The theorem that leads from pacifism to war

Why do we keep choosing psychopathic leaders?

A guest post by Miguel Martinez who goes to the core of the current situation. Our leaders are madmen interested only in personal gains and aggrandizement, and they can use their control of the media to turn most of the population as mad as they are. It is nothing new, it happened in the past, and it is happening now. Martinez’s report on how Mussolini turned from a socialist arguing for peace into a bloodthirsty monster, developing a complete ideology based on hate and war. He was following the path that our modern Greens are following — the German Greens led the turn toward war, while the French Greens have announced that they are abandoning their traditional pacifism just a few days ago. A warlike mentality is more infectious than the coronavirus. You can read here my personal interpretation of how things went with Mussolini and his British sponsors.

The Satanic Theorem of Benito Mussolini

From Kelebekler Blog by Miguel Martinez

What is Fascism?

It's simpler than what you may think: it's an organization that was officially established in 1919, but which actually came into being on November 15, 1914, when a brilliant left-wing journalist, Benito Mussolini, thanks to the silent funding of an English NGO and contributions from the Agnelli family, whose heirs today finance La Repubblica, published the first issue of Popolo d'Italia.

Il Popolo d'Italia was created to take a radical stance on the issue of the First World War.

Let's not forget that Italy was still theoretically allied with Germany and Austria, and therefore Mussolini - who had distinguished himself in the campaign against the war in Libya - had initially launched himself, as a pacifist, against the possible alignment alongside the Central Powers.

But from here begins a fascinating shift, especially if we think about the times we are living in today.

At the time, Mussolini wrote lively editorials in the socialist newspaper L'Avanti!

And already there we can glimpse the theorem that leads from pacifism to war, which we can summarize as follows:

We are for peace, obviously – to not want it, one would have to be crazy.

And in fact there is a Madman (in this case a certain 𝔎𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯, which kappa fits us well) who is leading his people to commit the horrible crime of War.

The Fool's victims look at us with pitying eyes. Can we look the other way, or are we willing to be so generous as to fight for them?

But, since the Fool threatens us all, perhaps we must defend ourselves as well…

Indeed, since we are internationalists, we believe that a great war would also liberate the poor Germans and allow everyone to live in peace!

This feverish theorem spread like typhoid in a few days among millions of Europeans on both fronts. But clearly it was also the founding theorem of Fascism, the reason why Mussolini is not remembered as just another socialist orator of his time.

From the Theorem, everything else follows.

The Theorem is the key that opened the gates of hell, with the millions of deaths in the First World War, then, consequently, with the massacres of the Russian revolution, the upheaval of Europe, the rise of Nazism, the extermination of the Jews (which led to the genocide in Gaza), the millions of deaths in the Second World War, the endless aftermath that we are still experiencing today from Bosnia to Ukraine...

For this reason, we define it scientifically as the Satanic Theorem: with reference to Vernon Lee's Satan the Destroyer.

Now let's read the Satanic Theorem in the very words of Benito Mussolini, first in L'Avanti! and then in Popolo d'Italia.

At the risk of saying that fascism did something good, it must be noted that he was really good at writing, and it's still readable over a century later.

If you feel even the slightest inclination to agree with his ideas, in changed circumstances, don't despair: I know an excellent exorcist, approved by the diocese of Florence, who may be just what you need (The Exorcist is also very likeable as a person).

Avanti!, June 18, 1914 - two weeks before the Sarajevo assassination, and Mussolini is a perfect Comrade pacifist and internationalist:

We received a phone call from Turin, last night:

A nationalist rally was held this evening at the Crocetta.

While lawyer Bevione was speaking, Prof. Mussolini arrived, having spoken in Borgo S. Paolo. Despite the huge crowd, the debate went quite smoothly and allowed our comrade to assert the truth and beauty of the socialist ideal before the working class. Mussolini was very happy to attack the nationalists and clerics, and the Libyan war, and to praise the international ideal and the workers' movement that culminated in the general strike. The rally ended with enthusiasm and warm applause for our Director, and after it there was a procession of several thousand people singing the workers' anthem that accompanied Mussolini to the Casa del Popolo.

After the Sarajevo attack, a character suddenly appears whom Mussolini had never mentioned before, the 𝔎𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯 with the Kappa. Obviously insane.

Mussolini uses a magic word: the civilized world (today we would say the free world), which obviously means us: on the other side, the World of Darkness...

What is happening in Germany? All of Germany is locked in an iron circle.

It is isolated from the civilized world and the telegraphs and telephones are silent for us. It could also be that the German socialists see in this war-mongering madness of their Kaiser the end of his empire and feel the hour of the social revolution is near! (Prolonged applause).

Summary of the speech given in Milan, in the Modern Art hall located at 8 Campo Lodigiano, on the evening of August 4, 1914.

From the Kaiser who keeps his own people imprisoned, but ready for social revolution, the denunciation of criminal “Germany” comes just the day after. Note the title, with which one chooses to invoke the planetary massacre - the fault is always of the Other:

BRUTAL MILITARISM BEGINS ITS DEED OF BLOOD

With the aggression against Belgium, Germany has revealed its tendencies, its objectives, its soul.

To show solidarity, directly or indirectly, with Germany means – at this moment – to serve the cause of militarism in its most frenzied and criminal expression!

From Avanti!, No. 214, August 5, 1914, XVIII (a, 59/).

On the same day, Mussolini spoke about the French socialist Gustave Hervé, the most extremist of the French pacifists, who had decided to enlist as a volunteer.

And here Mussolini brings out the ultimate reason of all warmongers:

No. Hervé, who defines – as we also define – “war is filth” is not a “warmonger”, even if he goes to the border, just as the peaceful citizen who suddenly has to resort to a gun to defend himself from a bandit attack is not a criminal.

Prussian and Pan-German militarism, from 1870 to the present day, is the bandit lurking on the streets of European civilization!

A day later, the anti-militarism of the peaceful citizen turns to the memory of an extraordinary passage by another left-wing exponent seized by sudden belligerence. The “similar circumstances to the present” were the declaration of war by France against Prussia - Napoleon III's France asked Germany to give it Luxembourg, the Saarland and the Bavarian Palatinate. When Germany refused, the French launched into a suicidal war.

But it's interesting to note the evolutionary detail, according to which men with the hands of an ape would like to push us back a thousand years: the Enemy of Peace is always reactionary.

No one remembers the appeal that Blanqui launched from the columns of his La Patrie en danger 40 years ago in circumstances similar to the present ones:

"The Teutons have crossed the Rhine and threaten civilization once again.

The races of the South have winced at the sound of the footsteps of these ferocious gangs, who have come out of the forests of the North to enslave the Mediterranean to the kings and lords of the castles.... The Teutons are running through our fertile soils, these men with their flat feet and monkey hands, who claim to be the most beautiful flower of humanity: they who have always been its scourge, and who are coming to push us back a thousand years, into the dark mists of the Baltic. Oh, we, the great Mediterranean race, the race with the fine, delicate forms, the ideal of our species, we who have made all great thoughts, all generous aspirations germinate, hatch and triumph: on your feet, for the final battle! »

A few months later, Mussolini broke with the socialists and launched Il Popolo d'Italia (The People of Italy). And just before that, he gave a speech in Parma that deserves to be quoted at length.

Read it all. Try to relate it to the present day. If you feel a thrill of sharing, and dream of the blossoming of the new vermilion European spring, you too can feel like the authentic Fascists of the very first hour.

Between the two groups of Powers: the Triple Entente and the Austro-German bloc, Italy is …. remained neutral. In the Triple Entente there is heroic Serbia, which broke the Austrian yoke; there is martyred Belgium, which refused to sell itself; there is republican France, which was attacked; there is democratic England; there is autocratic Russia, but with a subsoil mined by the Revolution. On the other side, there is Austria, clerical and feudal; Germany, militaristic and aggressive.

Where are the fanfares that obsessed us in September 1911? The game is up and it should make socialists who are not imbeciles think: on one side are all the conservatives, all the dead forces of the nation; on the other side are the revolutionaries and with them all the living forces of the country. We must choose! Priests and bailiffs are for absolute neutrality.

The priests do not want war with Austria because it is the Catholic nation par excellence, where the emperor follows the canopy in the Corpus Domini processions bareheaded, and where, at a congress attended by the archduke killed in Sarajevo, unofficial votes were cast for the re-establishment of temporal power. If we remain neutral, Pope Benedict XV, who combines the trinity of his physical defects with disturbing intellectual and moral qualities, will find a way, directly or through a third party, to raise the Roman question at the next peace congress. We will go back: to discuss a fait accompli, irrevocable and we will owe it in part to the conservative attitude, absolutely anti-revolutionary and anti-socialist of the Italian socialists.

Those who admit this also admit the need to arm ourselves. You are not going to open the doors of Italy to the Austrian army so that they can come and loot your houses and rape your women. Oh, I know very well: there are some vile worms who criticize Belgium for having defended itself. They say it could have pocketed the Germans' gold and left the way open, while by resisting it was subjected to the systematic and scientific destruction of its cities. But Belgium lives and will live because it refused the vile bargain. If it had accepted it, Belgium would have been dead for all time! (Great applause; everyone shouts “Long live Belgium”, waving their hats. The impressive demonstration lasts several minutes).

When will you defend yourselves? When you have the enemy's knee on your chest? Or isn't it better to anticipate the defense? Isn't it better to intervene today because it may cost us little while tomorrow it could be a disaster? Do you perhaps want to maintain splendid isolation? But then we must arm, arm, and create a mammoth militarism.

Those who refuse to go to war today are Kaiser's accomplices, they support Franz Joseph's shaky throne, they are partners of the priests and the fanatics. Do you want Bismarck's drunk, mechanized and Americanized Germany to become the free and unprejudiced Germany of the first half of the last century? Do you want a German republic from the Rhine to the Vistula? Does the thought of the Kaiser, a prisoner, relegated to some distant island in the Ocean, make you smile? Germany will only renew its soul with defeat. With Germany's defeat, the new vermilion European spring will blossom.