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'''Synarchism''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] words meaning "to rule together" or "harmonious rule", in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''Sinarquismo'') is a word that has been used to describe several different political processes in various contexts.


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==Joint rule==
'''Synarchism''' generally means "joint rule" or "harmonious rule". Beyond this general definition, both '''''synarchism''''' and '''''synarchy''''' have been used to denote rule by a secret [[elite]] in [[Vichy France]], [[Italy]], [[China]], and [[Hong Kong]], while being used to describe a pro-Catholic Theocracy movement in [[Mexico]].<ref name="Parekh 2008">{{cite journal| author = Parekh, Rupal | title = WPP'S 'Synarchy' Name Choice Sparks Sneers | year = 2008 | url = http://adage.com/agencynews/article?article_id=127164 | access-date=2009-01-08}}</ref>
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The earliest recorded use of the term '''synarchy''' is attributed to [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/tstackhouse.html Thomas Stackhouse] (1677-1752), an English clergyman who used the word in his ''New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity'' (published in two folio volumes in 1737). The attribution can be found in the [[Webster's Dictionary]] (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by [[Noah Webster]] in 1828). Webster's definition for '''synarchy''' is limited entirely to "joint rule or sovereignty."


==Origins==
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==Rule by secret societies==
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The earliest recorded use of the term ''synarchy'' is attributed to [[Thomas Stackhouse]] (1677–1752), an English clergyman who used the word in his ''New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity'' (published in two folio volumes in 1737). The attribution can be found in the [[Webster's Dictionary]] (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by [[Noah Webster]] in 1828). Webster's definition for ''synarchy'' is limited entirely to "joint rule or [[sovereignty]]". The word is derived from the Greek stems ''syn'' meaning "with" or "together" and ''archy'' meaning "rule".<ref>[http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/word/synarchy Synarchy entry on ''Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary'' web edition]</ref>
The earliest use of the word '''synarchy''' in reference to secret societies comes from the writings of [[Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre]] ([[1842]]-[[1909]]), who used the term in his book ''[[L'Archéomètre]]'' to describe what he believed was the ideal form of government. Saint-Yves, an [[occult]]ist, invented the word to describe government by [[Secret society|secret societies]], a form of governance he associated with superior beings from the land of ''[[Shambhala]]'' (a. k. a. [[Shangri-la]]), who communicated with him telepathically.


The most substantial early use of the word ''synarchy'' comes from the writings of [[Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre]] (1842–1909), who used the term in his book ''La France vraie'' to describe what he believed was the ideal [[form of government]].<ref>Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, ''La France vraie'' (Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1887).</ref> In reaction to the emergence of [[anarchist]] ideologies and movements, Saint-Yves elaborated a political formula which he believed would lead to a harmonious society. He defended social differentiation and hierarchy with collaboration between social classes, transcending conflict between social and economic groups: synarchy, as opposed to [[anarchy]]. Specifically, Saint-Yves envisioned a [[Federal Europe]] (as well as all the states it has integrated) with a [[corporatism|corporatist]] government composed of three [[Council of State|councils]], one for [[academia]], one for the [[judiciary]], and one for [[chamber of commerce|commerce]].<ref>André Nataf, ''The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Occult'' (Wordsworth Editions Ltd; 1994).</ref>
[[United States|American]] political activist [[Lyndon LaRouche]] and some of his followers regularly use the term in a sense similar to Saint-Yves. They claim that an international combination of financial institutions, raw materials cartels, and intelligence operatives such as [[John Foster Dulles]], used their financial and political resources to install fascist regimes throughout Europe (and tried to do so in [[Mexico]]) in an attempt to maintain order and prevent any repudiation of international debts during the chaotic period of the [[1930s]]. They assert that such efforts have continued to the present day. LaRouche claims that this international conspiracy has involved people as diverse as philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]], the [[Beatles]], and the [[British Royal Family]].{I've put this in because it gives a full picture of LaRouche's use of the term than the above}


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==Rule by a secret elite==
==Synarchism in various parts of the world==
The word ''synarchy'' is used, especially among French and Spanish speakers, to describe a [[Shadow government (conspiracy)|shadow government]] or [[deep state]], a form of government where political power effectively rests with a secret [[elite]], in contrast to an [[oligarchy]] where the elite is or could be known by the public.<ref name="Patton & Robin Mackness 2006">{{cite book|author1=Patton, Guy |author2=Mackness, Robin | title = Web of Gold: The Secret History of Sacred Treasures | publisher = Sidgwick & Jackson | year = 2000 | isbn = 0-283-06344-0}}</ref>


===In Vichy France===
The question of synarchism became an issue for [[U.S. Intelligence]] analysts during [[World War II]]. In a now declassified U.S. report dated [[April 22]], [[1942]], [[Raleigh A. Gibson]], First Secretary of the [[U.S. Embassy in Mexico]], sent the [[U.S. Secretary of State]] an English translation of an editorial from ''El Popular'', the newspaper of the [[Confederation of Mexican Workers]], published on [[April 21]], [[1942]]. It reads in part as follows:
According to former [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] officer [[William L. Langer|William Langer]],<ref>[[William L. Langer]] (1947). ''Our Vichy Gamble''. New York: [[Alfred A. Knopf]].{{page needed|date=October 2016}}</ref> some French industrial and banking interests even before the war, had turned to [[Nazi Germany]] and had looked to Hitler as the savior of Europe from Communism.


This theory allegedly originated with the discovery of a document called ''Pacte Synarchique'' following the death (May 19, 1941) of [[Jean Coutrot]], former member of [[Groupe X-Crise]], on May 15, 1941. According to this document, a ''Mouvement Synarchique d'Empire'' had been founded in 1922, with the aim of abolishing [[Parliamentary system|parliamentarianism]] and replacing it with synarchy. This led to the belief that [[La Cagoule]], a far-right organisation, was the armed branch of French synarchism, and that some important members of the [[Vichy Regime]] were synarchists. The Vichy government ordered an investigation, leading to the ''Rapport Chavin''<ref>Henry Chavin, ''Rapport confidentiel sur la société secrète polytechnicienne dite Mouvement synarchique d'Empire (MSE) ou Convention synarchique révolutionnaire'', 1941.</ref> but no evidence for the existence of the ''Mouvement Synarchiste d'Empire'' was found. Most of the presumed synarchists were either associated with the [[Banque Worms]] or with Groupe X-Crise; they were close to Admiral [[François Darlan]] (Vichy prime minister 1941–1942), and this has led to the belief{{by whom|date=October 2016}} that synarchists had engineered the military defeat of France for the profit of Banque Worms.<ref>Annie Lacroiz-Riz, ''Le choix de la défaite: Les élites françaises dans les années 1930'', [[Armand Colin]], 2006. {{ISBN|978-2200267841}}</ref>
:"The French ''sinarquistas'' rushed into furious strife against French and European democracy; those of Mexico organized to combat Mexican and continental democracy. The French ''sinarquistas'' were adopted by Abetz, the Ambassador of Hitler in France; the Mexican ''sinarquistas'' were recruited, were given a name, were educated and directed by Nazi agents in Mexico and by [[Falange]] directors who are working illegally among us. And this is so apparent, so conclusive, that it eliminates the need of concrete proofs of the organic connection between them. The fundamental proof is that ''sinarquism'' is not a unique and exclusive Mexican product, as its leaders untruthfully argue. That ''Sinarquism'', even bearing the identical name, does exist in other parts of the world and is an international movement formed by those who are under the supreme orders of Hitler."{{fact}}


This belief system has been dismissed as a "work of a paranoid imagination which wove together the histories of three disparate groups of activists, creating a conspiracy among them where none existed".<ref name=kuisel>Richard F. Kuisel, [https://doi.org/10.2307/286065 "The Legend of the Vichy Synarchy"] (''[[French Historical Studies]]'', vol. 6, no. 3, Spring 1970), pp. 365–398. {{doi|10.2307/286065}}.</ref> Most historians<ref name=kuisel/><ref>Olivier Dard, ''La synarchie ou le mythe du complot permanent'', Paris: Perrin, 1998, p. 228.</ref><ref>Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''L'argent caché: milieux d'affaires et pouvoirs politiques dans la France du XXe siècle'', Paris: Seuil, 1984,pp. 231-241.</ref><ref>Henry Rousso, ''La Collaboration: les noms, les thèmes, les lieux'', Paris: MA Éditions, 1987, pp. 166-168.</ref><ref>Denis Peschanski, "Vichy au singulier, Vichy au pluriel: une tentative avortée d'encadrement de la société (1941-1942)" (Annales. Économies, sociétés, civilisations, Paris: Armand Colin, n°3, May-June 1988, pp. 650-651.</ref><ref>Frédéric Monier, "Secrets de parti et suspicion d'État dans la France des années 1930" (Politix, n° 54, 2001, p. 138).</ref><ref>Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, ''Le docteur Ménétrel: éminence grise et confident du maréchal Pétain'', Paris: Perrin, 2001, p. 160.</ref><ref>Nicolas Beaupré, ''Les grandes guerres (1914-1945)'', Paris: Belin, 2012, pp. 827-828.</ref><ref>Bernard Costagliola, ''Darlan: la Collaboration à tout prix'', Paris:CNRS éditions, 2015, p. 102.</ref><ref>Fabrice Grenard, Florent Le Bot and Cédric Perrin, ''Histoire économique de Vichy: l'État, les hommes, les entreprises'', Paris: Perrin, 2017, pp. 155 ; 386-387.</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=February 2022}} affirm that the ''Pacte Synarchique'' was a [[hoax]] created by some French collaborators with Nazi Germany to weaken Darlan and his Vichy technocrats.<ref>Olivier Dard, ''La synarchie, le mythe du complot permanent'', Paris, Perrin, 1998</ref> Only the far-left historian Annie Lacroix-Riz defends the idea that the synarchy existed.<ref>
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===Mexican synarchism===
{{cite news
{{main|Mexican synarchism}}
| last1 = Reichstadt
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'''Synarchy''' is also the name of the ideology of a political movement in [[Mexico]] dating from the 1930s. In [[Mexico]] it was historically a movement of the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] [[extreme right]], in some ways akin to [[fascism]], violently opposed to the [[leftist]] and [[secularist]] policies of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|revolutionary]] (PNR, PRM, and PRI) governments that ruled Mexico from [[1929]] to [[2000]].
| first1 = Rudy
| title = La Synarchie, ce complot permanent qui n'existait pas
| url = https://www.slate.fr/tribune/63537/synarchie-mythe-complot-permanent
| newspaper = Slate.fr
| date = 2012-10-30
| access-date = 2016-10-05
}}
</ref><ref>Olivier Dard, "La corruption dans la France des années 1930: historiographie et perspectives de recherche", in Jens Ivo Engels, Frédéric Monier et Natalie Petiteau (ed.), ''La politique vue d'en bas: pratiques privées, débats publics dans l'Europe contemporaine, XIXe-XXe siècles: actes du Colloque d'Avignon, mai 2010'', Paris:Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 212-213.</ref>


===Lyndon LaRouche===
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The [[National Synarchist Union]] ''(Unión Nacional Sinarquista,'' UNS) was founded in May [[1937]] by a group of Catholic political activists led by [[José Antonio Urquiza]], who was murdered in April [[1938]]. In [[1946]] the movement regrouped as the [[Popular Force Party]] (Partido Fuerza Popular). Synarchism revived as a political movement in the [[1970s]] through the [[Mexican Democratic Party]] (PDM), whose candidate, [[Ignacio González Gollaz]], polled 1.8 percent of the vote at the [[1982]] presidential election. In [[1988]] [[Gumersindo Magaña Negrete]] polled a similar proportion, but the party then suffered a split, and in [[1992]] lost its registration as a [[political party]]. It was dissolved in [[1996]].
[[Lyndon LaRouche]], leader of the [[LaRouche movement]], describes a wide-ranging historical phenomenon, starting with [[Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre]] and the [[Martinist Order]] followed by important individuals, organizations, movements and regimes that are alleged to have been synarchist, including the [[Nazi Germany#Government|government of Nazi Germany]].<ref name="LaRouche 2003">{{cite journal|last=LaRouche | first=Lyndon | title = Reviving the Sense of Mission For American Citizens Today| year = 2003 |url = http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2003/3046bsn_event.html| access-date=2008-04-06}}</ref> He claims that during the [[Great Depression]] an international coalition of financial institutions, raw materials cartels, and [[intelligence (information gathering)|intelligence]] operatives installed [[fascist]] regimes throughout [[Europe]] (and tried to do so in [[Mexico]]) to maintain world order and prevent the repudiation of [[international debt]]s.<ref name="Steinberg 2003">{{cite journal | last=Steinberg | first=Jeffrey | title = Synarchism: The Fascist Roots Of the Wolfowitz Cabal | year = 2003 | url = http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3021synarchism.html | access-date=2008-04-06}}</ref> LaRouche identifies the former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. vice president]] and former [[Project for the New American Century|PNAC]] member [[Dick Cheney]] as a modern "synarchist", and claims that "synarchists" have "a scheme for replacing regular military forces of nations, by [[private military company|private armies]] in the footsteps of a privately financed international [[Waffen-SS]] like scheme, a force deployed by leading financier institutions, such as the multi-billions funding by the [[U.S. Treasury]], of Cheney's [[Halliburton]] gang."<ref name="LaRouche, Jr 2008">{{cite journal| last=LaRouche | first=Lyndon H. Jr.| title = The Empire Versus the Nations: Synarchism, Sport & Iran| year = 2008 |url = http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/writings_files/2006/060527_synarchism_sport.htm| access-date=2008-04-06 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080324035429/http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/writings_files/2006/060527_synarchism_sport.htm |archive-date = March 24, 2008}}</ref>


==Other uses==
There are now two organisations, both calling themselves the Unión Nacional Sinarquista. One has an apparently right-wing orientation, the other is apparently left-wing, but they both have the same philosophical roots.


===Chinese synarchism===
===Qing China===
[[Harvard]] historian and [[sinology|sinologist]] [[John K. Fairbank]] also used the word '''synarchism''' in his [[1953]] book ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854'' and in later writings, to describe the mechanisms of government under the late [[Qing dynasty]] in [[China]].
[[Harvard]] historian and [[sinology|sinologist]] [[John K. Fairbank]] used the word ''synarchy'' in his 1953 book ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854'', and in later writings, to describe the mechanisms of government under the [[Qing dynasty]] in [[China]]. Fairbank's synarchy is a form of joint rule by co-opting existing Manchu and Han Chinese elites and bringing the foreign powers into the system and legitimizing them through a schedule of rituals and tributes that gave them a stake in the Qing dynasty rule. He believed that the Qing, who were considered outside rulers because of their Manchu origins, developed this strategy out of necessity because they did not have a strong political base in China.<ref>John King Fairbank, ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854'', (Harvard University Press, 1953), 462–468</ref><ref>"Synarchy under the Treaties", ''Chinese Thought and Institutions'', John K. Fairbank, ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1957), 204–231.</ref><ref>[http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/fairbank.htm Review of ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast'']</ref>


===Hong Kong===
Fairbank's synarchy is a form of rule by co-opting existing elites and powers, bringing them into the system and legitimising them through a schedule of rituals and tributes that gave them a stake in the Chinese regime and neutralised any risk that they might rebel against the monarchy. He believed that the Qing, who were considered outside rulers because of their [[Manchu]] origins, had developed this strategy out of necessity because they did not have their own political base in China. This conception of Qing rule is not universally accepted among sinologists and historians of China, but is a respected, [[mainstream]] view with significant support in the field.
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The term is also used by some political scientists to describe the [[Colonial Hong Kong|British colonial government in Hong Kong]] (1842–1997). [[Ambrose King]], in his 1975 paper ''Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong'', described colonial Hong Kong's administration as "elite consensual government". In it, he claimed, any coalition of elites or forces capable of challenging the legitimacy of Hong Kong's administrative structure would be co-opted by the existing apparatus through the appointment of leading political activists, business figures and other elites to oversight committees, by granting them [[British honours system|British honours]], and by bringing them into elite institutions like Hong Kong's horse racing clubs. He called this ''synarchy'', by extension of Fairbank's use of the word.


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===Mexican synarchism===
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The term is also used by some political scientists to describe the British colonial government in [[Hong Kong]] ([[1842]]-[[1997]]). [[Ambrose King]], in his controversial [[1975]] paper ''Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong'', described colonial Hong Kong's administration as "elite consensual government". In it, he claimed, any coallition of elites or forces capable of challenging the legitimacy of Hong Kong's administrative structure would be co-opted by the existing apparatus through the appointment of leading political activists, business figures and other elites to oversight committees, by granting them [[British honours system|British honours]], and by bringing them into elite institutions like Hong Kong's horse racing clubs. He called this '''synarchism''', by extension of Fairbank's use of the word.
{{main|National Synarchist Union}}
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''Synarchy'' is also the name of the ideology of a political movement in [[Mexico]] dating from the 1930s. In Mexico, it was historically a movement of the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] [[extreme right]], in some ways akin to [[fascism]], violently opposed to the [[Populism|populist]] and [[secularist]] policies of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|revolutionary]] (PNR, PRM, and PRI) governments that ruled Mexico from 1929 to 2000.<ref>{{cite book | last=Lucas |first=Jeffrey Kent | title=The Rightward Drift of Mexico's Former Revolutionaries: The Case of Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama |year=2010 |publisher=Lewiston, NY: [[Edwin Mellen Press]] |isbn=978-0-7734-3665-7 |pages=207–212}}</ref>


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The [[National Synarchist Union]] ''(Unión Nacional Sinarquista,'' UNS) was founded in May 1937 by a group of Catholic political activists led by José Antonio Urquiza, who was murdered in April 1938, and [[Salvador Abascal]]. In 1946, a faction of the movement loyal to deposed leader [[Manuel Torres Bueno]] regrouped as the [[Popular Force Party]] (Partido Fuerza Popular). Synarchism revived as a political movement in the 1970s through the [[Mexican Democratic Party]] (PDM),<ref>A. Riding, ''Mexico: Inside the Volcano'', Coronet Books, 1989, p. 113</ref> whose candidate, Ignacio González Gollaz, polled 1.8 percent of the vote at the 1982 presidential election. In 1988 [[Gumersindo Magaña]] polled a similar proportion, but the party then suffered a split, and, in 1992, lost its registration as a [[political party]]. It was dissolved in 1996.


There are now two organisations, both calling themselves the Unión Nacional Sinarquista, one aligning to [[Francoist Spain#Francoism|Francoist policies]],<ref>{{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027132521/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9136/ National Synarchist Union (Website of the right-wing UNS)]</ref> the other following the [[Movimiento Español Sindicalista|National Syndicalism]] of [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera|Primo De Rivera]].{{According to whom|date=November 2016}} [[Carlos María Abascal Carranza|Carlos Abascal]], son of [[Salvador Abascal]], was Mexico's Secretary of the Interior during [[Vicente Fox]]'s presidency. Many ''sinarquistas'' are now militant in the [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]], PAN, of former presidents Vicente Fox (2000–2006) and [[Felipe Calderón]] (2006–2012).


==External links==
==References==
{{reflist}}
===Secret societies===
*[http://www.foundation.bw/OnSynarchy.htm On Synarchy]
*[http://www.crystalinks.com/styves.html Alexandre Saint Yves d'Alveydre]

===Mexican synarchism===
*[http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9136/ National Synarchist Union] (Website of the right-wing UNS, in Spanish)
*[http://sinarquismo.americas.tripod.com/ National Synarchist Unionista] (Website of the competing left-wing UNS, in Spanish)

===Chinese synarchism===
*[http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/fairbank.htm Review of ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast'']


==Further reading==
[[Category: LaRouche movement]]
* Richard F. Kuisel (Spring 1970). [https://doi.org/10.2307/286065 "The Legend of the Vichy Synarchy."] ''[[French Historical Studies]]'', vol. 6, no. 3. pp.&nbsp;365–398. {{doi|10.2307/286065}}.
* {{in lang|fr}} Olivier Dard (2012). ''La synarchie ou le mythe du complot permanent''. Paris: Perrin. {{ISBN|978-2262010997}}.


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Not to be confused with Synthesis anarchism.
Synarchism
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Synarchism generally means "joint rule" or "harmonious rule". Beyond this general definition, both synarchism and synarchy have been used to denote rule by a secret elite in Vichy France, Italy, China, and Hong Kong, while being used to describe a pro-Catholic Theocracy movement in Mexico.[1]

Origins

The earliest recorded use of the term synarchy is attributed to Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752), an English clergyman who used the word in his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity (published in two folio volumes in 1737). The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828). Webster's definition for synarchy is limited entirely to "joint rule or sovereignty". The word is derived from the Greek stems syn meaning "with" or "together" and archy meaning "rule".[2]

The most substantial early use of the word synarchy comes from the writings of Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842–1909), who used the term in his book La France vraie to describe what he believed was the ideal form of government.[3] In reaction to the emergence of anarchist ideologies and movements, Saint-Yves elaborated a political formula which he believed would lead to a harmonious society. He defended social differentiation and hierarchy with collaboration between social classes, transcending conflict between social and economic groups: synarchy, as opposed to anarchy. Specifically, Saint-Yves envisioned a Federal Europe (as well as all the states it has integrated) with a corporatist government composed of three councils, one for academia, one for the judiciary, and one for commerce.[4]

Rule by a secret elite

The word synarchy is used, especially among French and Spanish speakers, to describe a shadow government or deep state, a form of government where political power effectively rests with a secret elite, in contrast to an oligarchy where the elite is or could be known by the public.[5]

In Vichy France

According to former OSS officer William Langer,[6] some French industrial and banking interests even before the war, had turned to Nazi Germany and had looked to Hitler as the savior of Europe from Communism.

This theory allegedly originated with the discovery of a document called Pacte Synarchique following the death (May 19, 1941) of Jean Coutrot, former member of Groupe X-Crise, on May 15, 1941. According to this document, a Mouvement Synarchique d'Empire had been founded in 1922, with the aim of abolishing parliamentarianism and replacing it with synarchy. This led to the belief that La Cagoule, a far-right organisation, was the armed branch of French synarchism, and that some important members of the Vichy Regime were synarchists. The Vichy government ordered an investigation, leading to the Rapport Chavin[7] but no evidence for the existence of the Mouvement Synarchiste d'Empire was found. Most of the presumed synarchists were either associated with the Banque Worms or with Groupe X-Crise; they were close to Admiral François Darlan (Vichy prime minister 1941–1942), and this has led to the belief[by whom?] that synarchists had engineered the military defeat of France for the profit of Banque Worms.[8]

This belief system has been dismissed as a "work of a paranoid imagination which wove together the histories of three disparate groups of activists, creating a conspiracy among them where none existed".[9] Most historians[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][excessive citations] affirm that the Pacte Synarchique was a hoax created by some French collaborators with Nazi Germany to weaken Darlan and his Vichy technocrats.[19] Only the far-left historian Annie Lacroix-Riz defends the idea that the synarchy existed.[20][21]

Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche, leader of the LaRouche movement, describes a wide-ranging historical phenomenon, starting with Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and the Martinist Order followed by important individuals, organizations, movements and regimes that are alleged to have been synarchist, including the government of Nazi Germany.[22] He claims that during the Great Depression an international coalition of financial institutions, raw materials cartels, and intelligence operatives installed fascist regimes throughout Europe (and tried to do so in Mexico) to maintain world order and prevent the repudiation of international debts.[23] LaRouche identifies the former U.S. vice president and former PNAC member Dick Cheney as a modern "synarchist", and claims that "synarchists" have "a scheme for replacing regular military forces of nations, by private armies in the footsteps of a privately financed international Waffen-SS like scheme, a force deployed by leading financier institutions, such as the multi-billions funding by the U.S. Treasury, of Cheney's Halliburton gang."[24]

Other uses

Qing China

Harvard historian and sinologist John K. Fairbank used the word synarchy in his 1953 book Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854, and in later writings, to describe the mechanisms of government under the Qing dynasty in China. Fairbank's synarchy is a form of joint rule by co-opting existing Manchu and Han Chinese elites and bringing the foreign powers into the system and legitimizing them through a schedule of rituals and tributes that gave them a stake in the Qing dynasty rule. He believed that the Qing, who were considered outside rulers because of their Manchu origins, developed this strategy out of necessity because they did not have a strong political base in China.[25][26][27]

Hongkong

The term is also used by some political scientists to describe the British colonial government in Hong Kong (1842–1997). Ambrose King, in his 1975 paper Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong, described colonial Hong Kong's administration as "elite consensual government". In it, he claimed, any coalition of elites or forces capable of challenging the legitimacy of Hong Kong's administrative structure would be co-opted by the existing apparatus through the appointment of leading political activists, business figures and other elites to oversight committees, by granting them British honours, and by bringing them into elite institutions like Hong Kong's horse racing clubs. He called this synarchy, by extension of Fairbank's use of the word.

Mexican synarchism

Main article: National Synarchist Union

Synarchy is also the name of the ideology of a political movement in Mexico dating from the 1930s. In Mexico, it was historically a movement of the Roman Catholic extreme right, in some ways akin to fascism, violently opposed to the populist and secularist policies of the revolutionary (PNR, PRM, and PRI) governments that ruled Mexico from 1929 to 2000.[28]

The National Synarchist Union (Unión Nacional Sinarquista, UNS) was founded in May 1937 by a group of Catholic political activists led by José Antonio Urquiza, who was murdered in April 1938, and Salvador Abascal. In 1946, a faction of the movement loyal to deposed leader Manuel Torres Bueno regrouped as the Popular Force Party (Partido Fuerza Popular). Synarchism revived as a political movement in the 1970s through the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM),[29] whose candidate, Ignacio González Gollaz, polled 1.8 percent of the vote at the 1982 presidential election. In 1988 Gumersindo Magaña polled a similar proportion, but the party then suffered a split, and, in 1992, lost its registration as a political party. It was dissolved in 1996.

There are now two organisations, both calling themselves the Unión Nacional Sinarquista, one aligning to Francoist policies,[30] the other following the National Syndicalism of Primo De Rivera.[according to whom?] Carlos Abascal, son of Salvador Abascal, was Mexico's Secretary of the Interior during Vicente Fox's presidency. Many sinarquistas are now militant in the National Action Party, PAN, of former presidents Vicente Fox (2000–2006) and Felipe Calderón (2006–2012).

References

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  30. ^ (in Spanish) National Synarchist Union (Website of the right-wing UNS)

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