Kleptocracy

Alternatively known as Cleptocracy or Kleptarchy - terminology whose principal origin is derived from the Greek vernacular: κλέπτης (thief) and κράτος (rule) - is an article of description applied to a system of governance predicated upon aspects of control fraud that fully utilizes federal and state level corruption as a means to engender a marked increase in the personal wealth and political influence of the electorate as well as the ruling class as a whole. 

Kleptocratic Political Regimes Throughout the Course of History

The following itemized listing, as documented by the German anti-corruption NGO (Non-governmental Organization) Transparency International in 2004, functions as an instrument of reference concerning the existence of kleptocratic political regimes throughout the course of recorded history.

Numerical order determined by the severity of misappropriation, the monetary equivalent of which is gauged in USD (United States Dollars):

1. Former Indonesian President Suharto ($15 billion – $35 billion)

2. Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (at least $10 billion by 1986, equivalent to about $21.6 billion in 2014 dollars)
3. Former Congolese President Mobutu Sese Seko ($5 billion)
4. Former Nigerian Head of State Sani Abacha ($2 billion – $5 billion)

5. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević ($1 billion)

6. Former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier (“Baby Doc”) ($300 million – $800 million)

7. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori ($600 million)

8. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ($114 million – $200 million)

9. Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán ($100 million)

10. Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada ($78 million – $80 million)

Pincer Impetus

Authored into existence by Jan Kozak, a prominent fixture of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee who was also an important member of the government secretariat, the pincer impetus is consistent with the emergence of a democratically elected parliamentary system (In the United States, this semblance of a democratically elected parliamentary system is synonymous with the creation of Congress, as well as its political extensions, both the House of Representatives and the Senate), that, through legislative edict, becomes an extrajudicial conduit of revolutionary collectivism.
Thomas R. Eddlem, in written summation of the Kozak dissertation, And Not A Shot Is Fired, affirms the existence of Communist and Socialist elements within a parliament, that, while occupying a small minority of positions within a traditionally representative political appendage, initiate “policies and legislation which strengthen the hand of grassroots revolutionaries.” Protagonists of this philosophy actively engage in open, oftentimes publicly broadcast campaigns designed to discredit those who would voice opposition to their legislative proposals. “Meanwhile, grassroots revolutionaries whip up the appearance of popular support” for the revolutionary agenda “through strikes, rallies, petitions, threats, and – sometimes – sabotage. The ‘pressure from below’ by this small, yet concentrated, number of revolutionaries and their significantly larger number of dupes is then used to ‘justify’ the centralization of power in the hands of the executive branch of the state. Politicians whose opinions are easily swayed succumb to these unspoken threats of intimidation as ‘pressure from above’ intensifies. Each legislative victory results in new demands for even stronger legislation, which is relentlessly pursued by communists and their dupes in parliament – who claim, of course, that they are acting in consensus with the will of the people. The vicious cycle continues until opposition is completely powerless, intimidated, or liquidated – and the revolution is a fait accompli."

Antihumanism

A philosophical doctrine emphasizing the inherent obsolescence of humanity, equating the concept of existence with an inexorable entropy - effectively marginalizing the natural order of progression through the prospectus of an unconstrained set of ideals/ aspirations paired in conjunction with the frivolity of unsustainable desire.

Forward by Michael Reign

Banana Republic

 

Alternatively characterized as a Servile Dictatorship, a Banana Republic is a term that refers to a politically unstable nation dependent upon limited agricultural resources as a means of ensuring market stability that is ruled by a concentrated minority of self-elected, affluent, and blatantly corrupt politico-economic cliques (an inclusive group of individuals sharing a measure of commonality in terms of interests, views, purposes, patterns of behavior, or ethnicity).

Figure 1. Visual graphic substantiating America's political and economic descent following the implementation of questionable policies by a myriad succession of administrative entities and organizations

Nihilism

A philosophical doctrine emphasizing the negation of a fundamental system of values, incorporating a methodology of entropy into the axiological precepts governing existentialism, magnifying epistemological (Epistemology is the study of knowledge) failures as a manifestation of cosmically inspired purposelessness, etc.

Serfdom

 

A socio-economic condition ascribed to Medieval Europe whereby farmers were relegated to tenant status through legislative imposition, forcibly bound to a hereditary plot of land and subject to the will of wealthy aristocrats. In its modernized incarnation, the concept of serfdom is predicated on the accumulation of unsustainable debt, whereby the borrower is subject to the will of predatory financial institutions and collection agencies whose sole existence is dependent on a contrived fractional reserve system of banking. Serfdom exists as a systemic precursor to Feudal Collectivism, whereby the primary means of production and distribution relative to the prospect of national sustainability is the operative extension of legislative decree.

Pathocracy

A totalitarian system of governance by which absolute political authority is concentrated within small committees of elitist dignitaries exhibiting psychopathic tendency. A pathocratic command structure can manifest a degree of actuality through a seemingly endless array of previously acknowledged or formally agreed upon political systems, cultural philosophies, or ideologies; and, as such, it oftentimes masquerades under a guise of democratic or theocratic beneficence, or as an open ended extension of oppressive regimes within an authoritarian substrate. The following principles apply to the characterization of such a politically oriented system of governance, and are listed as follows:

1. Suppression of individualism and creativity through force or coercion.

2. Deliberately state sponsored artistic impoverishment/ stagnation.

3. The proliferation of moral degradation through the engineered actualization of a societal construct whose central focus lies with self gratification at the expense of altruistic/ philanthropic endeavors.

4. Fanatical ideologies; oftentimes the corrupted semblance of a constitutionally viable ‘trojan’ philosophy which is surreptitiously perverted into a pathological system of governance absentia of its principal socio-political essence.

5. Intolerance and suspicion of anyone perceived to openly or privately exhibit views contrary to the political establishment.

6. Centralized control through political mandate.

7. Widespread incidences of corruption throughout the predominant socio-political spectra.

8. Clandestine operations within government primarily centered on the actualization of an artificially intelligence-based and coordinated surveillance apparatus.

9. Patterns of paranoia through the manifestation of a reactionary government.

10. The proliferation of excessive, arbitrary, or otherwise inflexible legislation through a concerted political mandate whereby the inherent rights and responsibilities ascribed to the citizenry of a nation are surreptitiously eviscerated.

11. An attitude of hypocrisy and contempt exemplified through the actions of the ruling class, towards the ideals they claim adherence to, and towards those they claim to represent.

12. Corporate controlled media, oftentimes acting as an agency of disinformation through the dissemination of propagandized oratory/ narrative.

13. Extreme instances of inequality between the societal classes based solely on monetary assets relevant to the current fiscal standard.

14. Endemic utilization of corrupted psychological/ cognitive reasoning via paramoralisms (A pseudo-moral characterization designed to alter socio-political or economic consensus and effectively undermine prior held systems of belief or values), conversive thought processes, and an increased incidence of linguistic duality.

15. Rule by forcible coercion and/ or the fear of reprisal through threats or intimidation.

16. Humanity, in essence, ceases to exhibit any semblance of intrinsic value in the sense that individuals become a marketable resource or commodity utilized for the express purpose of corporate-level profiteering through processes of wage induced discrimination and abject exploitation.

17. Spiritual constraints relative to religious liberties through vocational study and philosophical doctrine. Individuals perceived to be circumnavigating such government regulations become the targets of unwarranted scrutiny and are subsequently identified as heretics or labeled as criminally insane.

18. Arbitrary divisions present within the populace (social standing/ class, ethnicity/ cultural background, creed/ religious beliefs), whether preexistent or latently inherent, are exacerbated through the unspoken endorsement of conflict between each of the respective parties.

19. Suppression of free speech through the restriction of public debate, demonstration, or protest.

20. Blatant violation of basic human rights and civil liberties such as the restriction or denial of basic life necessities, prolonged detainment or incarceration without formal charge, torture and abuse, slave labor, etc.

Totalitarianism

 

Alternatively known as Totalitarian Rule, Totalitarianism is a political system where the state, acting at the behest of an individual, faction, or societal class possessing a vast repository of intergovernmental influence, recognizes no limits to their authority and, in turn, strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life under penalty of law. Totalitarianism is nominally characterized by the marked coincidence of Authoritarianism (a politically motivated enterprise whereby citizens of a respective nation possess a virtually nonexistent share in the delegation of fiscal policy or legislative mandate) and the emergence of ideology (a pervasive scheme of values promulgated by institutional means to direct most, if not all, aspects of public and private life relative to a particular nation, province, or principality).

Anarcho-syndicalism

 

A sociopolitical methodology ascribed to a wide variance of precepts governing the emergence of an Anarchist administrative paradigm. Syndicalisme, the French equivalency of the correspondent entry: ‘syndicalism’, which precedes the Anarcho terminological designate; exists as an idiomatic derivative synonymous with trade unionism (A process by which the prospectus of trade unions and the subsequent proliferation of organizations relevant to their establishment attain precedence in a corporate setting). Syndicalism is indicative of the presence of an alternative form of a co-operative or cooperative economic system (a field of economics, socialist indoctrinated fiduciary templates, co-operative studies, and politically inspired fiscal dynamics relevant to the genesis of co-operatives within the predominant socio-economic exemplar - co-operatives, in this contextual setting exist as business organizations owned and operated by a small consortium embracing mutual exclusivity for the purpose of monetary benefit). Adherents to such ideological systems seek the abolition of the wage incorporated schema and state or private ownership as the principle means of production (Means of production refers to physical, non-human inputs utilized in the manufacture of goods or the rendering of service - industries or factories, machinery or electrical equipment, commensurate instruments or tools related to the accumulation of wealth and the genesis of a substantive profit in a socio-economic setting), legal stipulations fostering the division of the economic class within the acknowledged labor prospectus.

Black Cat

A symbolic representation/ motif of the Anarcho-syndicalist philosophy, the black cat is synonymous with several terminological designations; specifically the following: wild cat, sabot-cat, sabo cat, and sabotage cat. Its principal design created by Ralph Chaplin, a prominent figure throughout the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Movement

 

(A term synonymous with the Wobblies political nomenclature, the IWW exists as an international union devoid of territorial boundary or line of demarcation whose genesis is recognized as having occurred in Chicago, in the year 1905. In 1923, at its influential zenith, the organization laid claim to nearly 100,000 members with the capability of marshalling the support of more than 300,000 within the predominant labor force. Its membership declining dramatically after internal conflicts within the IWW hierarchal order attained precedence in 1924, with the irrevocable separation of the organization resulting in the emergence of two distinctive factions: the centralizers and the decentralizers - which served as splinter groups allied in principal with the Socialist Labor Party [SLP] and the Workers’ International Industrial Union [WIIU]), the black cat serves as an illustrative composite invoking sporadic work-related strikes and radical unionism for the express purpose of perpetuating the abolition of wage systems and the unification of the labor force into a distinctive socio-economic class/ entity.

Corporatocracy

 

Alternatively known as a Corpocracy, Corporatocracies exist as a form of governance where a corporation, industrial conglomerate, or fiscal monopoly, acting under the direction of a multitudinous hierarchal construct, controls the political direction and governance of a nation, principality, or province. Such financial/ profit-based institutions are characterized by a blatant absentia of moral compass with regard to the policies of their respective industries. Each of these corporate syndicates routinely employ individuals within their correspondent sphere of influence at wages deemed as cost effective necessities by company executives, thereby engendering the promulgation of the profiteerist philosophy through exploitative practice. Oftentimes with the emergence of a corpocratic political dynamic, the prevalence of pyramidal monetary/ Ponzi schemes attain precedence in an industrial setting.

The following composite illustrative of an imagined scenario involving the merger of corporate influence with the nationally recognized political base - a five step system of progression: