February 24, 2022
I have been using the words “fascist” and “fascism” a lot recently, especially in my previous essay referring to the Covid fascists. And I wanted to clarify what I mean by fascism.
Fascism is very similar to socialism, which is considered to be government ownership of the means of production, industry, and property.
There is little difference between socialism and fascism, and between socialism and communism. I didn’t want to get into the technical details on all that here. For that you can read Socialism and Communism by Ludwig von Mises, Fascism versus Capitalism by Lew Rockwell, Socialism: an Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises, and maybe even Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, if you are interested.
But as I explained here, one of the important means of production is the people. So when you have government ownership of the means of production, which includes the people, you have enslavement of the people.
Some like to define socialism as “public ownership” of the means of production etc. but really the government is the ultimate owner. So, it’s government ownership.
And who is “the government”? Politicians and bureaucrats really, who have acquired their ownership certainly not based on legitimate means of acquiring ownership, as you well know.
But fascism is really a form of socialism, in which the bureaucrats are the ultimate owners of the means of production, industry and property (and the people), but supposedly in a system of officially private ownership, not collective ownership. But such private ownership is only on paper, because when the ultimate decision-makers and authorities are the bureaucrats, then really the bureaucrats are the ultimate owners.
That means that all government-imposed regulations, zoning rules, mandates and prohibitions involving people and their alleged “private” property, are examples of fascism.
One obvious example of fascism is the collection of Covid policies over the past two years now. When a bureaucrat like your corrupt governor orders a business to be closed down, without any actual legal complaint against the business, without a reason to suspect the business to be engaged in some criminality, fraud or theft, without any semblance of due process, yes, that’s fascism.
In a free society, regardless of a virus going through the area, if a ruling bureaucrat wanted a business to be shut down, the bureaucrat would have to by law respect the business’s right to due process: there would have to be a legitimate reason to order the business shut down, such as a reason to believe the business to be a “threat to the public health,” with evidence to back up that allegation, or a reason to suspect the business of some actual crime against an actual victim, with evidence to back up the allegation.
But in our fascist society, the bureaucrats have been ordering businesses shut down (and giving some loony-tunes rules like in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in which you can be open until a certain time and can only provide beverages but not food or whatever crap the governor wants to make up). Governors and other madmen (or madpeople, I should say) have also been ordering churches to be closed down. Now that’s a fascist.
Such bureaucrats are violating the people’s Fifth Amendment rights as well as their First Amendment rights. So as you can see, here in the U.S. the bureaucrats and their enforcers are violating their Constitutional oaths constantly. Do they even have a Constitution in Canada?
In Canada, the bureaucrats up there have been arresting ministers who have kept their churches open in disobedience of the bureaucrats’ fascist orders. Some of the crap we have been seeing by openly fascist bureaucrats has been utterly absurd.
I think that whether you call those government criminals (sorry for the redundancy) “fascists” or “communists,” those words mean the same thing, in my view.
The war on drugs is another example of fascism in Western society (and the “East,” the Middle East, and all points between).
In a free society the individual’s right of self-ownership is a given. You own your own life and your own body and you will put into your own body or ingest whatever foods or drugs or chemicals you decide to do. That’s self-ownership in a free society.
But in a fascist society, which is what ours is, the government owns your body. The government will decide what you may or may not put into “your” body. You must obey.
And the bureaucrats’ police will enforce those edicts and prohibitions with guns, clubs, tasers, and all the rest, and they will be rubber-stamped by the judicial morons in the government courts, including the Harvtards of the Supreme Court.
And in a fascist society not only do we have government-imposed prohibitions of bodily ingestions, but government-imposed mandates of bodily ingestions such as vaccines (in today’s case “vaccines” like mRNA drugs that are not vaccines).
And many hospitals and businesses may still be “privately” owned on paper, but are really de facto government owned because of all their tax-funded handouts and government-imposed regulations.
In that regard of Covid fascism, if someone mistakenly finds oneself in the hospital “with Covid,” and requests (or even demands) to be given alternative medication rather than the hospital’s own protocol of killer remdesivir and ventilators there are many Nurse Ratcheds and Joan Crawfords now who refuse to let the patients have their requested alternative.
In our fascist society, the Government/Pharma/Medical complex has been breeding medical “professionals” to be authoritarian, mindless robots obediently following the orders of the Regime. What do they think this is, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union?
Hmm, why do many conservatives oppose vaccine mandates or hospital/government prohibitions of alternative treatments, but support prohibitions of drugs? (After all, I guess they do love their booze, so we can’t prevent them from getting drunk, god forbid.)
And in our fascist society we have millions of people who demand that you use certain pronouns even if such pronouns are incorrect. There are many zombies now who must have control over what other people say and how they say it. Yes, those people. “I own you and order you to say this or that, and you may not say what I don’t like,” is what the speech fascists say.
And then there’s the more blatant police state. In a free society, the people’s right to their privacy is not violated by government agents. If there is a government, it must follow rules for respecting the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects. In the Constitution those rules are covered by mainly the Fourth Amendment.
If the bureaucrats or their enforcers want to enter or search or seize property, there must be a reason to suspect someone of something criminal with a high probability that their intrusion or seizure will find evidence against the accused.
So, with freedom the government may not pry or spy without cause, and also there is government transparency. In a free society there are Freedom of Information Act requests galore and they are granted without question. Government does not have secrecy, but the people have their privacy.
The individual owns one’s own life and one’s “effects” and others may not intrude, pry, invade, trespass. And the government we have in a “democracy” is a publicly owned government, not a privately owned entity with property rights, etc.
That is in total contrast to the way things are now in the fascist West, in Amerika and Kanada as we have seen now. Everything is in the reverse now. The government owns you and your life and body, your earnings, “your” property, and so on. And you don’t have a say as to what goes on in the government. And you don’t have a right to know what the bureaucrats and their government minions are up to. “Tough noogies,” they say.
The Government is The Authority. You must be quiet, and obey!
In current fascism, the government may pry into your private life, your bank account, your home, your car, and spy on you without any reason to suspect you of anything, and steal your money and property based on whatever made-up stories the FBI, Canadian Mounties or local government police can concoct.
In a free society, the people may of course exercise their right to dissent and openly disagree with government policies, as well as criticize them, and even mock and satirize them, without fear of punishment or retaliation.
In contrast, in our current fascism, look what happens to a presidential candidate who promises to “Drain the Swamp!”. The apparatchiks, government spies and the Fourth Estate go after that guy, that’s for sure.
Look what happens to journalists who do actual investigating of the regime or reveal its crimes or incompetence. Sharyl Attkisson, James Risen, James Rosen, Michael Hastings, Bradley Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Andrew Breitbart. (And why is it that mainly Democrats are going after journalists? Hmmm?) And in fascist Amerika we have the CIA, the FBI, NSA, and on and on.
A fascist world is a bizarro world, where up is down, down is up, in is out, male is female, and a world in which craziness rules. “The inmates are running the asylum” comes to mind.
So, some call it fascism but others call it communism. I say, let’s call the whole thing off.
And I think that none of this fascist or communist crap would be going on now if there were no income tax or IRS, or any system based on such involuntary contracts or transactions. Who in his right mind would voluntarily let someone take away one’s earnings or wealth with no contract involved, no voluntary agreement on what the taker will do with such earnings or wealth?
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