{"id":25791,"date":"2017-09-18T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25791"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:17:21","slug":"condemned-to-repeat-it-history-as-rerun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25791","title":{"rendered":"Condemned to Repeat It History as Rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Condemned to Repeat It History as Rerun<\/a><\/h3>\n
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European essayist George Santayana famously wrote, \u201cThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u201d This is repeated, as it just has been, ad nauseum<\/i> as various persons (like yours truly) attempt to claim the mantle of wisdom. But the past is being deliberately repeated by those that do remember<\/i>. By those that engineered the history we forget. Here are several ways in which history is repeating itself\u2013on purpose\u2013led by the capitalist deep state, their political servants, and the media monopolies that front its agenda to the general population.<\/p>\n

Capitalism Prefers Fascism to Communism<\/b><\/p>\n

People on social media red with ire rage about the double-standard applied to both the left anti-fascist protestors, the antifa anarchists, and the white supremacist marchers. Numberless voices rant about how the police protected the free speech of the white supremacists, but actively cracked down on anti-fascists. Now the government is moving<\/a> to label antifa groups as domestic terrorists while doing nothing to apply the same tag to violent fascist racists. Some fairly argue that antifa are not the same as the majority of anti-fascist protesters. The former are violent, the latter peaceful. But the violence of antifa will be used to brand the entire progressive left with the stigma of domestic terrorism. The right will largely be left alone.<\/p>\n

<\/a>But this is nothing new. Capitalists and fascists have always had a symbiotic relationship. Before World War Two, historians blame insufficiently strident capitalist politicians like UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for \u201cappeasing\u201d the Nazis, as though they miscalculated the threat of fascism. What is forgotten is that they appeased the Nazis on purpose. Western capitalists rebuilt the German military and funded<\/a> the rise of National Socialism after World War One. After all, the real threat to capitalism is communism, not fascism.<\/p>\n

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Condemned to Repeat It History as Rerun European essayist George Santayana famously wrote, \u201cThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u201d This is repeated, as it just has been, ad nauseum as various persons (like yours truly) attempt to claim the mantle of wisdom. But the past is being deliberately repeated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,3299,5493,1491,2500,14998,16044],"class_list":["post-25791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-capitalism","tag-communism","tag-counterpunch","tag-fascism","tag-history","tag-jason-hirthler","tag-repeating-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25792,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions\/25792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}