A Journal for Western Man-- Issue III
Part I
G. Stolyarov II
The recent Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development was yet another grotesque ploy to subvert economic liberties in favor of coercive social planning, to surrender without reward the fruits of producers’ minds through creation of bogus “rights” that non-producers supposedly possess to their work. Throughout this gathering, two conspicuous forces maintained intense activities. Although at first glance more radical than the “mainstream environmentalists” at the summit, their ideologies and consequent deeds are however precisely what the regulator mentality upholds and renders possible.
President Bush had refused to attend this abominable session, but leaders of certain nations, considering themselves to possess a greater stake in the affair and increased chances of squeezing out petty favors at some other nation’s expense, have manifested their presence to much acclaim. One of these men was Robert Mugabe, the “president” of Zimbabwe whose previous election campaign had been marred by violence and suspicious poll manipulations. A March 13, 2002 article by BBC News reveals that numerous voters had been forcefully barred from proclaiming their selection upon that day by Mugabe’s security forces. Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe’s chief opponent, had asserted that over a million voters, enough to bridge the fourteen-percent gap between himself and the dictator, were disenfranchised. The article also revealed a concern posed by Amnesty International, which “said it was deeply worried about almost 1,500 opposition polling station officials and independent election observers who had been detained during the election. It demanded their release, adding: ‘We are deeply concerned for the safety of those arrested in the light of the well-established pattern of disappearances, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by Zimbabwean security forces.’” The government of Mr. Mugabe practices detestable terror and censorship against divergent viewpoints and against democratic elections, as it comprehends that it would not remain in power if the market of ideas became liberated as the first step toward liberating the market of goods.
What are the policies which Mugabe implements using his ironfisted stranglehold? Rationally speaking, one cannot expect a man who suffocates the freedoms of the people, which are their means to personal gains, to bring about personal gains for the people. Even absent specific awareness of the occurrences in the region one can properly declare that Mr. Mugabe is a practitioner of the altruist mentality, i.e. of sacrifice. In a free society individual rights guarantee that no man’s well-being is surrendered to that of another, but in Zimbabwe, where such freedom is curtailed, it is because the parasites on government levels seek to thrive through the detriment of others. This is precisely the case when translated to the specific events in Zimbabwe following Mugabe’s ascent to his “fifth term” in office. The dictator’s most recent initiative was the expropriation of white farmers within his territory. "Those do not deserve to be in Zimbabwe and we shall take steps to ensure that they are not entitled to our land," declared he upon his return to Harare from the summit. “Do not deserve” by what standards? Let us examine the matter. These farmers are men who have tended to their land, sown its seeds, nourished its produce, poured hours of their time and effort into reaping a crop for themselves and monetary profit from its sale. The land is theirs by right, as it would have been a barren veldt had their ancestors not brought to Rhodesia the modern agricultural techniques which transformed a wasteland of savage tribes into a settled, semi-civilized country. Their skin color does not automatically mandate their extinguishment from African territories, just as the skin color an individual African does not deprive him of the opportunity to exercise his rights unharmed by a European provided he does not initiate force against the latter. Yet Mugabe, according to a September 4, 2002 Reuters report, proclaimed that “some Zimbabwean whites were urging former colonial power Britain to tighten sanctions or send troops to topple him.” Topple whom again? Topple the man who had brutally stifled any manner of ideological dissent and divergent voting? Topple the man who had overtly and self-professedly denied the farmers and their representatives a voice in determining (and limiting) the policies of their government? Mugabe had repeatedly threatened to imprison and censor Caucasian opponents, such as Roy Bennett, and David Coltart of the Movement for Democratic Change. Mugabe spoke of them, "The Bennetts and the Coltarts are not part of our society. They belong to Britain and let them go there. If they want to stay here, we will say 'Stay here, but your place is in jail'." Essentially, Mugabe is imposing a double bind of punishment upon his critics, condemning them to exile and censorship if they select departure, and the absolute deprivation of all political and economic freedoms, which entails censorship, should they decide to remain. For the sheer reason of their refusal to grovel in obsequy before the tyrant, they are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t”.
What other means of preserving their freedom from the brutality of the gun do the farmers possess? Escape to Britain is not an option as it would still result in the loss of their hard-earned land, precisely the scenario Mugabe is relying upon. Mugabe is an altruistic parasite. He depends upon the sanction of his atrocities by the producers, such as the farmers, via their compliance. He preaches the creed of submission and abdication because he expects to become the beneficiary thereof. The parasite does not create, but rather expropriates the creators. He thrives upon the suffering of others, who will relinquish their lives by practicing altruism and become deprived of them via the gun by resisting it. In the words of Ayn Rand, the parasites “do not want to live. They want you to die.” It is no coincidence that Mugabe’s professed philosophy is socialism, legalized collective theft, which he had absorbed during his university days at Fort Hare College in South Africa. Eric Young reveals that “there [Mugabe] was introduced to literature on communism, Marxism, and Gandhian passive resistance.“ He evidently has embraced all but the latter of those principles, as his “redistribution of wealth”-driven confiscations are virulent and intolerant of any manner of resistance by definition.
At the Johannesburg Summit Mugabe, according to Reuters, was received cordially and with acclaim. “Mugabe said his land reforms had received wide international support at the summit, except from Europe and the United States.” In short, who supported Mugabe’s initiatives? The denizens of semi-free European and American mixed economy nations at least possess in their intellectual arsenals a firm philosophical base for property rights and a recognition of their indispensability in regard to and concurrence with human rights. Mugabe’s backing flows from Third World dictatorships infected with the same socialist looter mentality. In alliance with Mugabe they seek a firmer base and a moral sanction for their atrocities of legalized marauding. As these form a substantial fraction of the world and a majority of U.N. representatives, it comes as no surprise that the bullies would exhibit solidarity in regard to their victimization of civilized producers and civilized countries. The entire summit’s goal, not explicitly stated but showing through the transparent veil of supposedly “benevolent” policies, is to subordinate rights-respecting Western industrialized nations to dictates forced upon them from the bloodbaths, quagmires, and slums of backward totalitarian looter states. That is why the parasites ramble on about developed nation’s “obligations” to the under-developed. They cannot produce themselves (because their people are barred from free market exchanges and regulated by the coercive savagery of men like Mugabe), and thus they seek to leech off those who can at the detriment of the latter. The same scenario Mugabe had imposed upon the competent, forward-thinking white farmers of his realm is now being played out on a global scale, with Mugabe and his Third World cronies shackling the competent, forward-thinking nations of the world into following a dysfunctional scheme which will eventually result in the deterioration of everyone’s condition, even in that of the parasites after they strip the entire world of the sources of production.