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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Not even capitalism right now, it's full on fascism.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Fascism is the inevitable result of capitalism.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Fascism is the inevitable result of all government. Government is an accumulation of power, and it continues to accumulate power throughout its existence. Over the generations, it acquires more and more power exponentially.

    Every self serving entity desires to accumulate power. The same can be said of anything that serves itself and can last beyond a single generation. A family, a commune, a group of like minded individuals, a business or a corporation, etc.

    The goal should be for the organization to serve it's membership and for the organization's membership to include everyone. Capitalism's values and incentives are inherently self serving. Most capitalist "market theory" assumes, if not requires, self serving participants. Its an inherently self-destructive system.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Fascism is a form of capitalism, aka corpratism

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  • [+] -14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Fascism is economically agnostic.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    'Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.' - Benito Mussolini, a founder of fascism.

    Corporations only exist within the capitalist model

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    So Stalin was a corporatist?

    Mussolini was trying to push that particular economic agenda at the time he said that. He is generally credited with being the father of modern fascism, but Mussolini himself waffled between different economic policies as he rose to power and led Italy through WWII.

    You can be a fascist and an oligarch, socialist, communist, capitalist, etc...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The soviets did not merge corporate and state power, they abolished the bourgeois state and established a socialist state. The fascist route would have been to support the Provisional Government protecting bourgeois interests.

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