On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Shane:
But isn't "technically speaking, it's more like fascism" exactly
what one
should expect of "a technocratic program first developed by the
[Heritage
Foundation] --though that's more a distinction than a difference
"Technocratic" is essentially the current euphemism for Fascist (not
nazi--the euphemism for that is "national security").
It may be that a lot of people use the word "technocratic" in that
way, but as I read the term (following the on-line dictionary),
"technocratic" means "government is controlled by scientists,
engineers, and other experts."
That dictionary is way out of date. In current usage (see any
newspaper or TV or blog) the "technocrats" are always economists and
bankers (Monti!) about whom "expertise" is a euphemism for
incompetence. And the model for that technocratic regime is the
fascist Salazar regime in Portugal (and before that, the proto-fascist
Porfirio Diaz regime in Mexico). Your dictionary definition is the
one proferred in the 1930's by the political movement calling itself
"technocracy," which was generally regarded (at least on the left) as
crypto-fascist.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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