Vivek Ramaswamy, who is seeking the nomination to be the presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2024, writes, “Yesterday, Van Jones called me a ‘demagogue’ for discussing the Great Replacement Theory. Well, here are Van’s words in 2021: ‘The request from the racial justice left: we want the white majority to go from being a majority to being a minority and like it. That’s a tough request, and change is hard.’” Van Jones says a lot more. Here is the video Ramaswamy shared:
Ramaswamy is on to something very important here. But he’s not the first. Tucker Carlson saw this before him. At least Carlson beat him to articulating the observation. I blogged about the Great Replacement Theory conceit several times on Freedom and Reason back in the spring of 2021 (see The “Great Replacement” as Antiracist Propaganda; The Campaign to Cancel Tucker Carlson is Part of the Policy; Rationalizing the Border Crisis with Hysteria, Lies, and Smears). In fact, at the end of 2020, I told readers of my blog what was behind the migrant crisis (see Joe Biden and the Ultimate Source of Our Strength: “an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop”). And just this past September, as the migrant crisis grew worse, I reminded readers about the reality of the great replacement project (see “It’s Not Going to Stop.” The Managed Decline of the American Republic).
The Great Replacement Theory isn’t a theory. It’s a project. Elites have admitted it. They didn’t need to admit it, of course; motive is always determined by fact pattern (criminals lie). The millions flooding into Western societies with no demand to assimilate to Western culture confirmed the motive before Van Jones did (see The Progressive Politics of Mass Immigration; Biden’s Policy is Open Borders). However, elites working to diminish the white majority in North America and Europe—and this includes members of parties that appear oppositional to the casual observer—have never been bashful about their plans. As I have shown Freedom and Reason, a major piece of the plan was announced more than one hundred years ago (see An Architect of Transnationalism: Horace Kallen and the Fetish for Diversity and Inclusion). Those who pursue this end cannot dissimulate the project by attaching the smear of antisemitism and white supremacy to those who speak the truth. Not now. Not ultimately. There is nothing intrinsically Jewish about the replacement project. Indeed, as we have seen, Jews are one of the groups targeted by the replacement project (see Frantz Fanon and the Regressive Ethics of the Wretched: Rationalizing Envy and Resentment—and Violent Praxis; Why the Woke Hate the West; Woke Progressivism and the Party of God). I will be blogging more about why the Jews are targeted by the progressive left this weekend.
Let’s see what we see, shall we? The great replacement is an elite project to disrupt cultural integrity in the West in order to disintegrate the respective national proletariats of the trans-Atlantic space and reintegrate denationalized proletarians in a global system of transnational corporate control. Again, this is not a Jewish project. To be sure, Horace Kallen was a Jew. And, yes, George Soros is a Jew (never forget the way the elite went after Elon Musk for being critical of the tendency Soros represents; see Magneto, Soros, and Musk; more generally, George Soros and the Cudgel of Antisemitism). But then ask yourself, Is Klaus Schwab Jewish? For the record, Schwab is Swiss. He was raised a Catholic. Academic, media, and political elites really do think we’re stupid. They depend on you not knowing what’s going on, which should be incentive enough to get you looking into things. (See If We Allow This, We are Over. See also George Soros, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Coming Era of Global Neo-Feudalism.)
Progressive elites don’t really care about ethnicity and race except where they can weaponize it against the Enlightenment and Western Civilization. That’s what all this postcolonial gibberish is about. This is why such crackpot notions as poststructuralism and postmodernism and every nonsense theory that flows from them (gender identity theory aka queer theory, critical race theory, etc.) have colonized and corrupted our institutions (The Peril of Left-Wing Identitarianism). This is why a consequentialist frame of truth has replaced the ontological one, with the hierarchy of power in back of left identitarianism assumed. This is why BLM and Queers for Palestine. This is what underpins the color revolution of 2020 and the coming color revolution of 2024—already underway in 2023! None of this is accidental.
The world capitalist economy has long been in force. This was inevitable for reasons Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explained in their 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (the criterion-related validity of which can no longer be reasonably questioned). The step being completed now is national dissolution and universalizing of a global legal and political structure under which all workers will be ruled undemocratically and without liberal freedoms—and those displaced and replaced by machines and other rationalizations managed by the custodial state. (See The Globalist Project: The Managed Decline of the Modern Nation-State and the Rise of Corporate State Tyranny. However, I discuss this in several essays on this blog, some of which I have cited above.) Though what brought us here feels inevitable, the end game is not. But the People have to move with haste to stop it.
Changing the culture of the West is vital to the replacement project, a project determined to preserve the wealth of the few as capitalism in its corporatist phase, what Ernest Mandel described in the early 1970s as “late capitalism.” Mandal describes in his landmark Late Capitalism the ascendance of multinational corporations (MNCs, or TNCs) in the global economy, transcending national borders and reshaping economic relations, analyzing the pivotal role of finance capital, its integration with industrial and commercial capital, the deepening relationship between the state and the economy, with state intervention (regulatory measures, fiscal policies, etc.) becomes a defining feature, these directed by capitalist elites (control dissimulated in neoliberal rhetoric). Mandel scrutinizes the impact of technological advancements on the capitalist mode of production documenting their transformative effects on labor and productivity (see my own Physical Capital, Human Capital, Technology, and Productive Work—These Drive the Real Economy). The inherent contradictions and crisis tendencies in capitalism become ever more pronounced in late capitalism.
The world is rapidly moving towards a global neo-feudal system where workers will become the new serfs (see Michel Luc Bellemare’s Techno-Capitalist-Feudalism and Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism; see also Global Neo-Feudalism: Backwards to the Future). Changing the ethnic and religious composition of countries is a crucial step in changing Western culture to this end. The destruction of the family is a major part of the project (which the political right stupidly attributes to Marx and Engels; see my latest essay for details Queer Theory is Not Marxist: The Myth of Family Abolitionism in the Materialist Conception of History; here’s what’s really going on: Disrupting the Western-Prescribed Nuclear Family Requirement. What Does That Mean? A Lot More than You Think). Changing our language to change the way we think is a major part of the project (see Manipulating Reality by Manipulating Words). All these tactics and many more are the subject matter of Freedom and Reason.
This explains the anti-Western sentiment and authoritarian and truly imperialist character of progressivism and social democracy across the trans-Atlantic space. This is why Western Civilization is reduced to whiteness and condemned for its success (see The Myth of White Culture). Elites are delegitimizing the modern nation-state. They are delegitimizing democratic-republicanism and classical liberalism. Their aim is totalitarian control over all the earth. Democrats are the tip of the spear for the American wing of the project. This is why operatives like Van Jones, Jamaal Bowman, and Joe Biden work so hard (and with Biden that must be hard work) to confuse the public by projecting the ethnicism and racism inherent in left identitarianism onto others—then brag about it while admitting the end goal. They have said it out loud: they want whites to be a minority across North America and in Europe. This is why whites (which includes Jews and Asians, the latter labeled “white-adjacent”) are demonized by today’s left. In order to diminish the relative proportion of an ethnic or racial group in a population, a crucial step is to make them out to be the bad guys, to dehumanize them. If they’re the bad guys, then you can replace them with the good guys (Muslims, for example). Who determines who the good guys are tells us who is pulling the levers of power (hint: it’s not the Jews).
To drive home the point, according to queer theory, the eleven-year-old girl is a sexual being—was long before this, perhaps around the age of three—and knows what she wants. This is why “Queers for Palestine” does not strike the woke progressive as an odd slogan. From his standpoint, it isn’t odd at all. He shares the same ideas with respect to children as the man in the video, a widespread sentiment in this culture; children are to be controlled by the adults who seek to exploit them. These are the ideas that are borne by the culture bearers flooding the trans-Atlantic space. But they’re also ideas that find a source in Western paraphilias. There’s a reason why Michel Foucault wrote approvingly of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (see Foucauldian Seductions: Busty Lemieux and the Hijab; Since it is Not Possible to Change the Soul, the Body Must be Changed—Manifestations of Clerical Fascism; Simulated Sexual Identities: Trans as Bad Copy). The Western elite is inviting the barbarians inside the city walls and defending them against the People who would safeguard children against the evil expressed here. And the elite find their foot soldiers in street-level expressions like Trantifa. This is just one element of the culture war being waged against the People.
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