Thursday, March 19, 2020
Improving Ropke's third economic choice
I
like the humane economic philosophy of Wilhelm Ropke, but he lived
too close to World War Two to see that his economic system, which
supposedly suited human nature, didn't value enough our primary kin
and ethnic-centered human nature. As Russell Kirk pointed out Ropke's
third choice was different from ideological socialism or doctrinaire
capitalism. Confidence in the capitalist economy leads to heartless
individuals which furthers the rise of dangerous collectivism. Ropke
wanted to humanize the modern industrial political economy which
was/is bent upon mass production regardless of the personnel and
social problems it causes, and bring it all back to a human scale
economic independence for small and medium size business, artisans
etc.
Ropke's
ethical economic ideas proved successful in bringing the post war
German economy back from the hell of war, but as mentioned above, he
lived too close to WWII to see that his economic system, which
supposedly suited human nature, didn't value enough our primary kin
and ethnic-centered human nature. Those who refused to
forget the horrors of WWII dragged the whole world into
the economic and social hell of multiculturalism rather than admit
that if
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it
is, it naturally leads to regionalism, localism, general
conservative values, eventually largely independent ethnostates, and
finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all ethnic groups and races, protected with a defensive
federalism.
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