Your take on fascism is way off the facts -- in my view.
The full employment schemes of Mosler and Mitchell
are fair attempts with no hint of fascist possibilities.
They come closest to the CCC of the New Deal.
I believe Mosler has paid lots of money for travel and
expenses, bribes if you like, to academics for their
support. So what. They don't give an inch in their
own version of how things work or what to do. They
merely invite him to present his stuff in an academic
setting. I understand he has millions. So he seeks to
influence the world as a miniature George Soros.
He would like to thought of as inventive and wise.
Who wouldn't? Me -- of course. You??
The CCC was described as "fascist" at the time, and was so described in the obiter dictum to the Supreme Court decision that declared it to be unconstitutional.
The CCC set-up militarized labor camps, sometimes hundreds of miles away from home and family, where the unemployed were expected to report.
That Roosevelt was indeed a good-hearted and talented "President" who happened to be confronted by an independent and brave judiciary is something that Americans should be forever thankful. Other peoples were not nearly so fortunate in the low quality of their own "Fuehrers" and "Duces," and the lack of comparable checks and balances in their political systems.
What is so appalling is that self-styled "liberals" can promote such programs as we enter the 21st century. Surely, we must have the hindsight of prior experience.
There are real problems that need to be solved as Western economies deindustrialize, jobs are lost and living standards degrade.
Cracking the whip is not the way to do it.
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