Jeffrey Tucker Condemns Right-Hegelianism

Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress.

I had Jeffrey Tucker’s book Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat To Liberty waiting for me when I arrived here. Since I consider Tucklypuff my intellectual opposite, I thought this would be fun to read:

“Right-collectivism also opposes traditional liberalism. It opposes free trade, freedom of association, free migration, and capitalism understood as a laissez-faire market. It rallies around nation and state as the organizing principles of the social order – and trends in the direction of favoring one-man rule – but positions itself as opposed to leftism traditionally understood.”

Very true.

I am definitely a right-wing collectivist!

“They can rail against the leftist takeover of media and academia with the best of them, but their interest is not in allowing maximum personal and economic liberty but rather constraining both in the service of nation, state, blood, soil, throne, and altar.”

This is absolutely true.

We had it so good in Lutheran Northern Europe before lolbertarian ideas took root there after France invaded in the 19th century. Traditionally, we handled the schwärmer by driving them out to places like America. We’re going to explore the history of Lutheran Europe this summer.

“At this point in history, all five pillars of fascist theory (historicist, nationalist, racist, protectionist, statist) were in place. It had a theory of history. It had a picture of hell, which is liberalism and uncontrolled commercial society. It had a picture of heaven, which was national societies run by great men inhabiting all-powerful States focused on heavy industry. It had a scientific rationale.

Above all, it had an agenda: to control society from the top down with the aim of managing every aspect of the demographic path of human society, which meant controlling human beings from cradle to grave to produce the most superior product, as well as industrial planning to replace the wiles of the market process. The idea of freedom itself, to this emergent school of thought, was a disaster for everyone everywhere.”

Where is the lie?