Binky The Rabbit

"The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.

In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground."

Although technology and world

culture progressed rapidly

throughout the twentieth century,

their advancements paled in comparison to

the seemingly reckless leaps that would follow.

By the end of the twenty-first century, mankind

had seen bold and unprecedented changes

within the world. Radical new technologies

were surfacing at incredible rates, offering

increased access to advanced computers and

informational databases to even the most

destitute nations of Earth. In the wake of the

eradication of Communism from the Eastern

Nations, nuclear weapons quickly became

available in abundance. The international

power structure, once defined primarily by the

acquisition of capital and military superiority,

was blasted apart as third-world nations rose

to challenge the economic and military might

of the world’s super-powers.

As the manipulative sciences of cybernetics,

cloning and gene-splicing rose steadily into

the public forum, militant humanist and hardline

religious groups challenged the rights of

private interest corporations who profited from

genetic experimentation. Multitudes of people

were being augmented with cybernetic

implants while others began to manifest slight

physical mutations ranging from heightened

senses to advanced telepathy. These dramatic

changes within the human gene pool caused

widespread panic amongst many of the

fundamental humanist factions.

Technology continued to evolve and spread,

and population rates soared. Near the end of

the twentieth century, there were six billion

people upon the earth. Within three hundred

years, the population had grown to an

estimated twenty-three billion. Pollution and

a lack of natural resources and affordable fuels

added to the fire as world leaders sought ways

to stem the growth of their nation’s inhabitants.

Popular sentiment held that the world was

plummeting towards an inevitable catastrophe

as overpopulation and genetic alteration swept

across the globe.

Meanwhile, as tensions rose around the

world regarding the use and capitalization of

cybernetics and genetic mutations, many core

international economic systems folded in upon

themselves and shut down. Horrific acts of

terrorism and violence erupted between the

corporate sector and the humanist factions,

resulting in forced police actions across the

globe. Irresponsible media coverage of these

atrocious police actions spurred the already

rampant civil chaos in many of the larger

countries. Ultimately, the precarious balance

of world power exploded into international

pandemonium.

On November 22, 2229, the United Powers

League was founded. The UPL was to become

the ultimate incarnation of the vision of a

unified humanity held by the now defunct

United Nations. This new order encompassed

and controlled close to ninety-three percent

of the earth’s population, failing only to bring

order to a few volatile South American states.

The UPL was founded upon the basis of

‘enlightened socialism’, but often resorted to

harsh, fascist police actions to maintain the

public order. With its control lasting for nearly

eighty years, the UPL began to devise a rigid

agenda that would unify the various cultures

of humanity for all time. Great lengths were

taken to eradicate the last vestiges of racial

separatism, and the Unitariate Commissions

banned many of the world’s oldest religions.

English was designated as the common tongue

of the planet, replacing many ancient

languages that were subsequently banned in

their native countries.

Although religions were officially banned

by the UPL, the organization held an almost

zealous belief in the supposed ‘divinity of

mankind’. This quasi-religious dogma called

for the immediate eradication of any non-vital

prosthetics or mutations amongst the purestrain

human gene pool. Hard-line UPL

proponents and scholars argued that genetic

alteration, cyber technology, and the use of

psychoactive drugs all led to the eventual

degeneration of the human species. The UPL

leaders formulated a bold plan that would

assure that humanity would persevere,

unscathed by the tempting corruption of

radical technologies.

Like the bloody Inquisitions that devastated

Europe eight hundred years before, the UPL

set in motion one of the harshest agendas ever

conceived by humanity: Project Purification.

This genocidal crusade was the Government’s

final solution to the matter of cleansing

humanity of its more degenerate facets. UPL

troops scoured every nation on earth, rounding

up dissidents, hackers, synthetics, the

cybernetically enhanced, tech-pirates, and

criminals of every kind. This planet-wide

culling resulted in the eradication of nearly

400,000,000 people. The world-media, now

under the strict control of the UPL,

downplayed the horrific violence and kept the

general populace of Earth unaware of the

scope of the atrocities being committed.

Despite their heinous acts, the UPL

succeeded in advancing many core

technologies. Fields of research that had lain

dormant for decades were opened again under

UPL control. The Space Exploration programs

of the mid-twentieth century, abandoned by

the American and Russian governments due

to drastically reduced budgets and incessant

political sabotage, became the basis for a new

era of exploration for humanity. The coupling

of cryogenic hibernation with warp-drive

technology resulted in the ability to travel

amongst the stars. Within the span of forty

years the UPL founded colonies upon the

moon and many of the other planets within

the Terran solar system.