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Entry: From the Rubble Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/from_the_rubble#23103 Post contents: I would like to get back to John Zmirak's topic: Wilhelm Ropke. I first read Ropke when I the assistant to Russell Kirk in Mecosta, Michigan. His views seemed to me to be extremely reasonable, comprehensive, and adaptable, a means to incorporate the real forces operative in the economy with humane and ethical concerns. Today, some 25 years later, I am forced to wonder...the Christian Democratic experiment in Germany, in Italy, and in some other countries (e.g. Chile) has failed, and failed miserably, and brought down with it, at least to some degree, the edifice that Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard so carefully erected. I have questions, dealing largely with systemic conditions or factors within the German Bundesrepublik that may have caused its transformation into what we see today, a semi- authoritarian example of P.C. culture and society gone wild, and whether there is a close link with Ropkian economics. If one unravels, does the other necessarily come undone? I don't think this is necessarily the case, but I would like to see more written about the connection, the weaknesses that we now know for certain existed in the post-war German state, and what might have been done to inhibit the transformation. Tomislav Sunic, in his volume HOMO AMERICANUS, has written about post-war Germany at some length, about the changes in the educational system, about some "time bombs" within the constitutional system that came back to haunt the Germans. He doesn't talk much of economics. I would like to see that topic discussed at length. Sent at: 2008 07 20