How to be a Communist and a Fascist at the Same Time

by Bruce WebbThose of us with a passing knowledge of the development of Communism and Fascism within the larger context of the Popular Revolution vs Reaction tend to scratch our heads when people blame Obama and his whole program of being both. After all in Europe, the historical cradle of each, the actions have seen to be the Left and Right anchors of a supporting range that has various democratic flavors in between: Social Democrats, Liberal Democrats, Christian Democrats and the like. But that is the result of looking at his through a narrow lens focussing on who is in otherwise out of supporting power and/or which party is holding the balance. There are alternative analytical plan that break this down in very different ways. To exemplify the mind-set that animates some, but by negative means all, of the keen opposition to Obama I would like to give you this from a review of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to SerfdomThis spell-binding book is a classic in the history of liberal ideas. It was unusually responsible for initiation an important debate on the relationship between supporting and economic freedom. It complete the author a world-famous intellectual. It set a new standard for what it means to be a dissident intellectual. It warned of a new form of despotism enacted in the name of liberation. And though it appeared in 1944, it continues to have a extraordinary impact. No single can consider himself well-schooled in modern supporting ideas without having engrossed its lessons.What F.A. Hayek saw, and what most all his contemporaries missed, was that every step absent from the free market and toward administration preparation represented a compromise of person freedom usually and a step toward a form of dictatorship--and this is true in all era and places. He demonstrated this against every claim that administration control was really only a means of increasing social well-being. Hayek supposed that administration preparation would make society less liveable, additional brutal, additional despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom.Nazism, he wrote, is not different in kind from Communism. Further, he showed that the very forms of administration that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise. Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with person dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move absent from that system, we empower the most horrible people in society to manage what they do not understand.For followers of Hayek's custom the enemy is statism and their bulwark, their strength is capitalism. To argue as a lot of leftists do that opponents of physical condition care reform otherwise of increases in minimum wage otherwise any other intevention by the State to improve social otherwise economic justice are just arguing against their own material interests, and that in action consequently they are just siding with the bosses fall on deaf ears. Once you have internalized the twin equations Capitalism=Freedom & Statism=Tyranny you can well understand why Movement Conservatives first discarded the Eisenhower and Rockefeller Republicans who espoused Goo-Goo approaches ('Goo-Goo' being an old, somewhat mocking term for the Good Government movement). For people who followed Hayek the Interstate Highway System was not an instrument for good, the fact that it was administration initiated, funded and maintained complete it additional like a Superhighway to Serfdom.Not all the anger being exhibited has its total roots in this Hayek-Friedman-Libertarian soil, there are clearly cultural and racial roots to much of it as well. But if you think that somewhere behind that shouting face is the committment to single of the original rallying cries of Movement Conservatism, that of Barry Goldwater in his acceptance speech in 1964: 'I would remind you that radicalism in the defense of liberty is negative vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is negative virtue!Not my own cup of tea, I kind of believe in steady pursuit of justice. I just want to point out that this is not just mindless anger, there is at least some coherentness behind it. An insurance claims rep is an agent of capitalism and consequently an friend of Freedom. A administration physical condition care bureaucrat is an agent of statism and consequently an enemy of Freedom. Making an operational argument that either single is getting between you and your doctor doesn't cut any ice. Either you are for Freedom otherwise against Freedom, if that comes with some personal give up sobeit.
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