It's confusing alright, apparently Karen thinks the govt bailing out wall Street in 2008 is the 'free market.'
Karen also thinks when the Pentagon awards contracts to arms manufacturers when former board members of said manufacturers are part of the decision making process is the 'free market.'
No. Globalization is an inversion of the free market. It requires intergovernmental organizations and agents (consisting of corrupt politicians and unelected oligarchs) and manipulation by those intergovernmental organizations and agents.
The equitable re-distribution of wealth that has occurred as a result of globalization (USA to China, for example) is a socialist (fascist) project only thinly disguised as capitalistic in nature. Indeed, globalization has helped those who have instituted it to gain capital for themselves. The corrupt politicians and unelected oligarchs have become very wealthy, while the average person has been totally ripped off. The corrupt politicians and unelected oligarchs have carried this scheme out intentionally to benefit themselves and achieve their interests.
As bhops said, the system is totally corrupt by design. There is nothing free or organic about the market today. It has been rigged for decades, of course, but there was still a veil of pretence and relative opportunity until recently. In the past year, the corrupt politicians and unelected oligarchs have dropped any pretence. They are openly talking about "the Great Reset" and "the new normal" as they insist that family-run businesses are unsafe but Wal-Mart is totally safe. They have hastened an artificial destruction of the previous market and instituted in its place a far more centralized market.
The corrupt politicians and unelected oligarchs who support this globalist and socialist (fascist) world order are laughing at all of us. They are, however, laughing most heartily at the socialists who are begging for all of this because it is you woke socialist types who are the enablers, the useful idiots, the acolytes of our demise.
Ya know, I sort of feel like this is the right-wing equivalent of “real communism has never been tried”.
Whenever you talk to a communist about the failures of communism in the Soviet Union or wherever and you're like "Well what about the famines? What about the massacres? What about X? What about Y" and they will say without fail “Oh, well that wasn’t REAL communism. REAL communism has never been tried!”
It’s like yeah, maybe it wasn’t. But every systems is going to incentivize certain behaviors that will ultimate undermine the “real version of X”.
And you see the stuff with libertarians when you try to get them to understand capitalism's flaws. If you're like "Well, what about this? What about that?" and they're always like "Oh, well that's 'corporatism'." or "That's 'CRONY capitalism'. That's not REAL capitalism. I'm not for those things."
I mean, sure. Maybe that's not pure Austrian economics. But the fact is that if you have capitalism AND democracy, you're gonna get some shenanigans. Human nature will ensure that some amount of crony capitalism is inevitable and you can't just brush it off by saying "Well, that's not REAL capitalism".
Look, capitalism is a flawed system. That doesn't mean it isn't better than communism. Maybe it's the best system that anyone has thought of so far. I'm not here to argue that. But you have to be realistic that it is not a perfect system and it is part of the problem. It's not the whole problem but it's a lot of it.
A truly free market has no mechanisms within it to prevent the emergence of monopolies. You have to have a strong state to prevent monopolies but then your market is not truly "free".
And you're wrong about several things.
-Capitalism is inherently globalists. Borders restrict the free flow of capital and labor. A truly free market knows no national boundaries.
-Not only what is happening not "socialism", it's not "fascism" either. "Fascism' is probably the most misused and misunderstood words in all of politics.
For one, America does not have the social cohesion to do real fascism.
Secondly, in fascism business is subordinate to the state. We are in a situation where the state is subordinate to business. If the leader of the civilian government is being banned from the internet by for-profit institutions, that's a pretty good sign that what is happening is not fascism.
Yeah, I post a lot of Keith Woods content. I disagree with him on a lot of things but when it comes to making a right-wing critiques of capitalism or explaining fascism, he is superb.
A lot of people use "fascism" when they mean "authoritarianism". When the police are mean to people, they call it "fascism" but it's not like fascists invented that. A democracy can be
You know who is fascist? Modern day China. People talk about China being communist but they could more accurately be described as fascist. Like, they have billionaires in China. You don't have billionaires in communism. In China, they allow billionaires but the billionaires have to operate in such a way that is to the benefit of the collective. THAT is fascism.
I have some sympathy for you because I used to be a libertarian. Probably 70% of the Alt Right were ex-libertarians. I disagree with it but it's one advantage is that it does help people break out of the Left-Right, Democratic-Republican binary paradigm. But you can't understand what is going on through the lenses of 20th century concepts of socialism, capitalism, fascism, communism, individualism vs collectivism. What we are dealing with is none of those things. There are bits and pieces of all of those things but ultimately, it's an entirely different animal.