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On Jul 17, 2004, at 3:46 PM, mark urban wrote:
Brian,
The following may be read at G. Edward Griffin's website:
http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/pdf/futurecalling2.pdf
It is a nice rundown on the source of collectivist thought.
g. edward griffin's philosophy is in my eyes a perfect example of one side of the dialectic i have been theorizing about. for instance, he accuses the fabian society / LSE of furthering a pure "collectivist" agenda. but the LSE (and the rockefellers) also gave us friedrich von hayek, the indisputable patron saint of "anti-collectivist" / anti-statist fundamentalism! really, the world has seen enough neoliberal genocide already to re-examine the deceptive ideologies that have brought it about. here's something that cuts the delusions apart:
The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek:
Fascism Didn't Die With Hitler
by Jeffrey Steinberg
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/vonhayek.htm
excerpt:
Also, during the summer of 1994, another, more secretive commemorative event for The Road to Serfdom took place in Cannes, France. This was the annual gathering of the Mont Pelerin Society, the institution founded by von Hayek in 1947 to advance the Conservative Revolution by launching the radical insurgency that has now overrun the corridors of power in Washington and other capitals around the globe. The keynote speech at the Cannes event was delivered by Alain Madelin, a leading translator of von Hayek's works into French, and the man who President Chirac just fired as France's Economics and Finance Minister--much to the chagrin of London.
Writing The Road to Serfdom in London in 1944, while teaching at the British Fabian Society's London School of Economics, von Hayek was certainly in no position to pen an apology for Adolph Hitler and National Socialism. Instead, he took a sophisticated detour to arrive at the same end result. Von Hayek denounced National Socialism as a classic expression of statist, totalitarian ideology, and then argued that all forms of dirigist government involvement in the economy strangle freedom, crush the free market, and lead inevitably to Hitlerian totalitarianism.
Von Hayek slandered Friedrich List, Germany's great ``American System'' economist, and the Weimar-era German political figure, Walter Rathenau, as part of the same ``socialist'' camp as Hitler and Lenin. Von Hayek let his own Anglophiliac sentiments all hang out, as he pilloried List as the principal author of the ``German thesis'' that ``free trade was a policy dictated solely by, and appropriate only to, the special interests of England in the nineteenth century.''
He slandered Walter Rathenau, the German foreign minister whose assassination in 1923 helped break the resistance to the draconian conditionalities that the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany, and also proved to be a key step toward the Nazi Party's rise to power:
``Ideas very similar to these [anti-individualist views] were current in the offices of the German raw-material dictator, Walter Rathenau, who, although he would have shuddered had he realized the consequences of his totalitarian economics, yet deserves a considerable place in any fuller history of the growth of Nazi ideas.''
Talk about Nazi ideas! The radical alternatives that von Hayek posed--strict monetarism, near-total deregulation, and Pan-European federalism--were all expressions of the same feudalist outlook that produced Hitler's National Socialism and the thousands of other varieties of Conservative Revolutionism after World War I.
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the neocons have some similar roots to this brand of thinking. important founding neocon influence james burnham came up with a theory around the ww2 era concerning "managerial society" in which the new threat to freedom was "bureaucratic collectivism". in the spirit of von hayek, the neocon ideology of "global democratic revolution" is currently centered around the idea of replacing the "oriental despotism" straw man of the middle east and central asia with the other extreme, "market democracy".
it is telling that von hayek and george soros are both considered very close in their philosophy to cybernetics / systems theory, which the main theoretical basis of the "bottom up" approach to "sustainable development" which continues to progress as the dialectical antithesis to the thesis of "top down" police state and exporting-democracy-at-gunpoint, leading to the synthesis of "global governance" under a central authority in control of global resources and the global monetary system, but which will otherwise rule (no, "steer", in the cybernetic sense) through a feudal-decentralist, post-statist, market-communitarian syncretism. that's my take, fwiw.
i think that the reason that the NWO has made such progress without successful opposition is that it has been very poorly diagnosed.
a bit of "six degrees of separation" game:
*von hayek - systems theory - field theory (social psychology) - group dynamics, encounter groups (kurt lewin, etc) - UN Agenda 21
*adam smith - east india company - round table - rothschild - teddy goldsmith - gaia theory - pantheism / holism
*nazis - warburg - american jewish committee - authoritarian personality study - frankfurt school - 60s new left
*hegel - skull n bones - thomas dewey - william james - fabian society - mont pelerin society - austrian school / libertarianism
*"market democracy" - "global democratic revolution" - "oriental despotism" - wittfogel - frankfurt school - hegelian marxism
etc.
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