tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post116651745478113098..comments2024-03-19T12:49:45.494+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Lordy ...Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166701495603650062006-12-21T11:44:00.000+00:002006-12-21T11:44:00.000+00:00Fascism - the economic and political system to be ...Fascism - the economic and political system to be found in Italy in the 20s and 30s - was a perfectly understandable attempt to counter the Bolshevik agitation going on in Italy, and to protect the provident classes from the ravages of what the libertarian HH Hoppe has termed 'soft communism' - populist democracy. Mussolini's project was supported by figures of such intellectual stature as Pareto, the 'Karl Marx of the middle classes' and life-long devotee of individual liberty, and the occidentalist Evola. Once implemented, it also led to some of the most free market policies in the world at the time, and from that to the healthiest growth rates in Europe. <BR/><BR/>But of course what do I know? No doubt, it was actually a 'demogogic call to the Old Order predicated on a populist divine right of "The People"'. Yep, a demagogic call predicated on the divine right of "The People", which was nonetheless somehow sent out to the Old Order. Faulty wires, I guess. <BR/><BR/>By the way, fido's description of Prescott as a 'fat prick' might be more accurate than he imagines, and might well be the key to unlocking the psychological impetus which drove that petty pen-pusher slag of his into his embrace and onto his arms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166689932460777962006-12-21T08:32:00.000+00:002006-12-21T08:32:00.000+00:00The problem post 1918 was how the elites were to r...The problem post 1918 was how the elites were to reclaim their privileged position once the ordinary worker was liberated from fedual hierarchy.<BR/><BR/>First came Fascism with a demogogic call to the Old Order predicated on a populist divine right of "The People" to counter the millennialist rhetoric of Soviet Socialism.<BR/><BR/>Then post-WWII the need to recapture Power from the masses took on the supra-nationalist form of tying the popular will and democratic mandate in knots through treaties and associations.<BR/><BR/>The whole of the modern era is the substitution of a Permanent Elite in place of shifting democratic majorities - it is Plato's Republic and its GuardiansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166575763723696742006-12-20T00:49:00.000+00:002006-12-20T00:49:00.000+00:00Are they Reclaiming the Night for the general publ...Are they Reclaiming the Night for the general public or just for streetwalkers and kerb crawlers?Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166574320412412842006-12-20T00:25:00.000+00:002006-12-20T00:25:00.000+00:00I should have said, the Marxism is like a living m...I should have said, the Marxism is like a living museum, <A HREF="http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/Almanack/life/life.cfm" REL="nofollow">Colonial Williamsburg</A> kind of thing: Traditional craftsmen practicing their traditional crafts as they have done for generations uncounted, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166573918640370162006-12-20T00:18:00.000+00:002006-12-20T00:18:00.000+00:00The family unit has been the chief way in which th...<I>The family unit has been the chief way in which the reproduction of labour has been guaranteed under industrial capitalism.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm sorry, but I laughed so hard when I read that, I almost fell out of my chair. Seeing a live Marxist is a lot like seeing somebody with a stone axe stalking the pigeons in the park: Like, er, <EM>what</EM> epoch was this again?!<BR/><BR/>But anyway, somebody ought to notify that poor kid that the family unit has been the chief way in which labor has been reproduced under all systems, forever. It's the chief way in which <EM>human beings</EM> reproduce. What a goddamn idiot. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Bribing Saudis doesn't bother me. How corrupt was the Royal Navy in Nelson's day? Unspeakably so. But they seem to have done okay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1166567400264352542006-12-19T22:30:00.000+00:002006-12-19T22:30:00.000+00:00Just when you think that New Labour cant stoop any...Just when you think that New Labour cant stoop any damn lower, they do. This Saudi deal and the cover suprises me not a jot.<BR/><BR/>Hell if John Prescott was caught sucking off a West Highland Terrier it would not suprise me, and Blair still would not sack the fat prick.Fidothedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13588552210424845667noreply@blogger.com