New Fascism On Horizon

Arthur Silber has been kicking some major ass on 'libertarian' and objectivist collaboration in the rise of the New Fascism in a serious of posts:

Those libertarians, and more horrifyingly to me personally, those Objectivists who support this administration's current policies ignore the lessons of history, they ignore the necessary and logical connections between foreign and domestic policy, and, most significantly, they ignore that a policy of aggressive foreign intervention is not merely an adjunct to the program of the New Right, or the New Fascists. The truth of the matter, which becomes clearer every day, when at least five or ten additional news stories show the unavoidable consequences of the reckless policies upon which we have now embarked, is the following — which I will have to repeat several times in the course of this essay, to try to break through the massive resistance which so many seem to have to this idea, which is blinding to me in its clarity: a policy of aggressive foreign intervention, coupled with lengthy periods of foreign occupation, is an integral, necessary and key part of the program of the New Fascists.

Read them here, here and here. In the tradition of this humble blog, Arthur took the gloves off.

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