#author Arjuna Rubbo-Ferraro

#LISTtitle Identifying Fascism, America is not Free, the West is not Free

#date 15th of October, 2018

#lang en

#notes Earlier essays by Arjuna Rubbo-Ferraro were published at <em>Republic Standard.</em> The author no longer agrees with the views he's expressed on the magazine, with this being his first anarchist essay properly published. He's written at length on his support for anarchism and socialism, not just submitted pieces, unlike this one. A former fascist, his transition to libertarain socialism came about when he began compromising with himself, making right-wing arguments for left-wing political positions, until he discarded fascism and the Alternative Right altogether, and began seekign interest in literature and community dialogue within circles of the New Left.

The machine has a deliberate tendency to lie, to fabricate to its subjects the nature of their surrounding environment. Take the United States for example, a highly authoritarian dictatorship which guarantees its people not basic human necessities, but instead takes the small quantities of money they receive from their slave masters and places it toward acts of imperialism, bombing and burning down countries it deems too dangerous. The United States displays itself, often through the help of the masses indoctrinated into believing it holds apparent freedom, that it’s democratic, liberated, and treats every class and demographic inhabiting its geographical outlines with respect and dignity. Out of any industrialised and developed modern nation, the United States has taken the least responsibility to ensure world peace, and has instead placed everything toward victimising itself as much as possible while simultaneously ruining the lives of as many people it can across the third world.