PARTICIPATORY FASCISM - Government Defines Rights – Not God or Nature

PARTICIPATORY FASCISM - Government Defines Rights – Not God or Nature

“The mixed economy that has prevailed in the United States since World War II, a uniquely American form of participatory fascism, has lent itself to a substantial expansion of the scope of government authority over economic decision-making.  Given capitalist color by the form of private property rights, the system has denied the substance of any such rights whenever governmental authorities have found it expedient to do so.”

From Robert Higgs’s indispensable 1987 book, Crisis and Leviathan