Fear of left-wing fascism

Commenting on the global economic crisis in the daily Evenimentul Zilei, Sorin Ionita fears that politically weak states could drift toward "left-wing fascism": "Even the Nazis were no great friends of private property and limiting state intervention in the economy. The parallel can be taken even further: the handbook of the Hitler Youth states that 'nutrition cannot be a purely private matter'. The state plays a decisive role in fostering good habits, the argument goes, because 'people have a social duty to be healthy'. The similarities with the current, vaguely eugenistic aim of making nourishment and sport topics of state policy is alarming. Certainly, we're not there yet. The European project is sufficiently resilient to bear an economic forced landing. But we must remain alert, so that the trembling of the aeroplane doesn't cause the mechanics to drop their tools, and so that masked ideologists don't hijack it and force it to fly goodness knows where."

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