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Forum Post: Definitions of Fascism?

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 8:31 p.m. EST by jgriff (6) from Tampa, FL
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Ok, seems that we have different views of what this is....So....

  1. What is it?

  2. Is that what we are now?

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[-] 2 points by number2 (914) 13 years ago

1 corporations in bed with government

2 yes

[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 13 years ago

Here's a good article for you:

http://people.howstuffworks.com/fascism.htm

[-] 1 points by bakerjohnj (121) 13 years ago
  1. Might > Right ie. the might of the gun to trump the rights of the individual.

  2. We are in limbo.

[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 13 years ago

yea, there isn't really a clear definition, people always disagree and use the word to mean different things

I always think of Fascism as the operation of the government for the benefit of well-connected big business and if that's the definition, then we are living under a fascist system

[-] 1 points by barb (835) 13 years ago

A dictatorship that has complete power over all the people that live under it.

[-] 1 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 13 years ago

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

But since corporations have so much influence versus the power of the people, the people that say "it's fascism" are saying the corporations are the dictator.

[-] 1 points by number2 (914) 13 years ago

corporate personhood

[-] 1 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 13 years ago

The idea behind it is so fucking stupid that we had to make up a new word for it... because it was never supposed to exist because corporations are not people.