Posted on 06/11/2024 7:32:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Words have meaning — especially words that mean the opposite of what one thinks. Clear definition has greater meaning.
Fascism allows the business to keep the means of its production, the factories or farms, but takes the output (profit). The Nazis of 1930s Germany were Fascists. “Nazi” is an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Today we call it corporatism. The end result is control.
Communism takes both the means of production and the output. The Communist Party ruled the USSR until its economy failed in the 1980s.
Both assume that the State owns everything. In truth, both imply that the individual has no rights, no individualism, no freedom. The State is all. Their slogan is “Together.” But their meaning is “Give me everything.”
While fascism and communism are social concepts, the State cannot obtain control of everything without intervening in its population’s private and economic lives. Since, in their minds, the State is all, there can be no individual and therefore no right to ownership. The State will regulate everything; tax all; and live, for a short time, off the steadily declining capital of the few remaining individuals.
Socialism is the midpoint between freedom and serfdom. It is the gateway drug to convince the weak and weary that if they give up their greedy, individual ways, and worship a government, that government will take care of them.
Socialism starts the population down the path of believing that their problems are so great (climate change, pandemics, inflation, recession) that they need a greater entity to step in. That greater entity is the State, government, bureaucracy. Show me any economic philosophy that survives communism, fascism, or socialism.
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It’s a market economy in name only. In actuality, the government controls it every bit as much as they control it in any other socialist system.
It can make the trains run on time and come up with a car for everyone.
Exactly. Cloward and Piven merged with the bottom up/top down/inside out strategy. And Duginism.
Franco basically stabbed Hitler in the back.
Agree.
It’s corporate capitalism, as opposed to market capitalism, and corporate capitalism, or corporatism, is just a form of socialism.
The difference is mostly in how they implemented it.
That’s literally true, but nowhere near enough to somehow transform fascism into anything right wing.
One would have to somehow accuse Lenin and Stalin of being “right wing” too in the vein the modern left uses, the former for his “New Economic Policy” and the latter for his “socialism in one country” (this latter being the inspiration for China’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics”; see how both imply the label “national socialism”).
Left and Right don’t exist. They’re meaningless amorphous terms that all sides used as a cudgel against anybody strikes their fancy.
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