“Fascism” has become a term of general derision and rebuke. It is tossed casually in the direction of anything a critic happens to dislike.
But fascism is a real political and economic concept, not a stick with which to beat opponents arbitrarily. The abuse of this important word undermines its true value as a term referring to a very real phenomenon, and one whose spirit lives on even now.
Fascism is a specific ideology based on the idea that the state is the ideal organization for realizing a society’s and an individual’s potential economically, socially, and even spiritually.
The state, for the fascist, is the instrument by which the people’s common destiny is realized, and in which the potential for greatness is to be found. Individual rights, and the individual himself, are strictly subordinate to the state’s great and glorious goals for the nation. In foreign affairs, the fascist attitude is reflected in a belligerent chauvinism, a contempt for other peoples, and a society-wide reverence for soldiers and the martial virtues.
Autor: Lew Rockell
Año: 2016
Encuadernación: tapa blanda
Páginas: 171
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Introduction
Section One: The Reality of American Fascism
1. The Reality of Red-State Fascism
2. The Fascist Threat
The Decline
The Origins of Fascism
Flynn Tells the Truth
The Eight Marks of Fascist Policy
The Future
3. Machiavelli and State Power
4. Headed to National Socialism
5. The Dawn of Late Fascism
6. The US Corporate State
Section Two: Capitalism and Its Heroes
7. The World of Salamanca
Francisco de Vitoria
Domingo de Soto
Martin de Azpilcueta Navarrus
Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva
Luis de Molina
The Austrian Tradition
8. Economics and Moral Courage
9. The Misesian Vision
10. The Promise of Human Action
11. Rothbard’s Legacy
12. Hazlitt and Keynes: Opposite Callings
13. Hazlitt’s Battle with Bretton Woods
14. Parallel Lives: Liberty or Power?
15. Liberty’s Benefactor
16. Ron Paul and the Future
17. The Generosity of Murray Rothbard
18. Twin Demons
19. Emulate Ron Paul
Subject Index
