Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

—“Curt: Were the National Socialists on the right track when trying to create a better world?”—

I don’t know what ‘national socialists’ or ‘fascist’ mean when people ask that question.

If you ask me instead, if the militarization of the state, economy, and polity in a total war against the ancient european enemies of judaism, chrstianity, islam, or their new pseudoscientific equievalent of communism, liberalism, progressivism by imposing a intolerant, nationalistic, ethnocentric, state-religion of nation and kin, with policy enforcing eugenic reproduction and strong stable families, high employment, mixed economy, with a prohibition on privatization of commons by finance and industry, and devoting proceeds of core industry to the production of commons rather than prive consumption, then yes that was the optimum political order. The chinese have adapted that order. And they have modernized it without the inspirational, emotionally rewarding but destructive ‘cult’ or ‘hero’ false promise that cannot be maintained.

If you mean that such an authoritarian, cult of personality political system, the modern equivalent of an authoritarian monarchy, or the attempt to use ideology like religion that also replaces empirical evidence – why the Fascists failed – then no, that was their f–king demise. They were not de-christianized enough to make the transition even though they thought they were.