In attempting to understand what is happening around us, we are appropriately guided by historical materialism in evaluating the multiple factors of the economy, in order to deduce the possible developments of human events. However, this often fails to provide a full and exhaustive understanding of phenomena and geopolitics because it is necessary to include within this narrative a variable consisting of the role played by individuals and to integrate into the historical materialist analysis elements arising from individual actions, human impulses, and therefore the role played by elites.
While the first two decades of the last century were marked by the riseof the masses on the political scene and thus by the prevalence of
political parties, which nevertheless, in a relatively short period of
time, became verticalized, granting a fundamental role to those who
assumed their leadership. In the second half of the 1930s, the study of
the role of elites, who, using the leadership of a political party as
their instrument, rose to power in order to manage the politics of
states, emerged within the field of political sociology, while political
leaders still dominated.
If, from a factual perspective, it was war that served to liquidate the
role of more or less charismatic leaders, replacing them with
governments composed of teams of experts as collectors of class
interests, it was Max Weber who devoted some of the most interesting
pages of his political sociology to the "superiority of the small
number," attempting to explain the role played by the elites who were
establishing themselves as the defining factor of the new era. After
him, analyses such as Wieser's on the essence of power highlighted the
role and function of the minority principle, according to which a few
people govern the masses, but it was Vilfredo Pareto who fully
identified the elites and their circulation as the key concepts for a
global interpretation of political and social phenomena as they were
taking shape in complex societies. This reading of the world was fueled
by the affirmation in society of objective elements constituted by
aggregates, by Masonic Lodges, by associations of bankers, of merchants
(just think of the Bilderberg), by more or less fallen nobles, by
neo-influencers, from which it emerged that the elite manifest
themselves in many ways, which arise from the conditions and the
organization of economic and social life: "The conquest of wealth among
merchant and industrial peoples, military success among warlike peoples,
political skill and often the spirit of intrigue and baseness of
character among aristocracies, democracies and demagogues, literary
successes among the Chinese people, the acquisition of ecclesiastical
dignities in the Middle Ages[...]are so many ways in which the selection
of men is carried out." Elites, usually accompanied by the adjective
"social," constitute a more or less broad plurality of small groups,
identifiable according to different types of activities, the degree of
concentration of resources, and the highest levels of individual
ability. Sometimes, as an offshoot of the activities of large
universities, research groups, study centers, and consultancies emerge.
These present themselves as expert groups, but in reality constitute
lobbying tools, expressions of interests with economic and therefore
political ramifications, and whose purpose is to influence state decisions.
This process is accompanied by the prevalence of private economic
choices over public ones, and the financialization of the economy, to
the detriment of real economic activities. For example, Tesla's stock
market value is higher than the combined values of the world's largest
automakers, despite Toyota alone producing 10 times as many cars as
Tesla. It follows that US corporations will be extremely powerful in a
war based on shareholdings but ineffective in the real economy. And to
the extent that large economies (China first and foremost) exist, whose
elites control, or intend to control, the production line of essential
goods regardless of the profit obtainable from the sale of individual
products, the US super-financial model is destined to fail. These power
groups equip themselves with tools to plan the exploitation of man by
man, but it is of no use establishing specialized research centers that
serve as think tanks, places for developing the strategies of domination
that these power groups intend to develop. But these groups, holding
the largest shares of power and control of economic resources, are the
ones who effectively manage ideological and political choices, creating
a concentration of resources whose possession and/or control ensures
power, specifically political power.
Conspiracy Theory and Political Planning
The set of considerations developed thus far contains objective elements
of analysis and recognition of the true structure of power centers and
can easily lead one to view politics as a conspiracy of hidden centers,
contrasted with a world of transparent and visible, orderly, and
protective institutions constituted by so-called democratic systems of
government, in which power belongs to the people, who exercise it in the
forms and ways established by a Constitution, wishing to remain within
the purportedly democratic West. Naturally, the management of power
takes on different institutional forms depending on the political and
institutional systems of the countries we are referring to, often
governed by oligarchies over which the so-called democratic West
continues to reaffirm its moral superiority. However, the very fact that
democratic systems have transformed into formal rather than substantive
structures effectively reduces the difference between the different
types of system and leads citizens, reduced to subjects, to see their
rulers as an elite, effectively alien to their fellow citizens. This
produces an ever-increasing distance from participation in the life of
democratic institutions and, in effect, demonstrates the futility of
voting, since political choices are directed by centers and structures
of power that do not change with the different orientations of the vote,
but are shaped and adapted to the persistent strategies of
decision-making centers and power, effectively autonomous from any
popular control.
For further information, and as proof of our assertion, it is worth
reading the report on Competing from Advantageous. Extending Russia[1],
to learn what plans were developed by the West and by this accredited
American think tank, to understand that the policies adopted toward
Russia are still those of Brezinski and that therefore the distinction
between the attacked and the aggressor regarding the Ukrainian war is
completely distorted by the narrative developed by the West. This
document describes in detail, three years in advance, the various stages
of the strategy of aggression against Russia, the destabilization and
provocation actions implemented, leading up to the inevitable Russian
military intervention that subsequently occurred.
The Crisis of Empire and the Crisis of the Elite
Even if we were to interpret the role of the elite as a tool for
understanding and analyzing the evolution of geopolitics in the Western
world today, we cannot escape the consideration that the evident and
irreversible crisis of the American empire coincides with the
progressive degradation of the elites, composed, as in the Middle Ages,
of vassals, vassals, and vassals, who were supposed to represent and
constitute the intermediate levels, the articulations through which
imperial power unfolds across the territory and should allow for its
control.
At the top of the pyramid we find the President of the United States,
along with members of the British royal house and the elite of economics
and finance, distributed between Wall Street, the City of London, and
Silicon Valley, where they merge with the techno-capitalist component
that aims to transcend the Enlightenment and the legacy of 1968,
delighting in frequenting exclusive clubs and savoring power. We are
faced with a rabble of degenerates involved, in various capacities, in
the trafficking of Jeffrey Epstein, the American billionaire who
committed suicide and offered minors of both sexes for the pleasures of
these pigs.
These "criminal greatness" is supported, and their power is supported by
a group of supporters whose qualities and intelligence are in fact
diminishing. These supporters are of increasingly modest caliber, such
as Ursula von der Stupid, the idiotic Kaja Kallas, the failed President
of the French Republic, Macron, German Chancellor Merz, a former Black
Rock executive, the ineffable and colorless lawyer Starmer, a champion
of stupidity, and the banker Mario Draghi, auctioneer of Italy's public
industry and liquidator of the Italian economy, passed off as the savior
of the country and all the rest. In this panorama of mediocrities, it's
not difficult for the underdog Meloni to emerge, tail wagging, every
time she finds herself in the presence of Donald Trump, or a US
President who strokes her hair as Biden used to do. On the other hand,
the mediocrity of this ruling class is the factor that has allowed the
US President to launch his own tariff policy and to strike without a
blow at the economies of Western countries, treating them, as they
effectively are, as vassals of the empire, called upon in times of
crisis to repay its debts, as befits all servants when the master
commands. Taking this opportunity, given that the sixteen-year-old
emperor is at work, he takes advantage of the situation to try to sever
the umbilical cord that ties Anglo-Saxon capitalism to US capitalism,
finally freeing himself from the hegemony that the latter thinks it can
exercise over the "colonials", believing that the time has come for the
neo-scientist technocratic component of capitalism to take the lead in
the evolutionary process[2]. He therefore attempts to launch a policy of
geostrategic agreement with Russia, under the banner of a common
business across a range of sectors, hoping in this way to also revive
the disastrous fortunes of the imperial economy.
The Failed Cosmopolitan Integration
This process failed to account for the substantial failure of the
expansion and incorporation of the elites following the collapse of the
USSR. After the two-year period of 1989-91, the oligarchs of the failed
Soviet empire deluded themselves into the full circle of Western elites,
individually seeking admission to the most exclusive circles, so much so
that Vladimir Puntin himself attempted to be annexed and admitted to
NATO's elite. It took them a few years to realize they were considered
rejects, a reject, as befits the nouveau riche, to decide it was time to
slam the door and embark on an independent path, which is what happened
to Punti and his oligarchs starting in 2008. Since then, the ex-Soviet
oligarchy, painstakingly selected in a fierce struggle for
self-elimination, has progressively structured itself around the leader,
constituting an alternative power structure that competes with the
empire's elite for hegemony and living space.
The weakening of imperial power has inevitably left room for growth for
the elite of an increasingly multipolar world. Thus, over time, ruling
classes have emerged in China, India, Islamic countries, emerging
economies, and even Africa, freed from the old colonial ties: the empire
was no longer capable of encompassing and containing the world's ruling
classes as a whole.
There is room for a multipolar world to grow and develop, where the
oligarchies vying for power are structured into groups, based on
interests, that fiercely vie for hegemony. These new oligarchies, these
new elites, highly combative and aggressive, appear at first glance more
hardened because they have been forced into a tough fight and a severe,
no-holds-barred selection process, and in these conditions they have
learned to survive and prevail. Like all young organisms, they sense the
vigor of their recent formation and, aware of the growing weight of the
economies and interests they represent, they prepare for a confrontation
without firing shots.
In this confrontation, the servile elite, raised in the empire, in
obedience and subservience to the hegemonic power, is destined to
succumb to these new oligarchies, these new elites, who have everything
they need to impose themselves and prevail, because they are equipped
with greater autonomy and new and innovative tools for confrontation and
struggle.
A new paradigm and a new approach
In the face of a West, the embodiment of a dying empire, which
nevertheless struggles like a serpent, dealing out lashes left and
right, a world characterized by global relations between its various
components is gaining increasing traction. This is well represented by
the BRICS, a multipolar world of relations that seeks to embrace free
trade and mutual coexistence as the central tenet of its relations. In
this crisis, the rebirth of empires is taking shape, and peoples are
structuring themselves into groups that trace ancient linguistic,
ethnic, religious, and geographical fault lines, sometimes rediscovering
an anachronistic nationalism that often takes on ugly and crude forms,
with racist and supremacist content.
Faced with the inability to reconcile interests, armed conflict prevails
and war is resorted to. This is demonstrated by the fact that this is an
era in which local conflicts erupt, with the danger of degenerating into
nuclear conflict always looming, especially since the threat of
resorting to nuclear weapons has become the only guarantee for ensuring
respect for the autonomy of states. While a fierce struggle for control
of markets and raw materials, even resorting to armed conflict, is
raging between the various forces involved, so fierce is the possibility
of nuclear war. Unfortunately, today there are those who speculate that
nuclear war is a possible price to pay to decide the real balance of
power on the ground, or those who are willing to resort to genocide in
order to appropriate territories inhabited by other peoples, erasing
with the memory the horror of the atrocities experienced.
At first glance, these new ruling classes are unprepared to address
certain new factors linked to the feedback that the environment, in the
broader sense, is providing to human society (however it is organized).
Whether it be climate change or eternal pollutants or even more or less
natural epidemics, these are problems that require collective choices
that cannot be made in the presence of a neo-feudal regime.
It is a world that has not reckoned with inequality and refuses to do
so, ignoring the latent but inevitable presence of class struggle. A
world governed by elites, whether a homogeneous class or a set of
competing factions, inevitably generates unjust inequalities that
legitimize rebellion and give rise to the yearning for a potential
equality, the search for a possible and necessary social justice.
In this precarious situation, some see the restoration of the empire as
the path to ensuring the peaceful coexistence of peoples, content with
the fact that the imperial order simultaneously ensured slavery and
peace. A new Roosevelt appears, or the American empire is destined to
decline anyway (nuclear war aside, in which case it all ends). But for a
new Roosevelt to emerge, countries must first experience and overcome a
great depression, which will likely extend to the countries of the
so-called collective West.
[1]Competing from Advantageous. Extending Russia, edited by analysts
James Dobbins, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick,
Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, Brent
Williams. Editor's Note, September 2022,
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html. For commentary:
Giuseppe Galliano, "The Wear and Tear of Russia and Europe," "Analisi
Difesa,"
https://www.analisidifesa.it/2025/01/il-logoramento-di-russia-ed-europa/;
L'indipendente, "There is a 2019 US plan to "unbalance" Russia,"
https://www.lindipendente.online/2022/03/16/esiste-un-piano-usa-del-2019-per-sbilanciare-la-russia-leggerlo-oggi-spiega-molto/
Reading it today explains a lot.
[2]Center for State Reform, Silicon Valley's Plan for the
Techno-Republic,
https://centroriformastato.it/il-piano-di-silicon-valley-per-la-tecno-repubblica/;
Musk and Zuckerberg, From Digital Capitalism to Platform Fascism,
https://ilmanifesto.it/musk-e-zuckerberg-dal-capitalismo-digitale-al-fascismo-delle-piattaforme
G.L.
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