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Whether You Call it Socialism, Statism, Fascism, or Corporatism,
Townhall.com ^ | March 12, 2014 | Daniel J. Mitchell

Posted on 03/12/2014 3:04:13 PM PDT by Kaslin

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The rest of the title is: Big Government Is Evil and Destructive
1 posted on 03/12/2014 3:04:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
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I call them MarxoFascists - because that is what they are.


2 posted on 03/12/2014 3:12:09 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Kaslin
The article is slightly off in its description. Nazism may be racist, but Mussolini's fascism is not. Mussolini did not become racist until he came under the influence of Hitler.

As for today's Liberals being fascist in economics, Ayn Rand pointed this out about 50 years ago with her lecture, The Fascist New Frontier. I still think Pres. Hussein behaves like an affirmative action Hitler (an incompetent copy of the original).

3 posted on 03/12/2014 3:15:41 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: INVAR
I call them MarxoFascists - because that is what they are.

I call them democrats, because that is what they are.

4 posted on 03/12/2014 3:20:29 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare is Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: Kaslin

“But while leftists sometimes support policies that hurt minorities, they’re not motivated by racial animus. “

I would disagree with that. When you see how the welfare state is run, there is definitely a lot of racism on the part of the Left. Except it is on the sly. Just keep telling the minorities to be happy on the dole, clinging to being “protected” by the state, and kept in their place.


5 posted on 03/12/2014 3:34:18 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Kaslin
[Art.] Venezuela also is disarming the citizenry.

Not the Chavez partisans. The government is committed to manufacturing and passing out over 1,000,000 AK-103's (the latest Kalashnikov model) to its followers.

6 posted on 03/12/2014 3:40:49 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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collectivos

Obama domestic army model?


7 posted on 03/12/2014 3:44:56 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Kaslin
Regular readers may have noticed that I generally say that advocates of big government are “statists.”

I think statist is exactly the right term for anyone who wants the state controlling civil society, regardless of what flavor of government.

8 posted on 03/12/2014 3:46:40 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: GeronL

I don’t know what he has in mind. Ravens?


9 posted on 03/12/2014 3:47:22 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Fatalism!


10 posted on 03/12/2014 3:56:49 PM PDT by DocJhn
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fictionalism


11 posted on 03/12/2014 3:58:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Mussolini did not become racist until he came under the influence of Hitler.

From what I've read, Mussolini hated Hitlers racist tendencies and even believed that Blacks and Jews were just as capable of being as good a Fascist as anyone else.

12 posted on 03/12/2014 4:09:21 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: Carry_Okie
I call them democrats, because that is what they are.

No. They are NOTHING like the Democrats of just a generation ago.

These are Marxist ideologues, admirers of Mao and all the Isms - who have employed what Mussolini established and fortified it with steroids.

They have run out any and all 'Democrats' from their party - and those now reside within the Republican party wile Conservatives are being drummed out of the GOP.

13 posted on 03/12/2014 5:09:34 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Carbonsteel; Stepan12

“Fascism” in the popular imagination, due to Hitler and WWII is irrevocably linked to Nazism, even though you are correct, Mussolini, the original fascist, was not anti-Semitic.

Although technically accurate, when you call someone a fascist, typically they think Nazi/anti-Semite....and liberals in the USA are not that (yet). You can’t convince anyone they’re wrong too, if they think you’re just calling them Nazis.

Leninism is not the same as Marxism either, as Lenin believed an elite (the communist party) would have to lead in any revolution—whereas Marx thought it would occur as a spontaneous process.

Mr. Mitchell’s analogy to different breeds of poisonous spiders is on the mark though, as who cares what breed exactly the current statists are—they are still poisonous.

And STATISM is actually the essence of fascism, according to Mussolini himself:

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”


14 posted on 03/12/2014 5:20:57 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG!)
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Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. - Benito Mussolini

Whether you label it “progressivism,” “socialism,” “communism” or “fascism,” it’s all just the same collectivist tyranny, varying only by degrees of bloodshed and fashion choices. - Kurt Schlichter


15 posted on 03/12/2014 5:59:35 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: INVAR
They are NOTHING like the Democrats of just a generation ago.

That is why I wrote "democrats" with a lower case "d." That was a joke son, a piece of double entendre.

16 posted on 03/12/2014 6:13:01 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare is Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: AnalogReigns
Lenin is not that corrupt (if I recall); neither was Stalin. Obama came up through the Chicago machine which is very corrupt. This corruption certainly effected the Marxist trained Obama.

I think Obama is a somewhat varied portrait of political and moral evil

17 posted on 03/12/2014 6:34:48 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: Kaslin
The Obsolete Man
18 posted on 03/12/2014 6:41:24 PM PDT by mikrofon (True then ... True now)
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To: Carry_Okie

You are being too generous - even though it’s an entendre.


19 posted on 03/12/2014 6:45:50 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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"But while leftists sometimes support policies that hurt minorities, they’re not motivated by racial animus."

They sure seem anti-white to me, maybe honkeys don't count.

20 posted on 03/12/2014 8:35:11 PM PDT by mbennett203 ("Bulrog, a tough brute ninja who has dedicated his life to eradicating the world from hippies.")
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