Democrats in Drag
Part 1: Technology, Sovereignty, and the Third Wave
by Steve Farrell (Nevada)
NewsMax
See the Foreword of this series Democrats in Drag: Third Way Fall From
Grace
Introduction
On November 11 1994, in a post election victory speech, Republican House
member, Newt Gingrich, revealed to Congress what his Contract With America, and
his Republican Revolution was in fact about. He called it the Third Way, 1
a
"progressive" movement he would interchangeably refer to as the Third
Way, the Third Wave, or Conservative Futurism in speech after speech from that
point forward. He recommended the reading of two books, for those ambitious
enough to decipher its meaning. The first, "The Third Wave," by
"ex"-Marxist Alvin Toffler, and the second, "The Tragedy of
American Compassion," by "ex"-Marxist Marvin Olasky, founding
father of George W. Bush’s Compassionate Conservatism.
What is the Third Way/Wave? Today, in Part 1, the early history of this catch
phrase sends us our first disturbing hints.
To most ordinary people, the technological revolution is one of those matter
of fact blessings and spoils of life in modern America. Few of us, then, give
technology a second thought . . . except when it fails. Yet, all of us depend on
it, enjoy it, and forever demand its ready medley of gizmos and gadgets to be
newer, better, and more distinctive than ever before.
Technology’s job should be to make our work easier and quicker, our leisure
more fun and comfortable, and our liberty more secure. And it has! Thanks to the
creative fire laissez-faire has fanned, in a nation where public virtue and the
rule of law reign, there are always ample numbers of deep thinking inventors and
deep-pocketed entrepreneurs eager and able to supply the instant gee-whiz wants
and needs of millions of freemen and freewomen.
On the other hand, to the unordinary, that is to that odd creature called the
Legislator, technology is this unmanageable, out of control threat which has
forced and will yet force Americans and other free people to contemplate the
redefinition of such things as the republican form of government, private
property, the individual and collective right to self defense, as well as the
elimination of such antiquated oddities as neutrality, national sovereignty, and
religious fundamentalism. A remarkably implosive view of the explosive potential
of technological growth for good!
But then legislators prefer controlling rather than liberating things and
people, don’t they?
The painful truth about legislators and control is this: the
I-Need-to-Control-People-Syndrome cuts across party lines, afflicting both
Democrats and Republicans alike. Both from the left and from the right, we find
politicians-a-plenty, who feel "compelled" to flee from the common
sense conclusion that technology can and should be utilized to better protect
our God given rights and our hard won sovereignty. Rather than stand up and
thoughtfully, dutifully put liberty first, they run and seek psychological cover
in a progressive wanna-be philosophy called the ‘Third Wave’ or ‘Third Way’;
a world outlook that has the outward markings of everything new and progressive,
but the inner workings of everything old and repressive.
The Third Way or Wave, may sound new and innocuous to many, but its founders
include such earlier notables as Plato, Karl Marx, and Adolf Hitler - certainly
not the best crew for men and women sworn to defend our Constitution to turn to
for inspiration.
Plato’s Third Wave
The Greek philosopher Plato was the first person that we know of to use the
term ‘third wave,’ which he did in his pro-Communist work "The
Republic." Plato called the "third wave" that "largest and
most dangerous [wave of all]" wherein the pro-Communist philosopher-king
overthrows the existing order, either by "smooth" persuasion or by
brute force. The Third Wave was the transitional phase from any form of
government, free or otherwise, to total Statism under the leadership of an elite
class of individuals called "philosopher kings." 2
Setting the standard for Third Wavers and Third Wayers today, Plato didn’t
call his revolutionary plan for tyranny, 'tyranny.’ Who would? Rather, he
cloaked every item of revolutionary change in more palatable terms like ‘justice,’
‘the Heavenly ideal,’ ‘the pursuit of the good,’ and ‘the love of
truth.’ He believed in and practiced double-talk. So much so, that even today
Plato succeeds in convincing casual readers that they are mulling over a
Judeo-Christian appeal to virtue. A hard look at Plato’s definition of virtue
reveals something else, however. Virtue, he taught, is whatever sustains or
brings about the ideal city. And such an ideal city was his! Communist, through
and through.
Consider Plato’s list of virtues:
The "Virtuous" Aim’s of Plato’s Third Wave
*Private property must be abolished, the wealthy hated, and their wealth
redistributed by state mandate. 3
*Children belong to, and are born to serve, the state. The influence of
parents is noxious and disruptive to the interest of the state, therefore, every
child should be raised in government nurseries, far from home, without knowledge
of who their parents are, and without the parents having knowledge of who their
offspring are. Every child becomes the common property of every parent in the
city, who possess the collective duty to watch over them. 4
*Private education, like traditional parenting, is at the very headwaters of
falsehood and social strife. It must be eliminated and replaced by a closely
monitored, state school system. 5
*Old values, passed down through song, history, and children’s story books,
are equally a source of trouble. These should be rewritten to discredit and
erase the old virtues and to exalt and enthrone the new. 6
*Frivolous children’s games make for foolish children. New games should be
developed which emphasize law and order. 7
*Private industry is self serving. The state has a moral obligation to move
toward the absolute control of all industry for the benefit of the whole. 8
*Class mobility is a revolutionary idea which threatens the stability of the
state and the preeminence of true philosophy. A strict caste system and the
elimination of career choice is the answer. 9
*Talent must never be allowed to wander or be wasted. Early on, children must
be identified and channeled by the state, for the benefit of the state, into
careers selected by the state, with only a "few" promising students
selected for career or class crossover. 10
*Equality is preposterous and dangerous, but useful during the Third Wave.
During this phase, extreme views on equality are to be promoted by the state,
and by wise opportunists, in order to, all the more quickly, overthrow the
existing order. 11
*Under the guise of equality, women ought to be exploited in the same way.
First to foment "class war" during the Third Wave (women’s roles are
reversed to men’s). Next, to be promptly put into their place as part of a
"community of women" to be shared collectively by male guardians, war
heroes, and rulers for pleasure or offspring. 12
*Selective breeding is beneficial to the state 13, as are the legalization
and encouragement of recreational sex and rape across class lines.
*Unwanted babies, inferior babies, deformed babies, 14 and the adult
handicapped are an unnecessary drag on the prosperity and well being of society.
They should be left to die. Unproductive adults, likewise, ought to be
terminated. 15
*Homosexuality is morally acceptable, and homosexual rape of lower class
males and boys is a right of rulers, guardians, and war heroes. 16
*Only a very few men are foreordained to understand life and the higher good.
All the rest are the equivalent of dumb sheep. A few "wise" ones
should be appointed "Philosopher Kings," even "Saviors," by
the state, and given absolute power to control every facet of the helplessly
lost lives of the masses. 17
*Absolute loyalty to the government is vital for the success and safety of
society. Thus, the establishment of a state sanctioned KGB-like network is an
essential good. Citizens and leaders must be watched and intentionally goaded
into committing crimes against the state, into taking advantage of sexual
opportunities, and to be tried by every method imaginable in order to weed out
those who are not loyal and not fit for duty, from those who are. 18
*Wealth is not essential to the safety of the state. When at war with free
states, the enemy will display economic superiority. But not to fear. Their
wealth is their weakness, and can and will be used against them. The divide and
conquer/class warfare tactic, is the choice of the virtuous. 19
*Lastly, virtue rejects troublemaking Democracy (pure or direct democracy) as
an end, yet shrewdly identifies it as the quickest, surest route to promoting
the communist view of equality of ends. 20 During the transitional phase, the
virtuous reformer will utilize democracy to:
1. Degenerate traditional morality and foster fierce intolerance against it
2. Lead the dumb masses (like "dumb asses") by the nose to trample
on each others rights in the blind pursuit of their own supposed rights.
3. Legitimize the government’s "creeping into houses" through the
creation of "new" rights which must be monitored.
4. Create moral chaos, mob and factional spirit, revolution, 21 and
anarchy.
5. Eventually, bring about such a violent state of uncertainty and fear that
the people will, out of necessity, vote themselves the most absolute of
tyrannies 22, that of the Democratic King, in order to restore order, peace,
and security. 23, 24
These were the ultimate goals, the communist goals of Plato’s Third Wave,
the place where all this Third Wave/Third Way business begins.
Marx’s Three Waves of History
The next third waver, we will consider, was modern Communism’s hired hack
and egotistical founder, Karl Marx.
Marx, like his forebears of the 18th Century Communist cabal known as the
Illuminati, invented nothing new. He stole heavily from Plato’s Republic,
without due credit, and then "borrowed" lock stock and barrel from
Hegel’s Godless dialectic view of history, Aristotle’s quantum leap view of
evolution, and Plato’s cynical conception that the source of all law,
morality, and religion is simply the strong and the rich erecting protectionist
walls around their property and power. This was not new. It was strictly cut and
paste.
It was also really dark stuff. All man cares about is money, comfort, power -
and sex. Meanwhile everyone exploits everyone. The government in collusion with
the moneyed class exploits the citizen worker. The husband exploits the wife.
The parent exploits the child. The priest exploits the parishioner. The majority
exploits the minority.
But the only one who doesn’t exploit anyone - is the exploited one. He,
she, or it, becomes the "holy" class which must bind together to
overthrow society’s greedy brutes and lead mankind into a millennium of peace.
These exploited masses deserve a reparation, it seems, with one catch - but don’t
tell them this - they are too stupid to figure this out themselves - they must
be dragged into the light by the Illumined one, the exalted communist, really
the only one who is intelligent and moral - according to the Marxist definition
of morality. This is Plato’s "The Cave," at it again. 25
As for the promised millennium of peace, there is this unpleasant blip along
the way called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. That’s when, at the end of
the third wave (capitalism - the first two waves are slavery and feudalism) 26, the exploitees get to take out their "justifiable revenge" on
the exploiters, reigning bloody horror on them until every last vestige of
private property and belief in private property are swept from the earth.
Then, even though their hands are drenched in blood, poof! the proletariat
turn into saints, government disbands, and those who were smart and
"moral" enough to survive live happily ever after.
It’s a dull over-simplification of world events. There are three waves:
slavery, feudalism, and capitalism. And three waves within the last wave: the
Industrial Revolution, the Centralization of the world’s credit, and the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. All these 3’s!
Technology plays a critical role in all of this triple wave making. Of the
three private property phases of economic history, all of them supposedly arose
and were terminated, in part, because of the unforeseen convergence of new forms
of technology or methods of production with the existing economic order.
Primitive communal man moved into the first economic phase with the invention
of tools - which led to specialization and trade - and eventually to private
ownership. The stronger private property owners, selfish and greedy, then
enslaved the rest to secure their booty. The cause of the first wave, slavery.
Later on in Marx’s third wave, the invention of machines, factories, and
assembly lines, led to big cities, great fortunes, and the end of wave two’s
Feudalism - while newer, better, forms of mass production, to follow, would lead
to international business, globally centralized credit, 27 and, as night
follows day, the workers of the world uniting to overthrow their oppressive
overseers in the final of the third waves.
Just like modern Third Wavers and Wayers, Marx believed man was powerless
against changes in technology and the inevitable march of history. That covetous
capitalists who opposed his plan were enemies to public safety. That the last
transition - Plato-like - was the most dangerous and violent of all. And,
interestingly, he taught, Communists ought to be "compassionate"
enough to intervene, guide the agency bereft masses and expedite the revolution,
lest the blood flow too thick. It all sounds too familiar.
In the last analysis, Marx’s revolution, like Plato’s, exploits the poor
as a strategy to invoke class warfare, but is, as Lenin admitted, "all
about power." Or as Lenin said, in response to the Soviet problem with a
few weak-minded socialist bloats who actually believed in the coming utopia:
"They just don’t get it . . . the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,"
that brutal transitional phase, "will never end."
So goes Third Waver number two.
Adolf Hitler’s Third Way
Hitler was number three, and who should be surprised that tyrants and tyrant
wannabes should mimic each other. In a 1945 German National Socialist German
Workers Party (the official name of the Nazi Party) birthday address, Hitler
condemned "exploitive capitalism and murderous bolshevism,"
identifying his party’s movement as a Third Way between these two
"extremes." 28
Walking in Hitler’s footsteps, today, one of Europe’s major neo-Nazi
"White Power" movements refers to itself, interestingly, as the
"Third Position," - again, a half way house between Communism and
laissez-faire capitalism, a key element of modern third way theology. 29
It’s the safe middle ground ploy, the one which dominates Republican Party
thinking today. That spot in the middle of a lion's cage where blind partisans
sit disarmed, bludgeoned, bloodied, bruised, and blindfolded; and recite three
times "It’s safe!"
But there’s more to it than just that. Fascism, actually makes for one of
the best case studies on the modern third wave, both economically and
politically.
Economically, fascism is but a form of socialism. As Communism in theory is
complete state ownership of the means of production - Fascism is its more
practical sister, and dialectical friend. Typically, it features state majority
ownership of major industry and utilities, heavy regulation and/or
"government partnerships" of smaller businesses, and laissez-faire
nickel and dime operations. But, in truth, it’s all on a "as needed"
for the benefit of the revolution basis. The government is always ultimately in
control and can eradicate any supposed private enterprise at any time.
A "privately" owned press exists, for example, but the competition
is not one of ideas but of markets. Thus, opposition to the state by the press,
except within prescribed boundaries, is an intolerable and dangerous business.
"Private" scientific development, another example, is held in check
via block grants. A far more effective tactic, the fascist believes, than
straight-forward totalitarianism. The bottom line, Fascism embraces much of
Plato and Marx but utilizes different, perhaps, superior methods of control, for
it all the while lets the citizen think he has a safe amount of freedom.
Politically, Hitler’s fascism offers four other prominent features as major
players in today’s Third Way.
1. A subtle or open rejection of majority government. Hitler said his
"doctrine" was "people and country," and he accepted the
idea of a democratic election (to get into power), but he rejected
"decision by the majority" and demanded "absolute authority"
for the executive, after the elections 30. A bit of Hobbes, but a bit of
Marxian minority rule too. The minority is just different this time - Aryans and
Nazi’s. The masses were inherently dumb too, for Hitler taught, they don’t
want self rule, but only to be led.
2. Decentralization of power. Not to be confused with federalism, but
marketed as such. American federalism gives state and local units complete
sovereignty over delegated powers. Third Way Fascist decentralization creates
local units of power which are still accountable to the central authority.
Hitler’s brand of decentralization gave general guidelines and layers of
central check systems on those periphery units, however, within those
stipulations (such as fierce loyalty to the party) he granted peripheral leaders
ruthless autonomous power, even in competition with other agencies.
It’s Plato and Marx’s self-fulfilling prophecy of ‘the strong survive,’
providing a new pool of brutal leaders for the government 31. It also creates
a loyal cadre of men trapped by fear of reprisal for their brutality, who in
protection of their own self interest will feel inclined to sustain their
corrupt party, and its brutality to the bitter end.
Decentralization serves other political purposes as well. By pretending to be
the equivalent of federalism, it creates a front for the outside world, as if to
say, ‘we have local government and democracy,’ ‘we have weakness and
division.’ Hitler used this ruse in the foreign aid game, as do the Communists
today.
3. A double-talk rejection but endorsement of Internationalism. Hitler
rejected the existing International community in favor of extreme nationalism,
because of the punishment of Germany under the Versailles Treaty, but favored
Internationalism when it benefited Germany. Further, he viewed expansion into
the territories of Europe and Asia, the springing forth of "national
offshoot[s] for centuries," and the requisite disarmament of all neighbors
on its "frontiers," as the right and destiny of Germany 32.
Fundamentally, if we replace racist overtones with the elitist views of today’s
Establishment, there really is no difference in the long run between Hitler’s
racist Third Way "nationalism," and today’s new world order plan for
an international civil society. Call imperialism what you like - a Eurasia with
Germanic hegemony, a worldwide Aryan led Utopia (and he spoke of Utopia), or a
disarmed world "safe for Democracy" under an all powerful United
Nations - it’s all the same.
4. The strategic injection of state sponsored religious fervor into politics.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes: "The future of [the] movement is conditioned
by the fanaticism, even more the intolerance, with which its adherents present
it as the only right one." 33
The problem with religious fervor, when joined with the power of the state,
is that the worship of God, and the love of one’s fellow man, is replaced with
the worship of the state, and the love of the collective. Tyrants, even
Communists have learned that religion is a tough nut to crack. So, the Third Way
answer is: if you can’t beat em, pretend to join em, and watch how eagerly
they volunteer to do your bidding in exchange for subsidies.
Thus, like their talk about decentralization and democracy, the Third Way
today talks of national "service," "compassionate"
conservatism, "faith-based" subsidies, and moral, effective
"partnerships," with cash for conversion.
Conclusion
The origins of the catch phrase Third Way, Third Wave, and Third Position go
back to Plato, Marx, and Hitler. Selecting such a old tyranny laden term for a
modern "progressive" movement was an unfortunate slip of the tongue.
But, as the essays which follow will demonstrate, its not just what is in a
name, but what is in the ideology of that name today, which leads one to suspect
that the choice was not made in ignorance.
Next: Read about Bill Clinton’s and Tony Blair’s take on the Third
Way in, "Democrats In Drag, Part 2, 21st Century Democracy and the Third
Way."
Footnotes
1. Gingrich, Newt and Armey, Dick. "Contract With America," United
States of America, Times Books, Random House: 1994, p. 186. See also,
Congressional Record, November 11, 1994.
2. Plato. "Great Dialogues of Plato." New York and Scarborough,
Ontario: Mentor Books, 1956, pgs. 271, 296-300.
3. Ibid. p. 219, 262 - 263
4. Ibid. pgs. 258, 255, 221, 341.
5. Ibid. pgs. 258, 260.
6. Ibid. p. 222.
7. Ibid. p. 222
8. Ibid. p. 219.
9. Ibid. p. 233.
10. Ibid. p. 233.
11. Ibid. pgs. 220, 250, Chapter VIII.
12.Ibid. pgs. 247, 249, 250, 258-260.
13. Ibid. pgs. 257-260
14. Ibid. pgs. 257-260
15. Ibid. pgs. 209, 267
16. Ibid. pgs. 258-260.
17. Ibid. pgs. 249, 142, 224-225, 227, 240, 261
18. Ibid. pgs. 213-214.
19. Ibid. p. 220.
20. Ibid. p. 242
21. Ibid. p. 356.
22. Ibid. pgs. 361-363, 369.
23. Ibid. p. 363.
24. Ibid. p. 369.
25. Ibid. pgs. 312-320.
26. Hoover, J. Edgar. "A Study of Communism" (New York, Holt
Rinehart and Winston Inc. 1962) pgs. 38-41
27. Foster, William Z. "Toward a Soviet America" (Balboa Island,
California, 1961) pgs. 171-172. See Also Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto Section
1, and Plank 5.
28. Ibid.
29. See, "The International Third Position." http://www.itp.org.
See also The American Third Position at http://3rd.org/intro.html
30. Hitler, Adolf. "Great Books: Twentieth Century Series: Mein Kampf"
(New York, WM. H. Wise & Co. 1941) p. 16.
31. Laski, Harold. See His Work "National Socialism" for a full
work up on fascism in Germany. Laski’s perspective is pro-Communist, anti
capitalist, but his book is penetrating, nonetheless, if you can wade through
the occasional outbursts of anti-capitalist bias.
32. Hitler, pgs. 18-19, 12-13.
33. Ibid. pg. 16, 15
NewsMax contributing columnist Steve Farrell is the former managing editor
of Right Magazine, a widely published research writer, a former Air Force
communications security manager, and a graduate student in constitutional
law. Contact Steve at Cyours76@yahoo.com
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