Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Liberal fascism: all the pieces are beginning to fall into place

Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge has a brilliant short post on the confluence of Marx, Kafka and Orwell. A sample::
As Kafka divined, centralized bureaucracy has the capacity for both Orwellian obfuscation (anyone read those 1,300-page Congressional bills other than those gaming the system for their private benefit?) and systemic avarice and injustice.

The convergence boils down to this: it would be impossible to loot this much wealth if the State didn't exist to enforce the "rules" of parasitic predation. In China, the Elite's looting proceeds along somewhat different rules from the looting of Europe and the U.S., but the end result is the same in all financialized, centrally managed economies: an expansive kleptocracy best understood as the convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka.

2 comments:

Michael Lonie said...

"an expansive kleptocracy best understood as the convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka."

And Don Corleone.

Paco said...

Very good point.