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J M Hatch's avatar

Which definition of Fascism are you using? George Orwell's, Mussolini's, Stalin's, Ian Kershaw?

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pepa65's avatar

Fascism has been so much abused and misapplied, that perhaps we should be talking about corporatism, oligarchy. But they lack the negative charge that the word fascism has.

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EatTheRich's avatar

Fascism like any system is never going to be exactly the same at any two points in time or locations. Fascism is what the global system runs on.

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notBob's avatar

lets call it neo-fascism, some combination of the various definitions that ultimately results in the basic idea of government-industry collaboration that injures a nations liberty.

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J M Hatch's avatar

Liberty is one of those dirty words that for example James Madison used to foist on the nation the outcome of the soft coup on the government under the articles of confederation that was known as the Constitutional Convention. It made him an extremely wealthy man. It's almost as vague as Fascism, and almost no one agrees to work within the definitions in Webster's dictionary when it comes to their fellow citizens.

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notBob's avatar

Now you are just choosing to argue over irrelevant minutia.

James Madisons wealth is nothing when compared to leaders of the day, Kings, Queens, Emperors, Tsars were all exponentially more wealthy that any founding father.

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J M Hatch's avatar

Now you've built a strawman, subconsciously I suspect. I feel for you. Cognitive Dissonance is a bitch.

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notBob's avatar

Wow, do you always jump to ad homonyms and insults so easily ?

Im done, have a nice life

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J M Hatch's avatar

Another strawman, and an incorrect application of a fallacy label. It is not easy.

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