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Anti-communism : Formation of the  » cordon sanitaire » against Bolchevism

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Anti-communism : Formation of the « Cordon sanitaire » against Bolchevism

In his message to Congress of 8 January 1918, President Wilson announced his Fourteen Points fixing the terms of peace. Wilson’s Fourteen points served as the basis for the peace settlement and the Versailles Treaty of 1919. Chronologically, Wilson’s Fourteen Points came immediately after the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia two months ago, in November 1917. When Wilson announced his Fourteen Points, he and his European partners, France and Great Britain didn’t have a clear picture of the nature and the development of the new upheaval taking place in the former tsarist empire as one can observe for example Point 6 of the Fourteen Points, claiming “the evacuation of the Russian territory and the independent determination by Russia of her own political development and national policy”. It would be interesting to mention other assertions included in Wilson Fourteen Points announcing the redrawing of new map in Europe and the organization of the new states whose creation could only be justified by their role as bulwark against Bolshevism. We can observe this hidden motive through the points 10 to 14. For example Point 10 claims the self determination for the peoples of Austria Hungary ; point 11 calls for a redrawing of the boundaries of the Balkan states along historically established lines of nationality ; point 12 asserts the self-determination for the people under Turkish rule and freedom; point 13 claims the Independence of Poland with free access to the sea guaranteed by international covenant and finally point 14 appeals to the formation of a general association of nations for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

The first forma session of the peace conference took place on 18 January 1919, A Peace conference dominated by the “Big Four” England, France, Italy and the United States. Russia was not represented since the Allies hoped that the new Soviet government would shortly collapse. The main preoccupation of Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando was less the sort of peace with vanquished Germany than this new menace henceforth haunting Europe, Bolshevism “that hung over Paris like a dark cloud” Everyone was thinking of it many were talking of it. Rumors and false flag circulated and widespread about Hungary going Bolshevik with Bela Kun, that Germany and Italy the next before invading the entire bourgeois capitalist world. For this reason, Wilson who planned to return to home was forced to stay in Paris in order to thwart Bolshevism reaping the profit.

In order to fight Bolshevism in Russia, The treaty of Versailles had erected a bulwark knowing as the “cordon sanitaire” a ring of anti-communist states to isolate the Soviet Union and formed from pseudo and proxy states created from nothing by the only will of three imperialist victors, the united states, England and France. The first piece of the “cordon sanitaire” was Germany wrested only from her colonies and commercial rights in Africa and the Far East, from Alsace-Lorraine, Posen and parts of Schleswig and Silesia. For United States, Germany was the principal bulwark against Bolshevism and that is why Wilson resisted the  Allies to charge Germany with the whole cost of the war, and opposed Clemenceau claim over Rhineland, the Polish demand for East Prussia. From Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia came the newly independent states of Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia,  The other pieces of the Cordon sanitaire created by other treaties  were Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Finland and a new Poland created from the historic Polish territories that had been parts of three empire with a corridor to the sea according to Wilson willingness.  Wilson and his European colleagues also built a cordon sanitaire (buffer zone) of new westward-proxy nations(Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithonia) around Russia to quarantaine the Bolchevik contagion.

 

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Anti-communism :Early Anti-Reds Crusade

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Anti-communism : Early Anti-Reds Crusade

On November 18, 1918, Kolchak overthrow the somewhat democratic regime at Omsk;  The allied intervened in behalf of Admiral Kolchak six months afzetr the armictice six months after any . This Allied intervention was done to a country which no one of the four nations(Britian, france, Japan and America) was at war. Tit constituted an official open and avowed attack on the Soviet government of Moscow Allied support to Kolchak constituted an intervention in a civil war a subsidy of one side against the other. In support of the Allied attempt to, defeat and destroy the Bolshevik government THE British Government gave Kolchak seventy-nine shiploads of supplies arms and equipment for 100 000 men but this army while advancing toward Moscow had been defeated and driven back thousands of miles along the Siberian railway in one of the most disastrous retreats of all time. The red Army captured Kolchak and shot him at Irkutsk. Lloyd George declared in the House of Commons Kolcjak’s effort to suppress the Reds had been aided by the presence of British, French American and Japanese troops east of Lake Baikal based on Vladivostok. The decision of the Allied to send troops to Vladivostok was made in July 1918 On July 2 the Allied Supreme War Council decided for intervention and on the 17th Washington notified the Allies that the United States would join the japanese in landing troops at Vladivostok the  American troops remained in Siberia from mid—1918 to early 1920 But the Japanese stayed two years longer. In south Russia the intervention of France was still inglorious when the government sent 140 000 men to the Odessa region and the Crimea On April 4, 1919 General Denikine was informed that the French would control everything in their zone of occupation including “operations against the Bolsheviks. British intervention in South Russia was concentrated in the Caucasus provinces of Turkestan Georgia and Azerbaijan Denikine was forbidden to undertake any operations in the oil regions thus taken under British control. The British clung to Batum until July 1920

In December 1918 the British and French Governments made a special agreement dividing European Russia into two zones of occupation and influence the British zone including the Cossack regions the Caucasus Armenia Georgia and Kurdistan; the French zone comprised the Ukraine, Crimea and east to the Don river in this area the French made agreements with the White leaders giving them “control of Russian railways for fifty years and of economic and military policy for five years”

After the overthrow of Tsarist regime in Russia, there were some 45 000 to Czech deserters in western from the Austrian armies who had been fighting with the Russians. these men were organized by Thomas A Mazaryck for return to the Western front. In western Siberia suspicion developed between the Soviets and the Czechs. Trotsky ordered all the Czechs to be disarmed on pain of being shot on sight.  While their National Council ordered them to comply they defied the authority of the Soviets and very soon controlled much of the Ural region and nearly all of the trans-Siberian railroad; British, French and American agents encouraged them and under their protection two anti-Soviet governments were  set up. The seizure of effective power in Siberia by the Czechs was received with great satisfaction in Allied governmental circles the Czechs could be used to prevent the return of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war to the central Powers in the wake of this gain it soon became apparent that the Soviet-Czech clash supplied the one element necessary for an international war against the reds with the hope of military success with such a vast area apparently torn from Soviet hands, it seemed feasible to the Allies to arm white forces for assaults on the central red area.

The Polish Invasion

After the Czechs invasion followed the Polish Invasion immediately after the defeat of Denikin’s greta advance toward Moscow the Red Army was confronted with a major war with Poland from December 22, 1919, to February 4, 1920, the Soviet government addressed three separate appeals for peace negotiations to Poland.

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Anti-communism : political roots

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Anti-communism : political roots

The Revolution of  1917 inaugurates a new era in the modern history and especially that of the Twentieth century.  With the victory of the Russian, emerged in Europe and later over the world a rival system  and this revolution was the most sweeping in all modern history. We have longtime thought that the last revolution was that of French revolution but by following the course of this revolution, we can quickly form an idea, the French revolution do not change fundamentally the structure of the society and albeit horror and upheavals that occurred during her course from 1789 till the end of the Napoleonic wars, Apart the short interval of Jacobin regime which lasted only one year from 1792 to 1793, the old system of provileges was transferred to a new ruling class the bourgeoisie and the old institutions remain unchanged or only altered somewhat. the former ruling classes survived the Revolution down to this very day. The ancien regime continues till today with a new ruling class. the French revolution affected the western world non at because of her breaking with the past and its vestiges but of her uninterrupted and continual wars which lasted a quarter of century. By trying a comparison between the French and the Russian revolution, we can say without deceiving ourselves that the former was a mild affair and a soft uprising. Indeed, the Russian Revolution had not only toppled middle age the ruling class but all the old landmarks were swept away, the autocrat of all Russia was his throne destroyed the Church lost power its wealth and power the landed nobility ceased to exist All land went to the state and several hundred thousands of the larger farm owners were ruthlessly killed or deported to be distributed while the land was organized into great collective farms.

The Bolshevik Revolution deserves the name of revolution for many reasons. First the members of the ruling class had been decimated and had been killed and much larger numbers scattered over Europe as living examples of what Red revolution could do and its leaders could be able to do. All the wealthy families, privileges and power in Tsarist Russia went out and an entirely new leadership drawn from the lower masses took over and ruled solely in the name of the great masses. this is why Bolshevik revolution shook the world and none ever had and divide it as never before  It was in this extraordinary event in the beginning of the twentieth history that resides the political roots of anti-communism.

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Origines médiévales de la science et de la technique

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Origines Médiévales de la science et de la technique

Jusqu’ici, l’histoire de la science a été racontée d’une façon idyllique par des historiens et des philosophes salariés qui ont proclamé le principe de l’infaillibilité du savoir scientifique face aux autres savoirs jetés au rebut et dévalorisés pour leur non conformité aux critères de la vérité et de l’erreur, du faux et du vrai de l’épistémologie scientifique Ce conformisme ambiant de la science officielle a détourné les regards de l’étude de certains facteurs matériels et intellectuels liés, d’une part, à l’innovation dans les méthodes de l’enseignement scolastique des universités naissantes du Moyen Âge et, d’autre part, à l’atmosphère des polémiques trinitaires et christologiques qui ont émaillé l’histoire religieuse de l’Occident chrétien et qui ont contribué à la naissance des concepts de la théologie naturelle. Ce livre pose également à l’historiographie médiévale, la question épineuse et discutable de l’entrée de l’Aristote païen dans le monde chrétien et de la greffe contre nature entre la métaphysique grecque et la théologie dogmatique monothéiste, en se demandant si l’existence de ce philosophe ne relève pas plus du mythe que de la réalité historique. L’auteur cherche à montrer, par ailleurs, que sans le syncrétisme du milieu technique médiéval, la science et la technologie de nos sociétés industrielles actuelles seraient inconcevables.

 

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Science et Technique, étude comparative d’histoire et d’épistémologie

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Science et Technique, étude comparative d’histoire et d’épistémologie

la science est-elle productrice de connaissances au point de déclencher la grande révolution scientifique et ses rejetons, la révolution intellectuelle avec le Siècle des Lumières et la révolution industrielle de al fin du XVIIIe et du début du XIXe  ?  Les grands bouleversements qui se produits entre les XVIe et XVIIIe siècles ne sont-ils pas le résultat de profondes transformations dans les outils techniques ayant entraîné des perfectionnements en série comme par exemple ceux introduits dans les roues hydrauliques et les procédés d’exploitation des matières premières du sous-sol destinées à l’usage de nouvelles armes et à l’amélioration de toute la machinerie technique qui leur est nécessaire. C’est en puisant dans les ressources de l’histoire des techniques et des sciences que l’auteur cherche à élucider quelques uns des problèmes épistémologiques auxquels se trouvent confrontés  eux qui s’interrogent sur les racines et l’histoire des mutations de nos sociétés contemporaines.

 

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What is Totalitarianism ?

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What is totalitarianism ?

The first thing to do when we have to deal with the question of totaliatrianism is, as prealable, to  put aside all those received ideas, clicjés,  stereotypes and schèmes established and widespreaded in the aftermath of the Second Wordl War, by the paid and sposored CIA « authors of totaliatrianism » according to whom, totaliatrianism began with the nazi germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union  the first mistake committed by those paid   « the authors of totaliatrianism » is to spread the common schèmes of Democracy versus totaliatrianism and to oppose democratic governments to authoritarian and dictatorial governments.

In order to well understand the real meaning and the real nature of totaliatrianism, it is necessary to start with the term which was at the origin of the cocnept of totaliatrianism, the term of « total war » a term coined in teh 1920s and 1930s.

 

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Natural right and imperialism

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Natural right and imperialism

Natural right had been used by western imperialism as ideological weapon  in order to conquer territories and to dismember old empires in Europe( Spansih and Ottoman empires) and in Asia (Chinese and Persian empires). Broadly defined, the concept of natural right is that of a pretended right conferred by the « Nature » from which is deduced a whole system named « natural law » existing prior to or independently of political society. The idea of « natural rights » originated in natural law, used as well by the Greek and Roman and Stoicism as by different schools of politico-legal thought of Middle age onwards, in order to justify rights of property, civil liberties and the rise of democratic thought rights of popular sovereignty. Philosophers of the eighteenth century brought the concept of natural right into the center of political thought used then by the bourgeoisie and the rising classes as ideological weapon against the monarchies and the system of privileges.

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Tools of totalitarianism : domesticating and manipulating the masses

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Tools of totalitarianism : domesticating and manipulating the masses

The rising of the masses began in teh eighteenth century and played a key role during the two révolutions, American and French révolutions. Historical research reveraled the active participation of the masses in the success of american and french revolutionaries by overthrowing the English rule in teh America and the ancien régime in France. the main surveys made those who had studied the social and political dynamic of the French revolution  designate thiose who played a key role in the overthrowing of teh monarchy  by difefrent terms such as Mathiez ‘s enragés », Guerin’s  « bras-nus » a term coined initially  by  Michelet, Albert Soboul’s Sans culottes’s, Rudés « menu peuple », Richard Cobb’s « armées révolutionnaires »  All these terms have been coined in order to designate the revolutionary crowds emerged during the french revolution, the lower starta of the urban populace to be distinguised from the poorer elements of the rural popualtion.

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Tools of totalitarianism : Education and indoctrination

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Tools of toatliatrianism : Education and Indoctrination

The idea of education or rather in the long run of indoctrination of the people makes its first appearance in the late eighteenth century under the two American and French revolutions. In order to cope with the new situation induced by the rising of Masses in the course of the American and French revolution. For the revolutionary leaders, it was of absolute necessity to educate and to indoctrinate the people making him more conscious of its own interests. The two eminent promoters of a system of public and compulsory education were Condorcet and Robespierre whose the objective was the defense of the new Jacobin Constitution conceived as device in favour of the people against its enemy, the « rich » who possess the financial means to hire mercenary scribblers to mislead the people. To give to this latter the weapon with which I could fight, the people must be educated and the scribblers must be silenced and even to be sued and to be brought in Justice. Robespierre ‘s aim was  to ally the people itself with the Convention and the Convention make in turn use of the people

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Tools of totalitarianism : fight against the popular sovereignty

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Tools of totalitarianism : fight against the popular sovereignty 

The rise of the masses in History was expressed by their claims for participation and involvement in political activity. But the fear of men of property was accompanied by the erection of barriers and sophisticated and legal hurdles aiming at depriving the masses of any political e against the popular sovereignty expression into the power arena.  The strategy of fight initiated by the new ruling class in the United States and in France began early even though the ink of the Declaration of Rights was not yet dried. Albeit their “Declaration of rights”, the Americans revolutionaries and the French Third Estate tried to usurp the popular victory and they in fact did all their best so that to deprive the real actors who were at the origin of the success of the first two democratic revolutions of modern world. The American and French Declaration begins with the assertion that men are free and equal in rights. But when it was the matter of expressing into the political arena this equality of rights, the new usurpers had made a full volte face when they deprived the people of their rights to be source of all sovereignty which reside henceforth in this vague and lumber-room the so called the nation.  This change in political ideals has been expressed in the clearest language on the eve of the elections in France to the States-General when Sieyès famous “qu’Est-ce que le Tiers-Etat” placed the source of the sovereignty not in that of the people but in that of the nation identified with the new privileged and propertied class, the Third Estate.

During the discussions about a nex cosntitution for the United States, the framers began their fight against democracy and popular participation in political activity when for example, Sherman opposed the election by teh epople who « should have as little to do with governement as possible » and for gerry for whom the « vils of the country flowed from an excess of democracy »

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