• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

    i’m struggling to think of a single capitalist state i have some knowledge of that doesn’t work like this. there are probably a few of them…?

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      Merger is the key word.

      Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.

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            5 days ago

            oh we had a literal fascist as our head of state very recently and the current one reminds me of us democrats, as in he barely even acknowledges it properly, and even lets fascist policy pass. i think this is definetly a sign lololol

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      4 days ago

      Corporatism doesn’t have to come with racism. Technically fascism neither, but nobody uses it like that.

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            oh, they divide by sex and gender too. and they are literally deporting people because of the place they came from in the us.

            and more.