In 1848, in a speech on free trade before the Democratic Association of Brussels, Karl Marx, the German philosopher who believed communism and democracy are the same thing, argued that the cheap commodities promised by free-market advocates were a trap designed not to benefit the working class but the capitalist bottom line.
Did he oppose this? You might think so given his pro-worker sympathies. But you would be wrong. Instead, he argued that cheaper products lead directly to falling wages and that accelerating the impoverishment of the working class would set the stage for a communist revolution.
Marx opposed tariffs because they kept wages high, taxes low, and thus the relative cost of living down. He wanted hardship for the workers so that his vision of a totalitarian society could be realized. (Read my analysis of his speech in Marx the Accelerationist: Free Trade and the Radical Case for Protectionism)
At the same time that Marx was endorsing free trade (the modern-day position of the American libertarian), Democrats were agitating to abolish the American System that protected workers and entrepreneurs (tariffs and all the rest of it), and establish in its stead a globalist system that advanced neo-feudalism, a system where slaves take the place of serfs and a new aristocracy rules over the people.
The slave owners represented by the Democratic Party agitated for a counterrevolution against republicanism and liberal capitalism. The nation went to war over it. The Republicans prevailed and governed the nation in the aftermath, before the corporatocracy and the progressives subverted equality and liberty.
In the mid-1910s, amid the rise of the progressive corporatocracy, organic intellectuals of the New Aristocracy, most notably Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne, used the pages of The Nation to champion transnationalism, mass immigration, cultural federalism (that is, the elevation of ethnic enclaves over the republic), and cultural pluralism (i.e., multiculturalism).
In Kallen’s influential essay “Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot” (1915), he envisioned the United States not as a republic with a common culture and secure borders, but as a democratic (i.e., socialist), multiethnic federation in which diverse immigrant communities could immigrate and live according to the norms of their distinctive cultural heritages.
Kallen was allied with the same industrialists who advocated for free trade. See my essay An Architect of Transnationalism: Horace Kallen and the Fetish for Diversity and Inclusion to read more about this history. He and Bourne had drawn up the blueprint for mass immigration and demographic transformation the corporate elite used for deconstructing the American Republic.
During the Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson administrations—via the New Deal and the Great Society, respectively—the administrative and welfare states were vastly expanded and entrenched. In particular, the Great Society undermined the family and the work ethic by addicting millions of Americans to government programs. Women were driven into the workforce. A rising proportion of children were born out of wedlock. Progressives portrayed the nuclear family as moribund and framed its decline as a good thing.
Piggybacking off of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, elites reopened the nation to mass immigration the following year. It had been effectively closed to immigration since the mid-1920s thanks to Republican resurgence during the interwar period. Now the floodgates were flung open once again. The new mass immigration program was different this time, however, in that the US now welcomed the Third World. The effect, if not the goal, brought the barbarian inside the Shining City’s walls, the entrenchment of black American ghettoization an entailment.
Concomitant with open borders was the start of America’s deindustrialization. Manufacturers capable of moving jobs overseas began to do so, and elites reorganized the world financial system to facilitate aggressive globalization of production. The Bretton Woods system was dismantled. The dollar’s convertibility into gold was abandoned, and major currencies had shifted toward floating exchange rates.
These changes removed many of the restrictions that had characterized the postwar international monetary system and contributed to the growth of international capital markets. Advances in banking and communications made it increasingly easy for money to move across national borders. The resulting expansion of international lending, investment, and financial markets helped create the infrastructure for the more integrated global economy that emerged during the 1970s and 1980s.
Curricula were implemented in the education system to transform mass consciousness, conditioning America’s youth to respond negatively to nationalism and embrace globalism and multiculturalism. More broadly, corporate command of the media apparatus was mobilized to socialize the new attitudes. The population was trained to believe that traditional social structures were oppressive and reactionary. Those who objected were smeared as xenophobes. Opposition to immigration became a species of racism.
After Richard Nixon moved to fracture the Sino-Soviet alliance to stymie the communist advance in the 1970s, Democrats took advantage of the opening to entrench the global trade regime by welcoming Red China into the fold. Corporations offshored commodity production to China and other Eastern nations. The system handed control over supply chains to the CCP. At the same time, transnational elites ramped up the flow of Third Worlders to Western countries.
During the 1980s and 1990s, George Bush Senior, Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton personally facilitated the transformation of America. Clinton’s wife Hillary wrote a book telling Americans that “it takes a village.” The President’s wife unabashedly promoted the diminishment of the nuclear family, seeking to normalize the state as father.
At the same time, the culture industry, the education system, and mass media infused progressivism with postmodernist theories—critical race theory, queer doctrine, and postcolonial theory—to install left-wing progressive consciousness in the public mind. This led to the emergence of woke ethics. By 2010, the corporate media was popularizing obscure academic terms, such as “system racism” and “white privilege,” to portray whites as an oppressor class. The promulgation of anti-white bigotry was followed in short order by growing rebellious sentiment on the streets. (See my recent article Manufacturing Anti-White Bigotry: The Elasticity of an Ancient Hatred.)
In 2014, Obama moved gain-of-function research to Wuhan, China, where SARS variants were weaponized. Five years later, a weaponized SARS virus—its nineteenth iteration—was unleashed on the world. Throughout 2020, states across the transatlantic space locked down their citizens and forced them to accept experimental gene therapies. It was an acid test to determine whether Western populations would willingly submit to power masquerading as authority.
The pandemic came with a color revolution, organized by elites, used in the United States to change election procedures, allowing tens of millions of votes—with little oversight and no chain of custody—to be injected into the 2020 election. The coup that had begun in 2016 was successful, followed by a campaign of aggressive lawfare waged on an ousted president.
The pandemic has passed (perhaps a new one is coming to a theater near you). However, the strategy of color revolutions continues today, bankrolled by global financiers, such as China-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham. It goes under various names, such as “No Kings!” The revelation that the pandemic was a fraud, and the known fact that BLM protests had no basis in fact, has not deterred those hellbent on managed decline.
A major part of managed American decline—and the West more broadly—has involved the mass immigration of Muslims and domestic empowerment of the Islamization project. Muslims have established ethnic enclaves that resemble their home countries. The Muslim call to prayer is blasted from the rooftops in several of our cities. Americans are electing Muslims to public office. The mayor of New York City is a socialist-jihadist. Michigan Democrats just nominated a socialist-jihadist as their Democratic candidate for the Senate. There are Muslims already serving in the House.
Can you see the thread that would unravel the tapestry of deceit woven for all these decades? Will you pull it? Or will you watch from the sidelines as the American Republic is deconstructed by transnational corporations, anarchocommunists, and Muslims? What will you tell your hijab-wearing daughters? Will you even remember what the world was like when it was free? November is rapidly approaching. The future depends on you.
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