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| Another in the series: 'How to remember the future'. |
In the book 'Homage to Catalonia', Orwell concludes that the actual Power which caused the civil war to fail, was neither Franco nor fascism. But a tacit alliance he called the Popular Front'. He should know having taken a bullet during six months at the front of real fighting.
This "alliance of enemies" was made up from:
- Internationalism: The Communist Party internationally, mostly the Soviet Union, heavily support intellectually in the United States and U.K.
- The bourgeoisie: local land owners, monopoly businesses, media the church etc...
- A bunch of very poorly organised yet mostly honourable anarchists, leftists and so on, the usual suspects
Is there an analogy for this unholy alliance in our modern world today? I think there is.
- Internationalism: Any power masquerading as planet savers, Islam, fake Christianity, greenery
- The modern wealthy westerner: liberal elites, monopoly corporations, BigTech, DEI hires in senior positions, fake news
- The usual ground troop suspects
I'm 'supporting' the new Restore Britain party, as usual as a platform for my work. My goal in this to help them to observe history repeating itself here. Because if they can do that, they will be able to quickly forecast the future and how it will all play out way ahead of the game - a prophet to all intents.
As always this is tricky for anyone to do there are so many entrenched interests offering 'attractive packages' to avoid this obvious revelation. Who really cares about their children when the rewards are so great?
So who is the Popular Front as an archetype?
Simply put, centralised power. Usually with two main sides who will eventually be fighting each other for total power. The PF do not want justice for people anywhere per se, unless it helps the PF to retain power, which of course it never can. The PF's constituency exists by the million in every nation and this is why democracy in itself can never deliver a just society. In fact democracy is the best way to secure power ironically. Yet another systemic illusion which is impossible to debunk.
Mr. Lowe - leader of Restore Britain, does not realise this yet and this is what he will really be fighting in the end. He has yet to realise that immigration though significant is not the real problem. Immigrants are simply another class of exploited people. Just like the poor and needy which Labour and socialism has exploited for so long. Most Labour voters crossed the floor to the Greens once they realised that centralised power was not going to happen there. And we're seeing the result of that in recent by-elections.
The internationalist 'revolution' is everything to the PF, and theres no bottom to how low the PF will go to achieve it (the sexualisation of pre menstrual children, slaughter of innocent thousands upheld, publicly permitted executions not having received a fair trial, the promotion of sexual perversion, maybe even nuclear genocide not countered etc). History so testifies. If you think about it, internationalism is the ultimate grotesque extent of nationalism only differing in scale - a single party ruling a single 'nation' comprising the entire world. What is the difference between that and a perfected form of fascism? Orwell may have been pointing at this but its hard to tell.
Often coming as a surprise to anyone discovering Orwell is that he was a devoted democratic socialist but regularly pointed out how unjust socialism was in practice being no better than capitalism. He was an authentic, earnest man, willing to go to the front to find out what on earth is really going on. Someone we should pay the most respect to above all others no matter how wealthy and powerful. What always tripped Orwell up was that he still believed the illusion that land is capital. So could never get to the bottom of systemic injustice in spite of enormous effort in trying. If one is still possessed by this doctrine one will forever be dealing with the guilt and shame of unconsciously supporting slavery - the idea that people's bodies can be sold, just like capital. Even if in his conscious life he clearly knew that was preposterous.
The book contrasts his initial naive "anti-Fascist" stance (unite all leftists and ignore party differences) with the reality he encountered, where the Popular Front became a tool for internationalist ascendancy and the suppression of rivals. We can see this repeating today with the infighting between Reform, Restore and the rest.
