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| Yoof, in Trafalgar Square, proud members of the Communist Party of GB, Marxist-Leninist. They’re also "anti-fascist" they say. But today's CCP is fascist. It's one or the other, lads |
It's in Kotkin's "How the Democrats fell for Mussolini":
Indeed, Mussolini’s idea of an economy controlled from above, with generous benefits but dominated by large business interests, is gradually supplanting the old liberal capitalist model. In the West, for example, the “Great Reset,” introduced by the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab, proposes an expanded welfare state and an economy that transcends the market for the greater goal of serving racial and gender “equity”, as well as saving the planet.
Wherever it appears, whether in the early 20th century or today, fascism — in its corporate sense — relies on concentrated economic power to achieve its essential and ideological goals. In 1922, for instance, large corporations and landowners helped finance Mussolini’s Black Shirts for their March on Rome. Confindustria, the leading organisation of Italian industrialists, was glad to see the end of class-based chaos and welcomed the state’s infrastructure surge.
Elsewhere, the German cartels and Japanese zaibatsu both kowtowed to and benefited from fascist state support and contracts. Even today, China, in many aspects the model fascist state of our times, follows Il Duce’s model of cementing the corporate elite into the power structure. Since 2000, a hundred billionaires sit in the country’s Communist legislation, a development that Mao would never have countenanced.
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There's been a lot of talk in recent years -- from the likes of Eric & Bret Weinstein -- about how we are ruled not by a fair and decent democracy, but by an entitled oligarchy. And who can argue that there's not an elite, that see themselves as our righteous rulers? And to centralise, centralise. Or is that all horrid right-wing paranoia, hard-right talking points?
