by Jeremiah Harding, The Free Thought Project:
For my first piece here, I believe it’s best to start on the right foot and discuss the long-established spiral toward total fascism. Part of this is based on the long-held alliances between the Nazis and the West™. From aiding them during the war to funding and employing them post-war, the US and NATO have gone to great lengths to protect their fascist allies in return for maintaining a neoliberal and neoconservative global order. There are well-known and lesser-known aspects of this relationship. Many are surprising to people when mentioned, so I’ll provide a concise yet powerful list of three ways the West has consistently empowered and emboldened Nazis.
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However, before diving in, I find it necessary to state that the state often distracts its citizens from its growth by pointing fingers at the left. Many proponents of right-libertarian thought overlook this diversion or falsely claim the state is leftist, which is far from accurate. This truth is something on which both Noam Chomsky and Murray Rothbard can agree. Chomsky, in “FAILED STATES: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, states:
“With the Cold War no longer available, it was necessary to reframe pretexts not only for intervention but also for militarized state capitalism at home… The costs and risks of the upcoming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized…”
He points out how the Cold War justified vast military spending and state expansion. Once expanded, the state found new adversaries and venues for foreign ventures. The US government has consistently found reasons for growth, using agencies like the CIA to generate future threats, like the Middle Eastern “terror threat”[1], always ready to combat “communists” and counteract the Red Menace in Russia. Sounds familiar?
Rothbard, in “Capitalism Versus Statism”, highlights:
“If we are to keep the term ‘capitalism’ at all, then, we must distinguish between ‘free-market capitalism’ on the one hand, and ‘state capitalism’ on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence.”
He further explains that the state has always been a tool for whoever wished to dominate the economy, leading to various economic models, concluding:
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