Great Post!
Posted on 09/02/2017 5:31:01 PM PDT by walford
To elaborate in detail - Guild Socialism involves the government protecting established companies, putting them in charge of deciding which competitors can join them, dividing up sectors. Ostensibly this is to prevent wasteful redundancy, but in practice, it results in cronyism, high consumer prices and monopoly.
Trade Union Syndicalism involves government forcing the labor force to join unions that have financial and political ties to certain government officials. The given reason is to protect workers, but in practice, it makes it so the ability to join the workforce depends upon connections. Employers have no choice but to hire politically connected union labor. Wages are set by syndicates rather than supply-and-demand. Labor surpluses -- viz, high unemployment -- are inevitable. This in turn, erodes self-sufficiency, swells the numbers of those dependent upon taxpayer-funded benes, which increases the power of apparatchiks who thus control a larger percentage of the general population's most basic and vital needs. Hence more are invested in increased taxes and larger government.
Futurism is a form of Utopianism in which those who are Gifted [by political connection] design an ideal society and enforce it with the coercive power of government. Social engineering is a key aspect, with politicians and bureaucrats using the carrot and stick to modify the general population to either fit into the Grand Design or be eliminated.
Does this sound conservative to anyone? Or does it more resemble the New Deal, Great Society, Obamanation, etc.?
Article and post BUMP! Thanks, walford.
Did you write that comment, or is it a continuation of Dinesh’s article?
Very informative. Thank you.
I think your explanation is exceptionally well done.
“Fascist” seems to be key word for Marxists.
My Father’s battalion was sent into Berlin after the Russians captured it. They were among the first.
Daddy mentioned to me that for the first couple of weeks, every time they would meet a Russian soldier, he would shout out, “Death To Fascists”.
The American soldiers for the most part had no idea what they were talking about.
I have admired Dinesh D’Souza’s work, and this analysis is spot on.
“How, then, did progressives in America re-define fascism and Nazism as phenomena of the right?”
Doesn’t matter. When I get into a discussion with a leftist, I always, sooner or later, call him a Nazi. I wait for his head to spin around 360 degrees and spit out green pea soup, like in the “Exorcist” movie, and challenge him to step out in the parking lot for a further discussion.
He never does.
As a practical matter, fascism and socialism go hand in hand. A Marxist or socialist dictator inevitably employs fascist elements in his governance.
Similarly, it should be pointed out that socialism and fascism do not free you of an oligarchy, they in fact create an oligarchy. In some cases replacing the old one, in some cases its the old one in new guise. But in any dictatorship and in any socialist country, dictatorship or not, you will have a circle of powerful figures and families that profit from the regime and hold the whole thing together.
Thank you. My uneducated self has never been able to grasp how they completely overlook the socialist aspect of the National Socialists. Still don’t understand why so many believe it.
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In 2016 the anticipated candidates of both American "parties", Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton were both running on the same corrupt, fascist agenda of regulated competition in business, massive preferences to a shrinking number of dominant corporations, suppression of religious belief, complete state control of education and the eradication of national sovereignty and the nation state. Then Trump happened and set their agenda back at least four years. It's a start.
BUMP...
Don’t look at me. No relation whatsoever.
Thank you. Yes, the comment was all me.
I would only add to elaborate that the reason the Left wants to conflate conservatism with fascism is to make it so those who advocate for freedom, individual empowerment, equality under the law, lower taxes, smaller government, etc. to be closet NAZIs.
Hence, to stop the evils of fascism, one must quash the aforementioned principles upon which the Party of Abraham Lincoln was founded before they metastasize into Nazism.
Great Post!
“...it should be pointed out that socialism and fascism do not free you of an oligarchy, they in fact create an oligarchy. In some cases replacing the old one, in some cases its the old one in new guise.”
“It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of “Freedom or dictatorship?” into “Which kind of dictatorship?”—thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choice—according to the proponents of that fraud—is: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism).” - Ayn Rand
"It's a choice between A and B -- and I get to decide what A and B are."
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Some say that FDR was a socialist, but he tolerated private property so long as it served the public interest as deemed by the State. Fascists, being Leftists, think that true freedom and justice can only issue from the State. They believe that the State is the people and the people are the State [”we are the government”], so the more power the government has, the more empowered are the people.
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