Funeral in Berlin – of freedom, buried by EUSSR commissars posing as democrats
By Gerald Warner Politics Last updated: November 9th, 2009
As farces go, it has Brian Rix beaten to a cocked hat. The spectacle of the leaders of the EUSSR marching solemnly through Berlin to celebrate the “fall” of communism and the restoration of freedom, just a few days after completing their plan for a new Soviet-style empire based on Brussels is one that will be relished by connoisseurs of irony. It will not be appreciated by anybody else.
Twenty years ago Angela Merkel, then a scientist, walked into the West out of the debris of the Marxist slum set up by the Soviet Union as a client state in 1945. She was looking for freedom. She found it, then joined with the rest of the EU nomenklatura in destroying it. After the EU constitution was democratically rejected in referenda by the electorates of France and the Netherlands, it was during Germany’s tenure of the EU Presidency in 2007 that the “period of reflection” was formally ended and the Berlin Declaration resurrected the project under the thin disguise of a “treaty”.
Marching with Merkel were Nicolas Sarkozy, whose government has adhered to the Lisbon Treaty after its repudiation by the French electorate; Gordon Brown, who refused to allow Britain any say at all; and Mikhail Gorbachev, creator of the comedy twins Glasnost and Perestroika, in a vain attempt as First Secretary of the freedom-loving Communist Party of the Soviet Union to shore up his collapsing empire – now hailed as an icon of “democracy”.
He is that, all right, since “democracy” has displaced freedom. It was obvious to all egalitarians, bureaucrats, social engineers, Frankfurt School Marxists and rag-tag big-government socialists of all flavours that the sclerotic Soviet Union was no longer fit for purpose. So it has moved westwards, is now headquartered in Brussels, is sharp-suited and technocratic. But it has also accomplished two much more important transformations.
The first is to have uncoupled Marxism from Leninism. The abject failure of the nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange, of collectivisation and all the other delusions of the economically illiterate Marx and his followers resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Empire. The control freaks are determined not to make that mistake again. Instead, replace the command economy with the “social market” economy: let business create wealth, then bleed it off remorselessly into the coffers of the state.
Marxism, as an economic theory, is dead. But Leninism, which was always more concerned with social control, is very much alive. Through the refinements of Frankfurt School Marxism – also more concerned with society and culture than economics – Political Correctness has been enthroned. That is the EUSSR’s second great achievement.
Survivors of the East German dictatorship have recently testified that the greatest victory of the regime was to have created an atmosphere in which citizens engaged in self-censorship – avoided uttering even some sentiments that might not have concerned the authorities. Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism (“If I’m allowed to say that…”) in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth. Who needs a Stasi with people censoring themselves?
We should tell our hypocritical leaders, going through the charade of celebrating “freedom” in Berlin, the unvarnished truth. You are not the heirs of John F Kennedy, of Ronald Reagan, of Margaret Thatcher – still less of the brave individuals who lost their lives trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain into the Free World that you have dismantled.
You are the heirs of Ulbricht, Honecker and every other despised puppet leader that built and maintained the Great Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier – the weasel euphemism for the Berlin Wall that prefigured the Newspeak you are imposing on EU citizens. One day, sooner or later, you will go the same way as your infamous predecessors, into the dustbin of history.
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