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paulkienitz

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4. Economically, that's the definition of fascism

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2024, 05:10 PM

Dec 2

an economic system consisting of an alliance of corporations and their owners with a single-party authoritarian government. It's crony capitalism enforced by a police state.

To define fascism as a political movement is trickier, but as an economic system that's all there is to it, and it's now the system of both Russia and China.

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