By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE communist regime of Maoist China provided one of the most spectacular examples of failed collectivist ideology in the 20th Century. Some might argue Stalin’s USSR should share the dubious honor. Then there’s the Romanian, Cambodian and North Korean examples of national failure.
China, after its disastrous food shortages and Cultural Revolution, adopted mass population control in 1980 in the form of a one-child policy, because of overpopulation fears. But the real problem wasn’t overpopulation, it was lack of productivity and technology – a top down command economy built on mass labor, primitive collective agriculture and primitive factories.
Then in 2015, during China’s rise to economic power, the Chinese Communist Party decided to end what even The Guardian described as the “draconian one-child policy”. There were serious implications involved in restricting births. For one thing it created demographic imbalance similar to that experienced by many western countries – an increasingly aged population unable to be supported by new, working and wealth-creating younger generations.
The CCP regime changed its mind and declared: “You, male partner and female partner, may now have two children.” “Oh thank you most auspicious, gracious and all-knowing state for allowing us to now have two in our family,” we suspect no-one except party officials replied. Then in May 2021 the limit was increased to three. By July 2021 the party fully realised the stupidity of the policy and removed all limits.
But it was not Mao and his brainwashed Red Guard zealots who invented population control. Through the 1950s, 60s and 70s it was the billionaire US Rockefeller banking family who were advocating and financing eugenics, mass population control and then the environmental movement, fueled by best-selling books like The Population Bomb (1968) by Paul R. Erlich of Stanford University.
The Rockefeller-initiated Population Commission was signed into being in March 1970 by the Nixon administration with strong “bipartisan support” from the Democrats. The job of the Commission, chaired of course by John D. Rockefeller, was to study a broad range of “problems associated with population growth” and their implication for America’s future up to the year 2000. “Information and education” (read propaganda) was to be supplied to all levels of government and the American people.
Those old enough to have lived through those times may recall the frequent news stories that arose around footage of African or Biafran famines where the idea of “too many people to feed” or “too much population growth” was subtly or not-so-subtlly inserted.
Population control had been popularised much earlier by the English cleric and economist Rev. Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), and gained traction also through Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, who had developed eugenics theories along with Gregor Mendel, the Austrian biologist and Augustinian friar.
So the two major bastard children of the historical eugenics movement were population control and environmentalism. The Nazis had combined the two in their lebensraum (living space) policy, mimicking the earlier “racial hygiene” or eugenics campaigns in the United States such as the notorious Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment.
The next major development was environmentalism merging with the New Left. In the United States environmentalism became a both a radical left cause through groups such as EarthFirst who gained notoreity spiking trees destined for milling. Environmentalism also became a plank of “respectable Democrat and Republican liberalism” that grew out of the more rational conservation movement.
Bit thanks to Rockefeller’s Standard Oil money, Green Left environmentalism became entrenched in the university courses, as did feminism, another Rockefeller population control project.
Rockefeller, aka “Big Oil” wasn’t in environmentalism just to salve its conscience. Environmentalism brought with it government regulation and control and eventually the monolith called the Environment Protection Authority. This made oil exploration and refining much more expensive, driving up its price for the benefit of the Big Oil cartel and keeping competition restricted.
Concurrently, the English and Dutch royal families were also up to their eyeballs in this business with their multinational Shell Oil Company. You may recall HRH Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh, was a prominent advocate for the environmental movement.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Prince Phillip were among the founding members of the World Wildlife Fund, along with Julian Huxley and not coincidentally Godfrey A. Rockefeller, a friend of the late President George H.W. Bush Snr.
So where to the Greens fit in this story? As mentioned, environmentalism became married to the New Left movement and entrenched in universities. Australia’s Greens party emerged from the environmentalist campaign to stop the Franklin River hydro scheme in the early 1980s, led by the homosexual doctor Bob Brown, later to become a Greens senator.
The Australian Greens were formed in 1992. A Green party had also been formed in Germany in the early 1980s and gained federal representation in 1983. The Australian Greens, capitalising on the mass of Green New Left indoctrination in universities and schools, became the third largest political party.
As with all neo-Marxist/New Left movements, adherents tend to be strident and often irrational ideologues, as exemplified by the Just Stop Oil crazies of the UK, who think it’s their divine right to simply block traffic or to deface buildings and art work with paint because of an alleged “climate crisis”.
The Australian Greens are only a step away from Just Stop Oil. Some Greens like Lidia Thorpe have exhibited that sort of infantile fanaticism, but more from the indigenist angle in her case, leading to her expulsion from the party.
Being a feminist and/or LGBTQ and pro-abortion activist is a baseline qualification for Greens membership and political candidacy – pro-abortion because environmentalist ideology says humans are not what the Book of Genesis tells us. Humans are just a dominant species in nature whose numbers must be culled when they hurt nature, the planet and its climate.
Being highly ideological revolutionaries seeking the overthrow of the oil, coal and gas industries, gives the Greens a daily sense of righteous mission in a crusade against the dark forces of evil. There is probably a large element of paranoia, which leads to internal tensions.
Videographer and independent journalist Rukshan Fermando told the online discussion hosted by Rebel News (above) that the Greens party has become synonymous with complaints of political bullying. Staff, candidates and senators have quit the party because of a “toxic culture of bullying”.
“I think there is a culture where you have to do things in a certain way otherwise they will attack you from within,” he said. The latest Green to quit is the party’s South Australian leader Tammy Franks.
Pollitical bullying is not uncommon in parties of the far Left, where ideological commitment, aka political correctness, is required. It can be seen on work sites controlled by militant unions like the CFMEU (apologies member Bob Katter).
The new Greens leader Senator Larissa Waters told media this week: “People are really hurting. The planet is really hurting.” Apparently we’re to believe that the senator has some sort of psychic connection to Planet Earth, with whom she connects on a regular basis.
Unfortunately, there will be 11 of these creatures sitting in Senate seats during the next three years and they will hold the balance of power, meaning Labor will have to give in to their woke, extremist demands, meaning continued strangulation of Australia’s economic vitality, freedom of speech and freedom in general.
Will the Greens back any tendency of Labor towards extreme Leftist policy? You bet they will. That’s what they’re there for.
Brace yourselves Aussies for well-organised green/indigenist agitation, “shocking reports” on racial inequality, loss of biodiversity and/or the damage farming, forestry and mining (but not wind and solar farms) to our pristine environment.