Our political indoctrination inclines us to believe
in the myth of democracy — which says that the
people rule, that the people are sovereign. It is a
theory which has become something of a political
religion. The truth, however, is that only small groups
determine political outcomes. Rarely do we see
mass public outbursts where the people hit the
streets. These hurricanes can lead to revolutions,
but they usually blow over if they do not lead to
tyranny. A very famous study was published long
ago by Robert Michel’s, titled “Political Parties.”
Here is a link.
— this political science classic shows that democracy
is merely another way of organizing oligarchy. Here
we find the outline of Michel’s “iron law of oligarchy.”
All political systems are oligarchic. The only question
is — who organizes the oligarchy. Max Weber famously
said this was the core question. Oligarchies managed
by the bourgeoisie (middle class) hold to the values
of the bourgeoisie. Oligarchies formed by warrior
aristocrats partake of the values and outlook of aristocrats.
Oligarchies formed out of street thugs led by abnormal
intellectual types (Lenin, Mao, etc.) have a criminal outlook.
Each type of regime draws its characteristics from the
small group of activists who compose it. Western societies,
emphasizing freedom and commerce tend to be tolerant
and pluralistic, yet there is still an oligarchy guiding the
whole. If this group is infiltrated and corrupted with
Marxists, or toxic ideas inserted by KGB/Comintern
active measures, you begin to move away from tolerance,
freedom, and the prosperity that attends free market
systems. The problem with the bourgeoisie, as noted
by economist Joseph Schumpeter, is that the ruling
bourgeois groups are not militant or warlike and tend
to compromise with more militant enemies and are
liable to be tricked into business partnerships with them.
This is documented again and again in the historical
record. Jacob Burckhardt likened our modern capitalist
liberals to the ancient Phoenicians, who inevitably
could not maintain their political independence and
were either submerged by the conquering Persians,
Greeks and Romans or exterminated (e.g., Carthage).
That is what is in the process of happening to us,
because our oligarchy has a Phoenician outlook.
Chesterton pointed to this fact many decades ago.
Unfortunately, our conquers are not as benign as the
Persians or Greeks. We face an exterminating Asian
despotism, led by criminal types sporting “humanitarian”
communist “theories.” The communists have infiltrated
our elite and corrupted our intellectual classes. Sadly,
most of our people have an inverted interpretation of
reality. People tend to think that our capitalist elite,
that gave us the best standard of living in the world,
was always plotting against us and are now plotting
to depopulate us. This nonsense passes for an
interpretation today, yet this interpretation serves
the Marxists better than anything. We are now ready
for Revolution against our own system. The moment
of right wing Bolshevism has arrived. There are very
few “patriots” who are oriented to reality. The whole
right is ready to succumb to false narratives fed to
them by their enemies. This is possible because we
have lost the talent for thinking and discussing. We
have intellectually declined to the point where our
recovery is doubtful.
Jeff Nyquist, June 5th, 2022 - Quoted
Capitalism has had — in the Protestant countries, in
the past — strong moral content, and rational content.
But national allegiances have atrophied under the
theory of free trade. Liberalism, which is the ideology
that grew behind capitalism, has largely disassociated
itself from national allegiances. There is this belief
that we can bind people together into one world under
liberal capitalism. The theory is that markets will bring
people closer and ameliorate national differences while
bringing the promise of peace through trade. It was
even thought that communist countries could be
converted into liberal capitalist countries through trade.
Of course, there was the logic of exploiting cheap Chinese
labor. That was uppermost. I was told 23 years ago, by the
political adviser of a billionaire who was briefly interested
in my work, that I should drop my work immediately.
“What you say is true about Russia, China, and nuclear war,”
he said after reading my book. “I know that the collapse of the
Soviet Union was a fraud. A defector [name omitted] is
one of my fishing buddies and he told me it is a fraud.
But you will never sell this truth to the financial and
industrial elite of this country. They want to invest in
China and trade with China and Russia. And you cannot
do anything political without them. So you are best off
fighting communism on college campuses. We can fund you.”
Honestly, I thought this was the most useless project imaginable.
You cannot fight communism on college campuses unless
you have a flamethrower and a bulldozer. And nobody would
allow such a thing, so it was hopeless. So here we are today.
When something could have been done — when resources
could have been committed to prove the danger we were
courting — people with heaps of money would not say a
word — would not say boo about the things I posted to this
website. Our capitalist elites are not communist as you imagine,
just because a few noisy idiots like Gates or Soros are in bed
with China. The story is a bit more complicated than you imagine.
Jeff Nyquist, June 5th, 2022 - Quoted
It’s the most complicated game ever played. Nobody
has tried to do this kind of thing in a world that has
become more fragile, more built up, more susceptible
to catastrophic breakdown. The complexity of a world
economy that sustains nearly 8 billion human beings
cannot be understood by any strategist. Once you break
some vital element you might not survive what you have
set in motion. Talk about gambling. It is madness.
An old-fashioned conventional war in Ukraine has got 40
million starving in Africa. Nobody has a clue how much
worse this can get. You blockade Taiwan, you threaten
Japan, you disrupt Far East commerce through the South
China Sea — even worse happens. Nuclear war on a
moderate scale will do almost nothing in terms of radiation.
But billions could starve in the months that follow.
The psychological and economic shock might strangle
continents.
Why?
Because economics depends on expectations. Destroy
expectations, destroy investment. Destroy investment,
destroy the means to live and work.
Jeff Nyquist, June 6th, 2022 - Quoted