What is being pushed in American (and still to a large part in Europe) is a highly regulated welfare state capitalism. It is so highly regulated that only large business interests can successfully navigate through the red tape without violation in order to bring products and services to market.
This results in a degenerate form of crony capitalism, and so it ultimately morphs into something very much like fascism.
We've all been told that fascism is rightwing and associated with nationalism, racism, antisemitism, etc. And there were plenty of fascist governments in the past where that was definitely the case.
What is metastasizing in Europe and America is a leftist form of fascism. It is not nationalist but globalist. It is not racist so much as race-baiting. It is not antisemitic so much as anti-Israel and anti-Zionist.
Because historians have failed to separate out the core of fascism from the outward facade, we are not allowed to speak of leftist fascism and so it continues to grow with liberal support even though liberals would be the last to openly support something that can only be called fascist.
The truth is the truth. And so-called “welfare state capitalism” is just a new name for Lenin’s New Economic Policy, which is no less socialist than any other permutation.
And all forms of fascism are leftist. Mussolini was a communist at the outset of his political career and merely modified his belief system away from state atheism and de jure state ownership.
True and very well stated.
Hear hear, that’s the point exactly.