(Part 2) Top products from r/neoliberal

Here's some recommended reading to get you up to speed

Who Is “Fascist”? by Thomas Sowell

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg

Liberal Fascism blog by Jonah Goldberg in case you think you'll get away with criticisng it, he owned. every liberal on that blog who tried to debunk him

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> For instance, when I was writing the book, I thought there’s no way all of this horrible stuff I was reading by and about Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Croly could be right. I checked the sources over and over again, and for the most part restricted myself to credible, mainstream historians or primary sources. Still, I was waiting for someone to say, for example, “No, no, no: Goldberg gets Wilson all wrong!” But to date, I don’t think anyone has written a detailed, fact-driven defense of the guy. One left-wing blogger rolled his eyes and simply said it was silly for me to call Wilson a liberal, which seemed idiotic and a huge concession at the same time. When the New York Times reviewed the book, the reviewer didn’t even object to a single accusation against Wilson. In fact, he didn’t disagree with anything in the book until I got to FDR. Well, by the time I got to FDR, I’d said that Fascism was left-wing, that Hitler was a man of the Left, and that Wilson was a would-be fascist dictator. That seemed like a pretty big concession to me. I think the larger significance of this is that liberals are either unwilling or unable to defend the roots of what we call liberalism, and that speaks volumes and lays down an important marker.

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> Well, first of all I think I have to thank Barack Obama. Here I wrote a book, working on the assumption that Hillary Clinton would be the nominee (hardly a harebrained assumption at the time), about how contemporary progressivism is a political religion with its roots in German state theory, sharing a close family resemblance to fascism. Among the anatomical and genetic similarities: cult of unity, sacralization of politics, philosophical pragmatism, corporatism, relativism, Romanticism, hero-worship, collectivism, and so on. And out of nowhere comes a guy who campaigns as a secular messiah, spouting deeply spiritualized political rhetoric, claims the Progressives as his inspiration, and proudly sees himself as carrying out FDR’s mission. I haven’t counted them, but I’d guess I’ve received a couple hundred e-mails from readers telling me how they thought the whole book was written with Obama in mind, even though I finished it before he was even ahead in the Democratic primaries. After the election, sales of the book spiked through the roof for a reason. I used to joke that the same people loading up on bottled water and handguns were buying extra copies of the book as a field guide or something

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> You know, when I first started pondering the book, I thought it might be all about economics. About ten years ago I went on a junket to Switzerland and attended a talk with the CEO of Nestlé. Listening to him, it became very clear to me that he had little to no interest in free markets or capitalism properly understood. He saw his corporation as a “partner” with governments, NGOs, the U.N., and other massive multinationals. The profit motive was good for efficiency and rewarding talent, but beyond that, he wanted order and predictability and as much planning as he could get. I think that mindset informs the entire class of transnational progressives, the shock troops of what H. G. Wells hoped would lead to his liberal-fascist “world brain.”

> If you look at how most liberals think about economics, they want big corporations and big government working in tandem with labor, universities (think industrial policy), and progressive organizations to come up with “inclusive” policies set at the national or international level. That’s not necessarily socialism — it’s corporatism. When you listen to how Obama is making economic policy with “everyone at the table,” he’s describing corporatism, the economic philosophy of fascism. Government is the senior partner, but all of the other institutions are on board — so long as they agree with the government’s agenda. The people left out of this coordinated effort — the Nazis called it the Gleichschaltung — are the small businessmen, the entrepreneurs, the ideological, social, or economic mavericks who don’t want to play along. When you listen to Obama demonize Chrysler’s bondholders simply because they want their contracts enforced and the rule of law sustained, you get a sense of what I’m talking about.

> I don’t think Obama wants a brutal tyranny any more than Hillary Clinton does (which is to say I don’t think he wants anything of the sort). But I do think they honestly believe that progress is best served if everyone falls in line with a national agenda, a unifying purpose, a “village” mentality expanded to include all of society. That sentiment drips from almost every liberal exhortation about everything from global warming to national service. But to point it out earns you the label of crank. As I said a minute ago about that “We’re All Fascists Now” chapter, I think people fail to understand that tyrannies — including soft, Huxleyan tyrannies — aren’t born from criminal conspiracies by evil men; they’re born by progressive groupthink. I have an abiding faith in the liberty-loving nature of the American people. But I think we are laying down the foundation for a challenge to that nature the likes of which we haven’t seen since Wilson was in office.

my favourite in the category of "extreme boomer takes in the form of children entertainment" is this

>"Everyone is buzzing about the president's birthday! Especially George Washington's servants, who scurry around the kitchen preparing to make this the best celebration ever. Oh, how George Washington loves his cake! And, oh, how he depends on Hercules, his head chef, to make it for him. Hercules, a slave, takes great pride in baking the president's cake. But this year there is one problem--they are out of sugar."

Only read selected chapters, but [Social Stratification] (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Stratification-Gender-Sociological-Perspective/dp/0813346711) seems pretty excellent.

Granted, they are correct about the economic growth of the country. Intentionally or not Joseph Stalin took crib notes from the Imperial Russian Finance Minister who famously stated that given the choice between industrialization and allowing people to starve in the streets, people were just going to have to go hungry.


In that sense- and ironically doing what the Nazis could only imagine themselves doing under General Plan Ost- it's quite easy to grow your economy when you have no respect for human life or human rights and the rumbling of mouth breathing Germans on your border all collectively convinced there's a conspiracy of Jewish communists running your country to destroy western civilization then forced those people who generally loathed you into your 'loving' embrace. Seriously, to get a picture of what the early years of the Soviet Union was like, go read Ivan's War. Germany invading in some respects saved Stalin's experiment.


>Zero Unemployment


Because employment was a duty, even if your job was to sit in a stairway and read the newspaper.


>Zero homelessness


Man, who can say no to this? Construction companies are a brilliant way to build a fledgling economy but lets completely forgo that so everyone can live in concrete coffins.


>End Famine


You mean that thing you intentionally inflicted on the Ukrainians to cripple them? Or that thing where you forced everyone in bread lines? Jokes from the era were about how even heroes of the Soviet Union like cosmonauts had to wait in bread lines. Let that sink in: the Soviets could put man in space and achieved many important firsts in the wider space race but when tasked with making sure a country was fed they could not run an efficient bakery.


>Higher Calorie Consumption than the US


Someone's going to have to point me to this statistic but I don't see how they're not lying here. This certainly would not have started until the late 50's or early 60's because the Soviet Union was trashed in the wake of WW2 and the parts that were treated the worst was the bread basket.

In part. I've also seen quite a bit of research (summarised in this book) indicating that early motherhood can often be motivated by a desire for meaning/actualisation for people who are systemically locked out of achieving meaning through high-prestige careers or education, which is true for many African-Americans and African-American women in particular.

its true, I need more China.

This and this are on my amazon wish list.

Also I need to get my dad to send me some more of my old history books, I have a history of southeast asia I want to reread.

> waiting for good suggestions from our IR folks

The only book needed to make a country leader of the free world*

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*Note that the country is France, not the country of the reader

https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Boomers-Immigrants-Screwed-Generation/dp/1541136942

gotta hand it to her, she definitely used all the buzzwords

I read this variant, which (translation aside) is usefully augmented by copious maps and side notes. I am not good enough to be able to judge various translations.

(Where do I recommend Thucydides? I don't doubt that I do, I just don't remember doing so.)

This is a version that includes copious explanatory notes and maps to help you along. Each paragraph is summarized in the margins, even.

Any translation of Thucydides is going to have readability issues; he's tough to get through even in the original language and the process of translation only exacerbates that issue.

This book

Gives a good rundown of the birth of neoliberalism in Chile.

Has anyone read [Poor Economics] (https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Poverty/dp/1610390938/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518638120&sr=8-1&keywords=Poor+Economics) before? We are currently reading it in my global public policy class and its really interesting how quickly they move past low hanging fruit (mosquito nets, food distribution) and talk about effective solutions to alleviating poverty.

The Democratic base (broadly conceived, not just internet culture warriors) prefers a compromise style of politics to a confrontational style (source). It's only high information, high engagement voters with a particularly strong ideology who want to see confrontation. We shouldn't appease this small group at the expense of the Democratic base more broadly, or else we'll end up with another McGovern.

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also if you got the time

See Jane Meyers "Dark Money"

Here's a review.

The Economic History of China by Richard Von Glahn for my nonfiction and some short story collection by Ursula k le guinn for my fiction

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth/product-reviews/1101980966/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent#R2L8VF6AIOSON7

divisive

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493

Read this

huh I was about to guess you were talking about this one

that book description

Already been done

I prefer my reading material lightly salted.

Can't wait to read this

meme answer: mwg

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https://www.amazon.ca/Monetary-History-United-States-1867-1960/dp/0691003548

https://www.amazon.com/Microeconomic-Theory-Andreu-Mas-Colell/dp/0195073401

I actually find that the most frustrating people are those that actually know some Econ 101, because it's harder to correct something when there's a grain of truth. Noah Smith recommended this book on the subject

Have you read the novels? I swear the author spends about 100 pages in each just describing food. There's even a cookbook.

> public choice theory

is a Koch brothers proposal!

No but seriously public choice is perfect for looking into MIC. My dad is government and works around the Norfolk naval base area and all the anecdotes I've heard detailing the extent of project mismanagement, union graft, and overall government waste were unfathomable - and that's just a relatively small sliver of the whole.

is this a good book

or is it bad and/or will it just stroke my priors

This podcast episode is centered on an interview of a J-Pal representative. J-pal is MIT's poverty research department. I'm reading one of its products right now, a book called Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty and it's great so far.

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

It's got a 3.5 star on Amazon because BernieBros don't like how the authors call out the desperation of Bernie to hurt Clinton, even when he had mathematically lost.

Another really good book though is Chasing Hillary. It's a bit less in depth about the campaign but also is very readable and shows what it's like to work in the media chasing an election campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Microeconomics-Mankiws-Economics/dp/0538453044

Just stop.

Has anyone read Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality? I gave it a read last week and wew lad.

I'm starting to get the sense that you didn't read my first comment. I literally said a very specific two year period before the end of stalingrad.

I then went on to talk about the people who joined the red army in the early war after the shock of operation barbarossa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa


Read the following Books for more information:

Ivan's war

Stalingrad

Leningrad

The Fall of Berlin

I don't know why you keep posting things from after the date range I specified. So many of the men who faugh in the early battles were dead by the time even operation Uranus took place, let alone during invasion of Germany.