Wrong. We have a mixed economy that isn't capitalist or socialist. This is the fascist compromise between the two. I'm surprised more people aren't aware of it- but- as I've said- our country has gone to great lengths to avoid the 'f' word in connotation with anything we do.
Fascist corporatism isn't the same thing as a mixed economy. The mixed economy incorporates elements of state intervention into an otherwise capitalist system. The means of production are more or less still privately owned and are being operated to produce a profit. Capitalism isn't just "free market or it's not capitalism", it's about how parts of society relate to the means of production. The capitalist mode of production is still alive and well in the United States.
The man is pushing for government control of the economy that still leaves private ownership. These bailouts are fascist to the core.
Economic stimulus and bailouts are not fascist in nature; they're Keynesian. The fascist state probably does not give a taxpayer-subsidized loan to the auto industry or the financial sector; it would likely nationalize the auto industry if it has shown itself incapable of private ownership, and most likely would have nationalized the banks as well.
This is essentially the very definition of economic fascism. It's what Obama wants.
Never mind that Bush was the one who signed TARP, not Obama.
No, but it is a good indicator of it creeping in. The NDAA, Patriot Act, and other executive orders that have been signed are certainly pointing in that direction. Our civil liberties are at stake. Surveillance of Americans has gone up drastically in the last two years. We are losing our constitutional rights and have been for a while. America is becoming more of a police state.
It's not necessarily an indication of fascism. Heck, Pinochet repressed the people of Chile to a great extent, but there is no way he could be described as a fascist.
Yes, it is about more than economic policy. However, one can be a fascist without the Hitler, kill everyone not Aryan fixation.
Of course. Fascism isn't exclusive to Nazi silliness.
Abortion has always been about population control and eugenics. The idea now is to have people willing to not reproduce on their own- and it is surprisingly more successful than forcing that idea ever was. It's not really about race these days. It's more about we're all Americans and anyone who isn't with the federal government's idea of what an American should be will have their civil rights violated. Let's say, Muslims, constitutionalists, and militias, for example. They're terrorists and un-American. They should be indefinitely detained.
Abortion is eugenics? I'm just going to leave this aside for now. Maybe I'll address it when I'm not so dang tired.
Obama is all about ending class divisions, yet also favors the 'proletarian culture' as the goal for national unity.
I'm not quite sure what you're asserting here. I mean, a fascist state is about class collaboration between capitalist and worker in the interest of the state as a whole. It doesn't attempt to end class divisions, it just reconciles the two classes by giving them something they can share.
Did you not notice the strange anti-union stance lately of the Democrats during the Chicago teacher strike? While more pro-union than the Republicans, I was rather shocked at the implications. This is also a fascist thing- as fascism sees such union activities as detrimental to society.
I didn't pay much attention to the Chicago strike.
But, besides that, anti-union sentiment is one of those things that is not exclusive to fascism. For example, the union-busting activity of the late 19th century cannot be construed as some sort of road to fascism. The bourgeois tolerates unions, but because unions often stand in the way of profit, they will work to diminish their power whenever possible.
Don't forget his idea of promoting a 'civilian security force' as a way to motivate people toward this national unity idea. While he didn't start City Year, it has been promoted heavily under the Obama admin.
Obama's Militaristic Youth Corp Commercial - YouTube
Describing that as something put out and promoted by Obama as a "civilian security force" seems a stretch at best. City Year is an organization that targets at-risk youth and tries to fight against the high dropout rate in poor areas through community service and such things. It's not "a way to motivate people" to get behind some sort of nationalist sense of unity.
Then there's the militarization, drones, etcetera. Guantanamo Bay is still open. The MIC is still going strong. What he says and does don't match.
None of which is means he's a fascist.
Really. Economic globalization of the sort we're seeing is eroding national and ethnic identity and heritage in many parts of the world in the name of creating wealth for those at the top. It's a globalized capitalist initiative.
Fascists would not support it not only because fascism is an anti-capitalist ideology, but because they place great importance on the preservation and advancement of their particular ethnic nation (not like Nazis did, obviously).
Globalists are those who are in charge and have a vested interest in corporations. Corporations have more rights than people.
You seem to be looking at neoliberalism and calling it fascism.
These folks run everything- even Obama. You can't get in the club to be a puppet unless you're one of them. Do you realize how many American corporations were started by fascist sympathizers who played both sides of WWII and benefitted from it?
See, now you're starting to contradict yourself. If Obama is a fascist, how then is he a puppet of these corporations? Note that these are not corporation in the fascist or corporatist sense; these are corporations in the capitalist, for-profit sense.
The fascist state does not allow the corporate organs of society (let alone capitalist corporations) to control it; in fact, it's quite the opposite. Mussolini's maxim describes it quite well:
Benito Mussolini said:
Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato
Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
You can't claim that corporations have the state in their pocket and then call that fascism, because that's simply not what it is. A fascist nation generally will not have any qualms about quite brutally putting down a business or organization that it deems a threat to the state.
More people need to become aware of what fascism is.
Indeed.
