A Swedish blogger writes in a blogposting about ”The [neo]liberals Dreams are Crashing, One After the Other” that she thinks [neo]liberalism is a preliminary stage to fascism. What she has been thinking on then is that with the inequality concerning living conditions that automatically follows from such a competition and let-go-politics that is practiced now and as the [neo]liberals are cherishing, people will soon vote for pure fascists.
Or the liberals themselves will go more and more in that direction to get voters from neofascists. And it’s exactly this we see many examples of already, above all concerning the hardened attitude against immigrants.
However, now we see yet another road away from a democratic disposition to a fascistic, as the economic let-go-economy can take too. The more you cut the taxes, privatize and try to create what you assert is freedom and freedom of choice, the worse and less free things become for more and more people, while the elite is drawing away from all other people.
The result will inevitably become more criminality and more corruption in the society. In that situation the state’s countermove will become to introduce more control, more control of most things.
The leader for the Liberal Party in Sweden, Jan Björklund, has been forced to confess that the free schools haven’t been functioning as the liberals thought when they initiated those almost twenty years ago. He doesn’t care especially much if some get much worse education than others or what the segregation in and between the schools is carrying with it.
But on the other hand he doesn’t think it’s good that schools are competing about students with giving them better and better grades/marks (something many was warning for when the free school system became introduced), as seem to have been the case. So now a new control system has to become created!
Comment: and what do those control system cost? And do they lead to a greater and greater freedom quite ironically? And we have also got much more moralizing towards certain groups (from people getting on their high horses).
Citizens have become more and more efficiently controlled.
“We have to protect ourselves against terrorism”
one say, but what one actually mean is to protect the rich establishment from the “social unrest” one is anxious about and that is produced because of living segregation, unemployment, worse school-education etc. etc.
Even though more control hasn’t been a very important question for the liberals you are maybe forced to introduce more control in one privatized area after the other (Addition August 21: and the strange thing is that Swedish liberals are against control!!! Contradicting - and confusing! Do they know what they are talking about? And what is freedom actually? Note: Swedish and American liberals aren't really the same!?).
The march into fascism continues she thinks.
“Safeguard the rich’s freedom, control and toe the line for the rest.”
A commentator to this posting writes that in the liberal utopia nothing is under democratic control, the only control that is left is the capitalistic. As liberalism reduces the part of the society that’s under democratic control, the liberalism is always approaching fascism.
He thinks the capitalism is organized top-down; i.e. a total control of the society. Because the institutions that used to be democratically organized aren’t democratically organized anymore.
He thinks grades or marks only are keeping the middleclass under its arms, so he propagate for no grades or marks.
He also writes about “a simpler and more secure life.” That the biological reason why we get together in groups/societies is twofold; reproduction and security. Those are the evolutionary advantages the society gives. A society that doesn’t create security for its citizens has no raison d’ètre, because it doesn’t fulfill the basic demand on a society.
All other values a society can convey are meaningless for the organism; they are most often just metaphysic constructions.
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