CAESARISM By the term "Caesarism" I mean that kind of government which, irrespective of any constitutional formulation that it may have, is in its inward self a return to thorough formlessness. It does not matter that Augustus in Rome, and Huang Ti in China, Amasis in Egypt and Alp Arslan in Baghdad disguised their position under antique forms. the spirit of these forms was dead, and so all institutions, however carefully maintained, were thenceforth destitute of all meaning and weight. Real importance centred in the wholly personal power exercised by the Caesar... ~The Decline of The West Spengler OUR Western world, America and Europe, is threatened with Caesarism on a scale unknown since the dawn of the Roman Empire. In order to see this threat in its proper perspective, we have to assess the relationship between America and Europe, and define their historical destinies. It is the contention of this book that expanding democracy leads unintentionally to imperialism and that imperialism inevitably ends in destroying the republican institutions of earlier days; further, that the greater the social equality, the dimmer the prospects of liberty, and that as society becomes more equalitarian, it tends increasingly to concentrate absolute power in the hands of one single man. Caesarism is not dictatorship, not the result of one man's overriding ambition, not a brutal seizure of power through revolution. It is not based on a specific doctrine or philosophy. It is essentially pragmatic and untheoretical. It is a slow, often century-old, unconscious development that ends in a voluntary surrender of a free people escaping from freedom to one autocratic master. New concentrations of power during the past fifty years of world wars, revolutions, and crises, have made this threat of Caesarism increasingly evident. Political power in the Western world has become increasingly concentrated in the United States of America, and in the office of the President within America. The power and prestige of the President have grown with the growth of America and of democracy within America, with the multiplication of economic, political...... ~The Coming Caesars. Amaury De Riencourt This civil war between Europeans and Muslim immigrants who have had success of imposing their kind of civilization on Europe is the result, Fjordman says "of today's decadent, bored, post-religious and post-nationalist Europe that is no match for Islam, unless it rediscovers a belief in its own culture and a will to defend it. If not, the end result will either be Eurabia or a Pakistanization of Europe, the way we have already seen for generations in the Balkans." The Pakistanization of Europe is one such scenario he sees for Europe.  Once a full-blown civil war starts in one country, it can, and probably will, spread to other countries. We are now witnessing an example of this, as smaller "sympathy riots" have been staged by Muslims in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark following the unrest in France.  In reality, there may be a The Clash of Fascisms. In the civil war that will ensue:  "There would be a widespread feeling that Europe is descending into chaos, and that the governments are unwilling or incapable of stopping this. If this situation continues, some people will cry out for a Strong Man to "cleanse Europe of foreigners" and restore its honor and wounded pride. And He will step forward. By then, you won't have a "Clash of Civilizations" in Europe, but rather a Clash of Fascisms: Euro-Fascism vs. Islamo-Fascism."  http://www.jdl-uk.org/2012/05/is-civil-war-in-europe-inevitable.html One possibility (Ango-American): http://www.salon.com/2010/08/31/lind_caesarism_america/ "The European Union that will emerge from this process will be diametrically opposed to the idea of a European Union that is the embodiment of an open society. It will be a hierarchical system built on debt obligations instead of a voluntary association of equals. There will be two classes of states, creditors and debtors, and the creditors will be in charge. As the strongest creditor country, Germany will emerge as the hegemon.The class differentiation will become permanent because the debtor countries will have to pay significant risk premiums for access to capital and it will become impossible for them to catch up with the creditor countries. The divergence in economic performance, instead of narrowing, will become wider. Both human and financial resources will be attracted to the center and the periphery will become permanently depressed. Germany will even enjoy some relief from its demographic problems by the immigration of well educated people from the Iberian Peninsula and Italy instead of less qualified "Gastarbeiter" from Turkey or Ukraine." Another (Prussian) http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/the_tragedy_of_the_european_union/

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