Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "AOC Channels A Revolutionary's Thinking In CNN Appearance" video.
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To be fair FDR’s New Deal was liberal corporatist. Mussolini recognized it as fascist lite economically. Mussolini compared the New Deal to Fascism. Socialists also recognized the similarities between New Deal programs and Fascist economics. Labor and business interests mediated by government. Fascism is New Deal on steroids.
“You want to know what Fascism is like, it is your New Deal”
“Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.”
- Benito Mussolini
That said liberal corporatism isn’t Fascist Corporatism. Liberal corporatism like social democracy still holds a liberal framework. Fascism is anti-liberal and nationalist. It was ridiculous of Stalin to not see the appeal of Fascist Corporatism which is a nationalist Syndicalism where all economic sectors collectively bargain under government oversight. The Fascist model was based upon the notion that big centralized government works well, and it brings the nation and classes together to be a well functioning organism, the State. New Deal Programs were actually inspired by some Fascist infrastructure. People forget that Fascism wasn’t a dirty word until WW2 broke out. Mussolini was seen as a hero, like Caesar, that would take the reigns of power for the people, from the gridlock of liberal democratic politicians, and be a dictator in the image of Ancient Rome. There were literally calls from the media in America to give FDR emergency dictatorial powers to address the Depression and crises. There’s a reason socialists were against FDR’s New Deal, it was a rival to socialist revolution.
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