Jonah Goldberg and Liberal Fascism

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[Rundstedt1]

@MrGreenPoop1000

Actually Overy refers to Hitler as a dirigiste capitalist in his book "War and Economy in the Third Reich"

[Rundstedt1]

@MrGreenPoop1000

Virtually everything you've posted has already been debunked here by me and yet you come back months later and like a lunatic try to post it again.

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (18/18)

"Fascist regimes functioned like an epoxy: an amalgam of two very different agents, fascist dynamism and conservative order, bonded by shared enmity toward liberalism and the Left, and a shared willingness to stop at nothing to destroy their common enemies." Robert O. Paxton. "The Anatomy of Fascism", p147

All fascism did was combine conservatism with a new populist energy, just like the Rightwing teabaggers

[Rundstedt1]

@MrGreenPoop1000 (17/18)

"In other words:

Libertarianism resembles feudalism in that it establishes political power in a web of bilateral individual contracts. Consequently, it has no conception of legitimate public political authority nor any place for political society, a “body politic” that political authority represents in a fiduciary capacity."

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Samuel Freeman, “Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30, 2 (Spring 2002), 105-151.

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (16/18)

"Oaths of fealty or service are sworn in exchange for similar or compensating benefits. Those who exercise political power wield it on behalf of others pursuant to their private contractual relation and only so long as their contract is in force. Since different services are provided to people, there is no notion of a uniform public law that is to be impartially applied to all individuals."

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (15/18)

"Under feudalism, the elements of political authority are powers that are held personally by individuals, not by enduring political institutions. These powers are held as a matter of private contractual right. Individuals gradually acquire the power to make, apply, and enforce rules by forging a series of private contracts with particular individuals or families."

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (14/18)

And the entire "small" gov't ideology is a sham. The size of gov't is dictated by the needs of society. All the 'small' gov't proponents do is to shift the functions onto the unaccountable and self serving private sector. It creates a Feudal structure where wealth and power is shifted even more to the top.

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (13/18)

Peasant families that had run their village community for decades or even centuries managed for the most part to retain their position by reaching a limited accommodation with the new regime. Businessmen, big and small, continued to run their business for the usual CAPITALIST profit motive." - Richard Evans, "The Third Reich in Power" p500

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (12/18)

Rich and poor remained in the Third Reich, as much as they ever had. In the end, the aristocracy's power over the land remained undisturbed, and younger nobles even found a new leadership role in the SS, Germany's future political elite.

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@MrGreenPoop1000 (11/18)

"Yet the equality of status so loudly and insistently proclaimed by the Nazis did not imply equality of social position, income or wealth. The Nazis did not radically revise the taxation system so as to even up people's net incomes, for example, or control the economy in the manner that was done in the Soviet Union, or later on in the German Democratic republic, so as to minimize the differences between rich and poor.