July 11, 1999 - When at the end of the Eighties the Soviet Union fell, many of us thought that Socialism was over. Unfortunately, nothing is farther from the truth.

Socialism lives. Phase I was the 19th century Marxist ideology from England. Phase II was the first crude experiment in the USSR. Now socialism has entered a new, much more sophisticated phase in what was thought to be the most unlikely place: the United States.

The US is the perfect host for the socialist parasite. Rich, established, currently void of mass ideology, obsessed with health, with relatively small historical experience -- and in need of a cause.

The persecution of smokers through frauds and propaganda has been, and is, the great social probe. That probe has yielded, so far, very promising information for the achievement of the socialist dream.

The erosion of the orthodox principles of personal liberty and integrity in the US is just the beginning of the process. That is coupled with the instrumentalization of media and science to divulge false information, and mutual mistrust, as well as spreading the ideology of a state that protects everyboby, thus removing the necessity for individuals to develop the skills required to take care of themselves. Finally, there is the creation of a monumental state bureaucracy to make it impossible for the individual or for the small organization to fight the Monster State. These are the preliminary steps of phase III.

The conditioning of children in schools and the takeover of their upbringing by the state is another important step of phase III. Part of it is described in the article I am presenting today.

The "Health Revolution" recently trumpeted by Gro Harlem Brutland of the WHO is the new morphology of the socialist ideology, transmitted across the world on the carrier wave of state health "concerns," and state "interventions".

No more Red Army, KGB, party officers and party watchdogs barking slogans: those crude methods and institutions truly belong to the past. Socialism has "modernized" to capture the contemporary world.

The new ideologists of socialism are people like Clinton and his creatures, such as Shalala, and Brutland.

The Red army is now an immense bureaucracy that is as invincible as it is non-accountable and faceless.

The party officers are a medical establishment that has expanded its powers immensely beyond its mandate in order to influence, milk, and control governments while gestating junk science and barking health slogans.

The party watchdogs are the toll-free, anonymity-guaranteed "whistle-blower" phone lines that are rewarding and ennobling snitchers and spies as protectors of society against its dissenting members. Children are taught delation about their parents for their parents' "own good."

Even if defeated at the next US elections, the American Socialists will leave behind a machine that is a masterpiece of political and social engineering -- a machine whose only conceivable change is expansion, even if under a different management.

A new American Revolution would be (and IS) required to destroy this machine down to its last bolt and screw -- and even bolts and screws would have to be eventually melted, for they could be recycled to create a new doomsday machine.

It does not matter if in that machine there are some good gears. What that social device is designed for, as a whole, is to turn the vision of the world that George Orwell so passionately tried to warn us against into reality.

And once that is done, a powerful mechanism preventing the reconstruction of the socialist model (whether based on health, legal litigation, security & safety, or any other guise) must be built to reinforce and expand the foundations laid by the Founding Fathers. Those great Revolutionaries could not foresee a social cancer that was two centuries away.

Most revolutions have been sparked when the state abuse got to the point that people were physically starving. The American Revolution was instead sparked and fought over issues of taxation, and personal liberties.

The great question now is, will America find its roots again, before it's too late, or will it become the final materialization of the Marxist dream?

Gian Turci
FORCES INTERNATIONAL