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Originally Posted by Wildbore
Blade's definition of statism is accurate. However, its not even close to Totalitarism.
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It's amatter of degree. Some statism leads to more statism.
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What Blade ignores is that liberals and conservatives both use or have used statism, quite vigorously, but for different reasons. Liberals are more likely to use statism for social policy objectives, whereas conservatives use statism in to protect national economic and security interests.
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I don't ignore it, and you are correct, but conservative statism isn't within ordres of magnitude of lib statism. To conservatives, government is like prisons - an unpleasant but necessary institution. Too liberals, government is everything.
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However, statism is useful in making up where the market has failed. Without statism, many countries would be in an economic dumpster. Using the power of the national government, they were able to complete railway systems, highways, pipelines, resource development, to become more economically competative.
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The old argument of government stepping in where the market has failed usually gives examples of government stepping in where government has failed - eg, the Great Depression. Also, I see I really have to make a big post soon about the invalid "infrastructure" argument for statism.