52) From the Soviet Republics to Hitler, Mussolini, Horthy, Franco Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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From the Soviet Republics to Hitler, Mussolini, Horthy, Franco Hungary, Spain and Germany after World War I offer roughly the same picture. The old order had been destroyed, or had been so crumbly by itself that it had simply broken down. Many rulers again felt threatened by a French revolution. The terror was still in their bones. Although Napoleon was not necessarily a role model for later generations, since he had crowned himself emperor, and even revolutionaries like Danton or Robespierre, who then fell victim to their own terror, had actually only left chaos, the spark of freedom was lit in the lower classes. People like Engels, who wanted to reinterpret history, Marx, who explained economy differently (Adam Smith hadn't been read anyway), Verdi in Italy, his name was also the abbreviation for "Viva el rey de Italia", Baudelaire with his new style of poetry, Manet with naked women in his paintings, the list is almost endless. They all wanted a redistribution of the cost of life. And with the catastrophic, economic consequences of World War I, the leading classes had simply shot themselves in the leg. Everywhere the idea that the little citizen had to stick together had become a necessity. The trust in emperor and king had been destroyed. The First World War had brought about a change, which the restoration was supposed to prevent in 1816. New economic conditions and globalization made new social structures necessary. But what neither the old, ruling classes nor new revolutionaries really understood was the importance of free trade, the free market economy. The old didn't understand it because they wanted to control the economy, and the new revolutionaries didn't understand it because they confounded equal rights with equality. But freedom is precisely the possibility of being able to bring out inequalities based on abilities in a free environment, in order to make room for hidden new ideas with the help of the abundance that arises in the process. Instead, all tried to gather forces to pursue national goals. In the burgeoning fascism the ruling classes saw the weapon to fight the so much feared communism and that way they dug their own grave. Once again, ordinary people were fooled and they chose a life in national, chauvinistic euthanasia instead of a life in cultural fulfilment. Fascism did not stop communism, but communism had to find a compromise with the ruling classes in modern liberalism. If both, the top and the bottom paid a bit more attention to each other, the project of an equal world society could work, in which the individual is accepted and promoted and that way, everyone can contribute to the community via their individuality. Back to list!

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