It kinda preempts the review I planned of another interesting take on the ascent of the Nazis, in which the author coins (?) the term dynamism to signify pretty much that which Trotsky expresses so ably, so irascibly and so accurately:

that none of the 'planks' or platforms or the other daily-changing principles one read in the V\ufffdlkisher Beobachter (main official organ of the NSDAP) -- were ultimately meant to mean Anything! whatsoever, upon accession to power: and.. they didn't.

What dynamism meant was ~ as Trotsky describes; a state of continual 'revolution' and the wholesale jettisoning of every human concept from ethics through *'honesty' - replacing these with the mumbo-jumbo worship of the 'Folkish' myth (as in V\ufffdlkisher.. above) and other confabulated pseudo-mystical claptrap. Never a need to justify a blind alley entered or an outright disaster along the way; Hey! we're "a work in progress"..

* lots of talk of Honor, of course - but only intertwined with some idea of restoring Die Volk! to rightful Rule over Mankind\ufffd. And as Trotsky points out - it's all about control of all capital, at the top (it was not 'planned' that Hitler alone.. should ever become the Only 'Top' = assuredly not by the self-serving Industrialists nor.. by the thoroughly conned Army leaders. Hitler laterally arabesqued Them All and the remaining thinking volk.. never found a way around That. Until dissolution.)

Another reminder too, of what a mentation was lost when Stalin's proxy ice pick snuffed Trotsky in Mexico. (I have an old paperback in Spanish, As\ufffd Assessinaron a Trotsky, "How we assassinated Trotsky". Have yet to more than skim this one.)

No wonder that the Vulture Capitalists of all ages find a certain comfort level with such a process as recognizes ONLY the naked acquisition of Power as the one legitimate Purpose in life; Power for the purposes of creating Empire (but please to never reveal where you are Actually ---> Going, til after you have seized the Power. Even then.. never reveal.) The literal meaning of esoteric, these volk.

Re the Harrimans, Putzi Hanfstaengel, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (!), (and don't forget Prescott Bush!) Maybe 1:1000? 10000? Muricans have the slightest idea of.. "It's eleven o'clock; do You know where Your CIEIO is tonight?" Lay/Enron in the White House formulating 'energy policy' - is no more surprising than Henry Ford's great admiration for Der F\ufffdhrer, or his Soviet-style accelerated assembly lines for the Model T. They all morph together at the reins of massive economic control of the sheep. And to these: we are all sheep for shearing.

So anytime there is a crisis of sufficient depth and duration in the world, nascent creatures of this religion shall manifest - whether bearded or skinheaded. Hence the title of the book I'm about half-way thru:

The Revolution of Nihilism Warning to the West by Hermann Rauschning \ufffd1939 (written winter '37; finished and publ in German - in Paris! months before the invasion of Poland.)


It's Out There..
So it goes..

Take yer pick.


Ashton

Yes, I should have noticed. 'Asesinamos' ?
But the title is correct (except for my spelling it with 2 esses), so it's clearly They.

Now if the Muslims only had a Garcia Lorca in their midst, to speak now about the 'collateral damage' done and about to be exponentiated.

(Hah! and see that published in US press?)

I once heard a lengthy KPFA documentary (radio) on the Spanish Civil War, with Lorca's work interspersed. The theme music was the haunting Schubert Trio Op. 100. Whoever discounts the power of measured words and magnificent music to convince, to shame and to fortify - must be one of those who imagine that merely enough techno - can prevail over any outrage.


Ashton