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This article is an excerpt from Godvernment: Government as God
Totalitarianism and Collectivism Go Hand in Hand
1.
of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
2.
Exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
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“Fascism is a religion of the state… Everything, including the economy and religion, must be aligned with [the fascist government’s] objectives. Any rival identity is part of the ‘problem,’ and therefore defined as the enemy.”
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism
The worship of government as the savior of humanity takes several forms.
Communism seeks to impose a universal world government on the entire planet and to thereby marshal all the resources of the entire globe for the purported end purpose of ensuring the well-being of humanity.
Socialism is a watered-down version of communism. Socialism doesn’t require everyone to live as equals in the state-run world. Those who are helping the most to promote the good of the people are worthy of the fat of the land.
This used to be one of the differences, and points of contention, between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China.
Mao presented himself as one of the people, wearing the same rough jacket as the ordinary peasants.
Of course, in the China of our day, the Central Committee members and top generals live like kings, and a creeping capitalism is steadily lifting the rest of the populace from poverty toward well-being.
Fascism is a form of socialism which purports that there is one nation or race that is mystically endowed with superiority over all other races. This superior nation or race should—by right of its superiority—rule over all humanity and manage it for its own good.
Communism, socialism, and fascism—all of which are simply different flavors of collectivism—are all totalitarian forms of government.
This fact may come as a shock to some, because they are accustomed to thinking of totalitarian governments as being epitomized by having a dictator or “president for life,” and being at odds with collectivism because of the strong emphasis on the value of one particular individual—the supreme leader.
A quick consideration of history—past and current—reveals that dictatorship is entirely consistent with collectivism, even with the emphasis on one particular individual. Consider the near-worship of both Lenin and Stalin in Russia. I have already mentioned Mao in China.
Then there are the various men of the same family who have been ruling North Korea with an iron fist as a communist country since the Korean War. Closer to the U.S., we have Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, both of whom were de facto dictators and drove their nations into the collective poverty of communism.
Totalitarianism is totally consistent with dictatorships and communism.
"[Fascism] is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good."
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism
The liberal elite—the collectivists and progressives—are very adept at wrapping their efforts in altruism. The common good has been used to justify most of the greatest injustices of the 20th Century. In addition to the millions slaughtered in the name of establishing and maintaining the security of the socialist nations against their own citizens and those they have killed in their attempts to violently and forcibly convert to socialism, by one estimate the noble “right” of reproductive choice has slaughtered in excess of 1 billion unborn children worldwide. Isn’t it wonderful and amazing what sacrifices are required for the common good from those who have no choice?
["Fascism] takes responsibility for
all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure."
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism
When I read this quote, I think about Obamacare—the Affordable Care Act. It was implemented under the guise of forcing 85 percent of the population to pay for health insurance for the 15 percent of people without insurance. It was all about “the common good.”
The book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was a fictional portrayal of a socialist world with a “nanny-state” approach. The undesirables are genetically engineered out of the race, or consigned to lives of abject servitude, where their discontent is quashed with liberal doses of drugs to keep them in line. Added to the mix is a liberal application of free sex and the abolition of marriage and nuclear families.
In contrast with Huxley’s nanny-state portrayal of socialism, George Orwell, in his book 1984, depicted the unrelenting brutality of a socialist police state. Moral decadence is decried, as is the social irresponsibility of being physically unfit. Such “aberrant” behavior is punished, and crimes of “subversive” thoughts or words can result in torture and death at the hands of the agents of the state.
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