Leigh Meyers wrote:
> I really really wish someone would write a one paragraph synopsis of > what fascism *is*, and post it, because I've read, and always understood > is that it's government by (or for the benefit of) corporations, > business, the power elite, with the remainder of the economic benefits > trickled down to the general society as needed to maintain stability of > the socio-economic structure... to keep the geese (the proles) laying > those golden eggs.
CC writes:
This exhibits the fundamental error, an error so deep its adherents may not be able to recover, in the loose use of the term "fascism." What you describe is not fascism but every single bourgeois state that has ever existed or ever will exist.
the definition of fascism above also describes such proto-capitalist forms as absolutism (the Sun King and all that), along with the rule of the Pharaoh in ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and many many more types of "elite rule." It would likely exclude feudalism (decentralized competition among military-economic-political blocs within a larger country), however. -- Jim Devine / "Intel and AMD giveth, Microsoft taketh away." -- Anon.
