26th March 2010
Totalitarian Capitalism
Mark Hanson
During the 20th Century the main threat to the status of free nations was socialism.
The doctrines and ideology of socialism was both contrary to human nature and contrary to the position of individuality. The socialist agenda denied the individual, and sections of sub-culture and community, the natural desire and ability to play an active part in their own development and to follow their chosen values.
Rather than giving freedom to the proletariat, it rather constrained the God given innate inclination to better oneself and one’s society. It denied the role of conscience, and the principle that the one must suffer for the benefit of the many had, and has, dangerous implications.
Socialism in the 20th Century largely took three forms: the “pure” socialism of the Communist Parties in nations such as the USSR and China; the National Socialism of the Nazi’s in Germany (a horrible and abominable fusion of nationalistic and socialist world views); and the Islamic doctrines whereby all were expected to adhere to the Islamic Law.
Nowadays the socialist philosophy has changed, but it has not disappeared.
In the 21st Century, the gravest threat to the freedoms and principles for which, historically, Britain and the US have stood for, now come from a capitalist agenda.
As left-wingers have betrayed their socialist economic policies and embraced free-market economics, their ideological bent has sent them spiraling into social engineering, state run bureaucracy and the imposition of social controls by the state.
Whilst many of the measures, which have been most noticeable over the past 12 years of Labour government in the UK, have laudable aims such as combating terrorism, extremism and crime, the net effect has been a wholesale removal of the very purpose of societal interaction and transferring those responsibilities into the hands of a bloated, inefficient and increasingly corrupt state apparatus.
This can also be seen to have happened in other parts of the world. In China, the already entrenched Communist Party has seen that it cannot control the masses by totalitarian measures alone: it requires the sweetener of capitalist profit and industrialised bribery. In Iran, there has been a modernisation that has seen an influx of investment and technology that has further enabled the Islamic dictatorship to crush political opponents whilst keeping the proletariat fed with capitalist riches.
The threat today is not al-Qaida, it is not Iran, it is not North Korea.
The threat today comes from the destruction of society, community, culture and the individual for the purpose of an unattainable security, peace and everlasting utopian toy-shop that the new Capitalist Totalitarianism emptily promises.
