Those who have set their minds on a systemic shift towards a form of techno-totalitarianism are using strategies and tactics developed from Marxism.
The reason is simple:
This arsenal of oppressive tools and methods is far more comprehensive, aggressive, sharpened, and effective than those employed by Fascism or other ideological constructs.
Most people have failed to understand that Bolshevism is tactical doctrine masquerading as philosophy and ideology. The utopian blabber about freedom and equality is just camouflage. It is simply the best and most comprehensive way for totalitarian dictators to seize power and defeat human ontological features, such as the need for freedom.
Its primary weapon is the dialectic. The dialectic is a formidable, multifaceted and dynamic resource.
The dialectic drives towards desired outcomes clandestinely and surreptitiously. As the dialectic is in offensive play, it simultaneously protects the operation and counters the enemy’s maneuvers via the deployment of sophisticated deception techniques.
These measures result in the entrapment, disorientation, delay, destabilization and exhaustion of those who have decided to fight the totalitarians. Going up against the dialectic is extremely difficult and dangerous.
The tactical advantage of the dialectic is its dedicated COGWAR component: The sophisticated manipulation of language and human ontology, which is turned against the adversary by tapping into their own force — sort of like Steven Seagal’s aikido moves (when he was in his prime).
Today, it is a fact is that the Conservative movement is highly infiltrated by totalitarians operating under Bolshevik methods; a tactic — “the long march through the institutions” — promoted by Gramsci and popularized by Marcuse's associate Rudi Dutschke and countless other Marxist combat strategists.
Dialectical operations are layered and sequenced in structure for the purpose of achieving objectives clandestinely via manipulating conflict surfaces to provoke the desired reactions — which render a "synthesis."
Thereby, the intended outcomes can appear organic to an outside observer or the public.
This will result in the illusion of "legitimacy" when the totalitarians' repressive measures are implemented.
Hence, taking the bait to curtail freedoms based on scripted, synthetic, traumatic events is playing right into the hands of those intent to control, torture (physically and mentally) and even murder us.
Participating in dialectical games is extremely dangerous.
In the end, it leads to the self-destruction of free and open societies.
The only way to win against the dialectic is not to play the game.
Ironically, it was Herbert Marcuse who invented the method of “negation” — naturally, he was referring to the total rejection of “late-stage capitalist, consumerist society.”
But maybe we can learn from that. Maybe we — like they have done to us — also can turn it around and defeat the enemy with their own weapons.
For more on the dialectic, I recommend studying the works of Hegel, Marcuse, Lukacs, Merleau-Ponty and Gramsci.
Be in this world, not of this world.
Good stuff Jonas!