“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
Karl Marx – Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte – Chapter 1 (1852)
The far-right hawken back to an England that never existed, and I suspect – are the product of a “Socialist” Britain that has performed its intended function of alleviating abject (and grinding) poverty – but which has not be permitted to move forward to forming a fully-fledged “Socialist” society. Such individuals are “bored” and seek escape from the round of work and rest through violence and attempt a non-leftist radical change – albeit a reactionary transformation that moves away from the uplifting certainty of “Socialism” and back to the uncertainty of the class-ridden world that made their grandparents starve – and join massive People’s Armies which fought the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito – not to mention Franco! The success of “Socialism” – the high water-mark of curing hunger, illness and elderly care – also marks the point from which “Socialist” reform starts to fall-back upon itself – as an unfulfilled backwards surge began!
The Aristocracy built this (European) society which the Bourgeois usurped. The Proletariat has only occasionally managed to seize power – notably the Paris Commune of 1871, the Soviet Revolution of 1917, and the short-lived Communes of Munich (Germany) and those in Hungary during 1918. A case can be made for “Socialist” Spain of the 1930s. Yugoslavia did quite well for a time – whilst the Catholic Church agitated against “Socialism” throughout the post-1945 “Liberated” countries of Eastern Europe that constituted the Communist Bloc. The well-known Catholic monk – Thomas Merton – once stated (during a mid-1960s lecture) that it is “Socialism” (not “Fascism”) that is the greatest threat to religious freedom. Father Merton has obviously never visited a fully-functioning Nazi German Gas Chamber or Mass Burial Pit – both full of the bodies of those who preferred to follow a specific religion.
Essentially, the situation comes down to this. The adherence of fascist ideology lack self-control. The fascists lack the ability to think good and clear thoughts and to act in a decisive and constructive manner. The irregular functioning of their thought processes is manifest in the illogical movements of their bodies. All sense of logicality is lost from start to finish. Such individuals are NOT happy with the present moment they exist within – and want to tear down the familiar. Like all religionists – the fascist thinks that a different world exists beyond that which can be experienced every day – and that a special person will emerge from the masses (a new Hitler, Mussolini or Hirohito) that possesses an innate (religious-like) ability to put all things right and remove all unwanted people (and signs of their presence) from society. Karl Marx describes such “fascistic” leaders in the following manner when discussing the 1851 usurping of political power in France by Louis Bonaparte (Napolean III) – the nephew of “Napoleon the Great” (Napoleon Bonaparte – Emperor of France – Napoleon I) :
“Bonaparte would like to appear as the patriarchal benefactor of all classes. But he cannot give to one without taking from another.”
Karl Marx – Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte – Chapter 7 (1852)
Whereas Napoleon the Great (Napoleon I) was probably the only Emperor in history to have been popularly voted into Office in 1804 (he had been previously voted into the post of permanent “First Consul” in 1799 by the same people) – Napoleon III merely “assumed” power as a “Divine Right” during 1851, as if France, by his very presence in High Office, could re-capture the past glories the country had experienced under Napoleon I between 1799-1815. Louis Napolean oppressed the peasants and the workers by abolishing universal suffrage. He further abolished the “Secret Ballot” – making it a legal requirement for every vote to be “recorded”, linked to a name, and made permanently available for scrutiny by the State at any time. Failing to vote the in “correct” fashion could lead to arrest, imprisonment and possible execution or transportation, etc. The Church, providing its political allegiance was maintained in the right way, had total control over the minds and bodies of the masses. After-all, the monarchy was ordained by God – confirmed by the Church itself.
It is believed that the usurpation of power by Louis Napoleon in 1851 (he ruled until 1870) – could well have been the 19th century political (Bourgeois) blue-print for the rise of fascism during the 20th century. In other other words, the example (and methods) of Louis Bonaparte led directly to the rise of Mussollini, Hitler, Franco and Hirohito, amongst many others. Therefore, many study the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon as an insight as to what the opinion of Karl Marx might have been toward the fascist movement which fully emerged after his death. For instance, Hitler is often presented as a Master of Economy – but was he really? He executed 800,000 of his own German citizens who opposed his rule – whilst all their assests were seized by the Nazi German State. Furthermore, millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Dissidents and the Disabled were interned and-or gassed – with all their assests seized (stolen) by the Nazi German State. When Hitler’s military forces invaded the lands outside of Germany – all the assests of those countries were seized (a process that used legal and non-legal means interchangeably). Full militarisation of Nazi Germany ensured Full Employment.
Hitler took this surplus wealth (stolen but not earned – plundered but not generated) and simply “re-distributed” it amongst those Germans he considered “Aryan” – or racially “pure”. This included the presentation of fully furnished houses, vehicles, resources, and naked finance to those Nazi Germans who failed to question where all this benefitting wealth came from. Coupled with the instigation of “Hirer Purchase” – the workers per se were finally disconnected from any direct requirement of acting responsibly in the earning of wealth and material objects (every worker was even guaranteed an automobile). When the mass killings of the undesirables began from 1941 onwards, every vestige of their bodies was used to profit the Nazi German State. Gold teeth represent a very obvious example – but there are many others. As Marx observes (and perhaps prophesised) – Hitler quite literally “stole” this wealth from the victms of his fascism – and he granted it to those his system of fascism favoured. Hitler was not clever – he merely stole wealth from one group – and he gave it to other groups.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 
