Re: America Lives in a Fascist State - interview
Really? Fascism?
Really? Fascism?
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Re: America Lives in a Fascist State - interview
Once again... the rush to call this fascism.
To me, it's true, the government and companies are merging, but the relationship is different from National Socialism and Mussolini's Italy.
In those cases, the government seized the businesses.
In the case of the US, the business has seized the government.
In other words, the power or control relationship is flipped.
Hitler and Mussolini would tell the steel, oil, or banking concerns how to operate, how much profit they could make, who they could hire, where they could expand, how much they could import/export, and who their customers were.
In Germany and Italy, Hilter and Mussolini wrote the laws and dictated domestic and foreign policy for the benefit of their parties and ultimately themselves.
It is just the opposite in the US. The companies tell the government what they want, how much money they need, where they want to expand, how many jobs they want to export, where they want to invest and the Congress, the President, and the Federal bureaucracy does everything to accomodate them.
In the US, the corporations write the laws and GM, GE, Wal-Mart, Chase, Citibank dictate foreign and domestic policy for the benefit of their investors but really for the CEO/President.
I don't know if this is what you call unrestrained capitalism or the natural result of capitalism, but it is by no means Fascism.
When the government controls everything, you have words like socialism and fascism.
When multinationals (corporations) control everything, what do you call that?
Once again... the rush to call this fascism.
To me, it's true, the government and companies are merging, but the relationship is different from National Socialism and Mussolini's Italy.
In those cases, the government seized the businesses.
In the case of the US, the business has seized the government.
In other words, the power or control relationship is flipped.
Hitler and Mussolini would tell the steel, oil, or banking concerns how to operate, how much profit they could make, who they could hire, where they could expand, how much they could import/export, and who their customers were.
In Germany and Italy, Hilter and Mussolini wrote the laws and dictated domestic and foreign policy for the benefit of their parties and ultimately themselves.
It is just the opposite in the US. The companies tell the government what they want, how much money they need, where they want to expand, how many jobs they want to export, where they want to invest and the Congress, the President, and the Federal bureaucracy does everything to accomodate them.
In the US, the corporations write the laws and GM, GE, Wal-Mart, Chase, Citibank dictate foreign and domestic policy for the benefit of their investors but really for the CEO/President.
I don't know if this is what you call unrestrained capitalism or the natural result of capitalism, but it is by no means Fascism.
When the government controls everything, you have words like socialism and fascism.
When multinationals (corporations) control everything, what do you call that?
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Re: America Lives in a Fascist State - interview
Boo, hoo, hoo. white people
Boo, hoo, hoo. white people
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