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To: jespasinthru

fascism is not the same thing.

fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. govt controls private business via regulation/laws, but any negatives have to be dealt with by the company, personally. under fascism govt runs the companies it wants, gets rid of companies it wants, by “legal”’means. crony capitalism is the same way but is an unofficial policy the way govt does things, rather than overt, official govt policy.


5 posted on 09/29/2014 8:24:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. govt controls private business via regulation/laws, but any negatives have to be dealt with by the company

My 30 second summary is that fascism is a progressive form of socialism. The Bolshevik plan was expropriation of the business classes, which naturally produced bitter resistance and therefore required the severe repression, often the extermination, of the relevant individuals. As a result, the Bolsheviks murdered most of the people who knew how to actually manage complex organizations, with predictable results.

The fascists were smarter, and chose to operate through cooptation. They bribed the captains of industry to play ball, the trains ran on time, and they milked enough of a surplus to buy lower class support with social benefits. This is the social democratic strategy still today, though the label "fascism" has gone out of fashion.

21 posted on 09/30/2014 4:02:43 AM PDT by sphinx
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