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By: FollowFacts, Dixie

FollowFacts, Dixie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:56:38 +0000

"As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism."

Richman, Sheldon. “Fascism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.” In Library of Economics and Liberty. Encyclopedia. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html.

p728 Fascist Economy. No hard-and-fast boundary between economic "systems". Differs by country adopting it: Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), Spain (Franco), Portugal (Salazar), Argentina (Peron).

Italy (Mussolini): "Syndicalist" or "Corporate" state. Organizes industry and workers as a syndicate, planning the economy.

"Almost all … against free and militant trade unionism".

"Government has great regulatory powers over the entire economy."

"May involve organized religion, may oppose such."

"Opposition to Communism as (an external) threat; an excuse to squash democracy."

Samuelson, Paul Anthony. Economics, an Introductory Analysis. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:35:26 +0000

[...] that NBC/GE has already received billions in TARP bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions more [...]

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:10 +0000

[...] warming of course is a worry, it is a worry for the entire world.”Considering that NBC/GE has already received billions in TARP bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions more [...]

By: Conservatives DO NOT Oblige Republican Corporatism| Wilkow Majority | Media Splatters.net

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:42:19 +0000

[...] by mandating fuel efficient cars, and then turns around gives them more bailouts, remember, this is exactly how the last New Deal worked: big business, big labor, and big government getting together in one room to screw small businesses [...]

By: Dan, Arlington, VA

Dan, Arlington, VA — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:03:59 +0000

My concern is that Americans will not immediately recognize the more toward public-private/goverment-corporate matrimony as a bad thing. They are likely to view CEOs like Wagoner holding hands with Obama and concluding that the support from big business means that maybe he isn't so anti-capitalist after all, when in fact these actions go against the very core of capitalism.

By: Denise, MN

Denise, MN — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:16:09 +0000

The left is selling the aguement to lower income people that there are still only a select few who are rich and they just keep getting richer of the sweat of the labor of the "poor." Here's what I think is really the cause of the "gap": I think that the number of what the left calls rich ($120,000 +) made their money by taking advantage of the unique opportunities our capatilist system offers. They started businesses, made lots of sacrifices, worked hard (something the left wants people to think they shouldn't have to do to get money) and are starting to reap the rewards. That's why I think there are few "middle class" families. Yes, some people fell from the "middle class" into being "poor," but I think a vast majority of that increase is only temporary. Divorce, job loss, medical bills, etc. can temporarily pull people down, but a vast majority of these will be back on their feed in 2-5 years. The number of "permanent poor" probably stays fairly stagnant. You will always have a section of society who would rather sit and complain and receive welfare (an attitude passed down to future generations) and what they think is owed them because they have a rotten life. Now, Obama and his cronies would have everyone believe that their policies will spread the money around to bring more people "up" but their real goal is to stifle entrepreneurship, force many of these "rich" business owners back into the "middle class", working for big corporations again, and expand the middle class not from raising up, but by tearing down. Then you're left with super-rich elites who want to continue making their big bucks, dodging taxes and buying the government, etc. Call it what you want: socialism, communism, fascism. Obama says he'll change America and the world. He'll change it alright. American will no longer be the shining example, it will be just one of many socialist countries where dreams are discourages.

By: Barb - mn

Barb - mn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:59:04 +0000

He is threatening to those that dare to live independently and sacrificing wages to high government greed of taxation. How dare Joe show his integrity and will of pursuing a prosperous life without imposing dependency on taxpayers! Which everybody had an equal opportunity to do for themselves.

Obama "we all have to sacrifice!" What does he think the taxpayers have been doing since the influx of immigrants legal and illegal have been taking up residency with no will to take on their independence.

I won't trust a dishonest man, that calls anybody selfish when he spent over $600,000,000 on himself. Only to conduct a dishonest, hostile election when he could have spent that money on those he shows pity for. When he accepts donations from governments around the world where those monies could have gone to the people under those governments which he has stated are living in poverty. And an illegal act on his part. He states "I am my brothers keeper" While he and his family are living in luxury as his brother lives in poverty! Under what definition is "selfish" in your world obama? He took part in the housing collapse, he took part in the economic down fall and he will take this country down as his plans indicate. That seems to be his expedient will.

By: » Progressive Corporatism Is Here

» Progressive Corporatism Is Here — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:04:51 +0000

[...] From the auto industry to ethanol agribusiness to broadband hogs like Google, expect a steady stream of corporate giants lining up in front of the Obama White House for bailouts, tax breaks, loans , and subsidies. … Original post [...]

By: Spiritof76, New Hamp

Spiritof76, New Hamp — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:42:01 +0000

Socialism that is aligned with the selected businesses is called Fascism. It is not any better than the Soviet Union brand socialism where the government owns everything. Fascism will reward those that support the perpetuation of its power. Italy and Germany during the WWII represent the Fascism. That is what the US is following. Obama and the Democrats will accelerate it. They are acting as though they are planning to nationalize 401K. Withdrawing that enormous capital from capital market will allow them to reward those companies that they favor for capital increase. By investing in GE, they get their radio and television network for propaganda purposes. Many people in the US may think that our government won't do things like that. Just ask Joe Wurzelbacher (Joe the plumber). His private and confidential personal data was given to the select news media for discrediting him for asking Obama who was in his yard in front of his house a simple question. Isn't that worse than what we were told the dangers of the Patriot Act? The new administration is not even sworn in yet! I will not be far off the mark by suggesting that our last election with a semblance of a two-party system has taken place in this country.