On June 5, 2023, the New York Times ran an obituary on FBI Agent and United States Florence Penitentiary Prisoner Robert Hanssen. Striving to demonize, the NYTimes story brims with salacious detail, serving to illustrate the nature of the capitalist-imperialist Antienlightenment ideology as it choked down the US and the world in the wake of WWII, including through the growth of the occupation of policing, suppressive security replacing the supportive security of social citizenship institutions.
In Mr. Hanssen’s biography we find the logical result of the expansion of conservative ideology, “I self-servingly make the rules and cruelly enforce them on you. I treat myself to exemption from the rules.,” (See Carl Schmitt, etc.) along with the establishment of a very large occupational sector of police. Chickens come home to roost, a great man observed.
Unlike the early 20th century Cambridge dual agents, Mr. Hanssen was not a dissident. Mr. Hanssen was quite the opposite, a product of the triumphant expansion of conservative ideology and policing. He spied for the Soviet Union not because he was a communist, and he spied for the Russians not because he was a multipolarity advocate or a fanboy of oligarchs. He didn’t even spy for the Atlantic ruling class’ geopolitical opposition because they gave him money and jewels. He spied for them for the same reason that he slipped a little adultery and other rule-breaking feats into his life: As a product of the triumph of conservatism, a devoted member of Opus Dei and the F.B.I., meaning and value for Mr. Hanssen was located in selfishly, cruelly making and enforcing rules upon other people, performatively embodying order, and exempting himself at will, playing the inegalitarian game.
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The U.S. was converted into a vast military reserve, an inappropriate and degrading institution for most humans, a destroyer of life. In serving military and financial elites to restore their inhuman privileges and suppression security at the expense of the nascent welfare state (Hogan 1998; Murakawa 2014), the Democrat Party equally with the Republican Party caused the explosion of conservative ideology burying the U.S. The dream of democracy at the U.S.’s inception was finally defeated by slavery.
The Indomitable Neoliberals FC 