Forum Post: Fascism= Corporate / State Merger

Such is the view of Benito Mussolini, the father of Italian fascism. Mussolini saw fascism as a great savior for the powerful, as profits were privatized but risk and responsibility was made public.

This is the current "neoliberal" agenda. The term "austerity" while a direct attack on working class people has the goal of privatizing the public sphere so that it can bleed profits to private interests. Privatization is the blood sucking mechanism of our modern fascism. It is engineered by creating crises, so that public assets must be sold off. Deficits are such a crisis, and can be rigged in lots of ways by privatization-minded officials.

For starters, they fund infinite war abroad with our tax money. This cannot go on indefinitely. The miltiary/war budget has DOUBLED since 2000, supposedly to track down a handful of extremists in a cave somewhere. What nonsense. We are funding the naked imperialism in the Middle East so that well connected corporations primarily in the energy and war sectors can reap windfall profits.

Deficits are also spurred by simply giving all the money to the banksters after they lose big bets. By what right are these financial institutions entitled to a bail out of public tax money? They are allegedly capitalists gambling for profit on derivatives and credit default swaps. When they lose, they lose.

The bogus rationale for propping up these criminal fraudulent enterprises is that numerous pensions were invested in them. This is glaringly bogus reasoning, as the pensions could be bailed out while leaving the fraudsters out of the loop -- and in prison where they belong. This has not happened.

Further bankrupting the nation is the outsourcing of valuable jobs to sweat shop dictatorships. This practice must end, or there won't be much of an America left to fight about. Tax imports and create business loans for new infrastructure here, where our people actually live.

We have a golden opportunity to create a new alternative energy sector, but only if protectionist measures are implemented and government financing made available.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is a thriving, exploding technology. Geothermal Heat Mining, or Enhanced Geothermal Systems can tap the heat from the earth's inner core and produce limitless electrical energy from that heat. These technologies could stop global warming and cut pollution exponentially. These and other cutting edge industries could put America back to work, but it is not in the interest of the fascists in charge to make things easier for working people.

The fascists in charge have decided to screw the working classes, as their desperation is good for profits and control of the society (so they assume).

Fight fascism. Study history. This time they're after you.