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Continentalism: Now, More Than Ever, The Mandate Of Survival
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In 1947, Howard Scott, founder and Director in Chief of Technocracy Inc., pointed out some of the factors that are involved in world events. The following excerpt from the Technocracy pamphlet Continentalism, the Mandate of Survival was pertinent in 1947 and is today.
Howard Scott pointed out that the U.S.S.R. was a contiguous continentalism, but was still operated by a Price System and was in a stage of technological development 50 years behind Canada and the United States. He could not have known just how vulnerable the U.S.S.R. would prove to be when matching threat with a nuclear power that had demonstrated a willingness to engage in insane belligerence.
So, North America is now alone with its opportunity to form into a contiguous continentalism; it could then be a model for others. It can be done; indeed, we have no choice!
``World War I began on August 2, 1914. The Triple Entente was at war with the Triple Alliance with one dissenting. In March 1917 the breakdown of internal operations brought into being the collapse of Czarist Russia and an accompanying political revolution. The political revolution progressed through various stages until November 7, 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution took over the control of the new Russian state born in the previous March. Czarist Russia had ceased to be an ally of Great Britain and France, but the new Soviet Republic attempted to continue the war on the eastern front although it was finally compelled to throw in the sponge and sue for peace with Germany, which it finally obtained in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the spring of 1918.
``At the time that the Russians first attempted to negotiate an armistice and peace terms with the Germans in early December 1917, it ended in failure due to Trotsky disobeying his Government's instructions. Great Britain and France were fully cognizant of the Russian attempt to get out of the war and to negotiate a peace with Germany. British and French political leaders met in Paris and on December 23, 1917 they jointly subscribed to the document that has become known in history as the Anglo-French partition agreement. It was entitled `L'Accord Francais-Anglais due 23 Decembre, 1917, dinisant les zones d'action francaises et anglaises.' Great Britain and France, the two countries that in 1914 had agreed that Czarist Russia should obtain the Dardanelles as the price of her assistance in World War I, on this December 23 agreed among themselves to divide up the territory of the upstart Bolshevik nation. This partition agreement was but the first in a series of agreements, treaties, and alliances that finally led to the creation by 1923 of the Cordon Sanitaire around the western frontiers of Russia. Invasions of Russian territory by her previous allies began in 1918. Russia was invaded from Iran, from the Black Sea, from the Polish and Romanian frontier, from the Baltic and from the previous russian territory of Finland, from her Arctic ports of Murmansk and Archangel, from Vladivostok, Sakhalin and Manchuria.
``Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States were the first-class powers of the world that participated both in the military invasion of Russian territory and the creation of the Cordon Sanitaire. The Finnish Soviet Republic was overthrown by the force of arms of the British armies under General Poole and the German armies under General Rudiger von der Goltz, accompanied by General Mannerheim. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Baltic Provinces of Russia, were taken by military force and erected into three separate Republics in the anti-Soviet Cordon Sanitaire. Poland, with western European military assistance, enlarged her territories by biting off large chunks of Ukrainian and Byelorussian territory. Romania was permitted to incorporate the Russian province of Bessarabia. Turkey, the former ally of Germany in World War I, an enemy of Great Britain, France and Russia, whose armies assisted the British under General Wavell in the invasion of the Russian Caucasus from Iran, was permitted to slice off the Russian provinces of Kars and Ardahan. This was the crude beginning of Cordon Sanitaire No. I erected by the five leading powers of the world to contain Russia and stop bolshevism immediately after World War I. By the 1930s Germany had become rehabilitated. Germany under Hitler, Hungary under Horthy, and Italy under Mussolini became the chief blocks in the wall of the Cordon Sanitaire to be later joined by Spain and Portugal.
"It is obvious that by 1938 most of Europe had joined the Cordon Sanitaire. It is also apparent that the creation of Cordon Sanitaire No. I may to some extent have achieved its purpose of having contained Soviet Russia behind its eastern frontier and blocked the spread of bolshevism, but it must also be noted that this Cordon Sanitaire provided the reactionary breeding ground in which the clerical fascism of Western Europe was spawned. The propagation of fascism behind the walls of Cordon Sanitaire No. I was so efficacious that the fascist powers of Europe began World War II in 1939 with the concept expressly in mind that, when their armies achieved military victory, they would push the walls of their Cordon Sanitaire eastward beyond the Urals, and if this hope were realized, bolshevism and the Russian State would be forever defeated and isolated to an ineffectual territory between the Urals and Lake Baikal. Let us recall again that Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan were first-class military and economic powers when they created Cordon Sanitaire No. I. The creation of Cordon Sanitaire No. I was a geographical implementaion for placing fascism in control of Western Europe. Cordon Sanitaire No. I backed by the leading powers of the world failed in its purpose. It failed to contain Russia and it failed to stop communism for in the Europe of 1939, communism was the only social antidote to clerical fascism. Cordon Sanitaire No. I has gone down in history. So too has the fascist conspiracy of Western Europe of World War II.
``And now in 1947 after the carnage and devastation, the death and destruction of World War II, two voices [Churchill's and Truman's] loudly proclaim their demands for the creation of a Cordon Sanitaire No. II and a world-wide crusade to stop the communism that a Cordon Sanitaire No. I so utterly failed to stem. Cordon Sanitaire No. I was in actuality a joint enterprise of the leading powers of the world outside of the U.S.S.R. Cordon Sanitaire No. II will be the sole enterprise of the United States of America to be carried out with the spiritual benediction of the political Vatican State. If the combined forces, political and military, of the prosperous going concerns of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Germany were unable to sustain Cordon Sanitaire No. I, Technocracy asks can the United States of America contemplate even in its lush prosperity the wildest of all international gambles in history?
``Military armies can stop and defeat the military armies of their enemies. Political boundaries and custom barriers can prevent the flow of goods and travel of human beings. But bayonets, machine guns and bombs combined with all the coercive police powers of a political state cannot stop ideas. Ideas know no boundaries; they bow to no coercion. The individual vehicle of an idea may die but the idea marches on. Ideas germinate and flourish in social soil anywhere, and they become endemic to any territory whose social soil is similar in analysis to the soil in which they were first developed. Fascism was used in Europe as an antidote for Bolshevist Communism. Fascism failed primarily because it did not provide a new social design for the collective organization of mankind and the means whereby they live. Fascism failed because it was in essence a national sadism for the perpetuation of privilege and the status quo. Whenever and wherever hunger and poverty exist, where the privilege of the few insists upon maintaining itself at the expense of the common good and the general welfare of the majority, wherever economic insecurity is the only reward that the masses of any population can derive from an existence of human-toil and hand-tools, there will be found the fertile soil upon which the seeds of political communism can take root and thrive.
``Political communism can only be stopped by the promulgation of a more revolutionary social doctrine than that of Marx. In this new foreign policy of President Truman, United States proposes to stop communism everywhere with a flood of United States dollars, goods and military equipment, and not a single idea that can even begin to compete in the socio-political sense with the political promises of Marxion Communism. This proposed foreign policy is a world-wide preachment of hate against the doctrine of a political philosophy that didn't originate from the process of dollar success of American business. The leaders in United States have fallen for a fundamental fallacy that, because the dollars are so important in the escutcheon of American financial nobility, the use of this primary motif elsewhere in the world will purchase immunity from social change for them in their sales territories both here at home and abroad.
``The foreign policy of a nation should be the external strategic implementation of that country's national policy. The national policy of a nation is determined by the geography of its sovereign domain: its soil, climate and precipitation range within its boundaries; the adequacy of its natural resources; and the extent to which its continental area provides sufficient coastline on one or more oceans to provide the national entity with access to the seaways of the world. Under this broad generalization, the second determinant of policy is the state of development of that nation's technology in the production and distribution of physical wealth to its citizens and, if necessary, to the world. What we are herein describing is that there are two general categories of nations. Of the first category there are those whose national domain are of such order of magnitude in size, resources and technology that it may develop into a contiguous continentalism. And there are those of the lower order of magnitude whose size, inadequacy of resources and technology place them in the category of dependent nations.
``The national policy of a nation in the first category can be entirely different from that of those in the second category. A contiguous continentalism adequate in size, resources and climate to provide the means for a technological production and distribution of physical wealth can envisage its social destiny to where it may, under proper control of all internal operations, create an economy of abundance with a standard of livelihood impossible of attainment by those nations of a lower order of magnitude. National policy would always be restricted by the geographical and geological limitations of the dependent nations' domains. Nations in this second category can only have a national policy whose chief theme is the preservation of law and order for the legal distribution of scarcity within their own national boundaries. Their policy must always remain one of conservative expediency and of small trickeries and minor pretences that arise from an insufficiency in size and the inadequacy of a minor order of national magnitude. Their future is always one of national fear either of conquest or absorption on the part of larger and more powerful neighbors. The psychology of their national policy is one of fear. They are always on the defensive. Their hopes of attainment in the world of international relationships are a perpetuation of more of the same national standards they have enjoyed. They therefore are fearful of social change in other nations because, realizing their inadequacy on the international scene, they might succumb if national change were sufficiently widespread.
"The day of the small nation has passed insofar as no small nation today is capable of developing a social system that can be exported to the world superior to that which can be instituted by the technological application of science to the operation of a contiguous continentalism. We of North America must realize that only a contiguous continentalism operated by a technological control can produce a national policy capable of having its reflex, its foreign policy as an exportable ideology of national welfare desired and hoped for by the people of the nations of the world. The export of American dollars, British pounds sterling, or Russian rubles are but the peanut pretences of national incompetence on the international scene."