Surviving Fabian Socialism
by Toby Elster
In 1970, 1 became curious about how the communists infiltrated our public school system. I knew they were trying (from military intelligence school), but now I wanted to know how they did i~. That quest led me into finding who was telling the truth: into government, into socialism, and back into western civilization.
To understand it, one must know a little bit about humanity. Regardless of how humans got on earth, they survived because they acquired a law for survival. We are supposed to be governed by it. Its private property and freedom, which supply human’s needs and wants, and supply spiritual faith, which gives humans the means to keep private property and freedom. A spiritual faith does two things for humans survival: It anchors one’s soul to a purpose and controls one’s conduct. It sets limits on behavior. Without that, people would never have become civilized. Lose it and people become barbarians again. That’s why the communists killed tens of millions.
The seeds of western civilization were planted when the hunters, gatherers, and growers started to trade. Trade is the force that built western civilization. It brought forth communities when a trading day came into being, from which authority to keep the communities civilized arose and taxes were paid to protect the community. What came out of those times was that humans want their needs and desires at the cheapest cost. Cost is measured in time and labor. The cheapest way to move goods was on water. That is why civilization developed along the waterways. The big cities were in ports and on large waterways. One has only to look at a map to realize why western civilization formed around the Mediterranean Sea. Today we are digging up ships that have been in the sea 3,000 years. We know the oils, the essences, the grains, and the pottery they traded. It tells why Athens became the center of civilization. It was the center of trade. The wealth commerce brought developed their arts, their culture, and the philosophers. It also tells why Athens failed.
Not all went into the ash heap of those nation states. Humans kept what benefited them in trade-the arts and culture that pleased them. The foundation for our marine laws, marine insurance, and marine financing comes from those ashes. The philosophers started us on the search for the secrets of mankind. What drives us? What controls our behavior? The theory for socialism, not the origin, arose from their mis-beliefs. For instance, Aristotle for one, theorized that the polis was the controlling force over humans. He was wrong. What made humans flock to the cities was the goods that were available that humans wanted to make their lives better. When the goods quit coming, the cities died. Why did the goods quit coming? What stopped commerce? It was government’s doing, of course. But how and why did it happen? We should know why, because it works the same today.
But there is an important story in western civilization that hasn’t been told yet. Western civilization has a goal, a purpose, even a soul: A goal ofpeace and tranquility for mankind. Its detours were horrendous. Still it always found its way back to its purpose and made progress. When we understand how that gets accomplished, the part humans play getting in its way, humanity might possibly eliminate western civilization’s detours. For instance, humans have proven to be the best arrangers for the trade they desire. They want absolute free trade. The same thing we enjoy between our fifty states, or interstate trade. That delivers the goods they desire at the least cost. It’s government arranged trade that undermines the process and hinders civilization’s progress.
Fast forward to Rome. We have the same story. Rome grew as a Republic governed by its Senate. For two hundred years it prospered, built roads, viaducts, aided and abetted trade. Much of what they did is still survived. Then the Roman Senate grew corrupt, greed took over, the emperors took over power, and that is a sure fire formula for failure and disaster. It is not hard to understand how, when one realizes how humans react to the circumstances. The same was true for Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire. The evil was socialism.
Rome was a hollow shell when it collapsed, and most of the civilization collapsed with it. Commerce stopped and the world went into the dark ages. What came out of Rome ’s ashes was the rule of law-Justinian law by Pope Gregory, and Anglo Saxton law by Henry II. What gives the law its power is that it addresses human needs and wants first. It articulates the law of survival. Margaret Thatcher defined the law as fairness, equality and justice. That’s what our constitution is based on. The rule of law has been around for 1,000 years and humanity has lived a rather peaceful existence under it. Civilization has advanced in giant strides. The law has been tested. King William lost his head over maintaining that his word was law, not that of the lords. But the American colonies came out of that. King George Ill lost the American colonies testing the law. America is testing the law for the third time with its socialism. Will America survive? The French Revolution ignored the law and brought on Napoleon. France has never recovered its greatness. Germany under Bismark ignored it, which eventually brought forth Hitler and WW II. Lenin and Stalin tried ruling without it. These are human governing experiences that all failed.
There is something common behind all those failures in ruling over people: The common denominator is human beliefs and behavior. The common thing from the first days to today is the dullest subject. That which insures the destruction of a society is socialism. Socialism is not communism. Stalin said that socialism is the first step to communism. Consequently there are other steps involved. But we need the origin of socialism first. Socialism has been around throughout history. It is recognizable throughout the Bible. It is in all humans. It arose with humans and I refer to it as self interest. So why does it become evil? Human traits make it evil. Self interest is acceptable if it is not at the expense of others. But when self interest is at the expense of others it crosses the line into evil. Socialism is on a progressive road to tyranny. The first corruption is greed and from there corruption spreads like weeds. Decadence captures a society and undermines it. The steps of socialism: after acceptance, evil persons are dissatisfied with those who govern, followed by resistance to government, the government cracks down and the society has a tyranny, a form of dictatorship, the latest being communism. America today is into resistance and socialism gnaws at its insides. The biggest indicator is tax evasion, but there are others. The destruction of society occurs when the people realize they are enslaved. They cease producing, which is the life blood of all societies, and their government collapses. This is exactly what happened to the Soviet Union. Socialism is basically economics: communism is a political system. But until we understand the depths of socialism’s ways, history will repeat itself, probably because humans cannot connect \V hat they experience today to what happened in history. It has to be taught to them.
The force that has driven humans throughout history is found in the following: “Man wishes to labor when he pleases, where he pleases and as much as he pleases.” A French legal philosopher summed it up as the fatal tendency of mankind. When they can, man will live and prosper at the expense of others.” I put it into theory: humans will not live in a regimented society that denies them their laws of survival. They will rebel. All the planners for a socialistic society or a society that goes into socialism take away the human law of survival. The state owns all the property. The production is distributed t~ the state dictates. Freedoms are curtailed to serve the ~ Religion is disallowed. The elite grow privileged. Corruption takes over and the society goes into decadence. Only force holds it together until commerce fails. We see much of it in America today.
So what about America?
In 1884 a small group of dissatisfied intellects in London tried Marxism for a solution for the worker’s ills. They organized a strike, got the workers some benefits, then watched all they’d done fall apart. They wondered why. Deciding Marx was right in theory but wrong about revolution, they decided that Marxism (socialism) for the world could only be attained through education-educate minds to accept it. They had two objectives to accomplish their socialism for the world: a world government (complimentary to Cecil Rhodes’ idea) and to destroy the American constitution to bring America back under the British flag to socialize it. Their method of operation was to hide their socialism, move slowly (from which their turtle symbol came) and convert the second level of authority-the advisors to the top, through education and permeation. These Fabians, as they called themselves, infiltrated the prestigious colleges and universities of England and Europe, teaching socialism. They were very successful, attracting a following and money. They also started the London School of Economics to spread their socialism.
In 1899 they brought their methods and beliefs to America, joined with the Carnegie Foundation and with the money convinced the deans of our Ivy League Colleges to write and teach their ideas of socialism to socialize America. In 15 years their disciples were in positions of power, advising our leaders and our President, Woodrow Wilson. They are responsible for America getting the income tax again. It has proved far more disastrous for America than just redistribution of the wealth, one of socialism ’s first objectives.
America would not go along with their one world government scheme, the League of Nations. They revised it, bided their time as socialistic thought spread in American minds, and waited for the next opportunity. In the meantime the highly influential departments of our culture and schools are being socialized and the country is being permeated with their beliefs. As governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt was already a believer in socialism. He was advised by those Fabians who were advising Woodrow Wilson.
We heard very little of the Fabians because they never put forth their own name and people. They gave support to those who believed in their socialism.
The depression of the I 930s and electing Franklin D. Roosevelt president opened doors to the socialization of America. Our government became infiltrated with communism’s spies, who found a ready, willing group of socialist believers to aid them. Roosevelt had our greatest spy sitting at his elbow. The Fabians got their world government, the United Nations, under the cover of World War II. America also got another disastrous law in 1935. FDR gave the labor unions a monopoly over the workers; mandatory dues, exclusive bargaining power, and join or no work. The deck was stacked against Americanism, as time proved. The door to socialism was wide open. The National Education Association was taken over by believers in socialism.
The Fabians took over the British Labour Party in 1945, stopping Winston Churchill from becoming Prime Minister. They had majority influence over the British government, socialized Britain by nationalizing its industry, and set up initiative- killing welfare programs. In five years Britain was bankrupt. The west bailed it out to the tune of $4 billion, probably $30 billion or more in today’s dollars. Margaret Thatcher undid it by re-privatizing their industry. They got rid of her. Tony Blair is trying to get Britain into the European Union, which is socialistically controlled by the U.N., and German dominated. It’s been said that the Germans are now trying to accomplish with diplomacy what Hitler failed to do with force. The greed started about 1960. Today the U.N. is trying to set in order the means and power to keep America from getting in their way by destroying and undermining America’s sovereignty. They progress rapidly. They are getting a military and demanding to tax commerce.
The income tax allowed the government to amass huge sums of money. With it they built our bureaucracy. Today our tax laws are laws for the privileged with influence. Special interests feed on them. Our bureaucracies grow ever more powerful, corruption is rampant, and they put themselves above the law. Our Roman Senate, led by the Democrats, allows it. Socialism in America, aiding and abetting its decadence, marches on.
Our government, the elected, is controlled by special interests. The money the labor unions amass from mandatory dues buys our legislators, congressmen, our bureaucracies, boards, committeemen, our judges, and even President. Our Roman senators are whores, taking union money and blocking any legislation to stop it-such as a national right to work law. That is socialism’s decadence and corruption undermining culture, laws, and it marches on.
In the I 950s the National Education Association became a militant labor union and adopted the United Nation’s objective-socialism for the world. They educate young minds into a one world philosophy, removing patriotism, Americanism, and demoting the stars and stripes and our Constitution into secondary consideration. They also move to destroy all spiritual faith because religion, in due time, will destroy socialism. Programs such as Earth Day, peace posturing, environ-mental brain washing of children all originated from the United Nation’s octopus of conventions, committees, branches and boards. They use their humanistic groups as fig leaves to hide their true intentions. To date, the NEA has educated two generations of unconscious socialists, those who look to government for their general welfare, things we did for our-selves 50 years ago. And taxes move ever upward. These unconscious socialists are the reason Bush didn’t destroy the Clinton/Core socialism by 70 to 75%.
That’s what happened to America. Will America survive? That is up to the people. Approximately two thirds of our congress are either socialists or unconscious socialists. They need to be influenced to work for Americanism. We need a flat tax to do away with the special interests and privileged. Special interests open the door to socialism. We need to put the labor unions on a strictly voluntary basis and take away their monopoly over the workers. It is not necessary to destroy the unions, except the National Education Association, since they have no interest in Americanism or the welfare of our children. Their only purpose is their political power to socialize America gained through teacher’s dues.
We are not going to fix our schools until the NEA mentality is broken from the top down, from the Department of Education, NEA dominated, to the PTAs and from the PTAs up through the Department of Education. Electing school boards who hire superintendents without the NEA mentality would help. Giving school principals their education budgets with standards to meet would decentralize school districts and make it harder for the NEA or AF’T to control. Parents would regain interest in the schools with principal control. The Department of Education must go. It was a gift to the National Education Association for electing Jimmy Carter president. It is very costly and totally unnecessary.
When America worked and the people believed in Americanism, we had a government by the people for the people, and no socialism. Today we have government by special interests and are drowning in socialism. Only the people can change it. Everyone’s ideas and efforts in that direction count. Let’s roll!
A longtime supporter of the CA CC, Toby Elster is a Wichita
businessman and Ret. USAFR
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