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To: EternalVigilance

Not quite. Fascism is more dangerous than Communism because it actually works. And the reason that it works is that the state does not maintain total control of the means of production, but allows a free-ish market to work. Fascism, thus, does not collapse for the reasons that Hayek and von Mises set forth for the impossibility of long-term viability of a centrally planned economy, has a means for effective capital formation, and can actually maintain total social control more easily than Communism can, since the populace can devote themselves to commerce, provided they do not clash with state interests, giving an outlet for social discontents through the pursuit of wealth.


12 posted on 07/21/2015 8:29:32 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

It’s basically as if the Mafia ran a country.


14 posted on 07/21/2015 8:30:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: The_Reader_David

I don’t disagree with you. However, make no mistake, in the end the fascists have total control over the means of production. All they need is the perception of a need to exercise it.

Kind of like China’s stock market tanking and the solution being a ban, enforced at the point of the gun, on selling shares.


18 posted on 07/21/2015 8:34:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (McCain was a war hero? So was Benedict Arnold.)
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