The Evolution of Totalitarianism by L. Ron Hubbard - On Government - L. Ron Hubbard Humanitarian: Freedom Fighter


	“Such a sudden emergence into the light is not always political. The US 1932 bank takeover wherein the huge chain banks used political front men to smash all private banks and grab the assets of a nation. Countries have been in economic slavery ever since. It was such a sudden emergence and so well ‘explained’ that it took economists a quarter of a century to begin to realize there was a total revolution in economics and finance and that a new banking ‘totalitarianism’ existed where not one independent banking voice could be raised successfully.”

History is strewn with the wreckage which follows the operations of special interest groups. Even Athens lost her glory and freedom due to the hidden inner workings of the “Macedonian Party” which, in her own Senate, covertly undermined Athenian democracy to serve their own private ends. Bribed by Philip of Macedonia these men sold out all Greece and brought on a totalitarianism from which Greece never fully recovered.

In our own century Hitler, working under cover, recruiting at first the very Jews whose industries and newspapers he needed, promising anything but what he really was about to deliver, emerged abruptly in 1933 with all important posts and organizations covered.

Whenever a nation is struck by some disaster some special interest group may see its chance. And no nation is without such groups.

Being mad, the majority of special interest groups are seldom successful in erecting a totalitarianism. They fail to infiltrate enough high levels, enough general interest groups. Or they fail internally. When the disaster for which they hunger strikes, they try. That they do not always succeed does not make them less dangerous.

The whole test of what is a special interest group is “Do they do and try to do what they and their spokesmen say they are trying to do.” If so, they are just a general interest group.

If a group has one advertised set of purposes but is generated by secret and hidden ambitions, it is a special interest group.

Rightly the public abhors and fears a special interest group. Unfortunately many a special interest propagandist seeks to assign hidden interests to some innocent general group which has none—it is a common propaganda trick.

The proof of the pudding is the actual documentation of the hidden special interest.

Sometimes the proof never appears but the actual intentions of the group do—denoting a singular failure on the part of security forces.

Such a sudden emergence into the light is not always political. The US 1932 bank takeover wherein the huge chain banks used political front men to smash all private banks and grab the assets of a nation. Countries have been in economic slavery ever since. It was such a sudden emergence and so well “explained” that it took economists a quarter of a century to begin to realize there was a total revolution in economics and finance and that a new banking “totalitarianism” existed where not one independent banking voice could be raised successfully. All Western nations are now totally dominated by just one group. And they run things sufficiently badly (what with inflation and political dictation) that a large majority are privately convinced these fellows have something else in mind. People are worried. Perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly. But this group now reaches into the pockets of every man in Western nations directly, positively and mercilessly.

Stalin’s totalitarianism is an example of a special interest group within a special interest group. That emergence is still reverberating.

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