Why Fascism?

The concept is a spiritual one.

“The conception is therefore a spiritual one, arising from the general reaction of the century against the materialistic positivism of the 19th century.” – Benito Mussolini¹

As a consequence of decades of propaganda, most people would assert that Fascism equals bad, while liberal democracy and/or socialism equals good.

This sentiment is constantly championed by the global media, education and political establishment to this day. But has anyone stopped to ask why Fascism is so incessantly attacked above and beyond any other political movement in history?

Many believe that our ruling class has our best interests at heart, but the truth is that Fascism presents their greatest fear and would cause their immediate demise.

So, who exactly is our ruling class and what is the source of their power?

It’s the “Globalists”. Image: Still from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997.

A global paradise.

“But merchants have no country, the mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”²

The Online Etymology Dictionary defines globalism as: “American intervention in foreign conflicts, a global foreign policy; supremacy of global institutions over national ones; a worldwide extension of capitalist market systems.³

The author of Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757, Emily Erikson, suggests that the British East India Company shaped the way modern business is conducted in a global economy.

“It’s hard to understand the global political structure without understanding the role of the Company,” says Erikson. “I don’t think we’d have a global capitalist economic system that looks the way it does if England hadn’t become so uniquely powerful at this point in history. They transitioned into a modern industrial force and exported their vision of production and governance to the rest of the world, including North America. It’s the cornerstone of the modern liberal global political order.”⁴

In short, globalism is the evolution of the British Empire. In my post The Pilgrims I quoted the editor of a British colonial publication, and it bears repeating here:

“Britain is the workshop of the world. It lives by foreign trade, therefore, to secure and hold markets it must invest money abroad, acquire colonies and control the seas. The world must be made safe, not for democracy – for that is only a word – but for trade and commerce. That is the national policy of the British people, of both Liberals and Conservatives. It forms the background of all British thinking.”⁵

This system gives control of global trade and commerce to a nationless international merchant class or financial oligarchy, who’s primary concern is material gain and not the welfare of humanity.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya. Image: Still from The Princess Bride, 1987.

Muh democracy.

In the early seventeenth century, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the Dutch East India Company’s Governor General in the Indies, explained that trade and war were inseparably linked: “We cannot make war without trade nor trade without war.”⁶

This economic strategy was adopted, and further developed by the British Empire: “Britain’s experience demonstrated how over 100 years, its quest to attain a position of ‘worldwide commercial supremacy’ went hand in hand with violence, conflict and conquest.”⁷

Democracy is the international merchants favoured system of governance, for it places control of a nations economy and resources in foreign hands.

So vital is democracy to their system that Britain and more recently the United States will go to war to enforce it, as was confessed by Henry Kissinger, the former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor: “America had a mission to bring about democracy – if necessary, by the use of force.”⁸

This global economic apparatus was understood by Fascist intellectuals of the 20th century, and the founder of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley (1896-1980) made the following statement regarding trade and war:

“Fascism alone can preserve the Peace, because alone it removes the causes of war. The main cause of War is the struggle for markets. Each nation produces more than it can sell at home and so tries to sell its surplus abroad, in cut throat competition with other nations. Diplomacy, finance, armaments and ultimately War are used as weapons in the struggle for markets. By building a self-contained or autarchic system we withdraw from the struggle for markets and so withdraw from the risks of war.”⁹

“The Fascist disdains an easy life.” – Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) Prime Minister of Italy and founder of Fascism. Image from public domain.

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.

In his book titled Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered, Oswald Mosley explains the difference between Fascism and Capitalism, since both systems permit private enterprise:

“In brief definition, Capitalism is the system by which capital uses the Nation for its own purposes. Fascism is the system by which the Nation uses capital for its own purposes. Private enterprise is permitted and encouraged so long as it coincides with the national interests. Private enterprise is not permitted when it conflicts with national interests. Under Fascism private enterprise may serve but not exploit.”¹⁰

Mosley then addresses the ‘foreign investor’ or what I have termed the international merchant: “The foreign investor will be eliminated and will be justly condemned because he has preferred to serve our foreign competitors rather than our people.”¹¹

And again: “Fascism will not tolerate the growing monopoly of the people’s vital supplies in alien hands.”¹²

Mosley goes on to name the City of London Corporation, and reveals it has the power to bring down any government through their control of international trade:

“Democratic Governments are in the grip of international finance, which, in this respect, is largely Jewish. The great finance houses of the City have made loans to foreign countries… We have to choose between the producer and the City, and Fascism chooses the producer. The old Parties choose the City, not only because they are in the grip of Jewish finance, but because it rests in the power of the City to bring down any Government dependent on international trading.”¹³

This dependence on international finance and trade is also a component of Communism or what is more accurately known as Internationalism:

“It is noteworthy that the Socialist Party do not include in their scheme the Finance Houses, which are responsible for most foreign banking. The reason is not only that they are largely Jewish, but also that they can break any Government pursuing an international economic policy by breaking the exchange. Free movement of capital and credit from one country to another is implicit in an international trading system.

Therefore, under internationalism it always rests in the power of the Finance Houses to break a Government by sudden and excessive movements which break the exchange and create panic. A national economic system alone is independent of the necessity for such movements in its normal trade and, therefore, is independent of international finance.”¹⁴

This is the reason Communism is given a free pass while Nationalism is constantly regarded as the mortal enemy, and any national sentiment is swiftly labeled as the evil ‘Far Right’. If trade and commerce were managed by the state for the benefit of it’s citizens, the role of the international merchant becomes obsolete, their power and way of life ends.

Consume! No matter who holds power the message remains the same. Image: Still from They Live, 1988.

Living in the material world.

In Google the word materialism is defined as: a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. And this ideal has come to define our century.

Reality is a reflection of the mind; if our thoughts are constantly directed towards materialism and individualism, that is what will manifest. Through the control of language and images, humanity’s consciousness has been deliberately manipulated by an international merchant class to hold us captive in this consumerism.

Although they stand divided on many issues, Capitalism, Liberal Socialism and Communism share another vital characteristic – their principal focus is on improving the ‘economic conditions’ of man, above all else. Cultural, moral and spiritual matters are of little consequence.

Fascism takes the opposite approach, and recognises that man is first a spiritual being, requiring more than material comforts and desires for an easy life:

“Fascism rejects the economic interpretation of felicity as something to be secured socialistically, almost automatically, at a given stage of economic evolution when all will be assured a maximum of material comfort. Fascism denies the materialistic conception of happiness as a possibility, and abandons it to the economists of the mid-eighteenth century. This means that Fascism denies the equation: well-being = happiness, which sees in men mere animals, content when they can feed and fatten, thus reducing them to a vegetative existence pure and simple.”¹⁵

Fascism is opposed to materialism, and all individualistic concepts – which are arguably the two leading causes for the spiritual degeneration of our times.

“You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they’ll eat each other.” – The Joker. Image: Still from The Dark Knight, 2008.

Towards a spiritual existence.

In The Doctrine of Fascism, Benito Mussolini sums up Fascism as follows:

“Thus many of the practical expressions of Fascism such as party organization, system of education, and discipline can only be understood when considered in relation to its general attitude toward life. A spiritual attitude.

Fascism sees in the world not only those superficial, material aspects in which man appears as an individual, standing by himself, self-centered, subject to natural law, which instinctively urges him toward a life of selfish momentary pleasure; it sees not only the individual but the nation and the country; individuals and generations bound together by a moral law, with common traditions and a mission which suppressing the instinct for life closed in a brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life, founded on duty, a life free from the limitations of time and space, in which the individual, by self-sacrifice, the renunciation of self-interest, by death itself, can achieve that purely spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists.”¹⁶

No man-made institution can be perfect, and my personal preferred system of governance is no government at all, but history and in particular human behaviour has taught me that the ‘civilized’ masses are incapable of functioning in a society void of authority and direction. The Covid-19 pandemic was a recent reminder of most peoples fragile state of mind, and driven by fear, their shameful moral code was ultimately exposed.

My alternative therefore, is to live amongst a group, ethnically molded by natural and historical conditions, advancing, as one conscience and one will, along the self same line of development and spiritual formation. And not merely to exist in an economic zone, formed from a multi-ethic and individualistic minded citizenry, concerned primarily with material gain and temporal values.

I often hear both sides of the political spectrum argue over which model is economically or morally superior, while failing to grasp that a complete metaphysical approach is the quantum shift necessary to change course and alter our reality.

This truth was noted by theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein: “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.”

1. Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932 p.1.

2. Thomas Jefferson, Letter addressed to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814.

3. Online Etymology Dictionary: Globalism.

4. History Channel: How the East India Company Became the World’s Most Powerful Monopoly, 2023.

5. E. C. Knuth, The Empire of The City: The Secret History of British Financial Power, 1944 p.78.

6. Lucia Coppolaro and Francine McKenzie, A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500, 2013 p.1.

7. Ibid, p.34.

8. The National Interest; 19th August, 2015. The Interview: Henry Kissinger.

9. Oswald Mosley, Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered, 1936 p.33.

10. Ibid, p.17.

11. Ibid, p.20.

12. Ibid, p.28.

13. Ibid, p.22.

14. Ibid, p.21.

15. Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932 p.5.

16. Ibid, p.1.