Why America Must Reject the State Capitalist Temptation

American Thinker ^ | 20 Aug, 2025 | John Horvat II

[meyer]

Free enterprise with minimal interference from the government is the way.

Freedom to buy and sell, to create, to try new things outside of the influence of the idiots in DC and other governments that wish to be in control despite being generally inept at the task at hand.

[ckilmer]

Japan has extended to the USA 550 billion to invest as it pleases in return for 10% of the profits.

Korea made a similar deal for about 350 billion.

Wouldn’t it be wise to invest that money in such a way as to vastly accelerate american growth and gdp and get a return on the investment that would contribute to the USA soveign wealth fund or that new retirement saving account that trump created with a deposit of 1000 per person? (In theory that would take over Social Security if enough funds were contributed at some point in the future)

[meyer]

This idea bears the Benito Mussolini Stamp of Approval ...

Kind of the true, original definition, more or less, of fascism.

[ek_hornbeck]

Chian Kai-shek's ideology was more distributist than socialist. His goal was to make as many Chinese (in theory) property owners as possible so that they would have at least a small stake in the nation rather than being de facto serfs. His view was that whether you're a worker on a collectivized farm owned by the government or on a farm owned by a private corporation, you have no real agency or autonomy.

Western distributists like Chesterton and Belloc were saying the same thing, though I don't know if they directly influenced Chiang Kai-shek or if he simply converged on the same ideas.