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Germanicus
02-20-2014, 03:00 AM
LIBERTY is the right of every man to do as he pleases as long as he, in so doing, does not interfere with the right of other men to do the same. In politics it means a constitution, self government and the end of arbitrary rule.

EQUALITY means equality of opportunity, of social privileges and burdens. In practice it means manhood suffrage, equality of religious toleration, etc

FRATERNITY. "The brotherhood of Man under the fatherhood of God." All Frenchmen are brothers, whether Breton or Gascon, whether noble or peasant. All people are brothers, whether Frenchmen or Germans. Thus Fraternity was at once a national and an international conception.
-George Bohman/The New Compendium of Modern History

Jack London speaks about The Brotherhood of Man in some of his novels and writings. I am sure that you are more than familiar with the political propaganda terms 'liberty' and 'equality' but are you familiar with the term Fraternity or The Brotherhood of Man?

I am a nationalist and a State Capitalist. I agree with Bolsheviks that the world economy must be unified under one economic system. The Brotherhood of Man is only possible when all nations submit to one economic ideology. Fraternity is both national and international. Fraternity is the way of the future. A global cooperative nationalist State Capitalist world economy is the future. The Brotherhood of Man.



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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, French (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language) for "Liberty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty), equality, fraternity (brotherhood)",[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-FrEmb-1)



In this sense, it was sometimes associated with Death, as in Fraternité, ou la Mort! (Fraternity or Death!), excluding Liberty and even Equality, by establishing a strong dichotomy between those who were brothers and those who were not (in the sense of "you are with me or against me", brother or foe).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] Louis de Saint-Just (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Saint-Just) thus stigmatized Anarchasis Cloots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchasis_Cloots)' cosmopolitanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism), declaring "Cloots liked the universe, except France."[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)]
With Thermidor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction) and the execution of Robespierre, Fraternité disappeared from the slogan, reduced to the two terms of Liberty and Equality, re-defined again as simple judicial equality and not as real equality upheld by the sentiment of fraternity.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] The First Consul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Consul) (Napoleon Bonaparte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte)) then established the motto Liberté, Ordre public (Liberty, Public Order).


Early Socialists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_Socialism) rejected an independent conception of liberty, opposed to the social, and also despised equality, as they considered, asFourier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier), that one had only to orchestrate individual discordances, to harmonize them, or they believed, as Saint-Simon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Henri_de_Rouvroy,_comte_de_Saint-Simon), that equality contradicted equity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_(economics)) by a brutal levelling of individualities.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] Utopian Socialism thus only cared about Fraternity, which was, inCabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Cabet)'s Icarie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians) the sole commandment.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)]


This opposition between liberals and socialists was mirrored in rival historical interpretations of the Revolution, liberals admiring 1789, and Socialists 1793.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] The July Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution) of 1830, establishing a constitutional monarchy headed by Louis-Philippe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_of_France), substitutedOrdre et Liberté (Order and Liberty) to the Napoleonic motto Liberté, Ordre public.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] Despite this apparent disappearance of the triptych, the latter was still being thought in some underground circles, in Republican secret societies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_societies), masonic lodges such as the "Indivisible Trinity," far-left booklets or during the Canuts Revolt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuts_Revolt) in Lyon.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] In 1834, the lawyer of the Société des droits de l'homme (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Société_des_droits_de_l'homme&action=edit&redlink=1) (Society of Human Rights), Dupont (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Charles_Dupont_de_l'Eure), a liberal sitting in the far-left during the July Monarchy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Monarchy), associated the three terms together in the Revue Républicaine (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Revue_Républicaine&action=edit&redlink=1) which he edited:

Any man aspires to liberty, to equality, but he can not achieve it without the assistance of other men, without fraternity[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-Ozouf-2)[page needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)][b] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité#cite_note-9)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité

The Indivisible Trinity. That is good.

What is your opinion? Do you believe that The Brotherhood of Man can lead to the end of western neo-colonialism and imperialism? Do you support Fraternity? Do you believe in the Indivisible Trinity? Would you fight for the great cause of The Brotherhood of Man?

Germanicus
02-20-2014, 03:20 AM
"Ghent has taught the oligarchs how to do it," Ernest said. "I'll wager they've made a text-book out of his 'Benevolent Feudalism.'"* * "Our Benevolent Feudalism," a book published in 1902 A.D., by W. J. Ghent. It has always been insisted that Ghent put the idea of the Oligarchy into the minds of the great capitalists. This belief persists throughout the literature of the three centuries of the Iron Heel, and even in the literature of the first century of the Brotherhood of Man. To-day we know better, but our knowledge does not overcome the fact that Ghent remains the most abused innocent man in all history.

Never shall I forget the night when, after a hot discussion with half a dozen labor leaders, Ernest turned to me and said quietly: "That settles it. The Iron Heel has won. The end is in sight."


"The socialists used to foretell with joy," he said, "the coming of the day when organized labor, defeated on the industrial field, would come over on to the political field. Well, the Iron Heel has defeated the labor unions on the industrial field and driven them over to the political field; and instead of this being joyful for us, it will be a source of grief. The Iron Heel learned its lesson. We showed it our power in the general strike. It has taken steps to prevent another general strike.""But how?" I asked.
"Simply by subsidizing the great unions. They won't join in the next general strike. Therefore it won't be a general strike."
"But the Iron Heel can't maintain so costly a programme forever," I objected.
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jlondon/bl-jlon-iron-14.htm

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"These things the oligarchs will do because they cannot help doing them. These great works will be the form their expenditure of the surplus will take, and in the same way that the ruling classes of Egypt of long ago expended the surplus they robbed from the people by the building of temples and pyramids. Under the oligarchs will flourish, not a priest class, but an artist class. And in place of the merchant class of bourgeoisie will be the labor castes. And beneath will be the abyss, wherein will fester and starve and rot, and ever renew itself, the common people, the great bulk of the population. And in the end, who knows in what day, the common people will rise up out of the abyss; the labor castes and the Oligarchy will crumble away; and then, at last, after the travail of the centuries, will it be the day of the common man. I had thought to see that day; but now I know that I shall never see it."
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jlondon/bl-jlon-iron-14.htm
Will we see it? (:

Is this the age of The Brotherhood of Man?