A great question

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 11:13:26 CST 2009


Laura asks:
Is capitalism fascist?  A genuine question.  I'm not sure of the answer.

I'm not sure either but I suggest SIZE MATTERS: small business 'capitalism', before some businesses 
become of a certain size---I know, how big?---does not have to be?

I'm thinking, historically, of small merchants and other companies in, say, a pre-industrial America, just
for a place to start talking......
But then, if some BIG DOGS came to own all the land................???

So, still thinking aloud here, the opposite of fascism, politically, is what? A kind of democratic individualism
in which all one's 'rights' are not violated, trampled on, overrun???

So, he continues giddily, out of semi-control here, maybe when capitalism's Companies became like Persons by 
law....(They are, ya know)!!!   Suddenly, Company Persons became Giant Adenoids, so to speak!


      




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