https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/1igifip/autarky/
created by mgonzales3 on 03/02/2025 at 05:59 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)
Google searches for “autarky” have spiked.
The WSJ editorial board called the U.S. administration’s actions The Dumbest Trade War in History noting that “Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home.”
Comment by katalysis at 03/02/2025 at 06:04 UTC
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In most cases, fascists discouraged or banned foreign trade, supporting protectionism. Fascists believed that too much international trade would make the national economy dependent on international capital and therefore vulnerable to international economic sanctions. Economic self-sufficiency, known as **autarky**, was a major goal of most fascist governments.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%5C_of%5C_fascism[1][2]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%5C_of%5C_fascism
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
Comment by Dry_Damage1928 at 03/02/2025 at 11:39 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Autarky in a globalized world seems unrealistic, but the idea resurfaces whenever supply chains get disrupted or political tensions rise.