20 janvier<\/a> sur le site du Ludwig Van Mises Institute, Higgs d\u00e9taille sa th\u00e8se, avec notamment une analyse convaincante des pratiques contractuelles entre le gouvernement et l’industrie, qui sont un pur travail de corruption r\u00e9ciproque, et une analyse \u00e0 mesure du travail de corruption du Congr\u00e8s. La corruption est en effet la dimension fondamentale du CMI, ou MICC : elle est sa substance m\u00eame et sa raison d’\u00eatre. C’est \u00e0 la fois le venin et la f\u00e9condit\u00e9 maligne du syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa critique de Higgs est d’autant plus int\u00e9ressante qu’elle vient d’un \u00e9conomiste ultra-lib\u00e9ral (libertarien) et fait justice exp\u00e9ditive de la fable de l’Am\u00e9rique pays du (vrai) lib\u00e9ralisme \u00e9conomique. Au contraire, le MICC est un exemple sophistiqu\u00e9 d’\u00e9conomie dirig\u00e9e, contr\u00f4l\u00e9e, planifi\u00e9e et bien plus perverse que le syst\u00e8me socialiste. Higgs ne manque pas de placer ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne dans la perspective historique qui convient, avec son \u00e9mergence brutale \u00e0 partir de 1940-41, comme un fascisme nouveau-venu prend son envol pour liquider les fascismes concurrents. L’expression fascisme militaro-\u00e9conomique a tout son sens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tQuelques extraits de l’essai de Higgs r\u00e9sument son appr\u00e9ciation :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abParticipants in the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) are routinely blamed for mismanagement, not infrequently they are accused of waste, fraud, and abuse, and from time to time a few of them are indicted for criminal offenses (Higgs 1988, 1990, xx-xxiii, 2004; Fitzgerald 1989; Kovacic 1990a, 1990b).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAll of these unsavory actions, however, are typically viewed as aberrations misfeasances to be rectified or malfeasances to be punished while retaining the basic system of state-private cooperation in the production of military goods and services (for an explicit example of the aberration claim, see Fitzgerald 1989, 19798). I maintain, in contrast, that these offenses and even more serious ones are not simply unfortunate blemishes on a basically sound arrangement, but superficial expressions of a thoroughgoing, intrinsic rottenness in the entire setup.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt is regrettable in any event for people to suffer under the weight of a state and its military apparatus, but the present arrangement a system of military-economic fascism as instantiated in the United States by the MICC is worse than full-fledged military-economic socialism. In the latter, the people are oppressed, because they are taxed, conscripted, and regimented, but they are not co-opted and corrupted by joining forces with their rapacious rulers; a clear line separates them from the predators on the dark side.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWith military-economic fascism, however, the line becomes blurred, and a substantial number of people actively hop back and forth across it: advisory committees, such as the Defense Science Board and the Defense Policy Board and university administrators meet regularly with Pentagon officials (see Borger 2003 for a report of an especially remarkable meeting), and the revolving door spins furiously according to a September 2002 report, [t]hirty-two major Bush appointees are former executives, consultants, or major shareholders of top weapons contractors (Ciarrocca 2002, 2; see also Hamburger 2003, Doward 2003, Stubbing 1986, 90, 96, and Kotz 1988, 230), and a much greater number cross the line at lower levels.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMoreover, military-economic fascism, by empowering and enriching wealthy, intelligent, and influential members of the public, removes them from the ranks of potential opponents and resisters of the state and thereby helps to perpetuate the state’s existence and its intrinsic class exploitation of people outside the state. Thus, military-economic fascism simultaneously strengthens the state and weakens civil society, even as it creates the illusion of a vibrant private sector patriotically engaged in supplying goods and services to the heroic military establishment (the Boeing Company’s slickly produced television ads, among others, splendidly illustrate this propagandistically encouraged illusion)<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 22 janvier 2007 \u00e0 09H18<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robert Higgs est un excellent historien am\u00e9ricain, de tendance libertarienne, sp\u00e9cialiste de l’\u00e9conomie militaris\u00e9e US et de ses rapports avec le gouvernement. Il s’agit bien s\u00fbr du complexe militaro-industriel, que Higgs d\u00e9signe MICC (Military Industrial Congressional Congress), \u00e0 cause de sa branche tr\u00e8s active et fondamentale de corruption du Congr\u00e8s. Le r\u00e9sultat est ce que… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3806,3285,3858,3402,6354,6352,6353],"class_list":["post-68437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-cmi","tag-congres","tag-corruption","tag-fascisme","tag-higgs","tag-micc","tag-militaro-economique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}