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Edward Bellamy's choice of "The New Nation" as the name for his weekly magazine/newspaper (from 1891 to 1894) is interesting in that another magazine with a similar name - "The Nation" - (which began in 1865) had touted a different political perspective for a long time before Bellamy's publication. And when "The Nationalist," Bellamy's earlier publication, a monthly magazine, began in 1889, its editor was Henry Willard Austin. At that time (in 1889), the older Nation magazine was owned by Henry Villard. During the life of Bellamy's the "New Nation" magazine, the older "Nation" magazine expressed an anti-socialist point of view. Was the "New Nation" name selected by Bellamy meant to contrast his magazine's pro-socialist point of view? See the work of the documentarian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-national-socialist.html

Note that the publishing organization for Bellamy's "Nationalist" magazine was named "THE NATIONALIST EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION" in deliberate similarity to the National Education Association (NEA). This is a photograph of the Nationalist Magazine from Edward Bellamy http://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-the-nationalist.jpg

In 1888, Cyrus Field Willard, a Boston newspaperman, proposed to Bellamy "that it would be a good idea to organize an association to spread the ideas contained in your book." Bellamy responded to Willard on Independence Day in 1888 with the proposal to promote national socialism in "Nationalist Clubs." There followed efforts to create the Nationalist Party, and work within the People's Party and the Populist Party. The use of groups to promote his book's national socialism provides another comparison to the growth of national socialism in the 1930s under the National Socialist German Workers Party and Adolf Hitler, author of the book "Mein Kampf." http://sites.google.com/site/francisbellamy/edward-bellamy-looking-backward

In the mid-1930s, Bellamy's daughter, Marion, had speaking engagements nationwide (including one in Portland in November 1936) where she continued to promote his dogma of national socialism. A fifteen-page pamphlet, "Edward Bellamy Today," includes the text of her lecture.

Edward Bellamy was cousin and cohort to another infamous American national socialist, Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance (which was the origin of the stiff-arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party, as shown by Dr. Curry). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg

The Bellamys wanted government to take over all educational institutions and create an "industrial army" to spread their dogma.

Later, the older Nation magazine would adopt Bellamy's pro-socialist dogma, long aftger Bellamy and his magazine ceased to exist. 

The Nation magazine began in July 1865 in Manhattan. The publisher was Joseph H. Richards, and the editor was E.L. Godkin, a classical liberal critic of nationalism, imperialism, and socialism. The magazine stayed at "Newspaper Row" in Manhattan for 90 years. Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of William Lloyd Garrison, was literary editor of the periodical from 1865 to 1906.

In 1881, newspaperman-turned-railroad-baron Henry Villard acquired The Nation and converted it into a weekly literary supplement for his daily newspaper the New York Evening Post.

In 1918, the editor of the magazine became Henry Villard's son, Oswald Garrison Villard, and he sold the Evening Post. He remade The Nation into a current affairs publication and gave it a socialist orientation. Villard's takeover prompted the FBI to monitor the magazine for roughly 50 years. The FBI had a file on Villard since 1915. Almost every editor of The Nation from Villard's time to the 1970s was looked at for "subversive" activities and ties. When Albert Jay Nock, not long later, published a column criticizing Samuel Gompers and trade unions for being complicit in the war machine of the First World War, The Nation was briefly suspended from the U.S. mail.

Under Henry Villard, the offices of The Nation were moved to the Evening Post's headquarters on Broadway. The New York Evening Post would later morph into a tabloid: the New York Post. It was a socialist-leaning afternoon tabloid under owner Dorothy Schiff from 1939 to 1976.

The Nation continues to be known for its socialist politics. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg

Eric Foner, the socialist professor of history who has spent much of his career at Columbia University, cited Lincoln on behalf of the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In his book "Lincoln Unmasked," the author Thomas DiLorenzo cites a February 1991 article in "The Nation" called "Lincoln’s Lesson," in which Foner denounced the secession movements in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Georgia, and called upon Mikhail Gorbachev to suppress them with the same ruthlessness Lincoln showed the South. According to Foner, no "leader of a powerful nation" should tolerate "the dismemberment" of Soviet socialism. "The Civil War," Foner explained gushingly, "was a central step in the consolidation of national authority in the United States." And then: "The Union, Lincoln passionately believed, was a permanent government. Gorbachev would surely agree." Modern American socialists boastfully repudiate the Lincoln myth about slavery and they declare that Lincoln's so-called "Civil War" was the violent suppression of independence, exactly what Foner wanted to see under Soviet socialism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. In "The Story of American Freedom," the historian Eric Foner observes that the 1890’s ritual Pledge of Allegiance from the socialist Francis Bellamy (another worshipper of Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression) was quickly joined with the practice of standing for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as well as Flag Day. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg

The socialist dogma is the same dogma that was touted in the late 19th century by National Socialists in the USA. Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance") and his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy (author of the pathetic book "Looking Backward") wanted the government to take over all food, clothing, shelter, goods and services and create an "industrial army" to impose their "military socialism." See the video documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

That was the motiviation behind Francis Bellamy's "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag, the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg

It led to the use of the swastika as S-letters for "socialism" on the flag under German National Socialism. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg

It is the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million killed under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html

Today, the flag symbolizes authoritarianism in the USA. The historical facts above explain the enormous size and scope of government today, and the USA's police state, and why it is growing so rapidly.  They are reasons for minarchy: massive reductions in government, taxation, spending and socialism.

In 1867 Bellamy failed to get an appointment to West Point; instead he studied literature for a year at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He spent much of the next year in Dresden, Germany, where he was impressed by the prosperity of the state-owned china works.
http://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-national-socialist.html

At its beginning the Meissen China manufactory was owned by the King of Saxony; by 1830 it came to belong to the State of Saxony. After World War II, most of the equipment was sent to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a former ally of Germany under the National Socialist German Workers Party) as part of war reparations However, already by 1946, the workers using traditional methods and the kilns that had not been dismantled were able to resume production. The company became a Soviet Socialist Joint Stock Company in Germany. Almost all of the production was sent to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic under the influence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the company was handed over to German government ownership in 1950.  After the German reunification in 1990, the company owned again by the State of Saxony which is the sole owner.

For more interesting information about similar socialism under both the National Socialist German Workers Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics read about the Trabant Sachsenring at http://rexcurry.net/trabant-sachsenring-rex-curry.html

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