I am tired of the construct of a business. I think the #socialists really are on to something when they say that the road of unfettered capitalism is rapidly declining. The problem in the US, being those who care enough in the first place to want some change and are gravely realizing the rather sad reality where many of us are absolutely ineffectual in making real change happen or engage is that around /half/ the United States is full of idiots who don't care about what makes technology work and don't care enough to help bring the change everybody else wants. They also happen to not care who they vote for, either.

Capitalistic business creation through the publicly traded model is one of the most gawd-awful inventions created by white men, next to pervasive AI used in both government and business.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/1646259/struggling-shoe-retailer-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-stock-explodes-more-than-700

There is a news report out somewhere that reports *the creation of publicly traded companies is significantly down in the US.* I think that this is really good news. We need more private profit enterprises because the public kind are steaming piles of you know what.

Most modern companies are basically not a lot more than something useless that all of the idiots enjoy calling useful. Companies primarily exist to fatten the pockets of their CEOs and those participating in stock buybacks and, at the same time, make workers trudge under total misery in the cubicles — who work for peanuts to make inferior digital products that don't do a lot other than have embedded advertising in them to try and sell us even more commercial materialism in the form of products and services. Over a third of these digital products and services, namely anything which Microsoft or Nvidia manufactures or supports is proprietary which defeats the entire purpose of approaching both design and coding software from an Open Source style of working and thinking about how it all comes together.

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Genealogical Diagram: From Romanticism to Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism

How to Read the Genealogy

1. Rousseau & Romanticism — the emotional and moral root system

Rousseau and the early Romantic movement sit at the same level because they are essentially two expressions of the same worldview. Rousseau provides the philosophical core; Romanticism turns it into a cultural force.

Together they supply the soil from which later ideologies grow:

• authenticity over rationalism
• the natural self as morally pure
• suspicion of civilisation and modernity
• the heroic individual
• the Volk as an organic cultural community (Johann Gottfried Herder’s contribution)
• emotion as a guide to truth

This is the pre‑ideological foundation that later thinkers will systematise, politicise, or weaponise.

2. Kant — the bridge from Romantic sentiment to philosophical structure

Immanuel Kant is not a Romantic, but he provides the crucial intellectual machinery that makes German Idealism possible:

• the transcendental subject
• the limits of empirical reason
• the autonomy of the moral will
• the distinction between appearance and reality

Kant gives later thinkers the architecture they need to turn Romantic intuitions into philosophical systems.

3. Fichte & Early German Idealism — the nationalist and voluntarist turn

Fichte stands at the same level as Early German Idealism because he is its first full expression. He radicalises Kant and fuses him with Romantic nationalism.

Fichte introduces:

• the self (“I”) as world‑creating
• struggle as the engine of moral development
• the State as educator and moral shaper
• the Volk as a spiritual community defined by language and culture
• the idea that national unity is a moral imperative

This is why the National Socialists later mined him so heavily: he provides a philosophical justification for unity, struggle, and State supremacy without the Marxist baggage attached to Hegel.

4. Schelling — the Romantic metaphysician

Schelling blends Romanticism and Idealism into a metaphysics of nature:

• nature as living Spirit
• the unity of mind and world
• the aesthetic as a path to truth

He is the bridge between Fichte’s voluntarism and Hegel’s system‑building.

5. Hegel — the system‑builder of history and the State

Hegel takes the entire Romantic–Idealist inheritance and turns it into a grand historical machine:

• the dialectic
• Spirit unfolding through conflict
• history as rational development
• the State as the embodiment of ethical life
• freedom as recognition within institutions

Hegel is the pivot point. From him, the ideological branches diverge.

• Marx takes Hegel’s dialectic and flips it upside down: materialism instead of Spirit, class instead of consciousness.
• National Socialists reject Hegel because Marx used him, turning instead to Fichte and Herder.
• Fascists borrow the Romantic–voluntarist elements (myth, will, unity) without the metaphysical system.

6. The Three Ideological Descendants

Marxism

• class struggle
• materialism
• historical determinism
• the dialectic inverted
• the State as instrument of class rule

Marxism is Hegel without Spirit, Romanticism without the individual, and Fichte without the nation.

National Socialism

• racial struggle
• Volk as biological destiny
• State supremacy
• unity through exclusion
• Fichtean nationalism + Herderian cultural unity

Nazism is Fichte radicalised, Herder racialised, and Romanticism weaponised.

Fascism

• myth
• will
• unity
• anti‑liberal modernism
• the State as a living organism

Fascism is Romanticism without Rousseau, Fichte without metaphysics, and Hegel with the “correct” dialectic.

7. The Big Picture

All three ideologies — Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism — draw from the same Romantic–Idealist well, but each selects different ingredients:

• Marxism takes Hegel’s dialectic and Rousseau’s egalitarian moralism.
• National Socialism takes Fichte’s nationalism and Herder’s Volk metaphysics.
• Fascism takes Romantic will, myth, and the unified State.

They are siblings, not strangers — born from the same intellectual family, but raised in different political households.

The #GreenParty are the ONLY #UK #Socialists, so it makes sense they would stand with our much-maligned trades unions. 👍🎉👏👏👏

#Green + #Socialism = #Home + #People

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/03/31/polanski-neu-speech/

L'Huffington Post - News, inchieste e approfondimenti HuffPost: Sui migranti non c'è dubbio: l’Ue ha una maggioranza di destra

In Parlamento europeo i Popolari votano insieme a Patrioti e Sovranisti il regolamento sui rimpatri, a tutti gli effetti deportazioni in paesi terzi non di origine. No da Socialisti e Liberali. Eppure il cancelliere Friedrich Merz aveva richiamato all'ordine il presidente del Ppe Weber per il flirt con AfD: oggi la conferma che era solo una mossa elettorale

On migrants, there is no doubt: the EU has a right-wing majority.

In the European Parliament, the conservatives (European People's Party) vote together with the Patriots and Sovereigns on the deportation regulation, effectively deportations to third countries of non-origin. No from Socialists and Liberals. However, Chancellor Friedrich Merz had called to order the president of the EPP Weber for the flirtation with the AfD: today’s confirmation that it was only a electoral move.

#third #Socialists #FriedrichMerz

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/esteri/2026/03/26/news/sui_migranti_non_ce_dubbio_lue_ha_una_maggioranza_di_destra-21532821/

Pretend you're NOT one of the global minority of #socialists (who can't organise a piss up in a brewery).

what DO you do with 80% of 9bn people who won't have any income in ten years time?

I was out door-knocking with the Victorian Socialists in Broadmeadows this afternoon.

Lots of interesting conversations with people in the area. Many people that said "I'm not really in to politics" that were very in to politics when asked what they are concerned about and what is important to them.

#Socialists #SpringSt #Broadmeadows

“If the EPP yields to German pressure, the conflict will return in every vote on migration”— AfD MEP Alexander Sell

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/epp-afd-firewall-cooperation-migration-ep-germany-eu-reform-alexander-sell/