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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
I refer you to this article that describes the nature of fascist coporatism (scroll to find and read that section).
The distinction is one of the state directly running the means of production (as in Soviet style communism) as opposed to doing it through privately controlled organizations (corporations) as in Fascist Italy. Granted, when coupled to a totalitarian regime it has the same effect in the end, except that technically it retains a capitalist format. NAZI Germany similarly allowed private property, but it was under direct domination by the state. However, The Third Reich was overtly socialist in its stated ideology. (The schizophrenic nature of it was typical of the NAZI mentality.) |
I am disappointed to say that my neck of the woods produced people that have created problems globally. The one that stands out the most, though, is Milton Friedman, professor of economics out of the University of Chicago and the father of neoliberalism ( or the term would be called neoconservatism here ). The tenents behind this economic philosophy include: privatize everything, limited social services, no government controls, and let the free market system run free, period. Here's the problem, anything without rules is a trainwreck waiting to happen. So while on the face of it, unfettered free market capitalism may seem like a good idea, emphasis on freedom. But every place that these practices went, they destroyed the society and seperated the economic classes, hindering if not stopping upward mobility ( look at Chile during Pinochet's reign and the South Cone of South America during the '70s ). In order to make these drastic changes, you have to do it at the point of a gun. Many folks were disappeared during the incubation process of implementing Uncle Milty's principles, and the rich got richer while the poor got poorer.