Gradualism Of "Free Trade"

(Conspiracy Nation, 11/06/05) -- Ervin Laszlo had been studying "general system theory." After his book, Introduction To Systems Philosophy was published in 1972, he was invited by Richard Falk of Princeton's Center of International Studies to lead a seminar. How could Laszlo's general system theory be applied to studies of the international system?

Subsequently Laszlo received a phone call from Aurelio Peccei, founder of a think tank called the Club Of Rome. Laszlo intersected with the Club Of Rome but soon became dissatisfied with them.

Laszlo was also cultivated by the United Nations. The U.N. wanted to launch a "global dialogue" between South America and North America. Laszlo was recruited into the UN's Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR). In the autobiographical section of his book, Science and the Akashic Field, Laszlo writes, in part, as follows:

"...UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim asked me to suggest other ways in which North-South cooperation could be pursued. The proposal I made to him and to UNITAR was based on systems theory: it was to insert another 'systems level' between the level of individual states and the level of the United Nations. This was the level of regional social and economic groupings." [emphasis added]

You Can't Spell "Communism" Without "U.N."

Antonio Gramsci was a brilliant Marxist theoretician imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's fascist government. In prison, Gramsci wrote in notebooks his plan for the overthrow of Capitalism.

"In any totalitarian state, the oppressed always outnumber the oppressors. While such regimes are built upon the threat and practice of terror, it is impossible to create institutions of state terror that can control all of the subjects, all of the time. Thus would-be-tyrants who seek to dominate entire populations must devise some means of inducing their victims to enslave themselves." ("Gramsci: A Method to the Madness," by William Norman Grigg. http://www.grecoreport.com/gramsci_a_method_to_the_madness.htm)

As a counter-strategy, Gramsci proposed a "March Through The Institutions." Communists could gradually infiltrate the bureaucracies, "universities, schools, the news media, entertainment, churches and other religious bodies, tax-exempt foundations, and other key institutions." (Grigg, op. cit.)

Much is made of the demise of the USSR. A notion is prevalent that the Communist threat has disappeared. Communism didn't vanish; it just changed tactics and is more powerful than ever.

"In his 1968 book The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, New Left radical James Kunen describes how emissaries from Rockefeller interests 'offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago.'" (Grigg, op. cit.) Monopoly Capitalist Rockefeller financing the "radical left"? How extraordinary!

Betty Frieden, icon of so-called "Feminism," was "a professional propagandist for the Soviet-controlled Communist Party. Prior to becoming the anointed leader of the 'Women's Movement,' notes former New Left activist David Horowitz, Friedan was 'a Stalinist [and] the political intimate of America's Cold War fifth column. ...'" (Grigg, op. cit.) Progressive Feminists the stooges of Stalin? Women's Liberation a mask for enslavement? This cannot be!

Even the venerated Rosa Parks was not as she seemed, according to some reports. Ph.D. Henry Makow, for example, claims that "spontaneous activist" Parks was a longtime member of the NAACP when she courageously refused to move to the back of the bus. And the NAACP, suggests Makow, originated as part of the Communist octopus. ("'Red' Rosa Parks," http://www.rense.com/general68/rosa.htm)

The Shrinking Federal Reserve

Business Week magazine, in a recent cover story, describes how Alan Greenspan's successor, Ben Bernanke, "will preside over a diminished central bank." (Nov. 7, 2005 issue) Because America depends upon foreign investors to fund its huge trade deficits, the "Federal" Reserve is having to increasingly kowtow to other nations' central bankers.

Why has the U.S. balance of trade been consistently dismal? In part it is because the "free trade" agreements lead to the departure of U.S. factories. The United States is no longer a manufacturing nation, so it has little to export. Since we export less, of course we have a trade deficit!

The recent Americas Summit in Argentina did not go well. South American nations object to the U.S. subsidization of agriculture. The United States is the "breadbasket of the world," or has been. We still at least "manufacture" food here, but that may be about to decline as did the factories. The central government in Washington, DC has lately been moving to significantly pare support for our farmers. What is going on!? Are they nuts!? Who cares if South America doesn't like U.S. agriculture subsidies?

Ah... You see, it is Antonio Gramsci's "process of patient gradualism." First was NAFTA. Then CAFTA came creeping in. On the horizon is a new "systems level" embracing all of the Americas. Of course, some sort of central government needs must preside over it all.

We have seen how well centralized government works here in the United States. Imagine how well a global central government is going to manage things. See you in the future, "comrade."

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