I read more about Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, and found him to be an interesting guy.
In his later years, he publicly stated many times that his dreamed his dystopian nightmare was coming true much more quickly than he expected.
I really wonder what he would've thought off the UASR.
And this eventually popped out of my brain.
Cultureclash.UASR
How Brave New World Became A Reactionary Dogwhistle Against Communism (And How These Pundits Miss the Point of the Book Entirely)
March 10, 2015
Vevgeny Pavlovich
Reactionary fascism is nothing, if not adaptable. Like a microbe that has evolved to resist antibiotics, fascism and its ideals can take new forms in new environments, waiting until it finds a weak human to invade and parasitize. While almost all of those fortunate to have been born in the dictatorship of proletariat can easily recognize the illness no matter its form, in the captalist world, many bourgeoise are still weak in brain due to capitalist indoctrination and subjugation, and are still suggestible enough to not see the monster once it wears whatever the mask of sincerity and wholesomeness is at the time.
Among their many tactics is to misappropriate the rhetoric of the very proletariat they despise. They claim to offer a pretension of revolution and change, while in fact preserving the bourgeous imperialist agenda of stamping on the face of the worker. My American comrades have a term for this phenomenon: "edgy".
Hitler's bout of race madness was officially labeled "National Socialist German Worker's Party," and in his fiery propaganda, Hitler directed seemingly anticapitalist propaganda against the supposed "Jewish-Bolshevik" elite, which somehow could be blamed for the both the excesses of capitalism and the horror of the workers' state. He did this while making alliances with the Junker elite, who were happy to make a Faustian bargain with this madman and help him build his machine of conquest and terror in exchange for keeping their wealth and power.
In the modern day, this manipulative misapropriation of subversive language continues among the sham bourgeois democracies in Western Europe and the capitalist perversion occupying the island of Cuba.
Terms such as Red Pill, Steppingford Wife [1], and Christian Identity [2] are supposed to be used as resistance to reaction, but have been misused by reactionaires to present themselves as seemingly heroic figures standing up against communist scabs through a combination of feigned outrage and sham populism, while enjoying ill-gotten wealth and privelege.
Alan James and The Epilson Conspiracy
Alan James is perhaps emblematic of the victimhood, duplicity, and hypocrisy that characterizes fascism.
He has built a large media empire centered around a radio show labeled The Real Story. The very title is deeply, deeply misleading, considering he spends hours blaming communism for everything from the decline of the dollar to a global genocide through the use of flouride. Yes this man blames communism for the contamination of precious bodily fluids, and believes Bolshevik Jewish spy satelites are to blame for climate change [3] caused forest fires.
His banter might seem harmless and amusing, but he also incited violence against others, and believes "MacArthur had the right idea" when it came to dealing with Reds, showing he would happily wear an SS uniform and murder others if he had the chance to fight in the Great Patriotic War. And his views on marriage are not exactly the most enlightened. He does not believe rape within a marriage should count as rape, saying, "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape." [4]
I could write about all the deranged things this bourgeois pigdog has written about, but by the time I'm finished, the universe would've suffered heat death.
But his other ventures are the creation of these deranged documentaries, in which he blames every evil plot to destroy the world on "Da Reds."
They have titles like the Blueprint for Global Collectivization and The Sanders Murders. But among his most poisonous endeavors is the Epilson Plot. In this 90 minutes of capitalist hogwash, he alleges that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World to warn humanity of the dangers of "socialist collectivization."
As proof that fascists are defined by a shallow understanding of UASR society, they claim the "pleasure-seeking hedonism of Bolshevik America" is the society that Aldous Huxley imagined in his book: a nation of mindless hedonists who reduce man to nothing seeking pleasure, who have destroyed the family, and yet are still capable of destroying humanity despite their supposed hedonism. [5]
Once again, fascists seem to misinterpret the meaning of Free Love : it is not about mindless pleasure, but allowing male and female comrades to explore their desires without judgement. Free love has freed women from misogynist chains that forced them to be nothing but baby factories and toys for a corrupt capitalist elite, and men are freed from the pressures of living up to a hypermasculine identity build around the bullying and exploitation of woman.
And it is hypocritical for this man to defend the family unit when he has been married four times, with numerous counts of adultery [6]. Adultery is distinguished from free love in that his dalliances are done without his significant other in mind, proving that James is the true hedonist, seeking pleasure at the expense of others.
But Alan James won't let silly things like facts get in the way of his writing.
James claims that the UASR is the "one true World State" (the name of the evil dystopia in the book), and that Aldous was trying to save us from becoming "Epilson slaves to the Bolshevik machine". In the book, Epilson is a name to describe people who have been designated through genetic engineering as a lowly caste meant to exist in eternal servitude.
Soon, on social media, terms such as #Epilson and #WorldState became fascist buzzwords used to take swipes at the UASR.
What Aldous Huxley Actually Believed
It is clear that James probably hasn't even opened a copy of Brave New World. Or he blatantly misinterpreting it.
Because Brave New World was not intended as a satire of socialism, but a swipe at bourgeois utopian fantasies of the early 20th century. In the book, men and women live in a society that celebrates capitalist consumerism and desire. In what proves to be disturbingly presicent, the people of the World State worship Henry Ford as their god and savior, even beginning their calender in 1908, with the invention of the Model T. The dictatorship of the World State is one that manipulates society through applying Fordist manufacturing tactics in the reproduction of children, and then uses various pleasures like commercial goods and a drug called soma to keep people in line through making them not question the emptiness of their existence.
Aldous Huxley, in interviews and articles he published in later years, believed his dystopian nightmare could come true in a capitalist society, like his native England.
"The great threat to democracy are the sensationalists of Fleet Street [7]," Huxley wrote in his article, Brave New World Revisited [8]. "A future dictatorship will be one hawking Maggie's Pies and Cadbury cream eggs." [9]
Huxley himself saw the UASR system as a good, if imperfect, means of deterring the rise of Huxley's dreaded dystopia of consumerism, and his last book, the 1962 book Island, he imagines what he feels would be a perfect society: a fusion of UASR political and social norms, plus Indian-style philosophy. [10]
Huxley, however, wasn't exactly perfect. In the above pamphlet, he feels the chaos that could produce a demagogue would be caused by Malthusian population pressures, and seemingly pushes the myth that resource depletion is caused by a rapacious and fertile underclass, not a corrupt elite seeking to keep its loot for itself, such as in colonial India or British-ruled Ireland, in which surpluses that could've helped starving people were sold at a high cost by a corrupt bourgeois hierarchy that saw its wealth and power more important then the elite.
James shallow and manipulative interpretation of Huxley proves that facsism is in the end an ideology of power-hungry men who seek to manipulate the weak and those devoid of connections which will crumble under the scrutiny and resistence of stronger men. Those of us in the Third International, endowed with the love of the people and our comrades, can easily push away such shallow manipulation, and so will those trapped under the pseudo-democracies of capitalism once they also come to understand the cruelties of their supposedly benevolent bourgeois overlords whose oppression may not be as overt as the past fascist horrors, but as Huxley observed, oppression through bread and circuses is still oppression.
[1] TTL Stepford Wives.
[2] I wish I was joking, but that's the name of a white supremacist that tries to deny the role of Judaism in the formation of Christianity.
[3] Another actual conspiracy that is becoming a mainstream political view.
[4] This is a quote from Phyllis Schlafly, I kid you not.
[5] The unseen enemy in fascism is always at once weak, but still dangerous enough to require destruction.
[6] There are tons of pundits who have personal lives that one would not ascribe to someone living a wholesome Christian existence.
[7] Fleet Street is a metonym for British tabloids.
[8] This was an actual OTL publication by Huxley.
[9] This was based off a quote from Huxley's publication, in which he describes the Mad Men of Madison Avenue as the greatest danger to democracy.
[10] Huxley actually embraced Eastern philosophy and meditation in his later years.