The Fascintern Hunger for Global Power

The Fascintern Hunger for Global Power

By: Erreh Svaia

“Fascism is a religious concept.”

Benito Mussolini

On the Washington Post, today, Anne Applebaum call this the Populist International, in a clear reference to the infamous Communist International founded by Lenin, an organization created in order to advocate communism around the world and overthrow the “bourgeoise”, it was also called the Third Communist, or Comintern, as an official organization, Comintern disappeared, but as a shadow lurking behind power, it stayed for a long time, perhaps not as a whole, perhaps just as an influence, you can´t say the so called Sao Paulo Forum wasn’t a form of Comintern, led by Fidel Castro, the Forum was a new organization that pretended to give guidance to a “new wave” of left wing governments in Latin America, we tend to forget history lessons and Comintern took place in America all over again, Castro took advantage of young new “socialist” apostles in order to build a new empire to survive his dictatorial enterprise in Cuba after the demise of the USSR, Castro was a wise man and learned from Lenin about “revolution” and how inequity in Latin America was the perfect soil to start all over a new sort of socialist union, he created strong ties to socialists in Venezuela, Brazil, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in order to seize power in the region, guerrilla warfare fell out of fashion after the Soviets stopped financing them so Castro and company brought to life a new strategy based on populism, promise people what they want, if inequity and poverty are the problem, promise people equity and a better redistribution of the resources.

Populism was the big weapon used by the Sao Paulo Forum, it helped them transcend the violent past of communism and create a new sort of modern “socialism” called Socialismo del Siglo 21, which used China as its best investor, China, a rising regional power was hungry for raw materials in order to feed its fast internal growth, America Latina provided it and that was sold to people as solid steady growth, China´s hunger for oil created big demand and money flew in large quantities to Venezuela and Brazil, food demand also grew big as China rising middle class was in full expansion, and that helped also Argentina, among others in the region, Socialismo del Siglo 21 was sold as the next big thing, but again, the reality was that Populism was the big tool for this new sort of “Latin Amercian Comintern” to happen.

But in the case of Latin America, populists never passed from giving money in many unwise ways, there wasn’t a lot of investment on infrastructure and as Chinas hunger started to slow down, the big bonanza started to fade away, Brazil and Argentina’s left wing governments were loudly defeated, and the whole region started to gravitate towards the right or center wing, even Fidel Castro successor, Raúl, started looking for new alliances with the USA and looking just as China, to Singapore as Cuba´s desired future, but the lesson to the world was quickly taken from another side, giving it a new and menacing twist, as populism proved to be the right too in order to seize power in a quick way, taking advantage of people´s fear and desires in order to exploit them.

Mike Lofgren on The Atlantic call it the Alt-Right International, again, it’s not an official organizational, but it isn’t so hard to slowly start discovering the ties, political parties all over the world slowly starting to align on two basis, “A New Far Right” and Populism, as much as the PRI in México and Peronism in Argentina were models for the populist Socialismo del Siglo 21, now they are being used as along its more older antecessor, Fascism, two key pieces in this truly scary domino, first Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and then Valdimir Putin in Rusia, I consider Berlusconi the first to find the formula “Financial+Media+Political Power”, and to exploit it fully, next came Vladimir Putin who finally gave it its face as a way to achieve and preserve power in the long run, by establishing a sort of oligarchist and kleptocratic system, something hard to do within a democratic system, explaining thus the fall of Berlusconi and the fertile ground on the chaotic Rusia of Boris Yeltsin, but as Stalin and Castro new, this waves of fascism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism can’t survive as isolated movements, they partners in crimes, or in the case of the USSR, satellite countries, Putin as an ex member of the KGB surely knows this well, and after the collapse of the USSR, the KGB knows well how to move its money around the world, backing political parties all over the world, event trying to corrode politic systems within the European Union.

For years there has been the suspicion that the Kremlin is financially backing political parties within the European Union, it has been known to exist certain ties between France´s National Front, the UK´s UKIP, Hungary´s Jobbik and even Greece´s Golden Dawn, and certain Russian banks close to the Kremlin, even Donald Trump´s campaign has been under suspicion of Kremlin´s financial aid, possibly the biggest threat from this sort of Fascitern, a shadow organization that pretends to push a right wing agenda based on conservatism and a “back to glory days”, just like Putin pretends in Russia, bringing back the glory days of the Soviet Union, and just like Donald Trump pretends by “Making America Great Again”, this Fascist- Populist union of sort is being disguised as a “New Right” wing movement, sometimes called “Alt Right”, but is really far, very far in fact from already known right wing movements that do believe in democracy, tolerance, free markets and individuality, as they are seeking to, in full populist fashion, exploit fear (as in Italy and Poland), hatred (as in Greece and France),ignorance, (as in the USA), racism (as in Germany and the Netherlands)  and xenophobia (as in Hungary and Austria), you can see it in political parties within the European Union in the Netherlands, in Hungary, in Poland, in Greece, in France, in Austria and in Germany, and out of it in the UK, you can call them conservatives, or neoconservatives, when what they are looking for is the whole abolition of the current system.

In the beginning it was communism trying to bring together mutual support in order to “overthrow” the “bourgeoise”, it was Lenin and Trotsky getting close to Rosa Luxemburg in Germany, then it was Nazism, with Adolf Hitler looking for support first in Austria, then in Italy and Japan, then the USSR and the whole Eastern Bloc and Cuba, and finally Castro creating the Sao Paulo Forum, nowadays, these next wave of hungry power seekers is led by Russia and is quickly expanding all over the world, tomorrow we will know if it at least could be contained or is the beginning of a new that will bring havoc to democracy and freedom, rather to “bring back the glory days”.