society. 

The orientalist expression of fascism in our world is found in three basic forms; Arab-Islamic, Russian-European and Chinese.  All three fascist forms, which have conquered vast territories over the centuries, are oriental in design, concept and are obviously anti-Western.  First and foremost fascist organizations in these empires are both tribally and ideologically specific.  All three main forms of fascist orientalism believe today and in times past, of their predominance and historical significance.  All three of these vital arms of fascist governance rely upon complete and utter state control.  Religion, the media, key economic sectors, education, historical rewriting, party or religious sloganeering, all are necessarily under the whims of the gang that runs the fascist state.  Whether it is the Muslim mafia in Tatarstan, the Communist gang in Beijing, the 7.000 familial princes of Saudi Arabia, or the criminals of Iran, the gang manages all aspects of life.  Each of the three oriental expressions of fascism promotes their own vision of the future.

Russian chauvinism, for instance, imbued by Christianity, fear of invasion, Mongol occupation, the Turkish threat, and Germanic-Teutonic expansionism, demonstrated a very specific totalitarianism as it conquered Asiatic lands.  Russian fascism is similar to other totalitarian constructs but it is also deeply and impenetrably ‘Russian’.  Russian Tsarism as a movement is a wholly incomprehensible set of moral, spiritual and national absolutes that baffles any clear thinking Westerner.  Indeed Russia has never experienced any of the West’s religious, economic, scientific or technological revolutions and most vitally - could care less about it.  Russia has remained from the days of the 10^th century Kievan Rus empire to Putin a land of complex trickery and fascist magic, far removed from Western individualism.

China in its arrogant belief that it occupies the ‘Middle Kingdom’ of Earth is another variant of fascist utopianism and irrationality.  The Chinese believe that history is centered upon the Chinese people and specifically the Chin and Han tribes.  Chinese historical rewriting never fails to mention the wondrous works of the Chin and Han Chinese and their exalted place in the march of history.  Self assurance is a hallmark of fascist organization and the Chinese like all one party state powers assumes that history, destiny and power are on their side.

Like Russia, Europe for all its talk about liberty, equality and human rights, has had a history in which fascist forces have blossomed.[6]  European fascism is unique in that the full power of a modern nation state can be employed to create a ‘new’ national construct, in which all activities of society reinforce in perpetuity the whims of the state, and its reigning party leadership.  In its most fully developed sense this fascism is extreme ‘statism’ or state management of society.  Statism is a doctrine currently much in vogue in the West premised on state aggrandizement, nationalism, equality of outcomes and limitations on private wealth, property and choice.  In a true totalitarian state every aspect of living, working, thinking, production, and even procreation, involving all sectors of society are used to support the desires of the ruling party elite. Fascism and totalitarianism are therefore interchangeable words to denote the extreme statism and ownership of society by a confirmed elite.[7] 

In a totalitarian or fascist state the ideology represents the highest ideal of trans-national, national and personal, expression and relevancy.  Ideological expression takes different forms and styles.  A totalitarian society can be a military dictatorship [Franco’s Spain], or an adventuring fascist power [Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany], or a brooding, broken and selectively aggressive entity like Putin’s Russia, or a pagan pre-modern cult like Islam.  In any of its substantive forms a totalitarian enterprise is ultimately the attempt to expand and magnify the interest of a race, tribe or group, in which all personal activities of the group belong to a higher need - namely the interests of the ideology represented by a select gang or ‘party’.  The ideology then becomes the father figure, nurturing mother, kind uncle, and doting grandmother, cajoling its children to act in the interests of the family.  To achieve such uniform submission there grows a central concentration of power embedded in the party, its leadership, its elites, its controlled media and education and then on down progressively through to lesser sub-citizen classes.  A ‘good family member’ can only act towards the goals that the ideology and gang value, rather than any interests that they as an individual, might want to value.

Totalitarianism and fascism thus share many similar traits with socialism.  Both espouse big government, over-regulation, and state appropriation of private assets, high taxes, endless ideological propaganda and unchecked government legal and coercive power.  Indeed totalitarianism takes egalitarian principles and ideas of ‘justice’ from socialism by introducing state support for ‘free’ education, ‘free’ health, due legal process, and communal emotionalism.  In fact socialist ideals are appropriated by fascist systems to ensure mass loyalty.

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