When the state actively enters the commercial field, there is everywhere an accompanying increase of economic nationalism, no matter whether it is on the basis of socialism as in Soviet Russia or on the basis of capitalism as in Western and Central Europe.
DBx: Yes.
American progressives have much to answer for. They led the way over the decades to intrude the U.S. government into the American economy. Among the unsurprising, although not to say inevitable, outcomes is MAGAism.
Please note that I don’t excuse members of today’s “New Right” and of other MAGA-aligned movements for their economic ignorance and arrogance. I only note that their economic understanding and policy proposals share much more with those of progressives than they – and progressives – care to admit.
