As we progress deeper into the crisis
gripping the Western Empire, we are witnessing some very curious political
trends. We continue to see the accelerating break down of centralised power
structures, as the economic maelstrom reaches its denouement.
Strangely many, who are on the self-proclaimed
‘left’, do not see the irony in the fact that ALL sides of politics are now
espousing a form of Nationalism in order to address the crisis. This of course
makes sense, as the only way one can have a smaller body politic, than the
global empire, is to restore smaller national units. It is also probably because as the cohesion of the national state has been destroyed, over the past 40 years of Globalisation, we have seen an interesting reversion back to forms of identity politics, in order to try and restore some coherent sense of belonging for the populations atomised into the disconnected global mall, monoculture, which the global Empire pushed.
For some this took the form of seeking to align ones politics around what race or gender they were, in order to try and fulfil the tribal imperative common to all humans. This approach however has tended to completely balkanise societies and leave them in political paralysis. So it is no surprise that many are now once again turning to the ideas of 19th Century nation building, which created more cohesive units of populations often organised around a similar language grouping or a shared historical mythos. This is the dynamic that will continue to accelerate the coming secession wave as we forge deeper into the new century.
For some this took the form of seeking to align ones politics around what race or gender they were, in order to try and fulfil the tribal imperative common to all humans. This approach however has tended to completely balkanise societies and leave them in political paralysis. So it is no surprise that many are now once again turning to the ideas of 19th Century nation building, which created more cohesive units of populations often organised around a similar language grouping or a shared historical mythos. This is the dynamic that will continue to accelerate the coming secession wave as we forge deeper into the new century.
We have already done an in depth post on
how this break up will look on the North American continent. Indeed many of the
predictions made in that post have subsequently come to pass, as the secession
movements across the US rise to a level not seen since the Civil War. Intriguingly this rise in secession movements is now currently on the LEFT. Although many of the ones that rose on the right, during the Obama administration, have maintained their forward momentum.
Even more intriguing is the great irony of the "Globalised" nationalist movement, which has sprung up on the political right. This is a movement that has grown in the world wide, borderless, global internet domain of cyberspace. Yet it is calling for a restoration of the right to sovereignty for nation states. It makes this claim through pushing the meme of the spoof nationstate known as Kekistan. This fake nation even has its own flag which is taken to pro Nationalism rallies. So far there has been no move to give this memetic experiment its own central bank, with it's own powers to produce a currency for itself. This is of course the path to TRUE sovereign independence.
This is the most curious aspect of the push back against Globalisation of all. Even as the globalising forces of the internet rise, they are helping fuel this return to tribalism and nationalism. It would seem these are very deep forces of human nature that should be embraced and not fought against.
No one on the Globalist left seems to see the great irony however that in their rejection of what they see as a ‘horrid and backward return to US nationalism’, which their President Trump represents, they are in fact embracing Californian or Cascadian or any number of other NATIONALIST movements.
Even more intriguing is the great irony of the "Globalised" nationalist movement, which has sprung up on the political right. This is a movement that has grown in the world wide, borderless, global internet domain of cyberspace. Yet it is calling for a restoration of the right to sovereignty for nation states. It makes this claim through pushing the meme of the spoof nationstate known as Kekistan. This fake nation even has its own flag which is taken to pro Nationalism rallies. So far there has been no move to give this memetic experiment its own central bank, with it's own powers to produce a currency for itself. This is of course the path to TRUE sovereign independence.
This is the most curious aspect of the push back against Globalisation of all. Even as the globalising forces of the internet rise, they are helping fuel this return to tribalism and nationalism. It would seem these are very deep forces of human nature that should be embraced and not fought against.
No one on the Globalist left seems to see the great irony however that in their rejection of what they see as a ‘horrid and backward return to US nationalism’, which their President Trump represents, they are in fact embracing Californian or Cascadian or any number of other NATIONALIST movements.
Why the left cannot see this cognitive
dissonance in its current discourse is hard to say. Possibly it is the extreme propaganda of the
imperialists, which is so confusing many who claim to be of the ‘left’. The
mainstream, imperial ‘left’s’ leadership currently argues that anyone asking to
have a restoration of sovereignty, for the local body politic and anyone who
wants the inviolability of national boundaries to be recognised, are somehow
some sort of extremist racists who are literally getting ready to open up the
gas chambers again.
Then these very same ‘leaders’ turn around
in the same breath and howl and wail about some manic theory, that the whole of
western civilisation is under attack, as it’s national sovereignty is subverted
and the inviolability of its national borders are ignored by 30 foot tall
Russian Godzilla’s. This is apparently, according to their narrative, an
outrageous betrayal of international laws and norms.
It is obvious you cannot hold both these
positions simultaneously, either we live in a world of national sovereignty or
we don’t. The average prole either realises the scam behind this rhetoric, or
is left so confused by this cognitive dissonance that these ‘leaders’ continue
to lose their ground and control over their populations. As a result
Nationalism is now on the rise, in one form or another, on BOTH sides of the
body politic. Globalisation is dying on the tree of its negative interest rate
policy and extremist currency wars and resource extraction wars against the
peasant class of planet Earth.
No more clear is this cognitive dissonance, on the ideas of nationalism, than across the Atlantic. In Scotland many continue
to rail against the fact that Nationalists succeeded in restoring the Sovereignty
of the United Kingdom’s national body politic, from the supra national EU.
Their solution to what they see as a dreadful mistake is to call for even MORE
Nationalism, as they push for a second Scottish independence vote. This would restore the sovereignty of the
Scottish body politic in Holyrood, from under the foot of Westminster. However
they then make a great leap of ideological gymnastics, when they claim they
would cede this newfound sovereignty BACK to the unelected Aristocracy in
Brussels.
It is not clear if maybe the SNP is aware
that this is actually just a bluff and they have no intent of restoring
themselves to an EU that may not even exist by the time Scotland is
independent. This may indeed just be rhetoric, used to convince the populace to
finally do the sensible thing and end the Union with England.
The continued existence of the EU is in
more doubt than ever. This is despite the current propaganda coup Brussels got from
the latest French election. The corporate media tries to sell the idea that the
recent French election is a win for the coming United States of Europe and that
in fact the Centralists are about to win the final coup de grace, in the epic
war we find ourselves in. However this is highly unlikely.
Despite the propaganda, a majority did not
elect Macron. Huge amounts of people abstained from the process. His election
was only due to the fact that the Nationalists in France could only put forward
individuals who genuinely had links to Fascist organisations of old. Unlike all
the hysteria that tried to tie the Trump campaign to Fascists in America, when
this was clearly not the case, the Vichy links of the Le Pens were very real
historical facts.
Ultimately this election has just delayed
the implosion of the EU and probably made sure that it is going to be a very
bloody disintegration indeed. So much for the great propaganda nonsense the EU
likes to spin that they alone stand in the way of new warfare on the continent.
Everything about the project is now pushing Europe to an inevitable outbreak of
its semi regular revolutionary waves.
Already Macron faces a low level
insurrection from the far left on the streets of the major cities. No doubt in
rural areas there are many angry supporters of the National Front who are also
biding their time. When Macron finally announces that he will be strip mining
the French pensions, to feed the out of control juggernaut that are the German
banks in Frankfurt, the very serious conflict will erupt. We will probably see
the labour unions joining the left in the cities at that point, for a new Paris
Commune and National Front militants will take the regional areas. Indeed the
likely hood of full-scale civil war will, at that point, be at an all time high.
In much the same way as we are currently seeing the United States union fast
approaching a violent break up.
In the aftermath of this conflict and the
end of the European Union we will probably see a Europe with a number of
organisational changes. As well as the European Union finally being swept into
the dustbin of history, alongside all the other futile attempts to restore the
Roman Empire, we will probably see the great centralised states of France, Italy, Germany and Poland shattered as well.
The forces of industrialisation that gave
us those central states will have been shattered by the current forces of
financialisation and the decentralist milieu of the internet age. For the next few posts then we will have a
look at what this new Europe will look like, much as we did for the US last
year.
On then to the other side of the pond for a
new political organising of the continent.
