Is America heading towards fascism?

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Yes indeed all capitalism is cronyism just like other facets of life or the afterlife. It all depends on Who you know. Not so much on what you do. The sooner a person learns that lesson the better. Smart thinking.

Capitalism is based on greed which breeds cronyism. If you don't want cronyism then why be a capitalist? It's like the concept of the noble savage.

The alternatives are worse, communism/socialism tends to breed the same cronyism, without the same efficiency (both time and resource-wise), tending to bring with it dictatorships, suppression of human rights, labor camps and mass executions.

The only reason why we have communistic dictatorships, violation of human rights , labor camps, executions and starvation is because politicians are afraid of dismantling the system if it does not work.

As recorded in the book of Acts the first century Church practiced communism but it did not work because people started to freeload. Rather than allow people to starve the leaders enacted capitalistic reforms.

Picking up fire extinguisher =/= shooting point blank range in head with pistol

can you say disproportionate force?

In this case the cops lost any facade of responsible policing when they deliberately ran over his body as can be seen in the video.



Then I really hope for the sake of your fellow citizens you aren't a police officer and never become one.

It is a false dichotomy. Other alternatives are possible. One that involves a resource based economic system coupled with an automated production mode that antiquates diminutive social roles and the class antagonism associated with them.

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Another Buckminster Fuller?

The North American Technate are students of the theorist Howard Scott.

There is a European equivalent called the Earth Organisation for Sustainability. It is led by a scientist called Dr Wallace who happens to be a personal acquaintance of mine.

Capitalism is based on the private ownership of the means of production. As long as there are laws to punish fraud and to enforce contracts capitalism is no more greed based than government tyranny (which is what we have at the moment).

Everything you use at home or almost everything was manufactured by a private firm, distributed to you by a private firm. etc. etc.

The government did not provide it.

Most people in government could not run a lemonade stand at a profit.

ruveyn

Small groups of humans naturally operate communally. I can only imagine how hard the human race would fail if normal day-to-day interaction operated in a parallel fashion to how large businesses and multinational corporations interact with each other. What if every single thing you did had to be motivated by purely self-interested bargaining. When you see a small elderly person having trouble opening a heavy door the first thing that goes through your mind is how much you think she will pay you for the service of opening the door for her.

I think the issue is when you have groups of people larger than 100 or so, systems for dividing labor become so complex that the normal social intuition and empathy fail. If you really think about it for most of human history large groups of people generally have very little empathy or concern for the well being of other large groups of people. In fact they tended to fight over resources and kill each other. But the problem is humans need to cooperate or there will never be peace. The ideal of the left politically is to expand the circle of empathy to all of humanity. The ideal of right-wing ideologies is to assert the morality of "in group" preservation and impersonal hierarchical power structures to keep order.

If capitalists stopped pointing guns we wouldn't have private property. So when right winged libertarians preach about how nonviolent their ideology is, remember private property is a result of coercion. The state was created to coerce people into wage slavery, and protect the elite. There is a reason why they initially only allowed the landlords to vote.

I would say were probably already there.

Picking up a fire extinguisher, acting as if one is going to throw that fire extinguisher at someone's head = giving them the right to defend themselves from having their head potentially crushed, or their car broken into so that the violent rioters could murder them with the chains, lead pipes and crowbars they were carrying. Driving over his corpse was a way for them to escape, and get a measure of revenge I'm sure after a man who egged on a crowd of rampaging wildmen.




Self defense, if you have a reason to believe that a person is going to enact violence to your being, then you have the right to respond in kind. I do find it funny that taking into consideration the moral pedestal the left puts itself on, it seems to be the side most inclined to throw bricks.

I don't like over-using the term "fascism". The more proper term may be neo-liberalism or corporatism. There was a very interesting quote by Mussolini in which he referred to fascist ideology as corporatism though. When totalitarianism does come, i think there will be a dangerous liaison between large multi-national corporations and government that completely supersedes the democratic process and that it'll exploit the religious right and blind jingoism in some way.

I think we could head to a fascist state if reLOVEution doesn't occur. Although I find your tie of Ron Paul and fascism a little ridiculous. Him and others like him are a reactionary force against the development of an authoritarian state.

Ron Paul is the antithesis of a fascist. He wants to get the government out of the business of regulating our lives in detail and charging us for the disservice.

This country has been quasi-fascist since the Woodrow Wilson administration.

ruveyn