Liberal Fascism

How apropos for this political moment. Liberals--Edwards, Hillary and yes, Barack Obama rail against the eeeevil (private-sector, market-disciplined) corporations but their idea of government is corporate...fascism. Ron Radosh on Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism:

Readers will learn that the very term "liberal fascism" came from the pen of H.G. Wells, the famed socialist author who delivered a speech at Oxford University in 1932 that included hosannas to both Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany. "I am asking," Wells told the students, "for a Liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis." Democracy, he argued, had to be replaced with new forms of government that would save mankind, producing a "'Phoenix Rebirth' of liberalism" that would be called "Liberal Fascism."

Ah yes, HOPE, a rose by any other name:

A major New Deal program, General Hugh Johnson's National Recovery Administration, was an American version of Mussolini's corporate state. Entering Johnson's office, visitors found a portrait of Mussolini on the wall behind his desk. Industrial codes were to be enforced by the state and to be made popular by Nuremberg-type rallies and giant parades, as thousands marched under the symbol of the blue eagle.

Ah yes, marching on the Blue State road to serfdom.

You know, conservatives like efficient markets, which give people choices. Minimize government, maximize private sector...the individual.

Liberals like efficient government, at least in the sense of totalitarianism, which enslaves individuals...or worse. Nazi eugenics--the genesis of Planned Parenthood.