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white_wolf

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4. Not really. The fascists would likely kill or lock up libertarians...
Sun Dec 23, 2012, 03:30 AM
Dec 2012

but not because the libertarians believe in liberty or freedom. Most of them are happy to give that away as long as their magical free market is in place, but that's the problem. Fascists are indeed corporatists, as Mussolini said, but their ultimate ideal is a strong state capable of defending and bring prosperity to it's people, at the expense of all other peoples. The problem is that fascists are smart enough to realize that lazzie-faire capitalism is a joke. They realize a pure free market is harmful to the state so they will place some restrictions on corporations to ensure maximum efficiency for the state.

Remember Fascism once marketed itself as the so called "Third Way" between socialism and capitalism. It's an outright lie of course, because in the end it does protect private property and capitalism. I think it was Lenin who said that "Fascism is the iron loop around the collapsing barrel of capitalism." In this respect he's right. Fascism emerges when there is a danger of capitalism failing, it's the ultimate reactionary movement, but it's kind of a last resort since capitalists do have to give up some of their power to the state in order to survive. Look at Greece, if things continue on their present course and a strong socialist movement emerges there I wouldn't be surprised if the Golden Dawn or another fascist group is given power in order to maintain order.

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