John Dunn

Dante and Fichte

Tuesday, 16 July 2024 at 21:25

Engraving after the fresco in Bargello Chapel, painted by Giotto di Bondone in the 14th century

Dante and Fichte

Dante was pre-eminent in establishing humanism as the new philosophy of the Renaissance (or post-feudalism). That philosophy reached its zenith with Fichte, even though it did so as the Counter-Renaissance reassertion of feudalism (or neo-feudalism) was complete. Fichte’s philosophy was developed behind enemy lines so to speak. This made Fichte’s philosophy not so much the ideological successor to feudalism, but rather a key influence upon the Romantic reaction to the dominant neo-feudalism

(From Child of Encounter)

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The basis of all political and philosophical creeds

Monday, 15 July 2024 at 21:46

Spinozism and Kabbalism

The basis of all political and philosophical creeds

Marx in fact endorsed the subjugation of the straw man capitalists and presented this state of affairs as an historical necessity, which was generated by the capitalists’ own overthrow of feudalism. However, Marx’s presentation of a progression was, in fact, masking a process of return. Marxism thus became the political and philosophical arm of the neo-feudalist financial globalisers. Marxism is the basis of all the so-called Left and Right political and philosophical creeds of our time.Anarchism, communism, socialism, liberalism, libertarianism and conservatism, as well as Marxism itself are all rooted ultimately in Spinozism and Kabbalism, and serve to promote Tikkun.

(From Child of Encounter)

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What is Marxism masking?

Sunday, 14 July 2024 at 21:24

What is Marxism masking?

So what is Marxism masking? Answer - the old central banking monopoly based on nothing less than public debt and public credit, which implies an extension of this monopoly to control over public revenues and issue of currency. It masks a controlled central banking system with monopoly powers over the wider banking system, a power which, unless broken by government, becomes a political power that is greater than government. It masks the fact that the so-called capitalist entrepreneurs as well as the state are subsumed under feudal usury. As in all ages, the surplus is produced at the point of production. The question as always is - how is that surplus extracted and where does it end up? It is extracted through a neo-feudalist usury that again, as in all ages, has no respect for borders or other barriers to its operation.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Controlled radicalism

Saturday, 13 July 2024 at 22:11

Controlled radicalism

Capitalism- a pejorative term used by socialists in the nineteenth century - was amyth perpetrated by Marx. Capitalism was not a new and progressive economic phenomenon. However, the myth gave the neo-feudalists a controlled opposition, both philosophically and politically. Through a controlled radicalism, the workers were led to oppose a straw man - the capitalist class - with the promise that the next and inevitable stage in history would mean the overthrow of that class and result in freedom from exploitation.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism

Friday, 12 July 2024 at 21:53

Paolo Sarpi

Metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism

The outcomes of the so-called Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution were no teleological advance. This was not a shift from feudalism to capitalism. Rather they marked a metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism, establishing new ways in which to extract and share the surplus produced by the producer-class, not through serfdom, but rather through the wages system, central banking and taxation. The pre-Renaissance exploiters operated in a monetary economy that existed in parallel to a world ruled over by kings and princes. Following the French revolution, economics as monetary accounting moved to centre-stage. The state and state trappings of kings, princes, presidents and parliaments were co-opted as the guarantors, not of a feudal hierarchy, but of central banking, taxation and debt collection by means of physical force. This was the system first established in Venice, then later in the Netherlands, Britain, France and the USA. This was Sarpi’s ‘Republick of Merchants’ writ large. The pressure to extend this system has resulted in constant geo-political upheaval over the past two and a half centuries.

(From Child of Encounter)

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True post-feudalism

Wednesday, 10 July 2024 at 20:15

Hegel portrait by Schlesinger 1831

True post-feudalism

The concept of a self-driving materialist teleological progress in history was introduced by Marx, based on Hegel. This was a false interpretation of history, but one which was convenient to the neo-feudalists, or ruling oligarchy. So-called capitalism as a successor to feudalism (as in the Marxian narrative) never happened. The socio-historical and cultural phenomenon known as the Renaissance was the actual successor to feudalism. The Renaissance was the true post-feudalism. The political manifestation of the Renaissance was the Renaissance state, which reached its zenith with the Peace of Westphalia.

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Bring a moral order into being

Tuesday, 9 July 2024 at 21:01

Spinoza inverted

Bring a moral order into being

With Fichte's inversion of Spinozist philosophy, we pass from passivity to activity, from slave to ruler. Fichte pitted man as creator, doer and producer against Spinozist determinism, necessitarianism and fatalism. Man’s purpose is to act upon the world, change it and perfect it, i.e. change what is into what ought to be. The vocation of man is a moral one, which is to transform nature and bring it into accord with his ideals. The world exists so that man can express those ideals and bring amoral order into being. It follows from this that any distraction from man’s moral vocation is a reversion to Spinozist determinism. After all,with trade there is a preoccupation with profit and ongoing subsistence. The lives of individuals are determined by forces external to themselves, principally the controllers of money supply (a truth later masked by democracy), quite apart from the economic forces, which take on a life of their own. Fichte’s politics were at one with his idealist philosophy. In the context of his philosophy, to embrace trade is to renounce freedom, the Absolute I, God and man’s cosmic role in bringing moral order into the world and beyond. This is what drove Fichte to postulate the closed commercial state, a controlled economic environment that would free individuals to follow their true cosmic vocation.

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