Reading JG’s blog today, this snippet appeared in his post.

The study of history shows that human nature is cyclic, and that we tend to make the same mistakes, no matter our careful plans to eradicate them by mutually agreed consensus. There will always be those who seek to take advantage of said consensus, just as there will always be those claiming we’ve finally arrived at the “End of History.”

The ‘End of History’ is Hegelian philosophy of the ‘dialectic’, thesis, antithesis and synthesis which form history. With the attainment of ‘Geist’ through ‘Zeit’ so history would end. Hegel has been credited with creating the ‘Right Hegelian’ of Nationalism which culminated with Hitler, and the ‘Left Hegelian’ that produced Marx, who adapted the ‘historical dialectic’ to the ‘material’ and created Communism.

The study of history reveals rather than a dialectic, or the cyclic phenomena of human nature, rather the a priori of monopoly, with the two signal examples of the failures of Alexander and Rome.

With the fall of Rome in the West, the former Empire fell back into the barbarism of the ‘Dark Ages’. This period was of small tribes/communities, which gradually coalesced into small ‘fiefdoms’ of which there were hundreds throughout Europe. Religion under the banner of Christianity, which evolved into Catholicism, provided the ‘Law’ under which the various fiefs grew into Kingdoms.

The trend being towards less. Less in number, but holding a greater territory. This is the a priori of monopoly. Monopoly can only exist, by definition, as a ‘single entity’, an analytic statement. Power, whether it be Church, King, or government, seeks to expand through ‘conversion’ ‘marriage’ and ‘war’ to ever larger territories over which to exert power and control.

The ‘history’ of the West has been exactly this: progressing into the governments that we have today, which control territories far larger than those that originated with the fall of Rome. Rome through hegemony extended their ‘Empire’ encompassing ever greater area that fell under their direction and tax payments. This is the a priori of monopoly and of course government which is the only viable form of monopoly that can exist. Monopoly cannot exist under the forces of Capitalism and the ceaseless competition of the market.

Only the power of coercion exists as a monopoly. It is the a priori of monopoly that describes accurately both the future, viz. the expansionist drive of government to seek ‘absolute’ monopoly over the entire world, the ‘one government’ and the past, the history of man under Kings, Emperors, and the latest iteration of coercion, ‘Democracy’ with the endless wars seeking ever greater areas of control.