Around the beginning of the year, AH.com poster Noravea started this thread to discuss the ideological and political beliefs he held at the time, which can be broadly summed up in the following points:
- Supportive of a benevolent authoritarian government over democracy, which he believes hinders progress in society
- Socially progressive: anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-poverty, etc.
- Vaguely economically leftist, understands "importance" of business leaders and material wealth but also believes workers need representation; supports "Third Position" economics and state intervention to protect worker interests
- Calls for greater involvement of youth in government, politics and society
- Backs cutting back on the military, returning all US overseas troops and a stronger U.N. to preserve peace and order in the world
He called it fascism, but anybody who knows anything about fascism knows the stuff about cutting back on the military and strengthening the U.N. makes that label fall flat on its face. So what label does apply?
Not a very coherent or logical ideology. How is this authoritarian state going to be maintained if the military is being cut back? Why would this authoritarian government want any more power to go to the UN when the UN would more likely than not attempt to stop this government from being so authoritarian?
And what is the "glue" that's going to keep all this together? Give too much power or voice to business or to workers and they'll try to overthrow you. If you're preaching anti-racism and anti-discrimination, where is the enemy/scapegoat that you're going to try to turn the people towards if you think they might try to question your authority?
easy: you define the people who don't support the regime/program as "social reactionaries."
