re: #98 Romantic Heretic

I believe that capitalism prefers fascist governments. It’s much easier to do business there.

As my favourite write puts it, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

Whose words are those? I’ve seen that quote before. That quote though does get at why I’ve seen many right wingers defending many fascist regimes especially ones like the Pinochet one. Sometimes, I think their only real beef with communist regimes is not the lack of human rights but rather the economics only. Frankly, this was and still is my big beef with many US foreign policy decisions during the Cold War whee being anti-communist meant more than having respect for human rights.