{"id":139733,"date":"2019-08-12T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=139733"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T08:45:12","slug":"neoliberalism-neofascism-trumpism-racist-alliance-of-mob-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/neoliberalism-neofascism-trumpism-racist-alliance-of-mob-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism \u2013 Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 Aug 2019 – <\/em>Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist \u00a0and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d or \u201cobliterate\u201d. Rampant US Trumpism is paralleled by UK Brexiteers, \u00a0and by burgeoning Central European, Brazilian and Australian neo-fascists and Trumpists.<\/p>\n

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Just as the capitalist \u00a0Establishment used jingoism, nationalism and egregious racism to enthusiastically involve \u201cthe mob\u201d in the genocidal crimes of Western European imperialism on 5 continents, so the same device enabled popular support for genocidal Nazi German crimes against Europeans in Europe in WW2, \u00a0for genocidal crimes of fascist Italy against Libyans and Ethiopians and no doubt for the genocidal crimes of Imperial Japan against China. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism.<\/p>\n

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  1. Hannah Arendt, Sven Lindqvist and the \u201cmob and capital\u201d in imperialist and fascist mass murder
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    Famed anti-racist Jewish German American philosopher Hannah Arendt In her seminal book \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u201d \u00a0[1] describes how genocidal European imperialism around the world provided an extremely profitable means of employing superfluous capital and superfluous labour from the Industrial Revolution, with racism and nationalism diverting the potentially dangerous mob from their real enemy, their capitalist rulers. Thus Hannah Arendt (1951): \u00a0\u201cOlder than the superfluous wealth was another by-product of capitalist production: the human debris of every crisis, following invariably upon each period of industrial growth, eliminated permanently from producing society. Men who had become permanently idle were as superfluous to the community as the owners of superfluous wealth. That they were an actual menace to society had been recognized throughout the nineteenth century and their export to populate the dominions of Canada and Australia as well as the United States. The new fact in the imperialist era is that these two superfluous forces, superfluous capital and superfluous working power, joined hands and left the country together. The concept of expansion, the export of government power and annexation of every territory in which nationals had invested either their wealth or their work, seemed the only alternative to increasing losses in wealth and population. Imperialism and its idea of unlimited expansion seemed to offer a permanent remedy for a permanent evil\u201d (page 150 [1]).<\/p>\n

    In a subsection of her book entitled The Alliance Between Mob and Capital<\/em> (pages 123-155 [2]), Hannah Arendt describes the global operation of this union by Western imperialists:<\/p>\n

    \u201cWhen imperialism entered \u00a0the scene of politics with the scramble for Africa in the eighties [1880s] , it was promoted by businessmen, opposed fiercely by the governments in \u00a0power, and welcomed by a surprisingly large section of the educated classes. To the last it seemed to be God-sent, a cure for all evils, an -easy panacea for all conflicts. And it is true that imperialism in a sense did not disappoint these hopes. It gave a new lease on life to political and social structures which were quite obviously threatened by new social and political forces and which, under other circumstances without the interference of imperialist developments, would hardly have needed two world wars to disappear…. As matters stood, imperialism spirited away all troubles and produced that deceptive feeling of security, so universal in pre-war Europe, which deceived all but the most sensitive minds\u2026 \u00a0Innocently enough, expansion appeared first as the outlet for excess capital production and offered a remedy, capital export. The tremendously increased wealth produced by capitalist production under a social system based on maldistribution had resulted in \u201coversaving\u201d \u2013 that is, the accumulation of capital which was condemned to idleness within the existing national capacity for production and consumption\u201d [2].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Hannah Arendt pointed to the potential dangers to Europeans (and horribly realized in post-WW1 fascism and Nazism) of this subdivision of humanity into \u201cmaster races and slave races\u201d: \u201cOccasional warnings against the Lumpen proletariat, and the possible bribing of sections of the working class with crumbs from the imperialist table, did not lead to a deeper understanding of the great appeal which the imperialist programs had to the rank and file of the party. In Marxist terms the new phenomenon of an alliance between mob and capital seemed so unnatural, so obviously in conflict with the doctrine of class struggle, that the actual dangers of the imperialist attempt-to divide mankind into master races and slave races, into higher and lower breeds, into colored peoples and white men, all of which were attempts to unify the people on the basis of the mob-were completely overlooked. Even the breakdown of international solidarity at the outbreak of the First World War did not disturb the complacency of the socialists and their faith in the proletariat as such\u2026<\/p>\n

    The alliance between capital and mob is to be found at the genesis of every consistently imperialist policy. In some countries, particularly in Great Britain, this new alliance between the much-too-rich and the much-too-poor was and remained confined to overseas possessions. The so-called hypocrisy of British policies was the result of the good sense of English statesmen who drew a sharp line between colonial methods and normal domestic policies, thereby avoiding with considerable success the feared boomerang effect of imperialism upon the homeland. In other countries particularly in Germany and Austria, the alliance took effect at home in the form of pan-movements, and to a lesser extent in France, in a so-called colonial policy. The aim of these \u201cmovements\u201d was, so to speak, to imperialize the whole nation (and not only the \u201csuperfluous\u201d part of it), to combine domestic and foreign policy in such a way as to organize the nation for the looting of foreign territories and the permanent degradation of alien peoples [2].<\/p>\n

    Anti-racist Jewish German American philosopher Hannah Arendt got to the racist \u00a0\u2018heart of \u00a0darkness\u201d of the genocidally racist \u201cmob and capital\u201d transaction thus: \u201cRacism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization. When Russians have become Slavs, when Frenchmen have assumed the role of commanders of a force noire, when Englishmen have turned into \u201cwhite men,\u201d as already for a disastrous spell all Germans became Aryans, then this change will itself signify the end of Western man. For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death\u201d[2].<\/p>\n

    Indeed Sven Lindqvist perceived \u00a0the same ideological connection between genocidal Western European colonialism \u00a0and the latter genocidal German imperialism in Europe in his \u00a0book \u00a0\u201cExterminate All the Brutes\u201d [3] that used Joseph Conrad\u2019s novel \u201cHeart of Darkness\u201d [4] as a vehicle for exposing the evils of Western imperialism (1992): \u201cBehind the \u201cblack shadows of\u00a0 disease and starvation\u201d in the Grove of Death [in the Congo of Joseph Conrad\u2019s \u201cHeart of Darkness\u201d] I saw in my mind\u2019s eye the emaciated survivors of the German death camps, which had been liberated only a few years earlier. I read Conrad as a prophetic author who had foreseen all the horrors that were to come. Hannah Arendt knew better. She saw that Conrad was writing about the genocides of his own time. In her first book, \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarians\u201d (1951), she showed how imperialism necessitated racism as the only possible excuse for its deeds. \u201cLying under anybody\u2019s nose were many of the elements which gathered together\u00a0 could create a totalitarian government on the basis of racism.\u201d Her thesis that Nazism and Communism were of the same stock has been well remembered . However, many forget that she also held the \u201cterrible massacres\u2019 and \u201dwild murdering\u201d of European imperialists responsible for the \u00a0\u201cthe triumphant introduction of such means of pacification into ordinary, respectable foreign policies\u201d, thereby fathering totalitarianism and its genocides\u2026 My desert traveller [in his \u201cExterminate All the Brutes\u201d], employing a paradigm of similarity, finds that Europe\u2019s destruction of the \u201cinferior races\u201d of four continents prepared the ground for Hitler\u2019s destruction of six million Jews in Europe\u201d (Preface [3]).<\/p>\n

    Sven Lindqvist cogently concludes his \u201cExterminate All the Brutes\u201d thus: \u201cImperialism is a biologically necessary process that, according to the laws of nature, leads to the inevitable destruction of the lower races. Things of that kind could be said. But the way it actually happened, what it really did to the exterminators and the exterminated, which was at most only implied. And when what had been done in the heart of darkness was repeated in the heart of Europe, no one recognized it. No one wished to admit what everyone knew. Everywhere in the world where knowledge is being suppressed, knowledge that, if it were made known, would shatter our image of the world and force us to question ourselves \u2013 everywhere there, Heart of Darkness is being enacted. You already know that. So do I. It is not knowledge that we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and draw conclusions\u201d (page 172 [3]).<\/p>\n

    Racism, jingoism and nationalism are powerful but are not enough to whitewash the horrendous crimes of imperialism \u2013 there must also be \u00a0(and is) \u00a0massive lying \u00a0about such \u00a0\u00a0atrocities to ensure continued mob support for deadly imperial agendas [5-10]. \u00a0Humans love their fellow man, but the intensity and practical expression of this \u00a0love diminishes \u00a0as one moves further away from immediate family, to suburb, to city, to nation, and thence to \u201cthe Other\u201d in remote, \u00a0foreign lands.<\/p>\n

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    1. Racism, \u201cMob and capital\u201d, and American Trumpism
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      Mohamad G. Alkadry and Brandi Bresset , informed by Hannah Arendt\u2019s analysis, have considered \u00a0 the \u201calliance of mob and capital\u201d in the suppression of both colonial subjects and African \u2013Americans by the racist White political establishments (2010): \u201cThis article takes a critical look at the actions of American public administrators affecting African Americans in inner cities in the mid-twentieth century. It compares these actions to those of British imperialist functionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that domestic American administrators and imperialist functionaries shared an ethos of serving expansion and capital, sometimes as a means to achieve what they deemed to be the public interest. They also shared the use of race as a weapon in their drive to suppress the masses of what they viewed as superfluous expendable subject races\u2014imperialized natives by British administrators or African Americans by U.S. administrators. Using Hannah Arendt\u2019s The Origins of Totalitarianism,<\/em> this article traces the role of administrators in the alliance between mob and capital that resulted in the resegregation and dispossession of African-American communities in much of urban America. This article argues that the combination of racism and public administration was used to subjugate and control subject races in British imperialized territories and in urban America\u201d [11].<\/p>\n

      The World is well aware of centuries of White American subjugation of African-Americans that continues today notwithstanding the end of slavery in 1865 and the \u00a0civil rights victories \u00a0of the 1960s. Thus 27% of African-Americans live in poverty, Black wealth is 5 times lower than that of \u00a0Whites, and millions of \u00a0African-Americans are excluded from voting because of felony laws [12-14]. \u00a0Before the late 1960s laws explicitly discriminated against \u00a0African \u2013Americans \u00a0but today such overt legal \u00a0discrimination has been removed but massive discrimination remains on the basis of differential wealth. \u00a0Thus massive Segregation in American schools has returned to blight lives under a new American educational Apartheid \u2013 but now ostensibly on the basis of wealth, not race [15]. \u00a0Massive wealth discrepancies mean that the White majority \u201cmob\u201d no longer \u00a0has to resort to overt racism, violence and overt discrimination but simply leaves it up to \u201cmarket forces\u201d (similarly \u00a0in post-Apartheid South Africa \u00a0massive differentials \u00a0remain but Apartheid per se\u00a0 has been legislatively abolished).<\/p>\n

      Notwithstanding massive disinformation by the Establishments and Establishment-beholden Mainstream media , the \u201cmass democratic publics\u201d still exert some pressure on government economic policy. Thus, for example, Rodney Bruce Hall (American professor of International relations, University of Macau, Macau (S.A.R.), China) has applied an Arendt-style \u201cmob and capital\u201d analysis to \u00a0understand \u00a0periodic destructive bubbles in democratic economies (2009): \u201cI employ the metaphor, with apologies to Hannah Arendt, of a \u201cnew alliance between the mob and capital (and the state)\u201d in order to explain how private global governance of systemic financial risk went so wrong and created a global financial crisis with ruinous effects on the global real economy. Few parties are found blameless in this evaluation: the cupidity and stupidity of private financial actors in creating complex structured investment vehicles (SIVs) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs); the highly leveraged, yield-hungry global investors who bought them; and the inadequacy of state regulatory agencies in responding to this leverage have all contributed to this crisis. In addition, the insistence by mass democratic publics that the state attempt to abolish the business cycle (through the constant application of Keynesian demand management) is also at fault, because it results in chronically asymmetric monetary policy. Credit is quickly and violently loosened at the hint of an economic downturn, but only belatedly and insufficiently tightened as asset bubbles build. This hyperresponsiveness of monetary institutions to public demands for loose credit conditions may lie at the heart of the waves of excessive credit creation that generate destructive asset bubbles\u201d [16].<\/p>\n

      However the election of a blustering, mendacious, \u00a0racist and populist Donald Trump as US president has impacted American public life for the worse. \u00a0As clearly stated by outstanding US journalist \u00a0\u00a0I.F. Stone: \u00a0\u201cGovernments lie\u201d [7]. \u00a0Leading US writer Gore Vidal referred to \u00a0\u201cmost Americans who lie all the time\u201d [7]. Indeed the American Center for Public Integrity found that the\u00a0 \u00a0George W. Bush Administration lied \u00a0935 times between 9-11 and the war criminal invasion of Iraq [17]. Americans probably expect their governments to lie about secret military or strategic matters \u2013 after all, D-Day in 1944 was won because \u00a0of massive deception of the Germans. However \u00a0so many of Trump\u2019s endless flood of Tweeted assertions \u00a0about non-security domestic issues \u00a0are variously untrue, offensive and contradictory (for a huge catalogue of these Trump falsehoods see [18]). Failure to be believed on such a large number of non-security matters leaves resort to the racism, bigotry and jingoism of the mob as the best option for this tawdry populist \u00a0president.<\/p>\n

      However Trump\u2019s assertions to the \u201cmob\u201d relating to racism, bigotry and jingoism range are utterly unacceptable, \u00a0and some are downright scary. Thus Trump said of Mexican immigrants: \u201cThey\u2019re bringing drugs. They\u2019re bringing crime. They\u2019re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people\u201d [19]; Trump banned entry to the US of citizens of a number of Muslim-majority countries, namely the grossly US-violated countries of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen \u00a0(after initially trying to block entry of all Muslims)[20]; and \u00a0Trump has implemented an unspeakably appalling \u00a0policy of forcibly separating Central American immigrant children from their mothers. Trump referred to El Salvador, Haiti, and African countries as \u201cshitholes\u201d, and most recently referred to the substantially \u00a0Black city of Baltimore \u00a0thus: \u201cRep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA\u2026 As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place\u201d [21].<\/p>\n

      Racist and sexist Donald Trump may finally have met his match in offensively Tweeting about four Democratic congresswomen of colour, namely \u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York-born, Hispanic American) , Ayanna Pressley (Cincinnati, Ohio-born African-American) , Ilhan Omar (Muslim US citizen, Mogadishu, Occupied Somalia-born) and Rashida Tlaib (Detroit, Michigan-born, Muslim Palestinian American), these women being known collectively as the Squad: \u201cSo interesting to see \u201cProgressive\u201d Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don\u2019t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can\u2019t leave fast enough. I\u2019m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!\u201d [21].<\/p>\n

      However it is Trump\u2019s dangerous and deadly actions in the international sphere that have horrified people around the world. Thus under Trump \u00a0the US continued \u00a0its support of the jihadi-led rebellion against \u00a0the secular Assad Government of Syria. Based on premature assumptions about alleged Syrian use of poison gas, Trump launched a massive missile attack on Syria \u00a0\u00a0in \u00a02018. \u00a0Uninvited US troops remain in Syria. In 2019 Trump apparently ordered \u00a0an \u00a0attack on peaceful Iran in revenge for the downing of an unmanned drone but cancelled \u00a0the attack because he was told that 150 Iranians might be killed. However Trump has threatened \u00a0to \u201cobliterate \u201c parts of Iran (an ancient \u00a0nation that has not \u00a0invaded another country for about 1,500 years [22, 23], and has threatened \u00a0to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea [24] (noting that US bombing killed 28% of the North Korean population during the Korean War [25]). \u00a0<\/em>Appallingly, \u00a0Trump has recently asserted:<\/p>\n

      \u201cWe\u2019re like policemen. We\u2019re not fighting a war. If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. But I don\u2019t want to kill 10 million people. Afghanistan could be wiped off the face of the Earth. I don\u2019t want to go that route\u201d [26].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      It gets worse. Except for the genocidal Myanmar military dictatorship, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel, and the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid US Alliance led by Trump America, the world is united in utterly opposing the evil of Apartheid that has been formally condemned by the UN as a crime against Humanity [27]. My own country, US lackey, \u00a0increasingly Trumpist and pro-Apartheid Australia, is second only to Trump America \u00a0as a supporter of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel [28]. Trump has supported the war criminal Israeli annexation of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights of Syria, fervently supports Apartheid Israel in everything, is committed to 10 years of \u00a0$3.8 billion per year in military aid to serial war criminal Apartheid Israel [29], has rejected UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (that unanimously, except for Obama America abstention, condemned Israeli war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ), and has ceased contributing to UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) \u00a0support for 7 million Palestinian refugees [30].<\/p>\n

      Free trade helps the global economy and that includes the 5 billion people of the Developing World (minus China) of whom 15 million die avoidably from deprivation each year\u00a0 [22]. Trump has now determined that the US will apply tariffs to all goods entering the US from China. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has called Trump\u2019s Tariff War policies \u201cinsane\u201d: \u201cThere are victors and there are losers in a tariff fight. But that doesn\u2019t say that a more important issue is both are losing, it\u2019s just the winner loses less\u201d [31].<\/p>\n

      The world is now existentially threatened by nuclear weapons (a nuclear winter from a nuclear exchange would wipe out most of \u00a0Humanity and the Biosphere [32]) and by man-made climate change (realistically a catastrophic\u00a0 plus 2C temperature rise is now effectively unavoidable and the direst expert estimates are that only 0.5 billion people will survive this century in the absence of requisite action i.e. 10 billion people will perish thus this century \u00a0at an average rate of 100 million per year [33]). Outstanding physicist Stephen Hawking has repeatedly stated the essence of the existential threats from nuclear weapons and climate change (2007, 2018): \u00a0\u201cWe see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change\u201d [34, 35].<\/p>\n

      However an effective climate change denialist , pro-fossil fuels Trump America has unilaterally rejected the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Further, Trump America and its craven allies reject the nuclear \u00a0weapons ban (that has been endorsed by most other countries including \u00a0New Zealand). Trump America fervently supports nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel (that has up to 400 nuclear warheads as compared \u00a0to the upper \u00a0estimates of stored \u00a0nuclear weapons \u00a0of 8 other countries: the US (7,315), Russia (8,000), France (300), UK (250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea (about 10)) [32]. Trump has walked away from key nuclear weapons agreements with Russia (most recently the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Agreement with Russia ), and Trump has unilaterally walked away from the multi-national nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Iran, a country \u00a0that has no nuclear weapons, has not invaded any other country for1,500 years, and has been subject to deadly US sanctions over the deadly 4-decade US War on Iran \u00a0(1 million Iranians killed in the US-backed Iran-Iraq War and 3 million Iranian avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation) [22, 36, 37].<\/p>\n

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      1. Pre- and post-election application of Arendt\u2019s analysis to American Trumpism<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Pre-election.<\/strong> During the 2016 US Presidential Election, Ingrid Burrington (US writer, \u00a0author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure <\/em>and an artist in residence at Data and Society Research Institute) considered Donald Trump\u2019s extremism \u00a0in the light of Dr \u00a0Hannah Arendt\u2019s The Alliance of the Mob and Capital <\/em>(2016):<\/p>\n

        \u201c<\/em>As far as election companions go, one could do worse than a dead, chain-smoking German political theorist who, in 1951, published \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u201d, an incisive and copiously footnoted history of the rise of Nazism and Stalinism. Considered one of the most important works of political philosophy of its time, today\u00a0\u201cOrigins\u201d\u00a0reads more like a contemporary analysis of this election cycle\u2019s post-fact landscape\u2014the one driven, mostly, by Donald Trump\u2019s candidacy. While we don\u2019t have the horrors of concentration camps and gulags yet, the political propagandizing and systematic organizing behind the genocidal totalitarian regimes that Origins describes could have been\u00a0ripped from\u00a0this year\u2019s election\u00a0headlines\u2026 [key quotes from Hannah Arendt\u2019s \u201cOrigins\u201d] \u201cTotalitarian movements are possible wherever there are masses who for one reason or another have acquired the appetite for political organization. Masses are not held together by a consciousness of common interest and they lack that specific class articulateness which is expressed in determined, limited, and obtainable goals\u2026 Potentially, they exist in every country and form the majority of those large numbers of neutral, politically indifferent people who never join a party and hardly ever go to the polls\u201d [and] \u201cIn Marxist terms the new phenomenon of an alliance between the mob and capital seemed so unnatural, so obviously in conflict with the doctrine of class struggle, that the actual dangers of the imperialist attempt\u2014to divide mankind into master races and slave races, into higher and lower breeds, into colored peoples and white men, all of which were attempts to unify the people on the basis of the mob\u2014were completely overlooked\u201d\u201d \u00a0[38].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

        Post-election.<\/strong> Thomas Coombes extensively quoted Hannah Arendt\u2019s The Origins of Totalitarianism <\/em>to make the connection of \u00a0Western European imperialist subjugations \u00a0and Nazi German totalitarianism with the \u00a0present violation \u00a0of the human rights of \u00a0\u00a0refugees (now totalling 70 million) , US imperial wars and populist demagoguery scapegoating minorities (Trumpism).<\/p>\n

        \u201cThe moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them \u2026 It is quite conceivable, and even within the realm of practical political possibilities, that one fine day a highly organised and mechanised humanity will conclude quite democratically \u2014 namely by majority decision \u2014 that for humanity as a whole it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof \u2026 The point is that a condition of complete rightlessness was created before the right to live was challenged\u2026 Two new devices for political organisation and rule over foreign peoples were discovered during the first decades of imperialism. One was race as a principle of the body politic, and the other bureaucracy as a principle of foreign domination\u2026 The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability \u2026 The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships\u2026 What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century\u201d\u201d[39].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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        1. Neoliberalism, neofascism and Trumpism in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Apartheid Israel <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          At the heart of Trumpism in the US and around the world is the ruthless ideology of neoliberalism that has come to dominate the world in the last 3 decades. Neoliberalism demands maximal freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit the natural and human resources of the world for private profit. The consequence of this single-minded drive for individual profit is that presently the 8 richest men in the \u00a0world have as much wealth as the poorest half of Humanity [40] and that the top One Percent own half the wealth of the world [41]. This defies human nature that has evolved over the last half million years towards life in small cooperative, sharing \u00a0groups [42-46].<\/p>\n

          The neoliberal obscenity also defies the need for biological \u00a0sustainability. \u00a0Thus we now live in an Anthropocene Era of mass species extinction \u2013 the extinction rate for animal species is presently 100-1,000 greater than normal. \u00a0A worsening climate emergency means that the direst estimates are for a mere 0.5 billion people surviving this century if climate change is not requisitely addressed [33, 47-55]. Using coral reefs as a \u201ccanary in the mine\u201d, \u00a0it has been \u00a0determined that world coral started dying when the world population was 3.3 billion and the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) had increased \u00a0to 320 parts per million from the pre-Industrial Revolution level of 280 ppm CO2 i.e. world population needs to be halved and economic activity needs to be halved (with the First World countries bearing most of the burden) [56]. Indeed Professor Dabo Guan \u00a0(School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK) (2016) has commented thus on the inescapable limits to growth: \u00a0\u201cFor everyone in the world to have an American lifestyle, we would need seven planets, and three to live as Europeans\u201d [57]. At the level of the environmental impact likely by 2100 the surviving sustainable world population remnant would be as low as 0.5 billion [33].<\/p>\n

          The neoliberal imperative for endless exploitation means (a) violently acquiring and defending resources, with the ultimate in violence being mass murder as in high technology war and nuclear war as a near- terminal extreme, and (b) inequitable and deadly resource use, \u00a0and \u00a0in the context of a carbon economy, unlimited carbon pollution leading to a worsening and ultimately \u00a0near-terminal Climate Genocide. \u00a0In our present interim \u00a0stage of approaching an unavoidable and catastrophic +2C temperature rise, whether intra-nationally or internationally violence is simply unacceptable. \u00a0Inequity is bad for democracy (Big Money buys votes) and for the economy (the poor cannot afford to purchase the goods and services they produce [58, 59]. However the solutions to inequity involving international transparency about wealth and \u00a0wealth taxes are utterly unacceptable to endlessly greedy neoliberalism and the dominant One Percenters.<\/p>\n

          For decent Humanity \u00a0the clear solution is social humanism (socialism, democratic socialism, eco-socialism, the welfare state) \u00a0\u00a0which aims to sustainably maximize human happiness, opportunity and dignity through\u00a0 evolving and science-informed international and intra-national \u00a0social contracts [60, 61]. Polya\u2019s Second Law of Economics states that \u00a0Deception about the Cost of Production relentlessly increases [62], as exampled by resolute neoliberal opposition to any Carbon Tax or to scientific analysis of sustainability \u2013 with this fatal flaw presently \u00a0driving Humanity and the Biosphere \u00a0towards destruction (speciescide and ecocide heading towards omnicide and terracide).<\/p>\n

          The \u201cmob\u201d could be brought on board by a jingoistic and nationalist alliance with \u201ccapital\u201d as in the imperialism \u00a0and colonialism of the Western quasi-democracies in the 19th to 20th centuries. However mass education, mass literacy and mass media progressively made this \u201cmob and capital\u201d \u00a0alliance less reliable from the perspective of \u201ccapital\u201d \u00a0which then opted for totalitarianism e.g. \u00a0the workers and other social elements patriotically united in the imperialistic state \u201cfasces\u201d (bundle) \u00a0as in fascist Italy and other fascist dictatorships (Spain, Hungary); \u00a0the glue of racism and race pride that united an eventually genocidal Nazi Germany (that indeed was backed by elements of American \u201ccapital\u201d) [63, 64]; and the ideology- and fear-sustained \u00a0Stalinist \u201cdictatorship of the proletariat\u201d that killed \u00a020 million Soviet subjects [65]. Once installed, these dictatorships maintained \u00a0a powerful grip through propaganda, fear, \u00a0and deadly violence.<\/p>\n

          The \u201cmob and capital\u201d were united in the desire for territorial expansion e.g. global empires (the quasi-democratic Western imperialists) , Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia (the Italian fascists), \u00a0and lebensraum (living room) in Eastern Europe (the German Nazis ). Racism, jingoism, nationalism and imperialist propaganda \u00a0solidified popular support. However post-WW2 decolonization (in the1960s) required a \u00a0\u00a0different tack. The British and French Empires \u00a0rapidly contracted with limited if bloody last ditch violence in Malaysia, Kenya, Egypt, and Rhodesia (the UK) and Algeria, Indochina, Egypt and West Africa \u00a0(France). The UK and France went in for profitable neo-colonial hegemony, accompanied by massive lying about colonial crimes that enabled the \u201cmob\u201d to transition from imperial racism and jingoism to \u00a0non-racism (actually, a sneaky \u00a0politically correct racism or \u00a0PC racism) and more restrained, PC national pride (except at fanatical sporting events), that continues to this day.<\/p>\n

          The Americans inherited global hegemony from the financially constrained former British and French empires, \u00a0and the American Empire has variously maintained its global grip \u00a0with violent subversion, crippling economic sanctions, \u00a0and a succession of \u00a0bloody invasions in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia \u2013 and all of this racist and variously genocidal carnage in the name of \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201ddemocracy\u201d. Thus post-1950 US Asian wars have been associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or imposed deprivation [22]. 32 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation , 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government\u2019s 9-11 false flag atrocity [66, 67]. American Governments subvert and pervert all countries in the world (including \u00a0the US), and America \u00a0has invaded 52 countries since WW2 [68-70]. The US has over 700 military bases in over 70 countries \u00a0[71] \u2013 indeed my own country , Australia , has just learned from a draft US Congressional budget bill and not from our own government, that the US is to build a huge naval base near Darwin in northern Australia [72]. If the US succeeds in overthrowing the Venezuelan Government then this will be the 68th government (many of them democratically elected) overthrown by the US [73]. For all its endlessly dishonest excuses of spreading \u201dfreedom\u201d, \u201chuman rights\u201d and \u201cdemocracy\u201d, the US has been a major backer of jihadi violence (in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Syria and the Yemen), and has trashed secular governance, modernity, democracy, women\u2019s rights and Children\u2019s Rights in the Muslim World\u201d \u2013 indeed jihadis (whether US backed or not) represent a major asset of US imperialism because every jihadi atrocity provides an \u201cexcuse\u201d for disproportionate US aggression against Muslim countries.<\/p>\n

          And all of this post-WW2 carnage \u00a0is sustained by massive lying by commission and omission by endlessly mendacious Mainstream journalist, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes who obsess about the political incorrectness or sexual misbehaviour of particular public figures but utterly ignore, \u00a0\u00a0for example, \u00a01950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries occupied in the post-WW2 which are as follows for these US Alliance countries: 727 million (the UK), 142 million (France), 82 million (the US) and 24 million (Apartheid Israel) [22]. This carnage is not reported by the mendacious, Zionist-subverted Western Mainstream media who, \u00a0while fervently and obscenely justifying genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide \u00a0Apartheid Israel on the basis of the horrendous WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by the Nazis), \u00a0resolutely ignore the Elephants in the Room realities of the\u00a0 15 million people in the global South who presently die\u00a0 avoidably from deprivation each year on Spaceship Earth with America in charge of the flight deck; the 1,500 million people \u00a0who have died thus since 1950 \u00a0in an ongoing Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust; 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed in the WW2 European Holocaust; 35 million Chinese dying \u00a0in the Japan-imposed 1937-1945 WW2 Chinese Holocaust; 32 million Muslim deaths from violence or deprivation in the US War on Terror; 6-7 million Indians dying in the British-imposed and Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust; 2.2 million Palestinians dying from violence or deprivation since the British invasion of Palestine in WW2; \u00a0\u00a0and the direst estimates of 10,000 million people dying this century in an already happening and worsening \u00a0Climate Genocide [22, 33, 75].<\/p>\n

          Until recently mendacious \u201ccapital\u201d has not needed \u00a0to whip up \u201cmob\u201d racism and jingoism as it did in the past in support of genocidal imperialism and colonialism, whether in Europe or in the non-European world. However the World is now in an all too \u00a0limited era between rampant neoliberalism and now unavoidable climate catastrophe. \u00a0While ignored by mendacious Mainstream journalist, politician, commentariat and academic presstitutes, the world has already surpassed the limits \u00a0to growth on Planet Earth, a reality about which that the children of the School Striker movement are well aware [76]. Further, workers of the West are well aware of accelerating \u00a0advances in Artificial Intelligence (robotics) \u00a0and the shift of manufacturing industry to China and even lower wage countries.<\/p>\n

          Capitalist billionaire Trump has responded to this new political challenge and has successfully galvanized the threatened workers of America with a combination of \u00a0traditional racism, nationalism, sexism and \u00a0jingoism that was so successful \u00a0in the past \u00a0eras of European colonialism and fascist totalitarianism. The \u201cMake America great again\u201d slogan has worked in the US and now a UK version is rampant with the inherently racist, \u00a0nationalist \u00a0and \u201cMake Britain \u00a0great again \u201d British Brexiteers. The \u201cmob\u201d is similarly \u00a0on the march in Europe with the massive increase in support for far-right extremists in France, Germany, Austria \u00a0and Hungary who have \u00a0variously already almost achieved or exceeded the electoral support for the Nazis in Germany in 1933.<\/p>\n

          Brazil has recently joined this neo-fascist race \u00a0the bottom. Thus Frederico Freitas on how neo-fascism now threatens Brazil and the World (2018): \u201c Jair Bolsonaro, the neo-fascist president-elect of Brazil and one the most extreme politicians in liberal democracies today, threatens a return to a time when the Brazilian Amazon was seen as wasteland to be exploited and settled. As I\u2019ve written for Current Affairs<\/em>, Bolsonaro\u2019s specific style of fascism is based on nostalgia for the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for 21 years between the 1960s and the 1980s. In fact, much of his agenda is a revival of the National Security Doctrine \u2013 the Cold War ideology of exterminating internal communist threats popular in Latin America. As the former Army captain made clear in a rally a week before his electoral victory, under his leadership, the \u201creds\u201d will be put in jail or forced into exile. But this is not all. Another essential feature of the Brazilian military regime that Bolsonaro mimics is the desire to \u201cconquer\u201d the Amazon region\u201d [77].<\/p>\n

          In US lackey and climate criminal Australia, an anti-science,\u00a0 anti-environment, pro-coal, climate criminal, pro-militarization and Trumpist Coalition (COALition) Government has been returned to office with the crucial help of the far-right , racist, anti-Indigenous, anti-Asian and anti-Muslim One Nation Party , the United Australia Party of pro-coal mining billionaire Clive Palmer, and the effective climate change denialist, US Murdoch media empire [78]. Both the Coalition Government and the Labor Opposition have a common neoliberal policy of unlimited exports of coal, gas and methanogenically-derived meat. A climate criminal Australia is among the world \u00a0leaders in 14 areas of climate criminality, to whit (1) annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, (2) live methanogenic livestock exports, (3) natural gas exports, (4) actual or adumbrated exploitation of recoverable shale gas reserves that can be accessed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), (5) coal exports, (6) land clearing, \u00a0deforestation and ecocide, (7) speciescide \u2013 species extinction, (8) coral reef destruction, (9) whale killing \u00a0and extinction threat through global warming, (10) terminal carbon pollution budget exceedance, (11) per capita carbon debt, (12) greenhouse gas (GHG)- generating iron ore exports, (13) climate change inaction and (14) climate genocide and approaches towards omnicide and terracide [79].<\/p>\n

          An unavoidable and catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise globally is indicated by a huge and hugely increasing \u00a0Carbon Debt (an inescapable $200-$250 trillion of global Carbon Debt that is increasing by $16 trillion per year) [80], the predicted release of catastrophic amounts of methane (CH4) from the Arctic in coming decades [81], and climate criminal business as usual (BAU) by the dominant neoliberals, and particularly by the Trumpists.<\/p>\n

          Final Comments <\/strong><\/p>\n

          Since the commencement of the Agrarian Revolution in about 10,000 BCE, Humanity increasingly gave up life in small, cooperative groups involved in the sustainable co- existence with nature in favour of large, significantly urbanised and highly militarized societies. \u00a0\u00a0The success of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Europe \u00a0led to superfluous capital and superfluous labour. As described by Hannah Arendt in 1951, a fear- and greed-driven \u00a0\u201calliance between the mob and capital\u201d was able via racist nationalism to achieve genocidal Western European imperialism \u00a0\u00a0in the South and eventually totalitarian fascism and the Nazi industrial \u00a0genocide in WW2 Europe.<\/p>\n

          Today the World is at a cusp between \u00a0immense, neoliberalism-driven economic growth and a likely new Dark Age marked by \u00a0decimation \u00a0of Humanity and the Biosphere if man-made climate change is not requisitely \u00a0addressed. An unavoidable and catastrophic plus 2C is indicated by a huge and hugely increasing \u00a0Carbon Debt but US president Donald Trump has chosen a political course of anti-science denial that, as in the imperialist and fascist eras, \u00a0involves an alliance of the mob and capital with a \u00a0politically successful concoction of mendacity, fear, racism, sexism, \u00a0nationalism, jingoism, militarism, and endless greed. \u00a0The mendacious, anti-science, racist , nationalist, and ends-justifies-the means Trumpist populism \u00a0is proving be massively attractive \u00a0in Europe, Brazil and Australia, as well as in America, as Humanity moves inexorably towards the precipice.<\/p>\n

          Trumpist stupidity, ignorance and egregious greed (stupidity, ignorance and evil greed or SIEG as in Dr Strangelove and \u201cSieg heil!\u201d) existentially threaten Humanity but are perpetuated by pro-One Percenter Mainstream media censorship. Humanity must oppose this neo-fascist Trumpism with zero tolerance for lying, ecocide, speciescide, racism, genocidal violence and terracidal greed.<\/p>\n

          References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

          [1]. Hannah Arendt, \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u201d, Shocken, New York, 1951.<\/p>\n

          [2]. Hannah Arendt, \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u201d, Part 2, subsection III, \u201c<\/em>The Alliance Between Mob and Capital\u201d, pages 123-155.<\/p>\n

          [3]. Sven Lindqvist , \u00a0\u201cExterminate All the Brutes\u201d, 1992; English translation, Granta Books, 2002.<\/p>\n

          [4]. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness\u201d.<\/p>\n

          [5]. Gideon Polya, \u201cJane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability\u201d, G.M. Polya, 1998, 2008, and available \u00a0for free perusal on the Web:\u00a0 https:\/\/janeaustenand.blogspot.com\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [6]. \u201cMainstream media censorship\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammediacensorship\/home<\/a> \u00a0.<\/p>\n

          [7]. \u201cMainstream media lying\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammedialying\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

          [8]. Gideon Polya, \u201cFake news: \u201cfake realities\u201d \u00a0and \u201clying by omission\u201d\u201d, Global \u00a0Research, 18 April 2018: https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/mainstream-media-fake-news-through-lying-by-omission\/5582944<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [9]. \u201cLying by omission\u201d: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammedialying\/lying-by-omission<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [10]. \u201cStupidity, ignorance and greed existentially threaten Humanity but are perpetuated by pro-One Percenter Mainstream media censorship\u201d, Mainstream media censorship: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammediacensorship\/stupidity-ignorance-and-greed-1<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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          [12]. Gideon Polya, \u201cTruth & Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Can Overcome Huge Inequities Suffered By African Americans Under American Apartheid\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, 29 September, 2014: https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/polya290914.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [13]. <\/strong>Michelle \u00a0Alexander, \u201cThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\u201d, The New Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

          [14]. Michelle \u00a0Alexander, \u201cThe war on drugs and the New Jim Crow\u201d, Race, Poverty, Environment, Vol. 17, No. 1 | Spring 2010: http:\/\/reimaginerpe.org\/20years\/alexander <\/a>.<\/p>\n

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          [16]. \u00a0Rodney Bruce Hall, \u201cThe New Alliance Between the Mob and Capital (and the State)\u201d St Antony\u2019s International Review (STAIR) 5 (1) (April 2009): 11-26: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26227136?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [17]. Charles Lewis, \u201c935 lies: the future of truth and the decline of \u00a0America\u2019s moral integrity\u201d, Public Affairs, 2014.<\/p>\n

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          [21]. \u201cRacial views of Donald Trump\u201d, Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [22]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBody Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950\u201d, that includes a succinct history of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http:\/\/globalbodycount.blogspot.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

          [23]. Gideon Polya, \u201c4 Decade \u00a0US War On Iran \u2013 Opiate Holocaust & 4 Million \u00a0Iranian Deaths From Violence & Imposed Deprivation\u201d, Stop state terrorism, 21 July 2019: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/stopstateterrorism\/2019-07-21<\/a> .<\/p>\n

          [24]. Julian Borger, \u201cTrump threatens to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea in UN speech\u201d, Guardian, 20 September 2017: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/sep\/19\/donald-trump-threatens-totally-destroy-north-korea-un-speech<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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          [57]. Irene Banos Ruiz , \u201cChina\u2019s new love affair with dogs \u2013 as pets, not food \u2013 presents environmental \u00a0problems\u201d, DW, 21 June 2016: \u00a0https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/chinas-new-love-affair-with-dogs-as-pets-not-food-presents-environmental-problems\/a-19197523<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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          [61]. Gideon Polya, \u2019Book Review: \u201cSocial Humanism. A New Metaphysics\u201d By Brian Ellis \u2013 \u00a0Last Chance To Save Planet?\u201d, Countercurrents, \u00a0<\/strong>19 August, 2012: https:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya190812.htm<\/a> . \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          \"\"<\/a><\/em>Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based scientist, writer, artist and humanitarian activist, an academic at La Trobe University for 4 decades, and the author of<\/em> Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds; Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History; and<\/em> Body Count-Global Avoidable Mortality since 1950.<\/p>\n

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