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Originally Posted by Andaras
Corporations were privately-owned, ie by the bourgeois elite. Yes fascism is a different, very statist form of capitalism, but it is capitalism none the less. Just like welfare capitalism, fascism existed only in a specific time period when the threat of capitalism being destroyed by Communist movements prompted the political capitalist elite to use radical nationalism and statism as a tool against Communist liberation. Was fascism pure free-market capitalism? Of course not. But I am afraid because the American political spectrum is so far to the right, that anything which is slightly different from the current market capitalism is instantly 'socialist' to people like you. The world my friend is not that simple. Fascism and welfare capitalism (FDR New Deal) came about after the collapse of the old liberal capitalist order after WWI, Great Depression etc.
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The irony of your post is sickening. I'm sorry, comrade, but Communists liberate no one. There is a reason why both fascism and the New Deal came at the same time. If you are convinced that fascism was simply a conspiracy and that everyone involved supported nationalized industry and the common man simply so that they could force everybody against there will to contribute to a free-market, capitalist system, then there is no helping you. Conspiracy theories are jokes. You deny everything that the Nazis said they believed, and say that they supported everything they detested. You say that the American political spectrum is far right, then Europe is far left, and fascism is the right wing of the extreme leftism (Though still left). There is no statist form of capitalism. Capitalist systems support the removal of monopolies so that competition ensures that supply and demand are equal. (Read Adam Smith, founder of capitalism)