“Might is Right in politics and war” – Helmut Kohl, CDU Chancellor.
“Genocide is a natural phenomenon…it is recommended even commanded by the Almighty” Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia
European Fascism and National Socialism are made up of the collectives of big business, big Government and, rather later in the process, of big unions who bargain with the former and get favourable legislation from the latter. The “Excluded” from this “tripartite State” are the voters, consumers, entrepreneurs, smaller businesses, parliaments, non unionised workers and most MPs. Also left out are the welfare socialists and most communists – whose ideology does recognise fascism. We have dealt in a previous post with the euro-fascist left. Now we look at the euro-fascist right – the authoritarian conservatives, big business corporatists and the authoritarian civil servants.
A SPANISH CASE STUDY
Rodrigo Rato, a classic corporatist Spanish Banker with strong political and supranational business connections, is now on trial in Madrid. He was economy minister in conservative Popular Party governments and was the “mastermind” behind Spain’s disastrous boom, before it resulted in the the property collapse of 2008.
He will also go on trial in connection with the secret so-called “black credit cards” affair involving “expenses” (totalling €15.5m over 13 years) claimed by himself, his employees and a “Who’s Who” in Spanish politics including representatives of political parties from the left and right, trade unions, a secretary to Spain’s royal family and the bank’s top management – a classic list of corporatists, immune from competitive and democratic challenge (until they were caught out after many years by a campaign run by the kind of “Excluded” named above). This left-right corporatism has always been the basis of fascist systems and personifies the authoritarian, supranational EU to which the establishment parties of Spain are so devoted.
Despite his disastrous financial record in Spain Rato became Head of the International Monetary Fund and in 2010 chairman of Bankia, a bank formed by the merger to save banks from the cost of the property collapse his previous policies had caused!
Listing on the stock market in 2011 Bankia claimed an operating profit of €305m but then a year later an audit revealed it had lost €3 billion. Rato was forced to resign, the bank was nationalised and over 200,000 individuals shareholders lost their money. This will be the subject of a future trial. Rodrigo Rato faces up to 10 years in jail for the secret credit card system and may be put on trial in at least three other cases including tax fraud and hiding money abroad.
When the EEC, the forerunner to the European Union, was founded it was the creature of conspirators, not democrats. It was supranational secretive groups – of whom the voters had not heard – like The European Movement and the Bilderberg Group which had hosted the discreet meetings of big business, governments, church leaders, journalists and others and drew up the blueprint for the takeover of the democratic nations of Europe.
The Right, the corporatist Right, was very well represented and when the first European Assembly was set up the first to arrive in large numbers were the lobbyists of big business who saw the breakdown of the nation state as an opportunity to sell into and profit from the “common market”, then the “Single Market” (as a precursor to a single country) and finally the Single Currency.
JUNCKER AND LUXEMBOURG TAX DEALS
Margaret Hodge, the Chairman of the British Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee demanded to know why Amazon paid minimal tax in Luxembourg for big profits made in selling books in the UK.
The generous tax deal in Luxembourg had been secured in 2003 when the now President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, was Finance Minister in that country of 500,000 people and less than 1,000 square miles. Thanks to Juncker, Amazon sales of €9 billion produced a tax charge in Luxembourg of just €20m.
Juncker subsequently became Luxembourg Prime Minister and during his time in office there were tax avoidance deals for well-known corporations Shire, Icap, Skype, Ikea, Fedex, GlaxoSmithKline, Accenture, Reckitt Benckiser, Disney, Pearson, Taylor Wimpey and Burberry. These sweetheart deals for the big multinationals robbed all EU citizens and the other member states of the EU of billions in tax revenue. As the British MP Margaret Hodge asked:
“How can we know he’s working in the interest of Europe when as prime minister in Luxembourg he has exploited populations in every European country and elsewhere for decades?”
Again and again on tis website I emphasise that in these corporate conspiracies against the consumer/voter in so called “democratic countries” the Left is as guilty as the Right and they happily join in the manipulation of markets, taxes and parliaments. In this case of Juncker, despite justified criticism in the EU from the (anti corporatist) Left and the (anti corporatist) Right nevertheless when it came to a censure motion attacking Juncker in the European Parliament, the Left eventually refused to join calls for him to go.
So 13 years after this career politician and euro-corporatist started enticing big multinational corporations to Luxembourg and robbing the treasuries of other nations by unfair subsidy, here is Jean Claude Juncker lording it over 28 nations and making their laws! Needless top say he has utter contempt for those he claims to serve, especially when they rebel against his corruption:
“Because the EU was not united it gave space to populism …we cannot accept that as populism does not solve problems, on the contrary it creates problems”
Like all eurofascists a people under their control is a “democracy” but a people who revolts is a “populist” mob!
THE VATICAN
Prominent also among those first conspirators were representatives of the Vatican whose official corporatist socio-economic programme had been taken up by that arch corporatist Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Italian Fascists and Hitler ally. In 1925 when Mussolini came to power the Vatican paraded nuns through the streets giving fascist salutes.
During the fascist Ustashe tyranny in Croatia during the second world war The Pope blessed Ustashe troops. On 5th October 1998 Pope made Archbishop Stepinac of Croatia a saint. Stepinac had led the Croatian Catholic Church and collaborated with the Croatian fascist Ustashe as they massacred Serbs and Jews and gypsies and “converted” at the barrel of a gun Orthodox Christians to Roman Catholicism.
Kurt Waldheim, formerly Head of the UN, had been a leading officer in the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia and was long after the war “usually the guest at the fund raiser for Friends of the Waffen SS” (The Observer). Waldheim received a Papal Knighthood from the Vatican in 1994.
At the end of the war the Vatican was the base of a project to allow Ukrainian, German, Croatian and other leading Nazis and Fascists, to leave Europe for South America. They were called “ratlines” and were condemned by, among others, the post war US Ambassador to Germany.
Having helped in the birth of the European Union the Vatican was active politically in countries like Malta, Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia persuading them to join. No wonder that two Popes – Jean Paul II and now Francis – have been awarded the (Nazi founded) Charlemagne Prize.
NATIONALISM BECOMES SUPRANATIONAL
While posing as internationalists the builders of the EU (from Hitler to Kohl to Delors to Merkel) are of course supra-nationalists – that is spreading centralised control in the takeover of smaller nation states. And when that attempt is frustrated their true nationalism and aggression is exposed.
“The future will belong to Germans when we build the house of Europe” said Helmut Kohl, in 1995. In the same year a Christian Democrat policy paper asserted: “If European integration were not to progress Germany might be called upon by its own security constraints to effect stabilisation of Eastern Europe in the traditional manner”
And when Raymond Barre, the former French Prime Minister and Vice President of the EU said “I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account” the logical result of such de haut en bas corporatist Statism were the words of the French right wing paper Le Figaro “In order to save jobs in Europe it is the world that has to change”.
ELITIST EDUCATION
The “elitist”, as we democrats use the word, describes not true superior beings but those who have the power to dictate what superiority is and who will be classified as the elite. The equivalent in business is a monopoly organised or permitted by the State and allowed to remain unchallenged by other businesses. It might once have been ground breaking and brilliant but its very protection turned it into a decaying, monopolistic hulk, its political demands increasing as its market success declines.
The corporatist Right is as adept at pulling the levers of State control as the authoritarian elitist socialist – and they tend to draw their employees and faithful supporters and loyalists in the media from the same elitist educational establishments – London/ Oxbridge in the UK and the “Enarques” in France (former pupils of the “Ecoles Nationales d’Administration”), the Ivy League Universities in the USA and in Germany (although not quite the same) the Political Foundations attached to each political party and funded by the State.
Many of their graduates of course go on to perfectly democratic, wealth creating work where their public service is daily challenged by competition, free consumers and voters. But a large majority instead serve the interests of big business, the big State, big media and their alma maters, for ever being judged by people like themselves and managing “other people’s money”. They will have the power, in an unhealthy corporatist State, to postpone change, defy the rules which affect others, write laws in their own corporate interest and mobilise opinion through the closely held media groups.
One of the reasons there is now an effective revolt against the right and left corporatists is the internet and the many voices which can now be heard – indeed often instigate debate and political revolt against the establishments. Two examples in the UK have been the Establishment’s attempts to change the voting system and to remain in the EU.
The corporatism and incipient fascism which characterise left and right cannot be solved by recourse to the “centre” since there there usually reside the most fascist elements of all – that combination of right wing corporate power and left wing socialist authoritarianism and elitism.
The answer lies in the anti fascist elements in left and right and their fusion in a new democratic, community based, anti Statist economic model which automatically challenges big business and the big State and puts the voter and the consumer at the centre of democratic and economic life.
