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PowerToThePeople

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3. Maybe it is still fascism

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 02:57 PM

Sep 2013

Just not Nationalistic fascism. It is a new form of Multi-National Fascism. Think NAFTA/CAFTA/TPP/Etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. ”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938. Message to congress

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Fascism and Corporations [View all] cthulu2016 Sep 2013 OP

Exactly gopiscrap Sep 2013 #1

I guess the argument would be that as people become more resistant to corporate corruption el_bryanto Sep 2013 #2

Free-trade fascism strikes me as an oxymoron. cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #4

Maybe it is still fascism PowerToThePeople Sep 2013 #3

That is political red meat cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #5

Corporate Colonialism Ichingcarpenter Sep 2013 #6

Fascism too broadly defined escapes being useful, but "fascist" is in all cases a very broad term. thebake Oct 2013 #7

welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2013 #8