Dave Troy
Jan 25, 2022

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Yeah, that’s the issue. Regardless of what it was supposed to be, the movement especially in the US context as powered by Kochs and their peers has devolved into capitalist authoritarianism — primarily because if the state is diminished or extinguished, what remains is capital, power, and neofeudalism. So that’s why it’s functionally fascist. Appreciate your willingness to engage. I do agree that this was not what it was supposed to mean, but historians of the movement have settled on the terminology and equivalencies I’m using, for better or worse.

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Dave Troy
Dave Troy

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