The book "Apparitions of Things to Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery
& Imagination" is a collection of short stories by the national socialist
Edward Bellamy. They provide eye-popping background information for greater
study of the growth of government and socialism in the USA and everywhere.
According to the introduction, Frederick Bellamy (Edward's brother), "introduced
Edward to Albert Brisbane, the old warhorse of American Fourierism, whose
views Edward is said to have found highly interesting (citing the book "Edward
Bellamy abroad," by Sylvia Bowman).
The introduction to "Apparitions" was written by Franklin Rosemount, and
his provocative comments explore the continuity between these early tales
and Bellamy's later socialist influence worldwide. Rosemount even
confesses that Bellamy probably borrowed the "industrial army" concept from
Karl Marx (the "Communist Manifesto") or from Charles Fourier (Francois
Fourier) forerunner of Fourierism. François Marie Charles Fourier
(April 7, 1772 - October 10, 1837) was a French utopian socialist. Fourier
inspired the founding of the socialist community called La Reunion near present-day
Dallas, Texas as well as several other communities within the United States
of America, such as North American Phalanx. Fourier also had spoken
of organized workers as an industrial army. Rosemount says that "Looking
Backward" was a favorite of workers in the Petrograd Soviet during the 1905
revolution.
Frederick Bellamy (born April 14, 1847), Charles Bellamy (born May 7,
1852) and Edward Bellamy (born March 26, 1850) were socialists and brothers.
Edward Bellamy (author of the novel "Looking Backward") and Charles Bellamy
(author of "A Moment of Madness") and Frederick Bellamy (who introduced Edward
to socialist Fourierism) were cousins to Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge
of Allegiance") and Francis was also a socialist.
Frederick was a partner of the Rowe Company, a publishing firm.
According to Sylvia Bowman's biography, "It is also probable that, following
Frederick's advice, [Edward] was writing articles for the Boston Daily Globe,
which had just begun publication." During this period of time in New
York, Edward also contributed articles whenever he could to the Post, which
was promoting sanitation legislation. Edward also wrote the article "National
Education" for The Golden Age.
Years later when Edward Bellamy made some notes for a sequel to "Looking
Backward," he was doubtless thinking of this period of his life, and thinking
about his cousin (Francis Bellamy) when he wrote that a young cousin was
to go to the city, find it "hard to live," see a lot of suffering, and become
a Nationalist.
Francis and Edward were both self-proclaimed National Socialists and they
supported the "Nationalism" movement in the USA, the "Nationalist" magazine,
the "Nationalist Educational Association," and their dogma of "military
socialism," and Edward inspired the "Nationalist Party" (in the USA) and
their dogma influenced socialists worldwide (including Germany) via “Nationalist
Clubs” inspired by Edward Bellamy international bestseller "Looking Backward."
http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-german-connections.html
The Pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute. "Nazi" means "National Socialist
German Workers' Party." A mnemonic device is the swastika. Although the
swastika was an ancient symbol, Professor Rex Curry discovered that it was
also used sometimes by German National Socialists as alphabetic symbolism,
including meshed "S" letters for their "socialism." Hitler altered
his own signature to use the same stylized "S" letter for "socialist" and
similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
Dr. Curry showed that the USA's early Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag)
used a straight-arm salute and it was the origin of the salute of the monstrous
National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). Dr. Curry helped to establish
that it was not an ancient Roman salute, and that the "ancient Roman salute"
is a myth. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The myth is still repeated in modern efforts to cover-up Dr. Curry's discoveries
about the Pledge's poisonous pedigree.
The original Pledge began with a military salute that then stretched out
toward the flag. Historic photographs are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
and at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
In actual use, the second part of the gesture was performed with a straight
arm and palm down by children casually performing the forced ritual chanting.
Professor Curry showed that, due to the way that both gestures were
used sequentially in the pledge, the military salute led to the Nazi salute.
The Nazi salute is an extended military salute. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
From 1868 to 1869, Edward Bellamy spent a year in Germany, learning to
speak and write German and attending lectures and studying German socialism.
Edward Bellamy even wrote A Süd Deutsch Volklied (South German
Peoples' Song) in German on the inside cover of his notebook (dated Jan.
4, 1878, see Arthur Morgan's Edward Bellamy from Columbia University
Press 1944).
Edward's brother Frederick stated that Edward had talked and read about
socialism before Edward went to Germany. Frederick wrote that Edward's letters
to him from Germany were full of German socialism which "he had read and
studied much at home." (see Sylvia E. Bowman's 1958 book The Year 2000).
While Bellamy was in Germany, the first German unions were founded and
the German Workers' Party (Die Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) issued its program
of socialist cliches that Bellamy repeated in his bestseller (Looking
Backward) and his other writings for the rest of his life. The
German Workers' Party was the Party that later added the very phrase "National
Socialism" to the front of its name and became the Nazis (the National Socialist
German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
or NSDAP ). The ominous parallel of Bellamy ideas and U.S. socialists can
be seen in the 25 point program of the NSDAP.
Edward later wrote in support of socialism, "It was in the great cities
of Europe and among the hovels of the peasantry that my eyes were first fully
opened to the extent and consequences of 'man's inhumanity to man.'" But
Edward died in 1898, and he did not see the apparitions of things to come,
nor how he would become an intellectual author of the socialist Wholecaust
(of which the Holocaust was a part): the National Socialist German Workers'
Party (21 million); the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million
people slaughtered); the People's Republic of China (35 million). The
invasion of Poland in WWII occurred in 1939, with the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as allies
in their scheme to divide up Europe.
Edward and Francis were militantly anti libertarian. The authoritarian
elements in "Looking Backward" include most notably the military metaphors
pertaining to the "industrial army."
The Bellamy dogma helped many people to recognize socialist slavery and
socialism as inherently oppressive and a system which makes the interests
of every individual antagonistic to every other.
In 1898, Edward Bellamy, died of consumption (tuberculosis or TB). There
are many parallels between Bellamy's socialism and Bellamy's other disease,
TB. TB was called "consumption" because it seemed to consume people
with long relentless wasting. According to Rosemount, Bellamy caught
TB in his twenties. Bellamy might have caught TB in Germany and Europe
where he also caught his socialism bug.
Tuberculosis is still one of the most deadly and common major infectious
diseases today in developing countries that suffer under socialism.
It infects two billion people or one-third of the world's population. Nine
million new cases of disease, resulting in two million deaths, occur annually,
mostly in backward socialist countries with bad sanitation.
The number of deaths compares with the number of deaths under the socialist
Wholecaust.
Tuberculosis caused the most widespread public concern in the 19th and
early 20th centuries as the endemic disease of the urban poor. In 1815 England
one in four deaths were of consumption; by 1918 one in six deaths in France
were still caused by TB.
TB is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Due to the variety of its symptoms, TB was not identified as a unified disease
until the 1820s and was not named tuberculosis until 1839 by J. L. Schönlein.
The bacillus-causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was described
on March 24, 1882 by Robert Koch. Koch did not believe that bovine (cattle)
and human tuberculosis were similar, which held back the recognition of
infected milk as a source of infection. Later, this source was eliminated
in capitalist processes of mass pasteurization of marketed milk.
In the United States, concern about the spread of tuberculosis played
a role in the movement to oppose spitting except into spittoons.
"Apparitions" is illustrated with the collages of Hal Rammel.
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Polish Man from era of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Awakes from 19-Year
Coma, Discovers Market Economy
News outlets report (June 4, 2007) that a Polish railroad worker Jan Grzebski
lapsed into a coma after being hit by a train in 1988. His last memories
are of a socialist country where the only things in the shops were tea and
vinegar, where meat was scarce and long lines formed for rationed gasoline
and other items. Mr. Grzebski was delighted to awake this year in a free
market economy. "[T]here are so many goods in the shops it makes my head
spin," he told Polish television. He is particularly amazed by the fact
that everyone has mobile phones. Looking backward at the non-fiction version
socialism (after the USSR's collapse), Mr. Grzebski (now 65) says "I’ve got
nothing to complain about." Mr. Grzebski is more than just a great story,
he is a living reminder of how far we have come and a window into a nearly
forgotten world without markets and capitalism.
In his 1888 book, "Looking Backward 2000-1887," Edward Bellamy tells the
tale of a young 19th century American who awakes in the year 2000 to find
his nation transformed into a socialist utopia. The book caused a sensation
when published and even led to the establishment of over 160 "Bellamy clubs"
dedicated to realizing the utopian future described in the book.
In stark contradiction of Bellamy's book, the year 1987, 1988, 1991 (shortly
before the year 2000) all brought the continuing collapse of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics. It followed decades of socialism, shortages,
poverty, misery, persecution, torture and death. Bellamy's utopia was
a dystopia in practice.
It led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part):
In 1939, joined as allies to invade Poland in a plan to divide up Europe.
Afterward, the USSR continued to pursue the goals it had formed with
the National Socialist German Workers' Party. After the end of the
NSGWP, the USSR and the PRC went on to kill even more people for decades.
Mr. Grzebski had a real life "looking backward" experience, although quite
different from that imagined by Mr. Bellamy.
For an interesting comparison to the real-life coma experience, watch the
funny movie "Good Bye Lenin" available on DVD.
Time travel backward under socialism. Time travel foward by capitalism, or
by coma through socialism.
They put many countries and millions of people into comas, and worse.
Edward Bellamy is also famous as the cousin of Francis Bellamy, author of
the Pledge of Allegiance. Both Bellamys were national socialists who promoted
military socialism. origin of the stiff-arm salute.
