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Fascist seems like a pretty extreme overreaction.

• sitkack 8y ago
  Corporatized public institutions are clearly a fascist move. Same goes for the public private partnerships in common wealth countries.
  • Angostura 8y ago
    So anyone who implemented a PPI in the MHS is a fascist? Great way to devalue the term.
    • sitkack 8y ago
      You are putting words in my mouth, this isn't what I said. I called Bayh-Dole act a fascist law, because it encourages the privatization of public research. It is literally a gift from the public to the corporation and encourages public organizations to participate in corporate behavior which is antithetical to their actual stated missions. The PPP (public private partnerships) in common wealth countries are aimed at achieving * less oversight of government activity and accountability * union busting under the guise of efficiency and cost reductions. And are anti-democratic. Fascism is the description we give to a certain type of corporate-statist behavior. The wonderful (facetious) effect this has is that is imperceptible to a lot of folks while slowly shifting the ideology to the right. I am not calling people national socialists. I never called a person a fascist. Bayh-Dole was probably well intentioned but the result has been the exclusion of public research for the public good. It stifles more innovation than it encourages. What term would you use?