Ch 14.16 - Fascism
"Casino Capitalism. Socialize the risk. Privatize the profit. Better known as fascism." - Unknown
a. Corporatism
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"Do not try and bend the government. That's impossible. Instead... only try to reallze the truth. There is no government. Only corporations." - Unknown
“You know Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f***ing each other over for a goddamn percentage!” - Ripley from Aliens on greedy corporations being worse than the xenomorphs
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." - Benito Mussolini
”Now you’re not naive enough to think we live in a democracy are you? It’s the free market. And you’re part of it.” - Gordon Gecko/Michael Douglas, Wall Street
"Public/Private Partnership aka Fascism" - Unknown
"A final way in which government helps psychopaths become CEOs is because the government has created a nauseatingly politically correct environment in which any honest person who is in touch with reality would have to become an actor and hide his disgust with such fascism. In contrast, a psychopath is already an excellent actor and doesn't care about reality or integrity and enjoys saying whatever manipulates others into believing him and rewarding him. The Socialist government has therefore given a considerable advantage to the psychopath in the business world — and blamed it on capitalism! The solution is not to give the government more power over the business world but to give it less." - Unknown
"Never risk your life for your minimum wage employer.” - Wise Living Person on why one should not stop store thefts when woke companies will fire them for doing so
"Currently, the left is leveraging private companies to do their bidding, rather than taking over the companies, so Fascism fits just fine. Once the left starts stealing companies, we can shift to some nuanced version of Communism." - Unknown
b. Fascism
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A fasces is a bundle of sticks wrapped together around an axe. It is symbolic because a single stick bends or breaks. But multiple sticks tightly bound are as hard as a solid piece of wood. Also is consistent with the motto SPQR - Unity is Strength of the Roman Empire. Fasces are present on the American dime, the statue of Lincoln at his memorial, and throughout the Capitol Building. The term 'fascism' itself is derived from the word 'fasces.' The fasces became the most well-known symbol of fascist Italy, and, thus of fascism itself. Nazi groups today use the symbol as well.
"There is no such thing as 'right-wing fascism.' Fascism is 100% predicated upon the central authority, period. Right-wing ideologies are Liberalism and Anarchy which are predicated upon minimal to no central authority. Spare me the revamped ideological matrix that radical progressives in academia conjured up during the early 1990s in order to distance themselves from fascism; it is pure bullshit as progressivism is simply fascism lite." - Unknown
"Political Capitalism - an economic and political system in which the economic and political elite cooperate for their mutual benefit, and in which the profitability of business is determined by political connections rather than by the satisfaction of consumer preferences." - Unknown
"Webster notes that the Fed essentially serves three clients: government, businesses, and households. Regrettably, the best interests of the government and business sectors take precedence over the concerns of the household sector.” - Unknown
"All within the state. Nothing outside the state." - Mussolini
"Fascism never died. It just renamed itself progressivism." - Unknown
"Complex ideologies lead to communism. Repressing nationalism leads to fascism." - Unknown
"Communism and fascism - Rule by technocratic single party elites controlling people through propaganda and terror." - Unknown
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