Comments on: We Are All Fascists Now

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:30:41 +0000

Decades before Goldberg wrote his book “Liberal Fascism” (sic), Professor Charlotte Twight published “America’s Emerging Fascist Economy” in 1975. Oddly, it wasn’t mentioned by Goldberg, but then, it didn’t fit his “liberal is bad, conservative is good” thesis. Twight pointed out repeatedly that this system has been fostered and embraced by both political parties and is the dominant paradigm of the United States of America.

Dr. Twight referred to America’s version of economic fascism as “capitalistic collectivism” or “participatory fascism;” defining economic fascism as characterized by private ownership of the means of production coupled with the absolute power (whether exercised or not) of government to control every aspect of that private production, no matter how local.

The “participatory fascism” label referred to the insistence of those in power on demanding “participation” by the populace, –particularly by their opponents. Ayn Rand referred to this as demanding the “sanction of the victim.”

Economic fascism seeks to harness the productivity of the private market to the political objectives of the State. This is the model that most of the developed nations of the world have embraced. Of course ultimately such a system must, by the imperatives of its view of humanity and by its destructive effect on individuals, spill over into civil liberties.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:36:11 +0000

Decades before Goldberg wrote his book “Liberal Fascism” (sic), Professor Charlotte Twight published the book, “America’s Emerging Fascist Economy” in 1975. Oddly, it wasn’t mentioned by Goldberg, but then, it didn’t fit his “liberal is bad, conservative is good” thesis. Twight pointed out repeatedly that this system has been fostered and embraced by both political parties and is the dominant paradigm of the United States of America.

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By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:57:17 +0000

America hasn’t succumbed to socialism or fascism yet by virtue of the Kelo decision in New London, CT.
But because of that decision, it is toying with it in the sense that it justifies and condones a redistribution of property that leads to socialism and fascism.

Taking away someone’s property is socialism if it’s benefits become public property, and fascism if it becomes government property. If it becomes someone else’s property, it is, by definition, a theft by government/representers of government, to take from one to give to another. The act is done by the mentality and utility of fascism even though the outward appearances do not look like the occupation of fascism.

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By: Ward Dorrity

Ward Dorrity — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:36:23 +0000

And this, from a modern myth-maker:

Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.

How did it come to this?
How… did it come… to this?

Théoden King: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

By: Ward Dorrity

Ward Dorrity — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:34:05 +0000

“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money–the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law–men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims–then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them.”

Long, low whistle…

It’s time for Atlas to shrug – and then to pick up a gun.