From your post:”Sure, oppression in varying degress is common both to marxism and fascism, but what is unique to fascism is the micromanagement of private industries and institutions while maintaining the fiction that they are “independent.”
I never brought up oppression in varying degrees. my whole point in my post was what you said AFTER that.
I was very frustrated, about ten years ago, when I noticed that nobody seemed to know what fascism actually is, so I looked it up. It was at that moment that I realized the US was headed in that direction.
When you need a permit to save rainwater off your roof or to clear blackberries off your property, that is micromanagement while maintaining a facade of freedom.
My point was that it is a new animal. Perhaps we can call it Obamanism.
The petty 'hood approach to politics, the enemies list, the bling bling trips around the world; all conjure up more images of Idi Amin than Mussolini.
The fascist element comes more from his czars and non-confirmed "kitchen cabinet."
The ever-opportunist scavenger marxist element.