Essay:The American Crisis of Capital: The Nazification of the United States
Notice: This essay is a work-in-progress.
In 2014, the United States of America (USA) orchestrated a neo-Nazi colour revolution in Ukraine known as "Euromaidan".[1] However, why would the same shining light of liberal "democracy" help the exact same movement they sought to destroy during the Second World War? The answer is simple. The United States has had a crisis of capital and has turned into a decaying capitalist entity. The United States has turned to fascism.
Chapter I: The history of American fascism
While the United States has always been built on settler colonial imperialism, the origins of the American fascist movement go back to 1854 - just seven years before the American Civil War. In 1854, a proto-fascist organization seeking to preserve and expand the institution of slavery called the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was formed. The KGC has its roots in Manifesto Destiny, the idea that the United States had a god-given right to rule all of North America, and the Monroe Doctrine, the idea that all of America was the USA's personal playground.[2] The KGC was semi-militaristic and wanted to establish "military colonies".[3]
The KGC was part of a bigger issue - the question of slavery in the United States. This issue eventually led to a socioeconomic divide between the Northern and Southern parts of the United States. A socioeconomic that eventually led to the American Civil War between the anti-slavery "Union" led by Abraham Lincoln, a close contemporary of Karl Marx, and the Confederate States of America (CSA), a proto-fascist experiment at creating a feudal slave state. In effect, this made the American Civil War the bourgeois revolution of the United States.[4] The KGC was dissolved in 1864,[3] during the 1861-1866[5] tenure of the CSA.
Following the fall of the CSA, a white supremacist organization known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came into existence. Given the fact that later sources document it as becoming a fascist organization after fascism had become a semented ideology,[6] it can be argued that the KKK was, in fact, a proto-fascist movement in its early 1865-1872 state. The KKK committed multiple acts of terrorism against black people in the Southern United States. While it was dissolved in 1872 during the Reconstruction era, the KKK was revived in 1915 during the First World War following the release of the movie The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the KKK as heroes of the American people. Following the Second World War II, the Nazi ideology became semented in the KKK. Unlike the KGC, the KKK still exists and has begun targeting Hispanic people in more recent years.[7] The KKK is widely considered to be a neo-Nazi and neo-Confederate organization.[8]
Sources
- ↑ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
- ↑ Knights of the Golden Circle
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Knights of the Golden Circle
- ↑ Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
- ↑ Proclamation 157—Declaring that Peace, Order, Tranquillity, and Civil Authority Now Exists in and Throughout the Whole of the United States of America
- ↑ Populism, Fascism, and the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
- ↑ Ku Klux Klan - History
- ↑ White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups listed in a variety of other categories—Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead and Christian Identity—could also be fairly described as white nationalist.