From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jun 13 2004 - 00:17:32 BST
msh said:
Fascism and big business go hand in hand, from the totalitarian
structure of corporations, to state supported business subsidy, state
adventurism and market/resource expansion, state intervention in
crushing labor movements. It's a match made in heaven. ...And to wrap
it all round to the original question here's the American Heritage
Dictionary definition of Fascism: "A system of government that exercises a
dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state
and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
SWZwick@aol.com replied:
Then why does the word "state" pop up so much more often than the
word "business" in this post? The fact is that any concentration of
power, minus transparency and accountability, will lead to tyrany.
Why single out "big business"?
dmb says:
Why single out big business? Because Hitler and Mussolini did so and it is
an essential component of the very definition of fascism. Today's capitalist
apologists like to focus on the violence and racism of fascism because this
has a way of putting some distance between, say, Adolf Hitler and Henry
Ford, but the fact is they were pen pals and admired each other greatly. As
late as 1940, Churchill was still refering to Mussolini as "a great man".
And Mussolini, the father of fasism said, "Fascism should really be called
Corporatism, for it is the merger of state and corporate power." He said
Fascism was "Corporatism plus reaction". I think that pretty well describes
the current US administartion. Don't let the absense of gas chambers fool
you. Franco was a fascist dictator for over 30 years, but there were no
extermination camps. Pinochet was not interested in "lebinstraum" or
restoring the glory of Rome, but he was still a fascist. Or consider the
case of US policy toward central American over the last fifty years. People
were killled and governments were overthrown for the sake of cheap coffee
and bananas. Fascism is a beast with many faces, my friend. One thing they
all seem to have in common is a hatred for liberals and intellectuals, which
is one of the more conspicuous features of the "conservative" voices in this
very forum. Of all the faces worn by Fascism, its possible that one of them
stares back at you from the mirror, dear reader. (Yes, Platt, I mean you.)
Tanks,
And guns,
dmb
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