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The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State

A New Book by Simon Elmer

With the lifting of the thousands of regulations by which our lives were ruled for two long years there has been an understandable desire to believe that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ is over and we will return to something like an albeit new normal.

But as new crises have sprung up to take its place — war in the Ukraine, the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ and the return of the environmental crisis — it’s increasingly difficult not to look back on ‘lockdown’ as the first campaign in a war that has not been declared by any government but is no less real for that.

The willingness of our governments to use the forces of the state against their own populations on the justification of protecting us from ourselves signals a new level of authoritarianism — and something like the return of fascism — to the governmental, juridical and cultural forms of the formerly neoliberal democracies of the West, and one of the aims of this book is to examine the validity of this thesis.

Its purpose in doing so, however, is not to contribute to an academic debate about the meaning of the term ‘fascism’, but rather to interrogate how and why the general and widespread moral collapse in the West over the past two-and-a-half years has been effected with such rapidity and ease, and to examine to what ends that collapse is being used. 

The more deliberate is the immiseration of the populations of Western democracies, the clearer it becomes that the war started by COVID-19 is not between nation states but a civil war waged against our institutions of democratic governance and the division of powers between executive, legislature and judiciary.

Insofar as these institutions and this division are being dismantled and replaced by the rule of international technocracies that, under the cloak of the ‘pandemic’, have assumed increasing power over our lives since March 2020, this war represents a revolution in Western capitalism from the neoliberalism under which we have lived for the past forty years.

Where it is heading with ever greater speed and finality, and which The Road to Fascism sets out to demonstrate, is the new totalitarianism of the Global Biosecurity State.

Simon Elmer is the founder of Architects for Social Housing (ASH), you can follow them on twitter. The Road to Fascism was published by ASH on 28 September, and is available in hardback, paperback and e-book. Click on the link for purchase options, the contents page and preface. Excerpts have been published in The Daily Sceptic and The Exposé; and you can hear Simon discussing his book in an interview on The Delingpod.

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Frankensplean
Frankensplean
Dec 1, 2022 4:48 PM

“…not to contribute to an academic debate about the meaning of the term ‘fascism’…”
Why make it the book title then? Why not “The Road To Banana Peels”? equally meaningless, as banana peels can be very coercive.
Is “Road To Tyranny” or “Road To Serfdom” too accurate? Stop using obsolete jargon.¹

¹ pedantry: Modern totalitarianism is corporatocratic-internationalist. If you must use obsolete terms to describe your serfdom, Communism comes closer (as fascism was supposed to be highly nationalistic). But that wouldn’t suit the Marxist rhetoric of the “alt-left”.

Viridis
Viridis
Dec 1, 2022 5:27 AM

This was good but limited by its Marxist analysis. The core of the issue is a spiritual disease.

Takaleshi
Takaleshi
Nov 26, 2022 2:07 PM

Re: “democracies” Any alleged expert who talks about “democracies” AS IF a real democracy ACTUALLY EXISTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (or has existed at any time) is evidently living mindlessly and blindly in the propaganda world fed to them since a kid and/or is part of the (unconscious, ignorant, naive, willful) crowd who disseminates this total lie — familiarize yourself with the theory of the 2 married pink elephants in the room “All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organization. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie. With their different motives, those who need experts are falsifiers and fools. Whenever individuals lose the capacity to see things for themselves, the expert is there… Read more »

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 26, 2022 11:00 AM

I’ve asked the following question several times over the last year – when a link to “Road to Fascism” has been posted – but haven’t received an answer. It should be a simple “yes” or “no”. Does Elmer mention that Mussolini was an agent of British Intelligence? — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoare,_1st_Viscount_Templewood First World War Aged 34 at the time, Hoare joined the Army soon after the outbreak of the First World War. He was commissioned into the Norfolk Yeomanry as a temporary lieutenant on 17 October 1914.[18] To his disappointment, he was initially only a recruiting officer[13] and illness prevented him from serving at the front. He was promoted to temporary captain on 24 April 1915.[19] While acting as a recruiting officer, he learnt Russian. In 1916, he was recruited by Mansfield Cumming to be the future MI6’s liaison officer with the Russian Intelligence service in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). He soon… Read more »

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 27, 2022 11:40 AM

a proposito di ”perfida Albione”…

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 27, 2022 11:59 AM
Reply to  iskratov

Nobody does it better!

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 28, 2022 8:08 AM

yes, but the background is of little importance, Mussolini came to power with the support of the Italian industrial class (think of Fiat), of the landowners, who did not want to know about implementing a land reform, of the king, and of the Catholic Church . In essence, the Italian upper middle class frightened by the wave of strikes and the workers’ struggles of the red two-year period.
Giacomo Matteotti explains it well, in a speech in Parliament that cost him his life: ”If they kill me, it will be the hitmen of the Polesine  landowners and the presidency gang.” Se mi faranno la pelle, saranno i sicari degli agrari del Polesine o la banda della Presidenza”
The ”presidency gang” had the support from capitalists, landowners, industrialists, bankers, priests (who in Italy still control more than half of education on behalf of the masters).

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 28, 2022 9:08 AM
Reply to  iskratov

“Follow the money” is always important – and the money (at least initially) came from British Intelligence. The Guardian: Mussolini’s payments were authorised by Sir Samuel Hoare, an MP and MI5’s man in Rome, who ran a staff of 100 British intelligence officers in Italy at the time. Cambridge historian Peter Martland, who discovered details of the deal struck with the future dictator, said: “Britain’s least reliable ally in the war at the time was Italy after revolutionary Russia’s pullout from the conflict. Mussolini was paid £100 a week from the autumn of 1917 for at least a year to keep up the pro-war campaigning – equivalent to about £6,000 a week today.” And there are indications that there was still some sort of arrangement in 1935: After the armistice, Mussolini began his rise to power, assisted by electoral fraud and blackshirt violence, establishing a fascist dictorship by the mid-1920s.… Read more »

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Dec 3, 2022 9:50 AM

Why put in today worth?

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Dec 3, 2022 9:19 AM

So? 50yrs later
A 15yr old Clive El Duce had the Total British Isles (including Bradford & Rotherham) at our Boiler Suited Booted sockless (summer only) feet……On four quid a Week. The Lad & Lass Real Apprentice GenX …Watch Out! Its Friday Night…and the Daft Buggers gave us COIN!
Today..sadly…
The real WE can only purchase roughly ( fuck! Like it makes any difference)…
Five Percent of what we could Nick er Buy…in 1968…
A chum (same age) on UK Pension can roughly purchase 10%.
The Message Enjoy Your Life..and… wear socks in the Summer. Ps We have GrandGenX now soo every one Enjoy The World Cup..it’s Important Please.
Thx

niko
niko
Nov 26, 2022 10:19 AM

Re “how and why the general and widespread moral collapse in the West over the past two-and-a-half years has been effected with such rapidity and ease.” Maybe we weren’t that moral to begin with, but had slowly decayed for sudden collapse. To repurpose Lenin’s words, there are weeks when decades happen because there have been decades when nothing seemed to happen. Particularly since the end of WW2, fascism has been creeping along fine tuning the machinery of the corporate state to now go into high gear. The background to the present is as intricate as the apparatus, as shown by Whitney Webb’s recent deep dive into the rabbit hole in One Nation Under Blackmail. The domestic population in the US where I’ve lived over these past decades seems to have become all the more domesticated as cogs of industrial capitalism compartmentalized in functional performances of an increasingly institutional existence (Gesellschaft)… Read more »

Viridis
Viridis
Dec 1, 2022 5:51 AM
Reply to  niko

Marxist or class-based analyses never have the full picture. Working classes in the western world and elsewhere never stood a chance because they were already enslaved spiritually via religion. The priests came before the scientists. On top of that, American, English and other colonial European nations signed their own death certificate when they committed the worse crimes against humanity in known history. The ghosts of those murdered haunt these societies today and willl continue so long as these societies continue to enjoy the material wealth and prosperity they stole. The price they pay is empty lives devoid of meaning and terminal depression/ anxiety. No doubt they are under the spell of countless black magic curses from the “Americas” and Africa. These creatures were so arrogant and entitled via religion and monarchy that they actually renamed entire continents after colonial psychopaths! The asinine arrogance and double faced hypocrisy of colonial culture… Read more »

Straight Talk
Straight Talk
Nov 26, 2022 10:19 AM

Fascists are the privatizers, those who want to own everything from land to crops to the human genome. If we disallowed patents on life, of supplying the body with synthetic symptom repressants that never cure anything, a lot of this insanity would end. I wonder what happened to the land of those two Polish farmers who were killed by a Ukrainian bomb? Do Cargill and Monsanto have designs on Poland’s farmland as well? “Only, this time, it’s called instead by such names as “libertarianism” or “neoliberalism,” no longer “fascism,” so that only the true-believing fascists, the aristocrats, will even know that it’s actually fascism. It’s their Big Con. It’s their Big Lie. Just renaming fascism as “libertarianism” or “neoliberalism,” has fooled the masses to think that it’s pro-democratic. “Capitalism” has thus come to be re-defined to refer to only the aristocratically controlled form of capitalism: fascism. The ideological battle has… Read more »

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 26, 2022 6:11 AM

I gave up after about 40 mins when he started droning on about capitalism and socialism. If ever there was a “false binary”, this is it! For instance, the Lunacy Commission was a “state” body. However, half of the panel was reserved for members of corporate bodies – doctors and lawyers. They had the power to disregard all the basic rights of life, liberty, due process, etc. This is the fascistic merger of state and corporations. It is the corporate bodies which fashioned the law so that it would serve their interests. And it is neither capitalist nor socialist. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners_in_Lunacy The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission were a public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people in England and Wales. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. . . . The Lunacy Commission was made up of eleven… Read more »

tonyopmoc
tonyopmoc
Nov 26, 2022 1:04 AM

To be fair – now deleted me from almost everywhere, I turned up on my Susiki GS750 in Leicester Square direct from Lasham Gliding where I had been learning to fly for a couple of weeks. We went on the same training learning course learning to fly – NOTHING to do with The Miltary At the end of the summer of 1976 end of October, when the clocks went back, we kind of gave each other a hug, but as full members of Lasham Gliding Club, we knew we would see each other in The Spring Learning to Fly Again We both went solo and were so delighted for each other. I was 23, and she was 16, like my little my sister. I guess we kind of loved each other but no more than a hug and a kiss But we were delighted to see each other in the… Read more »

tonyopmoc
tonyopmoc
Nov 25, 2022 10:14 PM

Our news today. The Mayor of London who I did not vote for has anounced, that, we all have to pay £12.50 a day to drive our cars – where we live anywhere close to London. Its worse for us cos we actually live right on the edge of but in London (We call it Surrey here). The local council has announced a consultation period, which will end in about 2 weeks that we are going to paint double yellow lines down the road where you live…So you will not be able to park outside your own home, which has never had any parking restrictions ever. Parking has never been a problem round here. Now, if you live in London, even on the outskirts – All the small business are going to go bust. We can’t afford £12.50 a day, even for the health carer… YELLOW LINES Everywhere You can’t… Read more »

tony0pmoc
tony0pmoc
Nov 25, 2022 8:27 PM

Great Game.

The USA are playing Brilliant

Its like like Manchester United vs Oldhan Athletic, except we had on our side a man from Brazil….he was better than Georgie Best.

England a bit jaded

But Oldham beat Manchester United

Its still 0-0 and my wife is going to the pub to see a band.

England will win…hopefully

Tony

tony0pmoc
tony0pmoc
Nov 25, 2022 7:29 PM

I know what I am like, but it seems now I have been banned from almost everywhere, I mean wtf is wrong with this? I am just me, a bloke from Oldham about the same age as a Bloke from Oldham possibly buying Manchester Uniited Good luck England vs USA I am so pissed off by being banned everywhere, I am going to watch it. Come on ENGLAND I had been posting on Alternet for a couple of years, about everything under the sun, mainly because I wanted to understand Americans. Someone recommended Pepe Escobar’s book Pipelineistan, so I bought it and actually read it in the summer of 2007 when it was extremely hot. My respect for Pepe Escobar has risen almost exponentially. He even likes the same music as me and has the sense of humour. Whilst this article is as good as anything he has written, I… Read more »

Grafter
Grafter
Nov 25, 2022 11:41 AM

Enough evidence here to have this crime stopped and for those responsible to be facing prosecution.

Died Suddenly’: Documentary shining light on fibrous clots goes viral – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

siamdave
siamdave
Nov 25, 2022 10:26 AM

glad to see they’re starting to get their terminology straight, so many people calling this a ‘socialist’ takeover, quite idiotically – it is of course a merger of corporate and state power, which is the very definition of fascism. he does speak in error when he says the ‘democratic institutions’ are being ‘dismantled’, they are still very much in place, they are just being taken over by the new fascist world order, and acting as the national enforcers for the edicts of the new Masters of the World.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 26, 2022 7:13 AM
Reply to  siamdave

unfortunately it is also a socialist takeover, the WEF has acquired the major socialist parties in the world, or at least it is trying it successfully, think of Lula. China is collaborating too… It’s not what Marx or Engels had in mind, I suppose, it’s not socialism, really, it’s its antithesis. Class war from above, the opposite of what the authors of the Manifesto had in mind. But who bothers to read Marx or Rousseau these days; who ever did it in the USA? By now the haunting ghost is a parody of real socialism, staged by a group of oligarchs with disproportionate power who in Lenin’s time would have been the first to be expropriated, together with the tsar, the aristocracy and the priests. They know it and they mimic the socialists to get rid of them once and for all. Their propaganda somehow echoes some old leftist discourse.… Read more »

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 25, 2022 8:38 AM

June 13, 2019 – United Nations, New York UN and WEF sign Memorandum of Understanding in Agenda 2030 Strategic Partnership Framework. Secretary-General António Guterres and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum jointly witness the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Nations and the World Economic Forum in the Strategic Partnership Framework for Agenda 2030. The 2030 Agenda is a transhumanist Agenda that paves the way for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The implementation of the Agenda takes precedence over the decisions of the states. Agreement bypasses intergovernmental review process; secondly, the agreement elevates multistakeholderism as a solution to the problems of the current multilateral system; and third, multistakeholder partnership proposals are not governed by any formal democratic system. Had the Secretary-General been convinced of the wisdom of a UN marriage with the WEF, he could have submitted the draft MOU for approval… Read more »

fertility
fertility
Nov 25, 2022 8:13 AM

The Road to Fascism: was endorsed and promoted by alt media.How else did the parasites get that much credibility as in leave e,.u, orange man bad. populism movement all sold to the worse types, thoses who scream vaccine are terrible YET still voted, still endorsed, thoses who lockdown.

MattC
MattC
Nov 25, 2022 7:03 AM

In the U.K. the tyrant Johnson declared an “emergency”, sidelined Parliament, crushed civil rights, ruined the national hoax service, enriched the already wealthy, had frequent meetings with Bill Gates – no questions asked by the legacy media, cratered the economy and not once was any evidence provided – other than 14 parties aka “Partygate” (which should have alerted everyone to how they were being manipulated). Hancock’s policies caused 25,000+ early deaths within the care home system and the jab became mandatory for the health and care sectors, “emergency” approval for untested and experimental drugs was waved through and yellow card reports ignored. Sunak oversaw a £500 billion public sector spend for a “deadly” virus which actually had a 0.2% global infection fatality rate while standing aside as massive fraud was underway with his furlough scheme. So how is the acceptance of responsibility and the accountability for policy decisions going: Johnson… Read more »

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 25, 2022 7:27 AM
Reply to  MattC

Bozo was threatened – either go along with the scam or become a “covid death”.

The entire establishment may have closed ranks 

The reason why the Kissingerians needed the coup to install Sunak is because there’s a major fissure within the establishment.

ophiaps
ophiaps
Nov 26, 2022 5:48 PM

Bozo was threatened – either go along with the scam or become a “covid death”.

Build back Boris never needed to be threatened, he was made for the job.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 27, 2022 6:40 AM
Reply to  ophiaps

Bozo is infinitely malleable by virtue of being absolutely spineless, but he was originally in the “Swedish model” camp. So they put him isolation, then intensive care; and they drugged him to the eyeballs. Since everything was controlled, he wasn’t in a position where could even get a message out that he’d been kidnapped. — Coronavirus crisis: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen – BBC News BBC News Apr 6, 2020 The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in London after his coronavirus symptoms deteriorated. Mr Johson was admitted to hospital last night. His office said his condition then worsened and on the advice of his medical team he was moved to the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, reserved for the most seriously ill patients.  The Prime Minister tested positive for the disease 10 days ago and has been suffering persistent symptoms… Read more »

Jack Bean
Jack Bean
Nov 25, 2022 10:35 AM
Reply to  MattC

We has an almost exact replication in South Africa, MBGF also very involved. Courts have refused to hear evidence.

Jack Bean
Jack Bean
Nov 27, 2022 8:27 AM
Reply to  Jack Bean

BMGF sorry

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
Nov 25, 2022 4:05 PM
Reply to  MattC

The nature of the beast: “Meanwhile the legal system refuses to even consider any non – narrative cases, the state militia have not investigated any unexplained deaths and a wall of silence has been built around the last three years of crime.”

All “legal” systems have been purged of lawyers who actually function as Lawful representatives of civil order. (Common Law) They’ve been educated in Maritime Rule and statute codes, which protect the criminal classes that employ them. They are accessories to acts of fraud, extortion, and racketeering.

The establishment of corporate syndicates, combined with the enfranchisement of civil governance, have stripped any sense of morality or ethics from Lawful enforcement.

A complete purge of all executive classes is in order.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 25, 2022 6:36 AM

Having just watched the first 20 minutes of the interview, I suspect that Delingpole knows a lot more than he lets on, but I haven’t come to a view about whether he’s controlled or just treading carefully. Elmer seems to be in the process of being “red pilled”. I don’t know why this makes him some sort expert when there’s people who’ve known for several decades what’s going on. For instance, the statistics can tell us that “the virus” (if it exists) is no worse than the typical flu, but why was it necessary to delve into statistics to figure out that the whole thing was a scam? There have been plenty of people (Alex Jones is probably the best known) who’ve been saying for a decade or more that TPTB were planning some sort of global pandemic – fake or otherwise. There is no shortage of movies etc depicting… Read more »

Hank
Hank
Nov 25, 2022 6:35 AM

Too much of the fear thrown around here. OffG can be a great source of information but other than some meme’s it’s all doom n gloom. I see panic in all these cabal governments. Look around and smell the roses. Jack Dorsey gone, Twitter new owner. Amazon in trouble and Bezos gone, now saying he will give all his money away. Lmao. It is being taken away. Zuckerberg in trouble with Meta and has lost 100 billion, (also taken away). Funny how Orange man was allowed back on Twitter as will other people groups that were banned. Notice how the media went crazy when Trump was allowed back on Twitter but not a word when Trump was allowed back on facebbok and Instagram on the same day as Twitter???? Why would Zuckerberg allow him back when he spent 500 million and facebook employees helping the Democrats in 2020? Funny thing… Read more »

fertility
fertility
Nov 25, 2022 8:15 AM
Reply to  Hank

Why would Zuckerberg allow him back when he spent 500 million and facebook employees helping the Democrats in 2020? LOL

Can honestly say. I wasn’t aware forgone man was allowed back on twitter.
More importantly no one really gives a fuck now.

Theobalt
Theobalt
Nov 25, 2022 11:17 AM
Reply to  Hank
Theobalt
Theobalt
Nov 25, 2022 11:17 AM
Reply to  Hank

“We’ll see”

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
Nov 25, 2022 4:10 PM
Reply to  Hank

The light at the end of the tunnel is usually a freight train… Trump as the “best” representative of the republican party and the People’s will, bodes that the train is moving fast…

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Nov 25, 2022 4:49 AM

Doesn’t Fascism require a deep Nationalism? That’s not where we’re headed.

“You will own nothing and never be happier is not ‘fascism’.”

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 25, 2022 5:17 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

The technocratic class is a quasi-nationalism. It creates a them-and-us attitude and distinction – the “in” and the “out” group. And it is passed on through families – by going to the right schools etc.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 25, 2022 9:20 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

if the Soviets from below tell the aristocracy and the clergy, no; but if the Davos elite says so to us proles, it is pure fascism, the economic essence of fascism, or a return to the feudal economy.

Placental_Mammal
Placental_Mammal
Nov 25, 2022 11:13 PM
Reply to  iskratov

Marxism and the monotheisms share a common root.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 28, 2022 7:40 AM

which means nothing, put like this…

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Nov 25, 2022 4:31 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Divide and rule is the order of the day which is why there is no nationalism. Perhaps the miscreants’ calls for amnesty are TPTB’s way of attempting to bridge the great divide they’ve created. I don’t think it will work.
We are seeing the emergence of technofascism a merger of ubiquitous technology and authoritarian governance run by unelected unaccountable billionaires, technocrats and ‘experts”.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Nov 26, 2022 4:55 AM

There’s plenty of nationalism. The “Great Resetting” Globalists are doing everything in their power to squash it. The celebration of “Diversity” and the push for Global governance is the antithesis of Fascism.

I’ll not ask a question this time, but make a statement: You do not have “Fascism” without Nationalism. It’s a fundamental precept.

Stella
Stella
Nov 27, 2022 10:50 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Fascism may use Nationalism ,itself is beyond nations

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Nov 28, 2022 4:40 PM
Reply to  Stella

No. You don’t have fascism without nationalism; it’s foundational to the movement. You have something totally different, which may may include other elements of fascism, say authoritarianism, but is not identical.

It’s all academic anyway. What these Globalist/Satanists intend is something way worse than humanity has ever seen.

Steph Amson
Steph Amson
Nov 25, 2022 2:56 AM

Great interview linked at the end of the article with Elmer on the Delingpod.

Placental Mammal
Placental Mammal
Nov 25, 2022 2:15 AM

Palestinians

The phrase “now we are all Palestinians” appeared at the start of the scamdemic but never obtained traction. An indication of how controlled the alleged “alt” media is.

antitermite
antitermite
Nov 24, 2022 11:59 PM

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sok
sok
Nov 25, 2022 11:12 PM
Reply to  antitermite

superb

Gordon mcrae
Gordon mcrae
Nov 24, 2022 11:53 PM

That all sounds right. The government is not our friend.

les online
les online
Nov 24, 2022 11:52 PM

The New World Order will be widely and enthusiastically embraced if it is packaged as being able to provide greater Security than the currently existing security system… Though Socialism often had wide appeal it never garnered mass support for implementation as it never provided a vision of greater security then the capitalist system… ‘It is often said that what people lack today is a vision of socialism. This is undoubtedly true, but what holds most of us back is the absence of an idea even of how tomorrow will be different. :”How else could things be ?” people often say. It’s this numbing sense of sameness, of routine, of the given that must first be addressed.’ (The Art of the Possible – Stephen Robinson. (Free Association/ Radical Science #15. 1984)… Simon Says: Biosecurity State, Another Right-wing Conspiracy Theory or how the Left was Won Over: https://expose-news.com/2022/11/24/biosecurity-state-another-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-or/ Was it Einstein who… Read more »

les online
les online
Nov 25, 2022 12:37 AM
Reply to  les online

‘Britain’s Security State merges with the public health sector under cover of tracking Covid.’

Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies, and psy-ops specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability….’

The journalist-run, intelligence linked operation that warped British pandemic policy…

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/21/journalist-intelligence-british-pandemic-policy/

Victor G.
Victor G.
Nov 25, 2022 5:05 PM
Reply to  les online

I’d very much like more info on the “vision of greater security” provided by the capitalist system.
Are you enjoying greater security?

Thinktwice
Thinktwice
Nov 24, 2022 10:38 PM

They Use Chemistry To Hide The Toxins In The Tap Water…. Like Disappearing Ink…. Everything Has Been Poisoned By The New World Order….

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https://ugetube.com/embed/mP9xOwf772NNqZf

MolecCodicies
MolecCodicies
Nov 24, 2022 8:42 PM

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James Kreis
James Kreis
Nov 24, 2022 8:31 PM

A tour de force. Strongly recommended.

Penelope
Penelope
Nov 24, 2022 8:22 PM

Lockdown Was Imposed to Insulate the Real Economy
From Money Pumped Into Collapsing Financial Sector.

To understand why–
https://expose-news.com/2022/11/19/lockdown-was-imposed-to-shut-down-the-economy/
.

Penelope
Penelope
Nov 25, 2022 12:17 AM
Reply to  Penelope

The article in the link is by Simon Elmer & gives you a quick summary of the reason for the timing of the covid op.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 24, 2022 5:34 PM

When did Medical Fascism first become established? It might be earlier than this, but I would place it with the passage of the Lunacy Act in 1845. Medical Fascism has been in continuous existence and expansion ever since. There has been no “return of fascism” and no “widespread moral collapse”. Instead, society has been fascist for a very long time and it’s now just reaping what it sowed! — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Retreat Opened in 1796, [the York Retreat] is famous for having pioneered the so-called “moral treatment” that became a behaviour model for asylums around the world with mental health issues. Founded by William Tuke, it was originally only for Quakers but gradually became open to everyone.[1] It inspired other progressive facilities such as the US Brattleboro Retreat, Hartford Retreat[2] and Friends Hospital.[3] The Retreat opened in 1796 in the countryside outside York. It was planned to take in about 30 people… Read more »

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 25, 2022 4:08 AM

Britain and Prussia were rivals and launched a major war against each other. However, they both operated the same Medical Fascism – which continued and expanded after the war! — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25308 G.K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils (1922) To The Reader I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war. It was a time when this theme was the topic of the hour; when eugenic babies (not visibly very distinguishable from other babies) sprawled all over the illustrated papers; when the evolutionary fancy of Nietzsche was the new cry among the intellectuals; and when Mr. Bernard Shaw and… Read more »

Sean Veeda
Sean Veeda
Nov 24, 2022 5:22 PM

Fascism 1930s was symbolised by a swastika.
Fascism 2020s is symbolised by a rainbow.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Nov 24, 2022 5:43 PM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

The white coat

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 24, 2022 8:20 PM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

the swastika is always there: behind it are the worst Nazi minds ever…

Viridis
Viridis
Nov 24, 2022 10:08 PM
Reply to  iskratov

Tragic ignorance of which the cost is seen in the countless victims of zionism.. from Palestinian people killed or deliberately crippled, to people in prison for discussing the wrong recounting of history (the one not written by the winners but neutral observers) to the vast majority of sleepwalkers who still believe WW2 was what they were told about in school.

It only takes a few seconds of research to have your mind blown.The swastika is not a nazi symbol and its original significance is quite the opposite of what Adolf and friends are associated with. There is no deeper meaning worth pursuing here- they were insane psychopaths (of the mystical mania variety) and digging into their deep but hopelessly warped minds is a morbid exercise in futility.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 25, 2022 9:12 AM
Reply to  Viridis

Das Reich der niederen Dämonen, by Ernst Niekisch, talks about the birth of Nazism in Germany, the description he makes of the ideology at the basis of National Socialism is striking, because it seems to be the same one that inspired Klaus Schwab, al beyond the aesthetics of the original Nazism… I quote an excerpt from the book here: ”The big bourgeoisie caressed the project of new statutory forms; medieval organisms came to her mind, she went back to the Middle Ages; industrial feudalism appeared to her as the port in which she hoped to find that social peace which allowed her the undisturbed enjoyment of her privileges: she aspired to build up, within the company, that position of dominance achieved by the feudal landowner in his estates .  Industrial feudalism had once been the social recipe of Alfred Krupp and Herr von Strumm, from whose paternalism the National Socialist… Read more »

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
Nov 25, 2022 4:32 PM
Reply to  Viridis

True. The swastika predates the National Socialist German Workers’ Party by at least 12 thousand yeas. The earliest appearance of the Swastika was found to be approximately 10,000 BCE – found in Ukraine, and carved on a small ivory figurine of a little bird. It was found near certain phallic objects, so some believed that it was a symbol of fertility.

Interesting how an ancient symbol of fertility has morphed into a symbol of death and destruction. The sleepwalkers enthuse of heaven, whilst creating Hell on Earth…

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Nov 25, 2022 5:03 AM
Reply to  iskratov

As a Universal symbol, the swastika predates both Nazis and rainbows, and was never construed with negative meanings.

S Cooper
S Cooper
Nov 24, 2022 8:39 PM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

“Some might say the face diaper-slave mask is the updated version of the swastika armband”
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https://www.reddit.com/r/FauciForPrison/comments/z2g90p/canadian_government_preparing_to_euthanize/

rubberheid
rubberheid
Nov 24, 2022 9:42 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

ya’ll lost all rights, understand ..

wardropper
wardropper
Nov 24, 2022 10:09 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

You didn’t make any mistakes.

Not unless deliberately thwarting, sabotaging and mutilating human evolution could be called, “a mistake”…
When your time comes, you go to hell, and I’m not forming a support group to make your lives easier while you wait.

niko
niko
Nov 24, 2022 9:44 PM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

Then there’s the syringe swastika for Fascism 2020s, only those showing this are the targets of the gestapo. Maybe the new nazis are happy with no one symbol, just to symbolize how they’ll use any means necessary in the new abnormal to march us into death and nothingness.

hotrod31
hotrod31
Nov 24, 2022 10:58 PM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

Sean Veda: You have, in a nutshell, epitomised that you cannot mess with ‘the Star-of-David’ people. They have been practising the art of mind-fuckery for centuries. Who else would be devious enough to co-op an ancient Indian (Sanscrit?) symbol or swastika, and equate it with something as vile as government-tyranny?

May Hem
May Hem
Nov 25, 2022 4:35 AM
Reply to  Sean Veeda

The rainbow symbol being used by occult globos has only six colours instead of seven.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/pride-rainbow-flag-only-six-3096496

Ruth S
Ruth S
Nov 24, 2022 5:12 PM

It is a brilliant book – worth the read, Simon’s postings during the lockdown madness was part of the counter narrative that helped keep me sane. He has an amazing insight which he is able to articulate. If you don’t want to read the book, look at his postings on Biosecurity on the ASH website.

Maxwell
Maxwell
Nov 24, 2022 5:08 PM

“Covid-19” has never been about an epidemiological emergency it is about the collapse of the financial system. “Covid19” is designed for: 1) Redistribution of wealth aka THEFT (from the poor and middle class to the insanely rich; 2) Fear-induced digital enslavement- The Great Reset/4th IR; 3) Pharma making trillions in profit and introduction of mRNA gravy train; 4) Constant bailouts for the financial sector; 5) Entrenchment of the Bio-Security State. Rather than focus on the manufactured in silico “disease” best to focus on the crimes such as but not limited to: 1) Largest transfer of wealth to investor class in history- theft of tax dollars; 2) Slaughter of elderly in care homes through forced improper medical protocols; 3) Mass murder for money in the hopsitals through the forced use of “Covid” protocols such as remdesivir, ventilators, midazolam and other toxic drugs; 4) Destruction of millions of businesses through illegal policies;… Read more »

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 5:18 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

RE:“Covid-19” has never been about an epidemiological emergency it is about the collapse of the financial system.

Not to nit pick, but I would call the Pandemic TM a cover story for the collapse of finance capitalism, and a new war on the working class.

Maxwell
Maxwell
Nov 24, 2022 7:00 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Your wording is a more accurate description than what I used.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 25, 2022 2:42 AM
Reply to  Maxwell

It was intended as constructive criticism. I am a fan. I always read your posts when I see them.

May Hem
May Hem
Nov 25, 2022 4:42 AM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

As well as the collapse of the financial system there is a growing shortage oil. Oil has fuelled the industrial age and the easy-to-get oil has been ‘got’. This is why there is exploration of the ocean bottom, artic areas and tar sands extraction. The easy stuff has been mostly used. ERoEI = energy returned on energy invested. If its unprofitable to drill for oil, no one will do it.

So, although there is oil still existing, its too hard to extract it.

This, and the financial collapse, underpins all the developments which Maxwell has described so well.

MattC
MattC
Nov 25, 2022 6:38 AM
Reply to  May Hem

Have Biden’s policies helped oil exploration – no. Has the U.K. government’s policies helped – no and now the idiots are introducing a “windfall tax”.
It is back to the same issue: governments are the cause of all these problems and have no interest in solving them. A clear signal that it is these governments that need purging.

Rhisiart Gwilym
Rhisiart Gwilym
Nov 25, 2022 4:27 PM
Reply to  May Hem

Always one of the most crucial, bedrock truths about our situation, May. Yet you and I have seen how difficult it is to get the delusional cornucopian, GROWTH’N’PROGRESSFOREVER!!! devotees – many gathered btl here – to face up to this non-negotiable ruler of our lives; and of our future.

les online
les online
Nov 26, 2022 12:22 AM

Perhaps it’s Time to force the question “What Are You Prepared To Give Up ?” ? However, i’m wary of such….As such can be hijacked by The State in a campaign to enforce restrictions and impose austerity…

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 24, 2022 9:08 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

It is the bourgeois freedoms that this elite now in power is targeting, the ones at the basis of the old capitalism. The question does not concern so much the proles, but the middle and petty bourgeoisie, what remains of the bourgeoisie. They must also take away the last remaining constitutional rights, bourgeois rights, which are based on private property, those conquered in France in 1789.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 24, 2022 8:37 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

it is a war against humanity, covid and vaccines are weapons of war, there’s something even darker than grabbing land and wealth, which is fundamental anyway. Sadism, absolute evil, Nazism in a nutshell, which dates back obscurely from history, stronger than before, and democracy is just an old word from the 1900s. As in war, fear, terror, the most primitive feelings, and death are used to control the masses, to make them regress and render them powerless. And the discourse is controlled from above and accelerated and confused, so that freedom of speech can’t find any more space

Viridis
Viridis
Nov 24, 2022 10:34 PM
Reply to  iskratov

Nazism is a long way from “absolute evil” which is much older (old Testament old). You (and billions more) have been brainwashed.

Easy reasearch : Stalin, Bolsheviks, Armenia, Leopold 2 in Congo, Spanish and Portuguese colonials in Central and South “America” , Roman Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church and the Byzanitum. etc etc.

Hitler was a clownish amateur even if the lies about the extent of his crimes are true.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 24, 2022 11:34 PM
Reply to  Viridis

right, but these are really Nazis, descended from Nazis, I mean. Think of a country like Germany at the time, with technology and scientific knowledge that was probably the most advanced. And Goethe and Beethoven and Hegel and Kant….We are not in the times of Hernan Cortes…The Americans too fell in love with the Nazis and took them randomly with them…It’s not barbarism, in the Western sense of the term , is the civilization that at its apex begins the game of extermination and perfects it with a cutting-edge and scrupulous technique… The atomic bomb and the concentration camps, and all the rest.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 25, 2022 3:44 PM
Reply to  Viridis

The technique that the Third Reich has launched on a large scale has not yet reached the ends of the world, it is not yet “techno-totalitarian”. It hasn’t been evening yet. Of course, this shouldn’t console us and above all it shouldn’t make us consider the Reich behind us as something unique and erratic, as something atypical for our era or for our Western world, because the generalized technical work at global dimension and without gaps, with consequent individual irresponsibility, started from there (…) the horror of the Reich to come will far surpass that of yesterday which, by comparison, will appear only as an experimental provincial theater, a dress rehearsal of totalitarianism decked out in stupid ideology.
Günther Anders, We Children of Eichmann, p. 66

Viridis
Viridis
Nov 24, 2022 10:24 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

3) Mass murder for money in the hopsitals through the forced use of “Covid” protocols such as remdesivir, ventilators, midazolam and other toxic drugs; 4) Destruction of millions of businesses through illegal policies; 6) Reckless endangerment of the public through forced inoculations; 7) Media manipulation of public using illegal fear tactics to induce compliance; 8) Purposeful abuse of children through various lockdown policies, masks, trauma, etc; At what degree of severity of reaction to this do the spook detectors perk up and my profile gets an updated “watch list” status? Is suggesting the criminals behind this get a STERN TALKING TO by people in the street enough? Yes I think that is probably enough, so…. someone please consider to POISON THE LOT (or at least one of them) WITH NEUROTOXINS and re-establsish our faith in the human spirit….. A kidnapping and ritual murder would surely go a long way to… Read more »

Placental_Mammal
Placental_Mammal
Nov 25, 2022 9:14 AM
Reply to  Maxwell

Depopulation

Depopulation was the main objective. Some estimates are as high as 20 million deaths worldwide as a result of the clot shots alone. The belief systems are still in place as are the infrastructure for extreme repression.

sok
sok
Nov 25, 2022 11:25 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

SLAM DUNK

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Nov 24, 2022 5:03 PM

It’s all becoming so tedious.
Wake me up when the revolution starts..

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 5:19 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

A perfect expression of a non-revolutionary…

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Nov 24, 2022 9:16 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Yes the world is full of keyboard warriors…

rubberheid
rubberheid
Nov 25, 2022 3:23 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

indeed, but we don’t need a revolution, another cycle….?

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Nov 24, 2022 7:40 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

Wake Up ! The 4th Industrial Revolution is underway !

If that doesnt excite you, get therapy.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Nov 24, 2022 9:16 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Bless you my child..

hotrod31
hotrod31
Nov 24, 2022 11:17 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

Don’t get ‘angry’ … stay focused and continue to provide your thought provoking vids.
Unfortunately, as most appear to agree … it is too damn easy to polarise the masses.
Quite simply, we need the ‘sheep’ to build strength into the flock and the engineers of this filthy psy-ops have obviously been using our latent fears and compliance to prep for what’s planned.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 24, 2022 11:01 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

They are already making the revolution, from above, but they also use old tactics and left, right or left discourses have little importance for them. This is why they speak of revolution.
They are the richest 1% of humanity, but they don’t want to sound classist, it doesn’t have to look like a class struggle from above. Maybe it’s not, they also seem open. After all, they’re criminals, which is why they look like Nazis. They want to colonize our bodies, we are beyond human, they behave like certain insects, they are worse than the Nazis. How do you organize yourself and fight against gigantic insects ?it’s like a horror movie.

iskratov
iskratov
Nov 25, 2022 8:56 AM
Reply to  Paul Watson

revolutions have never been made by the plebs alone, it also takes the contribution of a part of the dominant economic class, and above all of the army. For this reason the elites now assimilate everything, above all elements of the left, Schwab has himself photographed with the bust of Lenin. Of course they are only 1% of humanity and for them we are beasts, cannon fodder. But their propaganda somehow echoes some old leftist discourse. Bad though, but enough to confuse people’s ideas. Of course only the class struggle can defeat them. A class war that will teach them what the malicious phrase they often use when referring to us really means: “You will have nothing and you will be happy”. Let’s make them happy, then.

Thomas Frey
Thomas Frey
Nov 24, 2022 4:57 PM

There are so many books and people that have said all the things in this book review that I fail to see how another book means anything.

There is no political solution to where we are.
History has proven many times that tyrants do not return power to the people peacefully.

We will all have to make the choice.

Comply and live on your knees sucking on government Peter.
Or risk death for the pursuit of Liberty and Freedom.

We ain’t seen nothing yet.
They ain’t seen nothing yet.

NickM
NickM
Nov 24, 2022 7:31 PM
Reply to  Thomas Frey

“Conscience without Courage is a sorry motto” — George Meredith, “The Egoist”.

Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Nov 25, 2022 3:15 PM
Reply to  NickM

“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting… Read more »

Viridis
Viridis
Nov 24, 2022 10:50 PM
Reply to  Thomas Frey

We ain’t seen nothing yet.They ain’t seen nothing yet. That mentality is our downfall- They HAVE seen almost everything that the plebs could throw at them and have made it so that the plebs can no longer throw those things at them, or hardly anything else. There is a reason you will not find any loose rock in a modern city center or that you cannot buy a drone detection radar system unless you work in “defence” (of the elites)- you don’t need those things, Jack. The last occurence of a popular uprising before the recent unconfirmed stories from Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka was in Bolivia in the 40s, where the rebels were actually able to arrest the dictator and take him out of his misery. I will bet good money that the parasites have taken the time to study all such events very carefully and have been busily writing… Read more »

Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Nov 25, 2022 3:14 PM
Reply to  Viridis

Free People care not what rules tyrants make to oppress them.
When the time comes, an ARMED uprising will change everything.

George Mc
George Mc
Nov 24, 2022 4:32 PM

I thoroughly recommend this book. It is so quotable – which is handy since in my opinion it amounts to the only decent account of the covid con to have appeared from a genuine Leftist perspective. It thereby single handedly gives us everything that the other Left sites should have been giving us but didn’t. Here is a sample on the trans issue: After noting that “even after the huge institutional support and financial backing this movement has received”, trans rights “still apply to only a fraction of a percentage of the population”, Simon goes on to say, Under the colonisation of the West’s media, cultural and education institutions by woke, the subjective experience of race, of colour, of ethnicity, most recently of sexual difference and above all of the reviled and unrelentingly attacked working class, is being erased beneath the totalising homogeneity of positive discrimination, enforced diversity and unconscious-bias… Read more »

Rhisiart Gwilym
Rhisiart Gwilym
Nov 25, 2022 4:47 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Christ! Needs a bit of Clear Writing practice, dunnee? The now fashionably reviled Bertrand Russell had some simple and highly effective rules for producing clear, immediately-graspable prose… https://www.stephenhicks.org/2015/12/13/bertrand-russells-how-i-write-text/

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 3:53 PM

Thanks Off-G for making this book known to your readers.
I have been reading Simon’s work for over 2 years. I am well into the book now. It is fantastic!

Willem
Willem
Nov 24, 2022 2:46 PM

I do believe we are in for a great reset.

The question is: what kind of reset do we want?

The current status is a dead end with inflation, excess mortality, bullshit education, bullshit science, bullshit job, bullshit politics, bullshit news, bullshit war, bullshit climate change, bullshit morality, everything bullshit (except for the inflation and excess mortality).

What do we want? – The WEF great reset seems untenable to me. But as long as we go along and get along, the WEF great reset is what we’ll get…

Stop participating in the bullshit seems the way out. – Nothing lost. Much won…

Edwige
Edwige
Nov 24, 2022 2:42 PM

“Its purpose in doing so, however, is not to contribute to an academic debate about the meaning of the term ‘fascism’”.

Perhaps he souldn’t have used the word then! It’s not as if other terms aren’t available – totalitarianisn, authoritarianism and tyranny for starters. Fascism has to meam more than “anything I don’t like”. It’s how the controllers and msm use the term.

The problem is that such a framing allows the liberal-left to ignore the contributions of their ideological heritages to our current plight, Eugenics, for example, is just as much of the Left as of the Right. Ditto technocracy.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 4:00 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Unfortunately, Off-G didn’t do a review, they just copied a very small part of the book’s introduction. For Elmer, as a historian, the Nazi period is his specialty. So, you are not seeing any of his arguments for using the term (which actually he develops throughout the book). This is a serious book. You should give it a chance.

George Mc
George Mc
Nov 24, 2022 4:20 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Simon is scathing about the “Left” and knows all about their ideological heritage to our current plight. Indeed he opens the book with this dlightful skewering: For my generation, which grew up during the neoliberal revolution implemented in this country by the Governments of Margaret Thatcher, the accusation of ‘fascist!’ was most closely associated with the character of Rick, played by a young Rik Mayall in the TV series The Young Ones, which was screened by the BBC between 1982 and 1984. Emblazoned with political lapel badges opposing everything and everyone, Rick was the stereotype of political impotence that was not, unfortunately, confined to student anarchists but extended to the entire British Left. This stereotype has continued up to today with Antifa, the anarchist movement which — before most recently advocating locking up the ‘unvaccinated’ and joining police in opposing anti-lockdown protesters in Germany — was known for calling far-right… Read more »

George Mc
George Mc
Nov 24, 2022 4:21 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Sorry for pasting in such an extended passage but, as with everything Simon writes, it’s so spot on that it’s hard to know where to stop.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 4:36 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Thanks for doing it George.

Ort
Ort
Nov 24, 2022 6:09 PM
Reply to  George Mc

I think it would be better if the blockquote feature didn’t italicize everything, but that’s me.  😵 

George Mc
George Mc
Nov 24, 2022 7:24 PM
Reply to  Ort

You’ve got a point. The blockquote tends to make it less readable.

Turning Moment
Turning Moment
Nov 25, 2022 3:52 AM
Reply to  Edwige

I agree. In fact I would go much further and say that Elmer’s attempt to frame the biosecurity paradigm as ‘fascist’, is, when it comes down to it, a Leftist cope. Elements of Covid authoritarianism definitely do resonate with some of the politics of Rightwing authoritarian movements of the mid 20th century, but, as you say, the same can be said in reference to state Communism. The book is so committed to trying to save Leftist ideology from its association with the liberal authoritarianism that we now see, that it becomes seriously ahistorical. We have multiculturalism, gender revisionism, antifascist groups, and political correctness somehow denoted as ‘radically conservative’ (oxymoron ?) or even fascist. Anyone who knows which books the National Socialists burned, or where from these ‘woke’ movements trace their provenance, will know this is an inversion. The whole pandemic culture has seen the very opposite of the Nietzschean motifs… Read more »

Howard
Howard
Nov 24, 2022 2:35 PM

Not to be overly critical, but mentioning a book without also reviewing it amounts to simply an advertisement for the book. I hope Mr. Elmer paid you for the nice ad.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Nov 24, 2022 4:03 PM
Reply to  Howard

Fair enough. My guess is that Off-G recognized that Elmer’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the last 2 1/2 years, but simply didn’t have time or manpower to review it.

The Delingpole interview (linked above) might help be a good place to get your toes wet…

Sophie - Admin1
Admin
Sophie - Admin1
Nov 24, 2022 8:50 PM
Reply to  Howard

We never accept paid or sponsored content. We are promoting Simon’s book because we support his work.

Hank
Hank
Nov 24, 2022 2:24 PM

Did someone say fascism?

Type antifa.com to your web address and see what you get.

Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

2 years now and they still haven’t fixed it.

Geoff P
Geoff P
Nov 24, 2022 8:23 PM
Reply to  Hank
S Cooper
S Cooper
Nov 24, 2022 2:10 PM

“It is not about health but about wealth, the apportionment of resources among the general population.”
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm

“What is at stake here are the concepts of human rights and political/economic/social equality.

S Cooper
S Cooper
Nov 24, 2022 2:25 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

“The system isn’t broken – it was built that way.”
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“It is a racket and you and I are not in it. We are its victims.”

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Nov 26, 2022 12:48 AM
Reply to  S Cooper

Cheers Woody!
Sorry, I liked that show when it came out. easy watch and funny imo.