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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini, 1935, "The Doctrine of Fascism,
by anonbanker 12y ago
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini, 1935, "The Doctrine of Fascism," Firenze: Vallecchi Editore.
- dragonwriter 12y agoPeople who are ignorant of history don't realize that Mussolini was trying to sell fascism (which invented a new, top-down version of corporatism) as equivalent to corporatism (which had been discussed for many years, and defined in the late 19th century in a more organic, bottom-up way which was not "the merger of state and corporate power" by a group convened under the auspices of the Pope) because corporatism was a well-established, at the time, element of Catholic social teaching and a popular idea, and he wanted to steal the label to reinforce the political appeal of Fascism.
- anonbanker 12y agoso you're saying the current oligarchy of Bilderberg and Legatus attendees is somehow superior and less tyrrannical, and therefore different than Mussolini's vision, because there are more of them?
- dragonwriter 12y agoI'm not only not saying that, I'm at a loss to see how anything even vaguely similar to that could be inferred from what I actually said.