Power Doesn't Care About The Label Fascist Or Communist

Ideologies are a ten a penny. You only hear about ones they put money behind. There are loads of theorists, think tanks and scriptwriters. It's the producer that matters. Mr Moneybags. Without him you don't have a show.

Power sets up the political system, not the other way around. Yes, there are belief systems and theorists and grass roots politics but there is plenty of evidence that Big Label Political Systems and the Ringmasters are controlled by Big Money.

It should not even need stating.

Power exists outside of politics. There was power when it used religion rather than political ideology to control people. There was power before there were parties. There was power before there were parliaments. There was power before there were nation states.

The first consideration of power brokers should be, 'what system of rule do we want?'
The second consideration should be, 'how do we disguise our influence so that system upholds our interests while not revealing our hand, so that the system is not compromised by the people's discovering our presence behind the curtain?'
The third consideration is our golden share: 'how do we pull the plug if we need to shift things in a new direction?'

The Founding Fathers of the U.S. followed this pattern. Power created the political system, not some latter day Moses slipped the Constitution by God.

Personal investment in any particular ideological theory doesn't change this. It's the same diversion that goes by the twin names of politics and sports.

It doesn't matter if Benito used pitch for the Blues (back when Blues were reds) before he joined the Reds (who were... err) because the games are rigged anyway.

In fact the Blues (who were really reds) had this thing called Progressivism and they really loved Benito, even when he started calling himself a literal fascist. With the war and all, that got problematic and the Blues had to drop the Progressivism label for a while and become Liberals. But now they've brought back the Progressive label just as we enter the 1920s.. sorry, the 2020s. Once again there's this fascist thing and they're selling tickets to watch the show under the same old billing, Progressivism. And they're buying it.

No cheap shot intended. I am simply illustrating how power strategies are marketed. Power is a manifestation of specific interests with particular aims. These aims are partly revealed and partly hidden. The part that's revealed is marketed to the public under a label, usually with an adjective, or adjectival noun, to make it sound futuristic, trending, technocratic or progressive.

The totalitarian system that is being locked down is fascist because it it corporatist, but it borrows elements from its siblings, the variants of communism.

The ideology that gave birth to those systems is not Hitler's nor Marx's. It belongs in large part to those who gave board and lodging to those scriptwriters and published their works, and who paid to put on the show. Those same financial interests also financed Trotsky and Lenin and financed the Chinese state in ways we don't yet know.

This is not hidden. The tax-exempt Foundations write about it all the time. The Corporations (the foundations are just their shop windows) have been active in shaping all the major political shows -- the wars and the political systems that result.

Their minutes show they've been working to the same script since at least 1910. Before that it appeared in several variants, all related, like chapters of a book. Cecil Rhodes wrote one chapter, the Freemasons around the French Revolution wrote another, the Rothschilds wrote one, as did the early Illuminists around Jacob Frank, then there's a chapter by Francis Bacon and so on.

Think of Power as the Editor of this book. This is not one single movement or club but there are consistent threads. Ultimately, however, nothing happens without the Producers, Mr Moneybags, who puts up the money for the show.

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Why does the theme music to American politics sound funny? All pumping brass and balloons at the party conventions? Because if you want a share of the limelight in the Big Tent you have to join the circus.

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