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andyh wrote:
One is relatively sustainable the other is unsustainable without constant war.
What makes you say this Andy?
Anarcho-syndicalism is based on a small business model, so starts off with a small group of people and relies on profit for both expansion and the social welfare and wealth distribution of the initial small group.
As it is invariably just a small business it takes a hell of a long time to expand. Mondragon today still only amounts to a single town of people.
National syndicalism requires huge amounts of wealth to ensure that its population are well looked after, indeed the nazis were very well off initially and it helped to maintain the propaganda because a lot of people became well off who had never experienced such a thing before.
However, the men at the top need feeding large amounts of wealth over and above the main populus just as previously so this goes in addition.
Few nations would have such resources so they have to look elsewhere, it inevitably leads to war as the national syndicalist state does not play with the same financial rules as the other countries. They may abandon fractional reserve banking which will lead to devaluation of their currency to zero.
The treaty of versailles for example imposed payment of a large debt on germany to be repaid only with gold or foreign currency not their own currency.
The only way to repay such debt and ensure 100% employment for all is war and a command economy.
In nazi germany the businessmen became partners with the govt, same applied in italy (the merger of state and corporate interest) as Mussolini put it. Also called fascism
The 100% employment and increased living standard is why the nazis were associated with 'socialism', indeed today many would still call it national socialism rather than national syndicalism.
If you can imagine a country that needs large resources to keep up the populations wealth but no foreign currency or gold to buy it all then you can easily see how such a situation would lead to war. Its either that or the people would have to put up with 'austerity' *cough lol*, an all too familiar scenario for us here right now in the EU. Hitler ofc had no choice but to go to war if he wanted to stay in power.
Theres no way the people would support him otherwise.
The US currently enjoys being a reserve currency with the dollar, if that was to ever change then they would be up poo poo creek without a paddle.

Some of the middle eastern states demanding gold for oil for example was something the US could not abide by and indeed those states that have tried to do such a thing have been pwned one way or the other.