{"id":37721,"date":"2017-03-17T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37721"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:01:31","slug":"peronism-fascism-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/peronism-fascism-and-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Peronism, fascism, and socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2017\/03\/16\/justicialismo\/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=\" target=\"_blank\">David Warren<\/a> is in fine form:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peronism came to Argentina and never left. Not only have the <em>Partido Justicialista<\/em> and its avatars dominated Argentine electoral politics, through their various iconic husband-and-wife acts over the last seventy years, but they have contaminated the thinking of the whole country, which adhered to their arbitrary and contradictory doctrines even during the sixteen years they were banned, and adheres to the present day when once again they are nominally out of power. Actually it is a century, now, since Peron\u2019s \u201cRadical\u201d predecessors first won election (dating from Hip\u00f3lito Yrigoyen, 1916). Moral, intellectual, and material squalour is their chief legacy to a country which was once among the world\u2019s most prosperous and most free. The spiritual equivalent has now migrated to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>This, at least, is the impression I have formed from afar. \u201cJusticialism,\u201d so far as one can read, embodies every sort of rhetorical populism, across the political spectrum, but with a heavy and perfectly consistent bias towards centralized power. It stands for \u201csocial justice\u201d \u2014 an absolutely imaginary and therefore unattainable ideal. It is on the side of labour and of management, it is Catholic and anti-Catholic, racist and anti-racist, isolationist and aggressive, leftist and rightist and dogmatically nationalist with all the contradictions nationalism entails. Yet it is not unique.<\/p>\n<p>Socialism is leftwing Fascism; Fascism is rightwing Socialism. Other than that, they are the same. They vie for the same voters, and politicians may move comfortably back and forth between their symmetrical (i.e. identical) extremes. The principle underlying both is that the government should control everything, for the government\u2019s idea of the common good. Whether the government technically owns everything is neither here nor there. Indeed, Socialism\/Fascism works better, for the government, if private actors can be made to take the blame and the losses for all of the government\u2019s goon-show mistakes. Any \u201cexcess\u201d income on which they fall in their government-assigned monopolist stations can then be impounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Warren is in fine form: Peronism came to Argentina and never left. Not only have the Partido Justicialista and its avatars dominated Argentine electoral politics, through their various iconic husband-and-wife acts over the last seventy years, but they have contaminated the thinking of the whole country, which adhered to their arbitrary and contradictory doctrines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,53],"tags":[492,457,1171,76,997],"class_list":["post-37721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-politics","tag-argentina","tag-fascism","tag-populism","tag-socialism","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37722,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions\/37722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}