Which is why libertarianism (what Hayek would have called liberalism, meaningclassical liberalism) is the proper philosophy of government. Assuming, of course, one values individual rights and civil society. P.S. I alsovisited the Solidarity Museum in Polanda few years ago. Maybe I could put to...
There is also the important matter of the economic context in which he emerged into the political arena. Nazism owed much of its popularity to the disasters of hyper-inflation in 1923 and the Great Depression in 1929. People became crazed by poverty and uncertainty. Without these stimulants, i...
Fascism is a system in which the government leaves nominal ownership of the means of production in the hands of private individuals but exercises control by means of regulatory legislation and reaps most of the profit by means of heavy taxation. In effect, fascism is simply a more subtle form ...
This is not unlike the attitude we see in "Black Lives Matters," when the dozen blacks killed by police in a year, usually with cause, are the justification of riots and destruction, while the hundreds of blacks killed by criminals, often black themselves, are ignored. In other words, the...
Lagny or Lagny-sur-Marne or, as Léon Bloy later put it, “Cochons-sur-Marne” (“cochons” meaning “pigs” in French). Bloy goes into day-after-day detail about the struggles he lived through there, in his published journal Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne (Quatre ans ...
When propaganda takes over terms like that with abandon they come to have as much meaning as any expletive. Log in to Reply Cat Vincent Friday, August 3rd at 7:02 pm Take it from someone who grew up in a far-right English town in the 1970s, I know what a fascist looks like. ...
To Steiner, the European youth were so disillusioned by the apparent helplessness and instability of their own governments many began to search for an ideal that would give meaning to their lives and tended to regard developments in the Third Reich with ‘idealistic hopefulness.‘120 For these ...
group of people follow reason, meaning they cannot be reasoned with. The same studies also predict that a clear majority of any targeted population will respond to fear in a shock scenario. We might try reasoning with the sleeping sheeple, but we would have better odds if we tried to scare...