The urgent task for the Resistance is to define a political economy that addresses the failures of conservatism, liberalism, and progressivism while charting a way forward that destroys fascism and restores freedom and human flourishing.
For the last 250 years, the United States, Great Britain, and most of the developed world have been guided by the principles of liberalism - that free markets, free people, and free and fair elections lead to better decisions over the long run than governance by a handful of elites.
So the system that we've lived under for the last century has been Liberalism + Progressivism = free markets, free people, and somewhat free and fair elections plus anti-trust to prevent concentrations of market power and regulation to smooth out the business cycles and mitigate the worst downsides of capitalism.
The regulatory state figured out that they could collude with big business to enjoy the benefits of monopoly.
The state and the managers of capital now work together to amass wealth for themselves at the expense of society - under the guise of pandemics and public health.
Free markets created concentrated power that became predatory and genocidal AND the regulatory state created concentrated power that became predatory and genocidal and now the largest firms and the state have merged into one entity.
It's not at all clear how we get from our current state of genocidal monopoly capitalism back to an era of yeoman craftspeople and it's not at all clear how, even if we could get there, we wouldn't just end up with monopoly capitalism all over again.
The modern left is so completely addled by too many vaccines that they just want the regulatory state to genocide harder.
https://brownstone.org/articles/society-without-an-organizing-thesis/
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