March into Green Socialism
It has become impossible to ignore: socialism is resurging—this time cloaked in green environmentalism—and has moved from an endemic condition to a proliferating phase. Numerous failures, such as the case of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, offer critical insights into its current stage of development.
For advocates of liberty, it is essential to dissect these cases, replay them publicly, and confront the overwhelming dominance of the statist media machine with facts and clarity.
The Northvolt case reveals we are now in a late-stage form of socialism. Corporatist structures, combined with a sprawling web of subsidies and a cordon sanitaire of NGOs and state media, provide the bureaucratic state with formidable protection. Within it thrives a new functionary class, empowered to implement ideological experiments with little resistance.
In the final phase of this socialist experiment, we should expect high levels of social and economic volatility—very much in line with the predictions made by the authors of The Fourth Turning. The absurd and grotesque will alternate with economic crises and violent clashes between state forces and fragmented social groups. The apparatus of the state will deliberately escalate its divisive agenda, seeking to distract from the true cause of decline: the collapse of the hyperstate.
What follows remains uncertain.
Two paths lie ahead. One leads—true to Europe’s historical tendencies—toward total control. This is the path actively pursued by the EU and Germany. The second path would require a European interpretation of liberty, similar in spirit to Argentina’s bold experiment under President Milei.
Given current developments in Brussels, Berlin, and London, I am skeptical that the second path has any real chance of prevailing.
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