https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will

Here’s a beautifully shot movie made by the female director Leni Riefenstahl.

It’s all about Hitler and how the Nazis are great.

There is no equivalent in economics.

Now look at Tiktok. Twitter. Conservative news. All now readily full of actual fascist propaganda.

There is no equivalent in economics.

There are, unquestionably, many more threatening things in the world promoting Fascism that are not and have no ties to Economics.

Economics is literally just the study of currency and trade, and how those two interact over time. There is nothing inherently evil about it. It can just be used to describe how evil fascists love currency and how they pursue controlling trade.

Just because the Gospel of Judas was written in ancient Hebrew doesn’t mean ancient Hebrew is unchristian or evil. It’s just the language that documented unchristian ideas. The same is true about economics. It can absolutley describe how fascists control their people through the exploitation of currency and trade, but it literally has nothing to do with that. It’s just a scientific way to talk about it.

If you want to tell me that Economics is primarily geared towards fascism, prove it. Show me the papers. Show me the authors. They don’t exist. Because it’s not fascist.

Is measuring how many glass beads can be traded for water in Uganda fascist?

Is measuring how much a carbon tax prevents corporations from polluting fascist?

Is measuring unemployment fascist?

Economics is just a tool. It is, in no way fascist. It’s like saying that Hindus are fascist for having right facing swastikas. Swastikas have meant good luck in their culture for millenia more than it’s meant anything in fascism. And likewise economics has been measuring things like the quality of copper decreasing under authoritarian rule for far longer than fascism has existed.

It’s just a form of quantifying information related to trade and currency. That’s it.

Trade and currency can and do exist across every human culture. Just because the exploitation of currency and trade is a big deal in fascism doesn’t mean the tools that measure that are fascist. They are just tools.

So if you ignore how they can be used for good, fascists can and will use them against you. Just like they use movies and social media against you. Just like they use any tool against you. That does not make the tool fascist. Just the person wielding it.

Also, you are likely unintentionally conflating neo-classical economics as the only form of economics. That’s one model out of thousands that prioritizes efficiency over things like public Ultility. And those are the only authors you quoted.

Just because that model exists, doesn’t mean it’s the correct one that every society should live by. It’s just a single model developed to poorly measure and make decisions in a capitalist society. Like all other economic models before it, it will be replaced by something better. And very much already is.