1806
In Germany, the "scientific method" was being applied to all forms of human
endeavor. Prussia, which blamed the defeat of its forces by Napoleon in
1806 on soldiers only thinking about themselves in the stress of battle,
took the principles set forth by John Locke and Jean Rosseau and created
a new educational system. Johan Fitche,
in his "Address to the German People," declared that the children would
be taken over by the State and told what to think and how to think it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at
the University Of Berlin in 1817, and
was a professor there until his death in 1831. Hegel was the culmination
of the German idealistic philosophy school of Immanuel Kant. To Hegel, our
world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason and the citizen
can only become free by worship and obedience to the state. Hegel called
the state the "march of God in the world" and the "final end". This final
end, Hegel said, "has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme
duty is to be a member of the state." Both fascism and communism have their
philosophical roots in Hegellianism.
It may
be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme left of the
conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist. The national
socialist (for example, the fascist) and the international socialist
(for example, the Communist) both recommend totalitarian politico-economic
systems based on naked, unfettered political power and individual coercion.
Both systems require monopoly control of society. An alternative concept
of political ideas and politico-economic systems would be that of ranking
the degree of individual freedom versus the degree of centralized political
control. Under such an ordering the corporate welfare state and socialism
are at the same end of the spectrum. Hence we see that attempts at monopoly
control of society can have different labels while owning common features.
[Sutton, Wall
Street and the Bolshevik Revolution]
The major
barrier to understanding the events of the past two hundred years is the
COINTELPRO debunking labels of "right vs. left," or red vs.
black, communist vs. fascist, and so on. The erroneous idea that all capitalists
are the bitter enemies of all Marxists and socialists originated with
Karl Marx and was undoubtedly useful to his purposes. It is, in fact,
nonsense.
There
has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international
political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists - to
their mutual benefit. This alliance has gone unobserved largely because
academic historians have an unconscious Marxian bias and are thus locked
into the impossibility of any such alliance existing. There are two
clues: monopoly capitalists are the bitter enemies of laissez-faire
entrepreneurs; and, given the weaknesses of socialist central planning,
the totalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly
capitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers.
Suppose - and it is only hypothesis at this point - that American monopoly
capitalists were able to reduce a planned socialist Russia to the status
of a captive technical colony? Would not this be the logical twentieth-century
internationalist extension of the Morgan railroad monopolies and the
Rockefeller petroleum trust of the late nineteenth century? [Sutton]
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