(08-04-2016, 12:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(08-04-2016, 12:02 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: CH has undergone a transformation. His earlier notions about meritocratic determination of "transient" elites was advanced in some ways, and not really an outgrowth of Old World Agrarianism. However, he went around the bend into National Bolshevism (or at least, into a polity aligned with it). National Bolshevism with its fusion of Stalinism, Nazism and ancient Eurasian Shamanism, is clearly of the Old World Agrarian variety. It is an existential threat to Western Civilization and The World.
I'll admit I might have lost some of the subtle variations of CH's spiels.
Existential threat? I'm a bit more concerned with modern Robber Barons now than National Bolsheviks.
Robber barons would find National Bolshevism a wonderful conduit for command and control and a means of enforcing exploitation of the masses.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.