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What if Shumpeter was a Nazi and his Entrepreneur hides a Far-Right Ideology?

Yesterday while I was reading the biographies of the suggested readings' writers for this special issue, just to do a fast comparison between their lives and their works, I found out an interesting relation that made me thought and that I would like to let here.

I can't say that in Schumpeter's text I haven't felt there was something that sounds strange to me: the creative response as an economical paradigm.

Studying as a Designer always putted me in front of a constant push to be creative, and to recognize myself in the category of the Creatives (not to say Makers).

This wasn't something I related to Design as its identification label,

while I focused on the process and methodology as more relevant than the production of an object pushed by economical necessity to create. My point of view lead me to move on the opposite side and to rethink the Designer as a destructive character that in order to create first has to destroy by deconstructing its subject through logical thought so it can analyse it from the inside. Then by searching some more information on this argument I founded a similar thought in the Baconian's method that divide the act of knowing a certain phenomenon onto two fundamental processes: the pars destruens an the pars construens.

Anyway coming back to Schumpeter I just found interesting how he is considered a controverted character, too near to Nazism and at the same time too near to the beginning of US' capitalism and surely one of its promoter. From his proudness to be an ethnic German (even if he wasn't XD), his loyalty to monarchy, his relation with banks, to his opposition to Marxism and Socialism, his critique to the New Deal and his concept of 'creative destruction', as near to Nietzschean's corrupted thought as the Nazi ideology. My intention here is not to argue against Schumpeter but this controverted story makes me think about how a concept can be shown as very social and promoter of change, as the National Socialist German's party was, hiding a far-right ideology. Applied to the contemporary, how neo-liberalism sometimes appears as a right capitalist ideology disguised as a social one, and how the promotion of the entrepreneur of the self can be easily converted in an instrument of repression rather than become a real vehicle of innovation.

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