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Here is a good primer to see what we are headed for. I am not speaking soley about the US here but in general terms about the Western world.
Bush Busta, a Weaselish sort, was engaged in a favorite activity of the Usenet’s mustelids: he was dismantling a right winger in debate. The right winger, a lofty sort who likes to refer to himself as a "capitalist pig" had loftily proclaimed that Saddam was a fascist.
Busta wanted to know what made Saddam a fascist, and asked if El Cochino could describe fascism, and how Saddam fit into it.
"Read the newspapers", El Cochino loftily proclaimed.
"Newspapers define fascism?" Busta wanted to know.
American papers don’t like to talk about fascism much.
I started thinking about that. What is fascism?
Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called "corporatism" since it was, under Mussolini, a blending of state and corporate power. Mussolini ought to know; he was the first fascist leader. As an economic system, fascism was widely admired in the west (Churchill considered Mussolini "a great man" and liked the economic aspects of fascism). In America fascism was, unsurprisingly, extremely popular among the upper class. The leading advocates of a fascist economic system to fight the depression – Germany in the late thirties had beaten the depression – were the Bush family and other elite clans. There was even a weird kind of half-assed coup attempt staged against FDR by those same interests in the mid thirties. Fascism isn’t a puppet of the ruling class. It is an extension.
Definition one: it is an economic system in which corporations (or the wealthy elite) are essentially the government and vice versa.
But there are other elements.
Con't here:
es.com/Politics/fascism.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zeppscommentari es.com/Politics/fascism.htm
These sites will also help to explain where an over crowed world is headed for. If you doubt that this is happening wait a few years. No matter who is in charge this is 99.9% sure in predicting our future as a species:
What Fascism IS and Isn't
LRB | Slavoj Zizek : The Two Totalitarianisms
Bush Busta, a Weaselish sort, was engaged in a favorite activity of the Usenet’s mustelids: he was dismantling a right winger in debate. The right winger, a lofty sort who likes to refer to himself as a "capitalist pig" had loftily proclaimed that Saddam was a fascist.
Busta wanted to know what made Saddam a fascist, and asked if El Cochino could describe fascism, and how Saddam fit into it.
"Read the newspapers", El Cochino loftily proclaimed.
"Newspapers define fascism?" Busta wanted to know.
American papers don’t like to talk about fascism much.
I started thinking about that. What is fascism?
Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called "corporatism" since it was, under Mussolini, a blending of state and corporate power. Mussolini ought to know; he was the first fascist leader. As an economic system, fascism was widely admired in the west (Churchill considered Mussolini "a great man" and liked the economic aspects of fascism). In America fascism was, unsurprisingly, extremely popular among the upper class. The leading advocates of a fascist economic system to fight the depression – Germany in the late thirties had beaten the depression – were the Bush family and other elite clans. There was even a weird kind of half-assed coup attempt staged against FDR by those same interests in the mid thirties. Fascism isn’t a puppet of the ruling class. It is an extension.
Definition one: it is an economic system in which corporations (or the wealthy elite) are essentially the government and vice versa.
But there are other elements.
Con't here:
es.com/Politics/fascism.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zeppscommentari es.com/Politics/fascism.htm
These sites will also help to explain where an over crowed world is headed for. If you doubt that this is happening wait a few years. No matter who is in charge this is 99.9% sure in predicting our future as a species:
What Fascism IS and Isn't
LRB | Slavoj Zizek : The Two Totalitarianisms
