Collective Conscious

Broder:

With strong Repub­li­can sup­port in Con­gress for chal­leng­ing Iran’s ambi­tion to become a nuclear power, he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orches­trat­ing a show­down with the mul­lahs. This will help him polit­i­cally because the oppo­si­tion party will be urg­ing him on. And as ten­sions rise and we accel­er­ate prepa­ra­tions for war, the econ­omy will improve.

Ygle­sias, Walt, and Avent. But per­haps most strik­ingly, Kalecki (1943):

The fas­cist sys­tem starts from the over­com­ing of unem­ploy­ment, devel­ops into an arma­ment econ­omy of scarcity, and ends inevitably in war.