A great question

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Didn't Moose (I saw a live one today) tie Italian fascism to a form of 
corporatism?

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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: A great question


> All fascist movements advocate the creation of an authoritarian government 
> that is an autocratic single-party state led by a dictator.[citation 
> needed] Many fascist movements support the creation of a totalitarian 
> state. The Italian Doctrine of Fascism states: "The Fascist conception of 
> the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can 
> exist, much less have value........wikipedia
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:28:21 PM
> Subject: Re: A great question
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> But the big Communist countries of our times (Russia, China) and many of 
> the smaller ones were the same way - it was all about centralized control 
> of every economic thing and a bunch of political/social things, too. I 
> think fascism is something more or something other, like the addition of a 
> seriously militarist based society. (Yes, US ca Reagan and the Bushies and 
> as portrayed in Vineland.) Fascism is a just a capitalist-militarist 
> version of Communism - it's about a dictatorship of the state. - the 
> problem is (imo, of course) at what point is some central control 
> necessary and at what point is it too much.
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> Bekah
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> On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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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