We Are Being Put In Chains

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

My December 6 address to the European Conference on the Revival of Fascism

The Revival of Fascism in the 21st Century

Center for Geostrategic Studies, Belgrade, December 6-8, 2022

My appreciation to those with the foresight to organize this conference.

I limit my remarks to definitional clarity.  By “fascism” I assume we mean not merely economic corporation between government and private business, but the over-riding of citizens’ values and opinions by powerful groups in control of governing.  We mean by fascism the ignoring and suppression of popular opinion.

Moreover, we mean the use of media as propaganda in order to implant falsehoods in the minds of the populations that make them easier to sway and control. Under a regime of fascism, official narratives are constructed, and any dissent, regardless of how factual, is dismissed as “misinformation.”

In these few words, I have described our current existence in the Western World.

The beliefs that made us free by restraining government power and holding it accountable are everywhere under attack.  We are being dehumanized by fascism, which makes it easier to dispose of us. For example, the liberal city government of San Francisco on November 29, 2022, by a vote of 8 to 3 gave robots the right to kill humans.  San Francisco will now employ killer robots as members of its police force.

In the United States today free speech is said to be a threat to democracy if it dissents from official explanations.  There is talk about criminalizing “misinformation.”

We know how close we are to being muzzled when in the United States free speech, protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution is under attack as a “threat to democracy.”

There is a second necessary definitional clarification.  We must not confuse fascism with nationalism.  It is the globalism of American hegemony and the globalism of the World Economic Forum’s “great reset” that terminates self-rule that are the threats, not nationalism.  The nations of the world are being turned into towers of babel where internal disunity makes them unable to resist tyranny. Once Identity Politics divides a population, there is no unity necessary to constrain a government. Only a people unified with common values into a nation can resist the global forces constructing a tyranny. If nationalism is conflated with nazism and racism, on what political basis can globalism be resisted?  Globalism is the ultimate tower of babel. The division created by Identity Politics eliminates the unity necessary for opposing tyranny.

The belief system that upholds liberty is seriously weakened by decades of attack.  In the Western world the costs imposed on belief systems by self-denunciation and virtue-signaling are now apparent.  To restore freedom to people requires resurrection of an almost dead civilization.  I hope clarity about the definition of fascism contributes to this important effort.

Thank you for the opportunity to address this important conference.

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The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

“We mean by fascism the ignoring and suppression of popular opinion.”

It goes beyond that, dip dunk. Fascism actually CREATES and reinforces “opinion”.

You’re only looking at the end result….which is surprising to me because I didn’t think you could see that far!

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath

We’ve been in chains, asleep, since 1865, or at least 1913 or so….

But now, many are just now “waking up” to these facts….

Better late than never, as the saying goes.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

I think you’re mistaken. No one who wasn’t previously aware is waking up to history at all.

They’re waking up to the shitty way they’re being treated today. It’s no more complicated than that.

Sheep have poor eyesight and no brains to speak of.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Correction, Dr. Roberts: we, the insouciant are allowing ourselves to be chained in docile, supine, passive, palm-licking, genuflecting compliance. We multitude are utterly complicit and instrumental in our own subjection – as always:

Overthrowing the State


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At least the solitary thug has the cojones to face you alone, unlike .gov:

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life…The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber…Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful ‘sovereign,’ on account of the ‘protection’ he affords you.” ― Lysander Spooner
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2095916-no-treason-the-constitution-of-no-authority

Obbledy
Obbledy

Jiminy Christmas Thank You!….
Keep trying to tell folks when Authority violates the Documents that GIVES them that authority
Then they HAVE NONE!…
And are acting as OUTLAWS!!!
We The People are that authority when preserving life,limb and property!….

Anonymous
Anonymous

” . . . Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it . . . ”
~ U.S. Declaration of Independence

Anonymous
Anonymous

On target.

Glock-N-Load

Now you know why the mantra “Diversity is our strength” was tossed about endlessly starting what, a decade or so ago?

Obbledy
Obbledy

My argument then was we are Uni-cultural!….

Steve Z.
Steve Z.

“There is talk about criminalizing “misinformation.”
Kalifornia has already made medical misinformation a crime. Doctors not towing the line face license removal.

Obbledy
Obbledy

A license is something you need to practice something that has been deemed ILLEGAL!….or
A license ONLY reflects the ability of one to PASS THE TEST!
If you are not prepared to go Galt,then enjoy your subjugation!

Obbledy
Obbledy

So where does that leave Patriotism??……my understanding is
Nationalism seeks to change the country and its values.
Patriotism seeks to RETAIN its morals and values.
Is this wrong?.AH was a NATIONALIST Socialist….or is he more accurately a Patriotic Nationalist?…..no,that doesn’t make sense…….funny the Bolsheviks calked WW2 ,The Great Patriotic War.
More twisting of words?IDK,
Thoughts?…..

Vigilant
Vigilant

Patriotism seeks to RETAIN its morals and values.

This is what I mean when I speak of patriotism, including strong support of maintaining the Bill of Rights by any means necessary, but the definition of the word patriot has been changed. It sounds alike, but we no longer speak the same language.

Panzerlied

Most will continue to miss the point that is most pertinent to the restoration and renewal of our nation. Discussions and even the most heated arguments are missing the most crucial factors that never seems to be open to debate, which are the bankers, who essentially own the political system, as well as the power to control the narrative.
Continuing to run to the polls to “vote the rascals out” is nothing more than to keep you intentionally distracted and on a fool’s errand.
Until people’s wrath turn on the true overlords who wish to enslave the world, nothing, and I mean nothing will ever change. Give no further thought to the elected (selected) and focus on those who truly want to enslave or kill billions. It’s the criminal banking cartel who control world events, nothing less, nothing more.

Obbledy
Obbledy

Idk where, I read something regarding the great depression how bankers who didnt have money to loan farmers and everyday American suddenly had Billions to loan(print) for war….
I never thought of it like that…….

Walter
Walter

Old school fascism the government was on top. New school fascism the corporations are on top. It’s worse this way I think, because there’s no one but voters to object and we don’t count in the scheme.

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