NP Orwell's politics

[Teufelsdröckh]

One of the first things every fascist state has done is outlaw labor
unions. But then so has every totalitarian state of any ideology. The
difference between Soviet or Maoist communism and fascism is like the
difference between Republicans and Democrats in the USA -- more a matter
of rhetoric than of substance. On fascist corporatism . . . 

"Italians, who invented the term fascism, also called it the estato
corporativo: the corporatist state. Orwell rightly described fascism as
being an extension of capitalism. It is an economy in which the
government serves the interests of oligopolies, a state in which large
corporations have the powers that in a democracy devolve to the citizen."

http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/fascist.htm

jbor wrote:
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> > From: JBFRAME at aol.com
> >
> >
> > It's
> >     startling to find him, early on, repeating the communist line that
> >     "fascism and capitalism are at bottom the same thing".
> >
> >
> > You mean they're not?
> 
> Well, not according to any dictionary or reference text that I can lay my
> hands on at present. I guess what's most "startling" about the sentiment is
> that Orwell was such a stern opponent of communism as well. _Animal Farm_
> certainly symbolises how fascism and *communism* "are at bottom the same
> thing", doesn't it?
> 
> It's a good article, written by a reliable authority; better to read it
> before dismissing it out of hand, surely?
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/02/spectrum/spectrum2.html
> 
> best