About the new face of power
Developments, events in the United States over the past year are reminiscent of more 40 years ago, the book of the American professor Bertram Gross “Friendly fascism: a new face of power in America ”..
In the United States at the time of the publication of the book in 1980 year she was ignored, and then they were hostile. However, time has passed, and it turned out, that in many ways Gross was a prophet. He predicted the appearance in America at the end of the twentieth century. a new form of fascist thought and social policy.
Gross wrote, that the American power elite, in order to manipulate the consciousness of society, is inclined to the ever-increasing use of methods of "soft" persuasion. To characterize this phenomenon, Gross introduced the concept of "friendly fascism" (friendly fascism).
In his book, he stated, what in 1945 year fascism has not disappeared, but went into the shadows. Instead of concentration camps, open terror, he predicted, fascism will henceforth act "soft" methods. The model of power will be the complete merger of big capital with the state apparatus. Parties will not be banned, different ideologies will be allowed, but everything ideologically "unfriendly" will be suppressed with the help of hidden mechanisms.
And the predictions come true. Those methods, with the help of which Donald Trump was removed from power, show, that big business has really merged with the state apparatus and dictates the law to society. The owners of grid companies were able to completely neutralize the current president of the United States, depriving him of the opportunity to address the people.
Multiparty politics in America is not prohibited, but the question of power is decided by only two parties, rather, bosses of these parties. "Democratic choice" requires money and is done for money. Accusations of "harassment" are used to eliminate opponents, group "Antifa" and BLM; dissenters are fired from universities and institutions. To authorities and corporations, wrote Gross, need a scarecrow of an external threat, to increase military spending.
Gross predicted the emergence of high-tech means of controlling people, total surveillance. People, he wrote, will not convince directly, and little by little, manipulating them. The consciousness of society will be paralyzed by fear, people will live with an eye on that, that Big Brother knows everything.
Much of what the American predicted came true. Brainwashing through social media, computer gadgets become surveillance tools, "Unreliable" their accounts are blocked, credit cards. To isolate a person, he no longer needs to be thrown into dungeons.
"One of the greatest dangers, - wrote Gross, - is just a slow process, through which friendly fascism manifests itself. For the majority of the population, these changes are invisible.. even those, who is most susceptible to danger, able to see only part [overall] paintings, before it's too late. Most people, including historians and sociologists, the perception of fundamental changes comes only after evaluating past events. And by that time, with all the evidence on hand, will, finally, obviously, what a new slavery, perhaps, has already arrived ".
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add, that fascism in the United States and not at all "friendly" began to spread back in the 20s. HH century. In the American "Black Legion", eg, in the 1930s there were more than one and a half million people. Were close to the Nazis "Ku-Klux-Klan", American Liberty League, "Silver Shirts", "Blue Shirts", White Ribbon and other organizations. Hitler's anti-Semitism was largely gleaned from the American industrialist Henry Ford., published in 1920 year the book "Activities of Jews in the USA". US Ambassador to Germany W. Dodd (1933-1937) wrote to President F. Roosevelt: "A clique of American bankers and industrialists with devilish tenacity is seeking to replace our democratic regime with a fascist one and is working closely with the leaders of the German and Italian fascists ... Our leading family clans are close to the Nazi regime.".
A "friendly" version of the dictatorship of monopoly capital under the slogans of "freedom" and "democracy" began to spread in the United States after World War II and the defeat of German fascism. In the 1960s and 1970s. methods of suppression of black activists and national minorities began to be widely used, phased terror method (blocking professional growth, layoffs, intimidation, trumped-up arrests).
…IN 2009 year columnist "Literaturnaya Gazeta" Nikolai Romanov in the article "Rebarbora, or Controlled Degradation "recalled Bertram Gross's visit to Moscow in 1987 year to study restructuring: "The tough old man already then predicted, what, starting with the delight of perestroika, our television will end up with handcuffs for brains. New fascism, Gross assured me, will be "fascism with a smile" - nice to look at and to hear, but this will not change its meaning ".
the, what failed in the Russian Federation, happened in Ukraine. Bandera's fascism introduced by the Americans began with Victoria Nuland's "friendly" distribution of cookies on the Maidan. Since then, Ukrainian fascism has been demonstrating its wolfish grin for seven years ...
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Vladimir Malyshev
