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On 9/4/2011 6:12 AM, Corey Mattson wrote:
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cite="mid:CAA6G5rz_YtPOfXocLzqkF3ST38vEG+aUrJxBuw8fP-okRZ3rNQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">How we define 'fascism' is determined by our political
ideology and agenda, of course. I disagree with this formation for the
following reasons ---<br>
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1. What's left out here is the context in which a Fascist movement
develops. It is a top-down, authoritarian response to smash popular
forces of working people and their institutions, supported by big
business. Big business sees a threat to the capitalist system and its
functioning, so it needs to get rid of its opposition. Labor unionists
and working-class political parties were attacked early on in Italy and
Germany.<br>
<br>
2. Also left out is that under Fascism, there is a fusion between big
business and the state. From what he says, Noam Chomsky thinks that
this is the single-most important facet of fascism.<br>
<br>
3. Top-down "planning" is an element, I think, because big business
finds it necessary to keep the capitalist system afloat. They become
the top-down planners because they become the state. (But, I think it
should be said that capitalism always requires planning and would be
unstable and eventually collapse without it. The free market is a myth.
... And planning is planning, whether it occurs in government or in
corporate and bank boardrooms. ....Whether under capitalism or some
other social system, our struggles should be over who controls
"planning," where it should be restricted, and making it democratic and
accountable in democratic institutions. But the formation given by
Flynn includes opposing "planning" that is progressive and democratic,
and necessary.)<br>
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I suppose that what Flynn was saying in 1944, and your statement are
similar but in different words.<br>
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3. In which the government is organized to operate the capitalist
system and enable it to function-under an immense bureaucracy.<br>
<br>
4. In which the economic society is organized on the syndicalist model,
that is by producing groups formed into craft and professional<br>
categories under supervision of the state.<br>
<br>
5. In which the government and the syndicalist organizations operate
the capitalist society on the planned, autarchial principle.<br>
<br>
<br>
You can read the entire book here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://mises.org/books/aswegomarching.pdf">http://mises.org/books/aswegomarching.pdf</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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cite="mid:CAA6G5rz_YtPOfXocLzqkF3ST38vEG+aUrJxBuw8fP-okRZ3rNQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">--- Corey<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, E. Wayne
Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag">ewj@pigs.ag</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As
we survey the whole scene in Italy, therefore, we may now name all the
essential ingredients of fascism.<br>
<br>
It is a form of social organization<br>
1. In which the government acknowledges no restraint upon its
powers—totalitarianism.<br>
<br>
2. In which this unrestrained government is managed by a dictator —the
leadership principle.<br>
<br>
3. In which the government is organized to operate the capitalist
system and enable it to function-under an immense bureaucracy.<br>
<br>
4. In which the economic society is organized on the syndicalist model,
that is by producing groups formed into craft and professional<br>
categories under supervision of the state.<br>
<br>
5. In which the government and the syndicalist organizations operate
the capitalist society on the planned, autarchial principle.<br>
<br>
6. In which the government holds itself responsible to provide the
nation with adequate purchasing power by public spending and<br>
borrowing.<br>
<br>
7. In which militarism is used as a conscious mechanism of government
spending, and<br>
8. In which imperialism is included as a policy inevitably flowing from
militarism as well as other elements of fascism.<br>
<br>
Wherever you find a nation using all of these devices you will<br>
know that this is a fascist nation. In proportion as any nation uses<br>
most of them you may assume it is tending in the direction of fascism.<br>
<br>
(As We Go Marching, John T Flynn, 1944)<br>
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