Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

As a classical liberal, His is correct that fascism is wrong.

If you asked SRHicks if there is a difference between fascism and napoleon total war, other than total war is temporary, and fascism claims a permanent ideology, then I suspect he’d agree with you.

If you asked me that same question, I’d respond the same way. IMO ideologies are just different methods of conducting warfare during the industrial revolution’s transfer of power from land to industry, and from aristocracy to middle classes, with the empowerment of the lower classes via that industry threatening the middle classes.

The question for the future, which I’ve not discussed recently but have frequently in the past, is how we, like the Romans, transition from a war-government (fascism) to a prosperity government (classical liberalism) with the same ease as did the Romans until Julius Caesar without getting ‘stuck’ in fascism. For all intents and purposes that’s what the depression-second world war combination did to the states.