Thanks to Donald Trump, people are now openly discussing fascism. The reason for this is quite simple. It is because Trump is a fascist. He plans to become president, once again, and set himself up as dictator, in charge of a fascist state.
As this has happened before, in Italy and Germany, it is feared that it could happen in America. These fears are well grounded. In fact, Trump plans to come to power, just as Hitler came to power in Germany, one way or another.
In 1923, Hitler made an attempt to come to power, the ‘’other way’’. He tried to overthrow the German government. This has gone down in history as the ‘’Beer Hall Putsch’’. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Hitler was sent to prison. While in prison, he wrote his famous book, ‘’Mein Kampf’’, or ‘’My Struggle’’. It became the ‘’bible’’ of National Socialism, or ‘’Nazism’’, in the German Third Reich.
This Nazi manifesto reveals the racist ideology of the fascists. It identifies the ‘’Aryan’’ as the master race. It also singles out the ‘’Jew’’ as the ‘’parasite’’, responsible for the defeat of Germany in the First World War. As well, it stresses the need for Germans to seek ‘’Lebensraum’’, or ‘’living space’’, in the East, at the expense of the Slavs. This is justified through hatred of the Marxists, especially the ‘’Bolsheviks’’, of the Soviet Union.
It is to the credit of American journalists, that they have documented the fact that the rhetoric of Trump, is taken directly from the manifesto of Hitler. Yet there is more to it than that.
The first edition of Mein Kampf was clearly written by Hitler alone. Critics have described it as ‘’repetitious, wandering, illogical and filled with grammatical errors’’, that which is characteristic of a ‘’half educated man’’. Yet those same critics say that the book was ‘’skillfully demagogic’’, appealing to the ‘’dissatisfied elements in Germany’’. Of course, it was also anti semitic, anti democratic and anti Marxist.
In popular terms, we can say that Hitler was ‘’talented’’. He had a certain ‘’charisma’’, which is difficult to define. It is not something which is taught in University. Those who have charisma, tend to possess a certain superficial charm, as well as an animal like ‘’cunning’’. He instinctively learned, ‘’on the streets’’, how to take advantage of the most basic impulses of the lowest strata of society. In fact, in terms of manipulating people, he was supremely successful.
This made Hitler a leader, especially among the ‘’less advanced’’, lower members of society. Such people are politely referred to as ‘’social outcasts’’. Less polite terms, but more common, include such labels as ‘’ragtag and bobtail’’, ‘’lowlife’’, ’’gutter sweepings’’, ‘’trailer court trash’’, ‘’dregs of humanity’’, ‘’scum of the earth’’ and ‘’great unwashed mob’’. The scientific term is ‘’lumpen proletariat’’.
Now in America, we have another demagogue, no less charismatic, no less cunning, no less stupid, no less determined to establish a fascist society, with himself as dictator. That man is Donald Trump. He too, is no less dangerous than Hitler!
That being said, this begs the question: How could Hitler, a man of limited education, write such a book? Despite its numerous flaws, it became wildly popular. The short answer is that Hitler did not write Mein Kampf. He merely plagiarised the work of a famous American industrialist, Henry Ford!
Henry Ford is best known as a supremely successful American businessman, the proud owner of Ford Motor Company. He was a multi millionaire, and has been given credit for creating the first moving assembly line. This process is now used in large scale manufacturing, and has resulted in the production of vehicles at a record breaking rate. He is less well known as a dedicated racist.
Ford was a man of action. He did not keep these racist beliefs to himself. He owned a weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and used it to spread his racist garbage.
Over a three year period, from 1920 to 1922, he wrote an impressive series of articles. These articles were later collected and published in a four volume set, titled: ‘’The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem’’.
A cursory examination of those writings, reveals that the author, Henry Ford, was a well educated man, an intellectual. He clearly devoted a great deal of time and effort, into presenting a very carefully thought out, elaborate, detailed, well organized thesis. Which in no way changes the fact that it is a racist pile of garbage! Aside from the grammar, it is no different from Mein Kampf! That is not a coincidence!
It is reasonable to assume that, while in prison, Hitler managed to get his hands on a German translation of the four volume set of articles, written by Ford. Then, with his limited academic ability, and even more limited intellect, Hitler was able to focus on the parts which he could understand, and wrote them down. These collected writings, which he copied from Henry Ford, he then published in book form. He titled that book ‘’Mein Kampf’’.
This is significant, because the current American ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, have decided to take the advice of this racist demagogue, Henry Ford. They have decided to establish a fascist state, with themselves as the ‘’master race’’, and Trump as the figure head dictator.
I have chosen to use the word ‘’significant’’, because they must not be allowed to establish that fascist state. They must be stopped! And, as any common person is well aware, ‘’the best way to kill a snake, is to cut off its head’’!
As the journalists have correctly pointed out, the poison which Trump is now spewing, is a direct quote from Hitler. Yet Hitler was merely quoting Henry Ford. Now it is necessary to go directly to the source, to focus on that which was written by Ford. After all, it is very likely that the American fascists are merely following the ‘’script’’, written by Henry Ford.
Not that they are about to admit this! Henry Ford is considered to be an American ‘’role model’’, a ‘’hero’’, an ‘’icon’’, an ‘’inspiration’’ to countless young Americans. The ‘’establishment’’ uses Ford as ‘’proof’’ that in America, ‘’anyone can make it’’! Such nonsense!
It is necessary to expose Henry Ford, as the racist piece of human garbage that he was! It was Ford who provided the theoretical ‘’justification’’, or the ‘’foundation’’, if you will, for fascism. In Germany, it took the form of Nazis. And now the American fascists are taking the advice of Ford, attempting to establish their dictatorship here! An American fascist state!
With that in mind, may I suggest to intellectual members of the ‘’upper classes’’, that there is a lesson to be learned here. Ford was clearly an intelligent man. He was not stupid! His theories, of racial superiority, were well thought out, and presented in a very scholarly manner. They were also ridiculous, completely devoid of logic! He may have been intelligent, but he was not rational!
This lack of logical, rational, clear thinking, is characteristic of all fascists. This makes them all the more dangerous, as they are completely unpredictable! Just as Hitler attempted to overthrow the German government, so too, Trump may make a similar effort, to overthrow the American government!
Still not convinced? A fine example of the lack of logic, among the fascists, is the fact that Hitler warned about the dangers of a war on two fronts. He learned this, from his experience in the First World War. Then in June of 1941, while Germany was still at war with Great Britain, he invaded the Soviet Union. War on two fronts! The very thing he had advised against, in Mein Kampf!
Fascists are completely irrational! They make no sense! Regardless of how intelligent they are! They may strike out at any group of people, for any reason, or for no reason! Because they can! And they will! Once they come to power, no one is safe from the fascists!
Now in America, the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way, and have decided to change their method of rule. The new method of rule, upon which they have decided, is fascism.
It is very likely that the intellectuals, within the class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, have failed to think this through. Or perhaps it is their intellectual servants, members of the middle class, who are responsible. Either way, all bourgeois intellectuals would do well to bear in mind that in Nazi Germany, all intellectuals were shot!
After the Nazis came to power, they took the advice of their intellectual advisors, those whom had helped place them in power. That advice included the killing of all intellectuals! So the Nazis rounded up all intellectuals, including the intellectuals who called for all intellectuals to be shot, and shot them!
With that in mind, my advice, to all upper class bourgeois intellectuals, is to ‘’bail out’’! Cut your losses! If the billionaires succeed in establishing a fascist dictatorship, as they have planned, then you can expect to be arrested and shot! This happened in Nazi Germany, and it could happen here!
The one and only alternative, is to join the ‘’revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands’’! That revolutionary class is the proletariat!
The revolutionary motion is growing ever stronger! Now is the time to raise the level of awareness of the working class, to prepare them for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
As I have documented the manner in which this can be done, in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. I can only stress the fact that middle class intellectuals have a bright future, but only under Scientific Socialism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
By contrast, those same intellectuals have no future under capitalism, certainly not fascism. Especially if the fascists decide to ‘’liquidate’’ all intellectuals, including the intellectuals who helped place them in power. And they will! As for those who suggest that makes no sense, bear in mind that fascists tend to be not overly rational. Consider Donald Trump. Not the ‘’sharpest tool in the shed’’! Just a typical fascist.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 