Letter
from Lhasa, number 351. “Democracy” is just the testing of successful brainwashing
by
Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
The origins of Trade Unions
may be traced back to XVIII century England. The industrial revolution imposed to
both Capital and State/government to invent new forms for regimenting and
militarizing the masses. Of course, nothing is finally ever so new. Medieval
guilds became now mass entities for the proletariat. With State/government
simulating to be class-neutral, and anyway obliged to face the bestial and
primordial exploitation of people from the new entrepreneurs of the industrial
revolution, exploitation was eroding the same ability of people to serve in the
army, it was State/government interest to promote organizations, in some way
protected, but also controlled, of the new working force. Also Capital finally,
after the initial aversion, discovered that it was easier to buy Trade Unions
than to pay militias of thugs and killers, which finally were unsustainable on
the long term.
The tale of workers
spontaneously self-organising and finding funds, and power covers, for Trade
Unions and “workers’ parties” is just a legend for idiots, useful for people
brainwashing. Power invents the “working movement” and diffuses the tale of its
spontaneous self-creation. Power invents and diffuses “working movement”
ideologies, Marxisms included.
When entrepreneurs were
too myopic and stubborn, and played only the card of open violence against
workers, governments even mobilised, with police cover, organised criminality
for helping workers to face Capital’s open violence. Not only State/government
has a class nature, but it is also a class, better a block of bureaucratic
classes, by itself.
‘Marxism’ [better ‘Marxisms’],
an invention of the British Empire, of its ideological apparatuses, of course
deceived and deceives about this aspect. State/Government not only serves
Capital and only Capital. Proletariat’s or workers’ States/government are
technically impossible. But State/government is a class entity, a bureaucratic
block, by itself, interacting in various ways with private powers, with
Capital.
For instance, the British
Crown and the Presidency of the USA are primary political and economic-business
actors, with other formal institutions largely reduced to a masquerade. Of
course they need to preserve their supremacy interacting with other forces, for
not being in some way overcome, or destroyed, or replaced, although the tools
and ingredients of real power, starting from Secret Police apparatuses, be on
their hands. State/Government has a class nature but it is also a class by
itself. On the contrary, marxisms deceive claiming, or in this way it is made
to understand, that State/government be as a neutral entity at the automatic
service of the capitalist class or supposed such. Actually, bureaucracies are a
block of classes with specific interests.
Trade Unions, even more
than political parties, are elements of the progressive and open militarization
of masses while claiming that masses, as well as individuals, have rights. The
militarization of masses is an immanent phenomenon in history, although until
historically recent times without the mythology, the mystification, of rights
and liberties. Of course there is an evolution, from the paternalism of ancient
times to Fordist or para-Fordist techniques of mass militarization and control.
The meaning of
convincing people that they have rights, while they are totally and
totalitarian submitted and dominated, is that now government and power want to
impose their tight control on the minds of people. While technological
advancements impose some more advanced acculturation and education, government
and power want to be sure that people do not use this more advanced
acculturation and education for ‘heresies’, for some even limited form of
liberation or even only of independence from power. Consequently knowledge must
be mixed with ignorance. Overspecialized knowledge must he combined with basic
ignorance about whatever be outside the needed overspecialized knowledge. Power
needs absolute submission and only in the partiality of knowledge and understanding
there is happy submission. Power and powers, government in the measure it is
power and tool of power and powers, need machines, obedient louses, not real
individualities.
Destroying knowledge
while developing overspecialized and fragmented knowledge, government and power
destroy also their capabilities of understanding and governing. In fact, global
understanding is not in some other, eventually mysterious or inaccessible,
place. No, it is nowhere. Supposed global planners are not cleverer and wiser
than common louses.
The some government and
power are annihilated by the proliferation of offices, centres, agencies and
disservices, only for trying masking, even to themselves, that centres of
general and global government and power do not exist anywhere. Bureaucratic
proliferation, with its growingly useless civilian, police and military
bureaucracies, is the same negation of Fordism, of whatever efficiency, was the
initial justification for the dramatically increased militarization of masses.
When government and
power have a problem, they create an office, a new bureaucracy whose only
concern is to invent additional problems for justifying its existence and its further
expansion. When its further expansion is clearly useless for solving the
problems it has created, government and power create new offices, new bureaucracies,
which equally have as their only concern to create additional problems for
justifying their existence and their further proliferation. And so on.
Although the illusion of
control survive and develop mephitic and dominant, State/government and power
openly act as terrorist machines without any real connection with reality. State/government
and power create reality, their borderline or imaginary realities made to
become real for what they can, or even only imposed as they were real. They create
the frame inside which they operate. They waste enormous sums and energies for
creating and managing various forms of apparently-private terrorism only for wasting
other enormous sums and energies for simulating fighting it by the destruction
of individualities.
You must be totally submitted
to power because there are immediate dangers only your absolute submission to
power can help facing and reducing. However it is power creating all that! Your
absolute submission is the goal, without any real justification if not that
power want that. Nothing new. People want to dominate other people. Those who
can dominate want to dominate those cannot avoid being dominated.
“You must accept the
destruction of whatever residual or latent individuality you may still have
because we have to protect you, you as a single subject and you as a mass of
subject!”: that is what is claimed from the same psychopathic and ignorant
subjects pretend to dominate other subjects only because they can use and they
use force for submitting other subjects.
‘Democracy’ is a
propagandistic invention. Since no people have equal real power, no people can
have an equal share of formal political power, or other forms of power, apart
from on irrelevant questions and at very low levels.
For complex questions,
people simply have not the competence to deal with problems. Consequently
people can be easily manipulated. In addition, people are usually happy to be
just obedient louses at the orders of hierarchies. To claim that people become
suddenly competent, free, and real and honourable human beings when they are
called to deposit a ballot in a ballot box is just deception, propaganda.
More the functions of
government be specialized and the power structure consolidated, less there is
any space for whatever, even only formal, real democracy. Formal democracy
became only the ground for the selection of the faces impersonating formal
power, where the best cheaters prevail. Each politician is a demagogue and/or
part of a demagogic politico-electoral machine, where double speech and double-thought/doublethink
dominate.
It is not only a
question of demagogy or rabble-rousing. Politics is largely a question of
marketing for building consensus around the Modern Prince, so around State/government
and powers dominating it. Consensus is a question of material interests but
also of psychological-emotional satisfaction. Consensus, from a
psychological-emotional point of view, and also for covering insufficient
achievements from the material point of view, is frequently built against
something or somebody.
All politicians, of the
different political parties of factions, are, or simulate to be, against
something or somebody. They are all ‘against’ although finally working for the
same State/government and power, and implementing the same, or basically
similar, policies when in office. If whatever regime or party or party-block is
in some way attentive to built some material consensus, part of it is the
conquest of the people minds. This is made by advertising mechanism
progressively evolved to modern sophistication, which has built similar
conditional reflexes, stereotyped and idiosyncrasies in everybody.
From the point of view
of the electoral consensus, politicians do the work of acquiring the final
consensus of electors what is more a consensus against something or somebody,
not only and not overall for achievements since people finally knows that
electoral promises are largely propaganda. So party consensus is built on the danger
that somebody else could win and to do something worse. Consensus is not built
on impossible bests but simple on the fear of something worse. So, finally,
people vote against, against a supposed worse, the other party or parties, “the
enemy”.
If parties invents party
enemies, State/government invent, create and manage collective enemies. For
that, it constantly invents, creates and manages mafias, terrorisms, conflicts
and war. It invents them for annihilating people and for making them well
subordinated to power. This also defines the tight and limited range of public [pseudo-]debate.
Around this stereotyped and idiosyncratic public debate, political parties
cultivate their electoral fields. Of course, political parties, not differently
from Trade Unions etc, appear as credible because they are government or
para-government parties. Differently nobody would follow and vote for them. The
same may be said about politicians.
‘Credibility’, not
differently from what is called charisma, is a construction and reflects that
no real power finally have banned a certain politicians. The range of options
for removing a power-disliked politician covers whatever option, although
basically an incoming or perspective politician be followed not for his/her
points of views or actions but for the possibilities/sub-power be given him/her
from power, from powers and States/governments.
The political arena is
not a space for debates and ideas, apart from the ones stereotyped and idiosyncratic
power uses for people brainwashing and conditioning. The only spaces for real debate
and ideas are Hyde Park Speakers’ Corners where usually nobody listen and
whatever told be anyway irrelevant. No other one!
Whatever revolution, or so-called
such, always justifies its terrorist practices, assassinations, massacres,
militarisms, abuses, claiming to do that in the name of, ‘rights’, “human
rights”, and so declaring to pursue them. When government and governments
stated rights for their subjects, there were always exceptions so that with the
cover of currents laws or of extraordinary ones (a parallel and sometimes
secret law always existed) government was always be able to do what it wanted,
legalising whatever abuse and violation of the ‘rights’ and “human rights” it officially
claimed.
State terrorism, in all
its forms, reflects the terrorist nature of government, what in continental
Europe is called ‘State’. The terrorist nature of government perfections and is
perfectioning with the Modern Prince, an apparently impersonal bureaucracy in progressive
proliferation and compexification. Technological evolution continuously offers
new tools to State Terrorism, tools government voraciously uses, openly showing
that its subjects are its enemies it does not trusts, it controls, or tries
controlling, in whatever aspects of their lives and thoughts, it wants to be
able to repress and also to assassinate with extrajudicial practices make legal
with various legal-administrative tools or simply using its Secret Police
Disservices, its Death Squads, anyway legally covered and so totally
unaccountable from the point of view of the ‘normal’, official, police and
judiciary apparatuses.
Now, the Modern Prince
is in the stage of the dronization of its terrorist practices against its
subjects. People to be assassinated, tortured or harassed/persecuted are
automatically defined and assassinated, tortured or harassed/persecuted using
drones. When there is, in the processes/procedures, in the “command chain”,
some ‘human’ intervention, the ‘human’ cannot, do not want, contradict
automatic procedures and, more generally, what other louses as it expects from
it.
Frequently, different
levels of command have not control on what will be done and on the correctness of
the provided information justifying a certain action. Different levels of
command have only the function to deresponsibilize whatever actor or agent of
the command chain. So that, if there are mistakes or errors relatively to
predefined courses of action, no one be accountable.
Is it all that
reversible? It does not seem such, although criminals fear publicity, even if
publicity does not seem to hamper State Terrorism but only showing that the
large mass of subjects metabolizes and accepts to be reduces to impotent
louses, or to remain such. After some decades of obsessive claiming, overall as
offensive tool for enemy regimes’ crashing, of rights and human rights, the
public awareness that that only was empty propaganda is simply accepted from
the quite totality of subjects. Some marginal opposition to that is simply used
from government, from power, for openly and arrogantly declaring its successfully
imposed conformism and totalitarianism.
The current dronization
of State Terrorism wants to automatize extrajudicial assassinations and
massacres making these automatically triggered on the simple hypothesis that a
subjects may deviate from current mass conformism and
brainwashing/lobotomization. Automatic procedures label subjects. Other
automatic procedures are triggered from these labels and lead to automatic actions.
Also the S/G-OS
operations, and the equally already existent various forms of electronic
torture and annihilation, will be implemented using drones both automatically
self-activating, and provided of lists of targets created from psychopathic and
criminal government functionaries.
For deresponsibilizing single
functionaries, governments and other power entities usually use committee-systems.
However, it is sufficient submitting whatever insanity and crime, but in the
proper form, and it is automatically approved. These committee-systems are just
deresponsibilization techniques. De facto, whatever insane and criminal
government [or other power entity] functionary may have, at certain levels, an
unaccountable power.
Paradoxically, the
official claiming that individuals have rights is a government/State technique
for affirming its monopoly on
individuals’ ownership.
Government/State/Power
affirms that people have rights and inalienable rights, so it establishes, time
to time, who has rights and who has not, because nobody has rights and
inalienable rights in front of power. Everybody has rights because no one has them
in front of power. Sure they ‘have’... However power is power precisely because
it can deny whoever and whatever right. So, actually, no one has rights.
Overcoming slavery was a
way for affirming that everybody was a slave, relatively to the Modern Prince, to
contemporary government. Claiming that people have rights, inalienable rights,
is a way for imposing the government/State monopoly relatively to these rights.
In practice, one theoretically has rights, whatever right, until government
denies them according to its indisputable decisions.
This government/State
attitude is nowadays public, openly claimed. Government/State, power, continuously
states that for defending “our rights”, “our liberties”, one has to renounce to
them leaving government absolute and totalitarian powers. This is possible
because rights and liberties never existed, apart from in propaganda, in
official rhetoric.
Even at theoretical
level, it is a long time that theories about the state of exception have been stated. Anyway, also before this open
theorizing, the state of exception
has always been practiced. What is the state
of exception? The state of exception
is the government possibility to transcend the rule of law in the name of a
supposed public good. From whom is this public good defined? From the same
people of the government. So the same source defines what the public good be
and how to pursue it despite whatever rule of law.
There is a law for
everybody, the so-called rule of law,
even if not really implemented in a fear and egalitarian way. At the same time,
there is the power of government to legally do whatever it likes despite
whatever law, so inventing the norms it needs. Whatever State/government crime
is automatically legal even if illegal according to current laws. So
State/government/power crimes do not exist because it automatically legalizes
whatever crime it commit.
Nuremberg [and similar
post-war trials]?! Just propaganda shows for further humiliating defeated
enemies, suddenly transformed in allied after these purges-humiliations, after
having occupied and submitted them!
The state of exception is a permanent state of emergency without the need to be openly declared and where
government creates and even invents the reasons for this permanent emergency,
exception. It is what nowadays openly happens.
International
conventions and UN statements are just fried air. They are just propaganda. Governments/States/Powers
hire and pay intellectuals. These intellectuals write propaganda declarations,
and claim and teach that a rights’ new era opened. It is just brainwashing for
the masses of subjects.
Universal suffrage
progresses with the progression of the advertising industry, which is a
brainwashing industry. By universal suffrage, people are made active
protagonists of their oppression. Individuals have the right to vote and to be
voted, what is a false power anyway disappears just the vote is cast. Actually,
the non-voting people have more power because they show not to be so idiot and
so deceivable.
One votes and has no
power over the people one has voted. Also the elected politician, or other
institutional figure, is taken in charge by superior forces managing him/her in
various ways. Parliaments are growing bureaucracies with no real power for the
people’s supposed representatives.
On the other side,
whatever real democracy would make impossible to govern, although the fiction
of democracy be not a solution to this contradiction. ‘Democracy’ has been
presented as a value and an acquisition while it be actually impossible and it
exist nowhere. The same economic freedoms, “economic democracy”, are subjected
to the despotic uncertainties of government allowing or allowing not, also by
illegal means, private economic activities. Everything exists, of course, ...but
only until power allows it! So nothing exists outside power’s will.
Power finally obeys to
chaotic dynamics with uncertain outcomes and with no precise logic. It reside
nowhere, even if it may be exercised or implemented only because there are
people in some way obeying to these giving, at the various level, orders. That does
not solve the questions, deadlocks and pitfalls produced from the immanent reality
that the subjects executing orders execute what they understand, in the way
they can and also with further “white noise”. Even the dronization and
automatization of power does not solve these questions, deadlocks and pitfalls.
The more a
State/government is extended, the more it is penetrative, the more it practices
various forms of prebendalism, patrimonialism, neopatrimonialism. Of course,
these concepts are used about and against the others, the ‘inferiors’, the
States/governments the Empire wants to dominate and eventually to annihilate.
So, finally, these concepts are used as propaganda concepts, while they well
describe the reality of power and government also of the Empire, Empire which
extends its power tentacles on all the countries of the world, or in the large
majority of them, even in areas formally outside its alliance networks, even in
officially claimed opposite camps.
