The Fascists Are Already Here
The Communists are not coming. The Fascists are already here.
“Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”—Nikita Khrushchev
The quotation above is currently doing the rounds on Facebook in the form of a meme. I do not know if it is an accurate quotation or apocryphal, but its popularity shows the concern that people have that communism is sneaking up on them. Here’s the problem though. Everyone is so worked up about the influence of communism, because they have been constantly told that the communists are coming, and that their leaders are closet communists etc.—and they have believed it—that they have failed to see and understand the real danger, which is that the fascists are not only coming, they are already here.
The world is turning fascist, and it is turning fascist because the Christian Church has abandoned the Great Commission to disciple all the nations—not to make disciples from all nations but to disciple the nations as nations, which is what the Great Commission requires. And the Church has abandoned the Great Commission for a heretical perversion of the Christian faith that has reduced Christianity to little more than a Christian mystery cult.
What the West faces today is not communism, but fascism, and fascism has nothing in common ideologically with capitalism. Unfortunately, popular misunderstanding and misuse of the terms fascism and capitalism has obscured this fact. National Socialism, i.e. Hitler’s version of fascism, was the policy of the German National Socialist Labour Party. (The term Nazi is an abbreviation of the German word Nationalsozialistische, i.e. National Socialism). Fascism is a form of socialism. It is not capitalism. The idea that fascism is capitalism was a part of the terminological warfare waged by communists in the early twentieth century. According to Ludwig von Mises the conflation of these terms originated in communist propaganda.
“It is important to realize that Fascism and Nazism were socialist dictatorships. The communists, both the registered members of the communist parties and the fellow-travellers, stigmatize Fascism and Nazism as the highest and last and most depraved stage of capitalism. This is in perfect agreement with their habit of calling every party which does not unconditionally surrender to the dictates of Marxism—even the German Social Democrats, the classical party of Marxism—hirelings of capitalism. It is of much greater consequence that the communists have succeeded in changing the semantic connotation of the term Fascism.” (Planned Chaos, p. 68)
The use of the term right-wing to describe capitalism, which is very common today, is misleading and completely fails to describe the true nature of capitalism and the kind of society that it presupposes and helps to maintain. Capitalism is not a right-wing phenomenon, since it refers to a system of economic organisation of society that has nothing in common with fascism, namely private ownership, both legal and economic, of the means of production. The term right-wing refers to fascism, and fascism is a form of socialism.
People today forget that fascism is a form of socialism, and it is the most successful form of socialism. The USSR never established communism. Even Stalin admitted this. In an interview with Joseph Stalin on 1st March 1936, Roy Howard, President of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, put it to Stalin that “Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia.” In his answer Stalin said to Howard:
“Our Soviet society is socialist society, because the private ownership of the factories, works, the land, the banks and the transport system has been abolished and public ownership put in its place. The social organisation which we have created may be called a Soviet socialist organisation, not entirely completed, but fundamentally, a socialist organisation of society. The foundation of this society is public property: state, i.e., national, and also co-operative, collective farm property . . . Yes, you are right, we have not yet built communist society. It is not so easy to build such a society. You are probably aware of the difference between socialist society and communist society. In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist.” (reprinted in Pravda on 5 March 1936).
All the Soviets ever established was a form of left-wing socialism, which in Marxist ideology is a stage on the way to communism, namely a dictatorship of the proletariat. When communism finally arrives in the Marxist schema the State along with the family withers away. There is no State and no family in a Marxist communist society. This was never achieved and never will be achieved under Marxist ideology.
Fascism, by contrast, does not do away with these things, i.e. the family and the State, and also the nation, which is a central part of its ideology, but harnesses them to its own ends, namely the creation of a totalitarian right-wing socialist order. Marxist communism was a failure. The great battle of the twentieth century was the battle between communism and fascism. It was a family row between two different forms of socialism, two vicious political ideologies, joined at the hip,—namely left-wing socialism and right-wing socialism—heading for the same ultimate gaol, but by means of different routes and wearing different liveries. Fascism won, and it won by cross dressing, by pretending to be something it is not. Fascism is right-wing State socialism, but it is not communism, and it is fascism that has today taken control of the West as a political ideology.
I am not saying Nazism has won. Nazism was a particular German form of fascism. All Western States today are fascist to varying degrees, some more liberal than others, some less so and more jackboot in their modus operandi. They are not Nazi States, but they are fascist.
Terminology is important. It is also important that we understand how terminology is used to mislead and misdirect people. All we need to do is to convince people that the Communists are coming, and while they are being misdirected by this idea fascism will continue to gain ground as a consequence of its mistaken identity as capitalism, which it is not.
The gullible enthusiasts that get their educations from universities, the bastions of socialist ideology in the West, the dons and pupils of which are equally misguided about this issue, believing themselves to be left-wing when they are really right-wing, i.e. fascist socialists, will then attack capitalism under the mistaken idea that it is fascism, while gullibly accepting, lock, stock and barrel, the undemocratic socialistic ideology that actually is fascism under the mistaken idea that it is democratic and civilised, which it is not.
All this is further complicated however by the fact that some aspects of the communist agenda, e.g. hatred of the family, have, like orphaned children looking for a home, been taken in by some of the most extreme elements in modern socialist ideology, but not by all. In some respects the modern socialist agenda is a fusion of fascism with some aspects of communism, but not completely and not equally. Nevertheless, the overall nature of the beast is fascist, not communist.
All this hatred and demonising of immigrants as sub-human is part of the fascist agenda. The communists had their kulaks as scapegoats, the fascists have theirs. The Germans cast the Jews and Gypsies et al. in this role. Our modern fascists have their scapegoats too. But once this particular group of scapegoats has been eliminated there will be a need to find another group to take its place.
The revolution will be permanent. This will never end until the ideology that drives it ends, and that requires religious conversion to Christianity, the only religion that seeks to do good to all men, as Kublai Kahn put it. In other words, the nations must be converted. This is the only solution to this problem. But it requires a different understanding of the Christian faith from the one that drives the heretical escapist mystery cult that the modern Church has become.