Tuesday, March 30, 2010
When AmeriSoc was young
The NRA was adapted almost entirely from "corporatism," the economic system of Italian fascism. [..] Much in the way of the amusing, obnoxious, and appalling went on under the NRA, including the hiring of an American Duce to run the thing, Nuremberg-type torchlight parades to celebrate its debut, and the establishment of a secret police force in New York to ferret out violators.
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More: Tugwell's plans for the AAA involved an adaptation of the Soviet method of confiscation, in which food crops were taken at gunpoint from any group the Kremlin wanted to starve out. [..] Over a two-year period, while millions of Americans went hungry, the federal government spent over $700 million confiscating grain, slaughtering livestock, dumping milk, and burning textile crops.
So OK, not the Holodomor, but hey, they were trying their best. The pinko instinct is invariably the same.
Later, Tugwell had a long stint at the University of Chicago, where he helped develop their planning program. [..] After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tugwell saw global planning as the only sure way to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. He participated in the Committee to Frame a World Constitution from 1945-48. He also viewed a revised national constitution as necessary to enable economic planning, and late in life composed a constitution for the Newstates of America. In it, Planning would become a new branch of federal government, alongside the Regulatory and Electoral branches.
AmeriSoc da Bootyful, indeed.
Over a two-year period, while millions of Americans went hungry, the federal government spent over $700 million confiscating grain, slaughtering livestock, dumping milk, and burning textile crops.
WTF were they doing that for? Price supports?
The two key Brain Trusters were Adolf Berle and Rexford G. Tugwell. Both men were professors at Columbia, and both were of one mind concerning the solutions to America's economic problems: collectivism, centralization, and state control.
Need I say more?
I wonder if they believed global warming could only be fought with deathcamps.
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