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1.0 out of 5 starsNot Communist Revolution But Corporate Fascism
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
I was curious about this book given the authors’ connection with military intelligence and the endorsements by former presidential advisors. I pre-ordered the book and upon reading it was sadly disappointed. The book requires constructive criticism because it is being touted as some sort of counter strategy to what we are facing in the US today and a guide for any possible incoming Republican president. We are not up against a Communist Revolution in America today, but Corporate Fascism using Marxism as a cover as explained below.
The US is finally starting to suffer the consequences of shifting large industrial production to China to appease oligarchs that closed over 40,000 factories in the 1990’s. It tried to replace it with a high-tech, service-based consumer economy and debt-based money dependent on the rent seeking monopoly dollar being compelled on all transactions worldwide.
The main author of Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions apparently believes what brought about widespread urban riots, destruction and crime, a planned pandemic, a dubious 2020 presidential election, racial quotas for the military, an unnecessary war, corrupted schools and institutions, all beginning in 2020, is a Communist revolution. But neither the Communist Party nor oppressed working class workers are involved in any of this turmoil. Rather, a combine of 25 high tech corporations in San Francisco gave nearly $100 million to activists in 2020 in support of the destruction of small business districts that compete with them. These funds, along with government outlays, were additionally used to promote cultural Marxism in our institutions and government.
Militant high-tech corporations have formed their own army against the citizenry just as fascism in Italy and Germany were militaristic, albeit fascism in liberal Britain was not militaristic. But German fascism was pro-worker while liberal British fascism was anti-labor. Contemporary corporate fascists in the US wear the uniforms of working-class revolutionists and use guerilla warfare tactics.
Marxism has always been used as a false ideology of a working-class revolt to justify mass murder and the takeover of a country by oligarchs. Marx was a newspaper journalist and propagandist who was subsidized by Friedrich Engels’ industrialist family. Communism is a racket for oligarch banker control, not a proletarian or worker revolt against the factory-owning class. So called Communism has always been a strategy to exploit the grievances of the underclass to destroy a nation’s leadership class and impose the international globalist class. The sociological definition of ideology is a set of idealistic proposals that disguise the economic interests of elites.
Today, it is not the working class that is involved in militant labor movements against Capitalism. This is mainly because large scale industry has been offshored to Asia. Rather, it is preponderantly high-tech corporations who are funding and organizing aggrieved groups, together with an army of young highly educated militants, to destroy the small independent business tier of the economy that corporations see as competitors to their globalist enterprises. So, during the COVID lockdowns, big box retail food stores, franchise auto dealerships, and even strip clubs were open but small ethnic food markets, mom and pop restaurants, boutique clothing stores, vitamin stores, auto repair shops, union halls, small hardware stores, and churches were all inconsistently locked-down.
The US is not up against Communism but corporate fascism, which has historically been used when corporations take over control of the government to protect their monopolies and capital flows during periods of large economic contractions. Fascism is not primarily an ideology but a way to micromanage the economy to the benefit of financial elites and to the detriment of the working class and small business sectors. For example, the Great Depression of the 1930’s was a cover for fascist takeover of family farms and obsolescence of small towns mainly in the Midwest creating migration to the big cities (Raymond C. Schmidt, From the Farm to Fast Food: Adventures During the Great Depression and Beyond, 2012). What is driving corporations today to take over the government and the economy is the lack of a full industrial economic base and the futute anticipated shrinkage of the consumer economy. A contraction of capital markets is expected due to eventual devaluation of monopoly currency issued by the US Federal Reserve used as the reserve currency globally - see Clara Mattei, The Capital Order: How Austerity Paved the Way to Fascism, 2022).
High-tech corporations funding and fomenting riots, arson, vandalism, shoplifting, and mass crime facilitated by permissive local government policing, courts and incarceration, have been involved in a legalized giant conspiracy against the small, independent business sector of the economy. This is partly because the high-tech sector, produces no essential hard goods, tangibles products, food commodities, nor build new homes. The attempt to make electric cars has been a bust.
Similarly, modern medicine is facing obsolescence due to the ineffectiveness and overuse of antibiotics, whose side effects have caused hospitalization to be the third highest cause of death. Moreover, high tech, drug-based medicine has proven a failure in curing cancer, heart disease and respiratory infections (Connie Goldsmith, When Superbugs Strike Back: When Antibiotics Fail, 2007). And the jury verdict is not out yet on the high stakes gamble on vaccines to replace antibiotics but do not appear to be either an injection of money for the medical system or a panacea for disease.
High-technology corporations, including medicine, are the most vulnerable sector in the economy in a structural downsizing because they produce non-essentials and iatrogenic (hospital created) disease (see Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health, 1976).
The desired policy of fascism is austerity under the excuse that the national debt needs paid down, but austerity has never been used to shrink government debt anywhere. Austerity is a policy of shrinking the supply of goods to keep prices high but also to bail-out, re-capitalize and add monetary liquidity to a failing banking system that is backed up by only debt-based money. This brings greater inequality between the financial class and everyone else (Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, 1915).
High-tech corporations not only want to eliminate the small business sector, but all mediating social structures between the individual and the state such as Christian churches, the so-called bourgeoisie merchant family, and any proprietary family businesses. The corporate fascists are not Communist Revolutionists wanting to create a “worker’s paradise”, but instead to put the working class out of business, make them permanently dependent on welfare and monopoly businesses and malevolent authoritarian technocratic medicine for their existence. Concurrently, the institutions that create social and moral capital – churches and the bourgeoisie family of independent merchants – would be eliminated. Oligarchs flooding the country with migrants for a future cheap labor pool will only lead to feudalism.
None of what has just been described above is addressed in the book Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions. As such, the book is entirely unhelpful for seeking any political solutions to the dilemma of future economic decline.