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Thursday, October 06, 2011

The Fascist Threat

Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn’t like. There isn’t anyone around who is willing to stand up and say: "I’m a fascist; I think fascism is a great social and economic system."


But I submit that if they were honest, the vast majority of politicians, intellectuals, and political activists would have to say just that.


Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive State the unlimited master of society.


This describes mainstream politics in America today. And not just in America. It’s true in Europe, too. It is so much part of the mainstream that it is hardly noticed any more.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Facism is the merger of the State's interests with the Corporations. In Nazi Germany the State took control of the Corporations.

In Amerika the Corporations have taken control of the State.

The result is the same.