Posted on 08/31/2020 8:04:40 AM PDT by tbw2
“The End of Economic Man” by Peter Drucker was written as an analysis of the social factors that led to the rise of fascism. The first version was written in the early years of World War 2, while updated introductions were written in the decades after the war.
Drucker has a unique insight into the social factors of fascism’s rise separate from the political and economic one. What are the lessons we can learn from “The End of Economic Man”, a book considered so important it was given to every British officer school graduate during World War 2?
(Excerpt) Read more at hubpages.com ...
Book Review: ‘The End of Economic Man’
https://hubpages.com/literature/The-End-of-Economic-Man-the-Origins-of-Totalitarianism-a-Review
The book is old, but the article is timely.
“The rise of totalitarianism was a social event. It was driven in part by people disappointed by Marxism’s failure.“
Marxism was always going to be totalitarian. All that guff about statelessness was a lie from the very beginning, as soon as early Marxist postulated it. Every Marxist is a liar.
It is said that on reading of Darwin’s work that Marx hammered off a note to his partner in crime, Engels, that he’d found a basis for their views in naturalist science.
Why is that significant? Because human beings are not made to live in the godless and stateless fantasy like that of Karl and company’s. But if there can be natural selection there can also be unnatural selection, where men are oppressed and forced to accept communist doctrines for untold generations until there should arise men-like beings with a different nature than humanity (which is unfit for Marxism the Marxists prattle on about).
The Revolution is a revolt against human nature itself, an effort to pervert it through nurture and unnatural selection.
It could never ever be anything but evil and totalitarian.
Marxism is, was and will always be the perfect opiate of the masses. Salvationist zeal with none of that messy repentance stuff getting in the way of them doing exactly as they pleased.
As for fascism, it was and is bad ... but it took all that racist neopagan BS of nazism to make fascism as bad as communism gets without the help. Communists / Marxist are simply worse than fascists ... and fascists — who are rooted in the same ideological underpinnings of the Left about the primacy of the state and the need for people to be managed from on high — are pretty damn bad to begin with.
Classic American Liberalism on which this country was based is NOT anywhere between fascism and other forms of Left wing ideology. That it is said to be so, that fascism is a far right rather than just the least far left, also is a self serving lie used by the Left.
You might enjoy reading “The Devil and Karl Marx” by Paul Kengor. I’m at chapter 5. It’s one of the best non-fiction books that I have read in years.
That’s why I shared it. I’m seeing a lot of liberals saying, “We need reformed capitalism, kind capitalism” - AKA, the government micromanaging business in the name of fairness. It is fascism.
We’re in the process of seeing if Classic American Liberalism can survive at all. Even within our own American Experiment, there is quite a bit of statism involved already. But at least we have not abdicated elections in favor of a dictator. Anytime some mush-brained Leftist claims Trump is a fascist, you need only point out that if he were, then virtually all Leftists would be incarcerated or lying in shallow graves.
The mush brained Left called people dared to suggest that they have good morals “fascists” ... they call all sorts of people fascists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88EIoUkKQ0
... a fun and very on the mark video.
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