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The sole standouts from what might be called this European Consensus were the neo-liberal likes of Von Mises, von Hayek and Strauss who became the founding ideologues of American post-war “free market” capitalism as championed by Reagan, Thatcher, Bush, Clinton and now Obama who, as much as the others, reposes his faith in the “mechanism of the market” and whose indirect tinkerings don’t even rise to the level of “fascism lite”.
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Students of the period will know that in Hitler's mind the bete jaun was "International Jewry" which he "discovered" was behind both the Communist Internationale and international finance capitalism . While this was a disastrous and anti-semitic non-sequitur from, at best, accidental coincidences, Hitler's confusion on the question of qui bono ("who") does not mean he was wrong about the objective phenomena ("what"). Most Europeans viewed Communism as a destructive threat to their way of life. Most Germans understood that American banks were the ultimate and prime beneficiaries of their impoverishment. "Break the Dawes Shackles" was a Nazi slogan.
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