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cthulu2016

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4. Free-trade fascism strikes me as an oxymoron.

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 02:59 PM

Sep 2013

If it is not about exulting a nation it isn't plausibly fascism.

It can be just as evil. There are many paths to evil.

I get why people want to call things fascism because it is a very loaded negative term. Corporate Internationalism doesn't evoke Hitler.

I suppose we need to work on loading "corporate internationalism" with evil connotation, because calling everything fascism is a barrier to being taken seriously, and mis-diagnosis seldom helps with a cure.

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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