Quote: (03-03-2013 10:18 PM)bacon Wrote:
if facism is the blending of government and corporate interests how is that not what the US is?
The modern meaning of corporation in US English is completely contrary to what a corporation meant to a Fascist. This cannot be emphasised enough because a huge amount of internet disinformation has come from this faux-ami of a translation.
To the Fascist, the corporate state was a national syndicalist state. This was in essence the modernised medieval guild system which attempted to reduce the exploitation of the working class in the industrial age and to stop them joining anarchist, international socialist and Communist materialist trade unions (often under Jewish and/ or Atheist leadership).
Just before the Fascist era and just before crisis of fin-de-siècle Marxism, Pope Leo XIII commissioned Roman theologians to study corporatism and to come up of ways that it could be implemented in the industrial era which followed the materialism of the Enlightenment. The French Revolution oversaw the destruction of the guild system as it was sponsored by the Roman Church.
His commission defined corporatism as a: "system of social organisation that has at its base the grouping of men according to the community of their natural interests and social functions, and as true and proper organs of the state they direct and coordinate labour and capital in matters of common interest"
During the Fascist era, Pope Pius XI advocated Christian corporatism as a an alternative to capitalist individualism and socialist totalitarianism whereby people would be organised into workers' guilds or vocational groups that would cooperate under the supervision of a neutral state.
On a practical basis, men would vote for a representative to sit in national assemblies who were from their profession, vocation or trade as opposed to the British system which sees men vote for someone who represents their geographical areas and who tend to be bankers and lawyers who put their political parties and the interests of finance first.