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Lifer
- Jun 5, 2000
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FDR was a classic authoritarian, pure and simple. He was a militarist, a nationalist, and an internationalist. WHO, WTO/GATT, IMF, and World Bank are all globablist corporatism which is what FDR supported. At the same time, FDR supported cartelization of industries which was to be achieved by government regulation and nominally private ownership (although not real privatization since it was to be regulated), which makes him a corporatist. He favored the corporate state on a national level and if it was possible, then at the world level also.
He was also a nationalist because he rejected decentralist policies.
In short, FDR had both a Communist (marxism, international egalitarianism) and a corporatist side, but ultimately, his corporatist side came to dominate. If he had advocated public ownership of everything and had not been anti-Japanese (or simply racist), then he would've been a communist, but he was antijapanese and he advocated cartelization (regulations) rather than nationalization (common ownership) of industry, so he was a corporatist.
did you fall out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on your way down?
