The Plot Thickens: Obama a closet Fabian?

 

The Fabian Society was a movement of mainly middle and upper class intellectuals, established in 1884 to spread socialist ideas among what they called, perhaps patronisingly, ‘the educated classes’.

Some may think it odd that a purely socialist movement should eradicate the working classes from its audience.

Their aim, they said, was to work out the application of socialist principles to intelligent Britain....

.... The Fabians invented the lost Athenian art of never saying what one actually means, and wrapping truths or untruths up in a mass of verbal diarrhoea. 

 

Sound familiar?  Just you wait.

 

Now it's not often that I check out my Glenn Beck emails. I can't afford GBTV and I am already irritated that so much of what's being circulated in the news today is on video rather than in print (I'd rather have the option of skimming a text, thank you).

Anyway, in one of his recent email newsletters, Beck pointed out the following "coincidence" -- which will only make sense to you if you understand that Obama's new 17-minute film is called

The Road We've Traveled.

 

“The Road We’ve Traveled” is an aggressively upbeat, 17-minute hit-parade review of President Obama’s first term. The film streamed online, live, Thursday night via the president’s savvy new-media reelection machine. Although it has been artfully referred to as a documentary, it is, of course, a piece of propaganda. Perhaps less pejoratively, let’s tweak that word and call “The Road We’ve Traveled” what it mostly is: docu-ganda. (-- Hank Steuver at the Washington Post)

 

Kind of like agitprop, only different?

 

Now to Glenn Back.

[....]

GLENN: Could you do me a favor? Could you look up Stuart Chase? I believe Stuart Chase is the guy who coined the term The New Deal. I’m pretty sure. There’s this book from the 1930s that was written by Stuart Chase and I thought of it this morning as we were thinking about the movie The Road We’ve Traveled, Stuart Chase, have you seen?

STU: It has been suggested he was the originator of the expression A New Deal.

GLENN: Okay. Progressive?

STU: I mean, I’m just reading a sentence here.

GLENN: I’m pretty sure. I’m pretty sure. I think this guy was a big FDR guy. And he wrote this book called The Road We are Traveling ...

... it was written in 1942 and he said we’re on this road and after the war is finished ‑‑ he wrote this book in 1942 - After the war is finished, we’re going to have to clear up this mystery. But what we are now is no longer, it’s not socialism, it’s not capitalism. He just called it in his book, "X."  And he said, we’ll have to define it later, but it’s X. We don’t know what to call it yet.

But there’s some major characteristics, and it’s replaced our system of free enterprise and it will all over the world. He said we could call it communism, we could call it fascism, we could call it state capitalism. We just don’t know what it is.

Now, he said ‑‑ try this on for size. This is what it is. 

This is how you would describe it: A strong centralized government.

Would you say we have that?

STU: Check.

GLENN: An executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Got that? The control of banking, credit, and security exchanges by the government.

STU: Yeah. Jeez.

 

Now see Archive dot-org:

In 1942, Stuart Chase, in his book "The Road We Are Traveling" spelled out the system of planning the Fabians had in mind:

1. Strong, centralized government.

2. Powerful Executive at the expense of Congress and the Judicial.

3. Government controlled banking, credit and securities exchange.

4. Government control over employment.

5. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions.

6. Universal medical care, food and housing programs.

7. Access to unlimited government borrowing.

8. A government managed monetary system.

9. Government control over all foreign trade.

10. Government control over natural energy sources, transportation and agricultural production.

11. Government regulation of labor.

12. Youth camps devoted to health discipline, community service and ideological teaching consistent with those of the authorities.

13. Heavy progressive taxation and hidden taxes on nations wealth.


The Fabian Socialist Revolution began in earnest in 1933 with the imposition of the Welfare State and has been steadily progressing since.