What's 'crazy' is that people would think this is crazy. Or even a new idea or an idea that ever went away.
And what does this have to do with Nationalism? Nothing.
Someone suggests something not normative and people yell 'Trump'?
Consider how South Korea, Japan, France, UK, Germany, Poland, Belgium were re-built after the war?
It was mostly centrally planned management by powers, taking a lot of orders from Washington. 'post war' is a great opportunity for central power as most of the value creating enterprises are obvious, and very low hanging fruit: i.e. 'we need schools, and roads, and electricity where all that has been undone'.
Nobody is suggesting totalitarianism, some people just point out that in many cases, a well organized and efficient control system is much better than bureaucratic kludge.
For Italy, it’s actually the opposite: centrally-managed efforts have typically failed, while grassroots-led initiatives are pretty solid. We did get tons of money after the war, but reconstruction was not a coherent effort.
Why is not working in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq ? From what I remember De gaulle (and others) fought over the distrification of western Europe that the US wanted after the war.
And what does this have to do with Nationalism? Nothing.
Someone suggests something not normative and people yell 'Trump'?
Consider how South Korea, Japan, France, UK, Germany, Poland, Belgium were re-built after the war?
It was mostly centrally planned management by powers, taking a lot of orders from Washington. 'post war' is a great opportunity for central power as most of the value creating enterprises are obvious, and very low hanging fruit: i.e. 'we need schools, and roads, and electricity where all that has been undone'.
Nobody is suggesting totalitarianism, some people just point out that in many cases, a well organized and efficient control system is much better than bureaucratic kludge.