Votto
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Fascism in bed with the private sector?Fascism is also when the government is in bed with the private sector. It's a way of appeasing or serving the interests of the working class without allowing them to dethrone their masters. Who are the masters? Adam Smith, the father of capitalism tells us:
" What are the common wages of labor, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine (to form labor unions) in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labor. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; (the masters "combine" or form their own "unions" in the form of chambers of commerce, industry associations, super-PACs, non-profit front-organizations/NGOs, armies of lobbyists, think tanks..etc) and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. " (Wealth Of Nations, Book I, Chapter VIII)
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Adam Smith recognized that the wealthy capitalist-employer class, the ones who own the means of production and hire labor, paying out wages, are the masters of a capitalist-run society. When there's serious social unrest or revolutionary elements are brewing amongst the working class, organizing strikes and protests, propagating ideas about taking the means of production by force and political control, the well-financed, usually better educated capitalist aristocracy (the masters), will stage their own coup and revolution.
The masters will install a nationalist dictator that serves their vested interests, while also satisfying most of the demands of the working class, meeting their needs. Hitler used "National Socialism" to placate the masses while allowing the masters to remain in power under his protection. That's fascism. The government protects the wealthy ruling elites from the working class, with their "silly ideas" about democracy ("people's rule") and all of that "BS". The rich orchestrate a right-wing nationalist, "populist" coup (they pretend to be populists, pro-working class), taking over the government either by force or by an election, and that's the end of the genuine socialist, people's uprising. That's essentially fascism.
Fascism has nothing to do with conservative family values or being against willy-nilly abortions of convenience, child puberty blockers or public trans-bathrooms, or denying that there are more than two genders..etc. That's just a bunch of post-modernist, liberal gobbledygook. Fascism is more about economics and protecting the big-money capitalists from a pissed-off and frustrated working class (stopping the pitchforks from coming out).
So, as corporations go woke and join this ridiculous ESG program as they jump in bed with the Left by doing so, we can safely label the Left and DNC as fascists?
Thanks for that.