China’s Disturbing Vision

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

by Rod D. Martin
October 26, 2019

John,

First a sad, reluctant, but wholehearted “amen”.

Second, it has struck me repeatedly while in China that – think about this – “this is what the Third Reich would look like if it had survived the war.”

What do I mean?

Fascism is just Communism with a different methodology. Communism nationalizes everything, leaving people with nothing left to lose, thus producing a much higher body count and much lower efficiencies. China experienced that until 1979.

By contrast, Fascism maintains the exact same level of totalitarian control, while leaving the illusion of private ownership. Everyone has something to lose, and also has the illusion of the incentives that exist in freedom. Lower body counts, higher productivity, even a certain (though limited) degree of innovation beyond that which the state directly incentivizes.

Deng traded one methodology for the other. But the goal – as with Hitler and Stalin – remained the same.

China is Germany, or the Germany that wo…