“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”

- Benito Mussolini

microgpt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nah. Fascism only tolerates one power, that being itself. It can emerge from either the state or corporate side, and necessarily subsumes or destroys the other, just as it subsumes or destroys unions, families, friend networks, communications, and anything else that can establish power. That doesn't mean the merger of two of them is the defining feature.

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treis 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That’s true of every system of government

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FireBeyond 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Corporations generally tend to only tolerate the state to the extent that guns or courts mandate that they must. How many billions of corporate dollars have gone to fund campaigns to deregulate, to skirt authority, to do whatever is necessary to make sure profits go up?

	▲	microgpt 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's also the degree to which dogs tolerate unions - doesn't really mean anything

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kamma4434 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Fascism was corporative, but in Italian the word has a very different meaning compared to the English one.