We are all Fascists now!

Just what sort of a Government do we have? The quality of left and right don’t seem to do justice to the consistent stance which all of the main political parties have adopted, even where there is an outward veneer of difference being maintained.

The fact that my own MP, Helen Grant, was a member of the Labour Party before being offered a safe Conservative seat, is only one example of the fact that there is no essential ideological identity in the Westminster political class. She is not unique by any means in making an easy transition from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party.

At present we can see that most policy positions are only slight variations on the same political catalogue. Harriet Harman has adopted a supportive view today towards the Conservative child tax credit changes. Conservatives have committed to increasing the minimum wage to about £9 by the end of this Parliament. Labour, Lib-Dems and Conservatives supported the passing into law of a commitment to spend 0.7% of GDP on overseas aid. Likewise Labour, Lib-Dems and Conservative supported the imposition of gay marriage.

We seem to have entered a new phase of politics over the last years. Party politics, political campaigning, party manifestos, none of these represent the reality of political power in Britain. Just as X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent do not represent the reality of culture in the British tradition, but are a form of anti-culture, so party politics in the 21st century are an anti-politics, doing the opposite of what they pretend.

What sort of Government do we have? We can see plenty of evidence for a destructive social democratic hatred of our British tradition and culture, and the footsteps of the Frankfurt School are visible in the ruins of our institutions. But I would suggest that what we are seeing in action behind the political class is not the agenda of Marxism in any of its forms, but of Fascism.

Of course the Conservative Party, having long ceased to be conservative at all, is routinely given the epithet of being fascist. But this is only to use the term as if it meant “doing something a socialist might disagree with”, and in the same way that terms such as racist and homophobe are misused to silence dissent. Restricting immigration is hardly fascist, unless Australia, the United States of America, India and almost every country in the world which restricts immigration is also fascist.

If we want to know what fascism stands for then it is best to ask a fascist, and no, Nigel Farage is not one. But Benito Mussolini was. He wrote extensively on fascism, and his own description and definition of what it stands for seem to resonate with aspects of our own political situation. For Mussolini, fascism was identified as a vigorous, expanding nationalism that called for a renewal of the spiritual identity of each Italian in a self-sacrificing commitment to the state.

It is the place of the state in the fascist worldview which is most interesting and comparable to our own times. In the first place Mussolini says…

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Don’t we have a sense that this is so in our own experience. We wonder why so many low-skilled workers have been imported into Britain over such a short period of time, and we cannot avoid the suggestion that it is because large corporate employers benefit from such a situation. Did we wonder why Tony Blair visited Rupert Murdoch in the days before Britain declared war in Iraq? Was it disturbing that Blair was in Libya arranging an oil deal for Shell, just as the Lockerbie bomber was released from custody in the UK? And even in the present, does it seem normal that the father-in-law of David Cameron should receive millions of pounds in tax-payer subsidies as a result of Government wind-farm policies?

What else does Mussolini say…

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Do we not see this state education in operation all around us, and using all of the means available. Why is it impossible to imagine the BBC broadcasting any sort of criticism of homosexuality and the fraud of “gay marriage”? Why would a politicians career come to an end if he dared suggest that immigration should be brought to a halt? Why are young children being educated in the details of homosexual practice, and being offered contraception and abortions without their parents knowledge or consent?

It is surely because the State now recognises itself as the absolute and necessary arbiter of what is good and what is evil, and under such a malign tutor evil is called good and good is called evil. Rural primary schools are labelled as unsatisfactory because they are not diverse enough. Private businesses are forbidden by force of law from discriminating against certain state sanctioned privileged groups, while traditional social groups, white males, for instance, are able to be discriminated against with impunity.

He says…

From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

It would be wrong to imagine that fascism, or Mussolini, were conservative. Far from it. He understood that it was necessary to sweep away all that stood in opposition to the absolute state. This new ideology is being manufactured before our eyes. An education minister in a Conservative Government warns that children who do not support homosexuality may be labelled as extremists. According to what ideology might this happen? Not a truly conservative one. But one in which all political labels are merely a convenience and a distraction from what is really taking place. It is a brave new world with a brave new ideology.

Should we be surprised that those trumpeting their tolerance most loudly are the most intolerant? They are not socialists, whatever the lexicon they disguise their intentions with. They are part of a fascist movement which is imposing an alien ideology with all the energy the state can stir up. They are useful idiots, but they are playing their part.

The ideological conflict of our times is not between left and right, since in politics both have been subsumed into something more dangerous altogether. It is between fascist totalitarianism on the one hand, using all means possible to absolutise the power of the state, and those who are still able to imagine a liberal and liberty loving society of mutual responsibility.

We should not think ourselves preserved by democratic paraphernalia. Mussolini expresses the views of those who hold real power in Britain when he says, in one final and slightly longer quotation..

Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society… Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State… .The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom
And this is entirely the opinion of those who believe that they control our national destiny. We do not have any power at all. We may choose only between a few choices the produce the same outcome, and having chosen we discover that those who hold power will do as they themselves choose.

Do we have any liberty? It is to be able to choose between X-Factor and Pop-Idol. It is to be able to choose between
a left-leaning Conservative, and a right-leaning Labour supporter, neither of whom will have any power to direct affairs of any great importance. We are increasing left with the breadcrumbs of liberty. The state disposes the character of our ordinary lives. A UKIP supporting foster family finds that the children in their care are removed. A traditional Christian couple running a Bed and Breakfast are targeted by homosexual activists and are ruined. Muslims may dress as they wish, or will threaten legal action, Christians find themselves facing the legal weight of the British state in the European Court of Human Rights.

We retain that liberty which is necessary to further enslave ourselves, so that it can be said that all we have done is our own choice and responsibility. But increasingly all those liberties which matter most, and have described the character and quality of our British society and culture, are diminished and prohibited.

The fascist state insists that all authority derives only from itself, and therefore in such a society permission is required for any activity and any institution. This is the reality we experience today, and it will grow more and more stifling. Those other focuses of authority which still stand in opposition to the fascist state are being reduced in the manner of a besieged city. The independence of Christian churches has been diminished through the use and threat of discrimination laws. The independence of schools and universities has been carefully controlled. Now we have seen the institution of marriage undermined, with a view to eliminating the threat of the family to the state. It will be a few short years and in Britain polygamous marriage will be permitted, and then incestuous marriage. The terms father and mother will be prohibited as discriminatory, and then boy and girl, man and woman, as all being offensive.

The state may well be using the game book of the Frankfurt school, and may well consider itself able to use the fruits of socialist and Islamic activism to its own ends. But we should not doubt that the real Government of Britain, not the fleeting collection of MPs arguing about nothing of value, is an increasingly fascist state.

It is not the same as that described by Mussolini. In his case the state acted as the means by which the national character was renewed through manly action and sacrifice. Fascism was identified by Mussolini with national identity. But in our times, the state has evolved. It is no longer the embodiment of the nation, but has transcended nationalism and is a post-national political entity. The state, as it exists in the UK, is part of a wider European state, and behind that, exists in a network of post-national states as a globalised entity. It no longer exists for the benefit of those who make up the nation. It can no longer say, this is going to be tough but it is for your own good!, because it no longer needs or has any responsibility for the people of our nation or any nation.

It exists for itself. And as in all fascist states, we exist for it too. Detached from this nation, the state no longer cares whether it governs those whose ancestors were born here a thousand years ago, or those who have just arrived across the Channel. This new state would not care too much if it took over responsibility for part of France as a Northern Region of Europe, and would only resist a of territorial diminishment because it would mean a loss of state control and a diminishment of the state itself.

We should not imagine that political lobbying for this policy or that, will resist the growth of this fascist state. The power of this state is not found essentially on the floor of the House of Commons. It will use every means at its disposal to educate the people of Britain in the new social ideology it intends to make the norm. Democracy, as we experience it now, is already utterly diminished and corrupted, and cannot bring about a renewal of liberty and the British culture and society.

What is necessary is that we recognise that the enemy of society is presently the state in an increasingly fascist form, and that this state is a parasitic symbiosis of political and corporate interests and activity. It is not about Labour, Lib-Dems or Conservatives. Most of our politicians are stooges, thinking they have gained power and influence, but no more guiding the destiny of the British people than directing the tides or weather. It is all about the state behind the state, the real state whose interests come first and whose agents believe that they are destined to lead. The multi-cultural masses they are deliberately forming into an undifferentiated class of ill-educated and low-cultured slaves will be ideal material for the corporatist state they have in mind, and have already done much to establish.

Left. Right. These are meaningless terms. We are all fascists now!