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This is corporatism rather than facism. Don’t be like the anti communist idiot and miss apply the word everywhere like they do with socialist.
Well fortunately I'm entitled to my own opinion and if you knew anything about fascism you would know that corporatism and fascism go hand in hand.
Oh I agree they go hand in hand. But they are not the same thing.
Yeah, and I know the Mussolini quote you're referencing. Mussolini was deliberately dismissing the several aspects of fascism that made it look re brutal than mere corporatism. The integration of mobilized militias with government, the criminalization of all descent and popular organization, the elimination of out groups, etc.
You're being dismissive of what rights we have to protest and organize. Or the rights of some people to just exist. Guessing you don't use them so why would you appreciate them.
Only person that is dismissing others rights, like individual opinion, is you.
To paraphrase James Baldwin, 'we can love and disagree with each other, as long as that disagreement isn't about my humanity and right to exist'
corporatism is indistiguishable from fascism. when corporations rule the state, the state's interests include the maintaining of the corporatocracy, and the corporations serve the state. every social institution becomes subsumed either by the state directly or by corporate interests directly, but regardless of which expression of power seizes the institution, they are serving the fascists state.
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In a way yes. But also in a way no. As there isn’t a state. There are just corporations. There is no state to feed.
the state must protect the private property claims.
Why? Can’t corporations simply claim ownership manifest destiny and all that.
That lacks imagination. This is America, after all. We can have corporate armies and police.
the courts are still part of the trappings of legitimacy.