21 Feb 2022 1:44 pm
I have read quite a few accounts from fascists who were disillusioned with "free market theology." Many of them worked in blue collar skilled professions and believed Austrian school/neoclassical economics BS (or the more juvenile Ayn Rand type BS) right before their jobs were shipped overseas.FOS » 19 Feb 2022, 8:06 pm » wrote: ↑ The majority of modern fascists seem to have gotten there from a libertarian to fascist pipeline...largely motivated by respect for freedom of association and anger over the betrayal of woke capital.
I personally was actually a monarchist and came to fascism by the above realization, well documented and explained by the political philosopher and historian Bertrand de jouvenal...and the whole phenomenon of the top and low alliance against the middle and how monarchy incentivizes it.
That was also the monarchist to fascist pipeline in the 1920s....which was the biggest group that converted.
At the same time, Stalinist economics was unappealing for obvious reasons as nobody wants the government to force them to work in factories or collectives.
So really the economics of fascism (protectionism + industrial socialism mixed in with market economics on a lower level, e.g. local small businesses can compete freely) is about as equally appealing as the cultural side, as much as you hate economics.