Granted, totalitarianisms are to be avoided. On the other hand, there is nothing more utopian than unfettered, "free-market" capitalism, a la Randian ideology. As in the U.S. today this concentration and centralisation of wealth and power merely devolves into a state-capitalist oligarchy. As has been pointed out, this is simply "socialism for the rich".
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sound familiar? =================== Dr. Laurence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine -- a journal of humanist thought. The article is titled 'Fascism Anyone?', by Laurence Britt, and appears in Free Inquiry's Spring 2003 issue on page 20. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of: * Hitler (Germany) ** Mussolini (Italy) *** Franco (Spain) **** Suharto (Indonesia) ***** Pinochet (Chile) He found the regimes had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The 14 characteristics are: 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make …
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