Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Does Socialism Have a Future in the United States?" video.
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@Evirthewarrior True, there are 2 axis, and Marxian socialism is libertarian left. The complete opposite of that would be an authoritarian right.
"Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini
They cut taxes. They privatized numerous things (fascist governments were leaders in privatization). They teamed up with monarchists, industrialists, and large land owners. They sidelined independent unions and created government run unions, outlawing strikes ... the government took over labour, not the means of production, and stripped it of power. Employer syndicates, on the other hand, were given the freedom to control production, distribution, and expansion. Simply controlling the economy doesn't equate to socialism, if it's geared towards making rich people richer. That's crony capitalism.
"The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation."
People who portray fascists as socialists, should also be weary of wartime economies. The British government also took more control over its economy and production, during war. It had nothing to do with them attempting to become more socialist. It simply had to do with trying to keep their military armed and their people (not Indians) fed.
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@Evirthewarrior You seem to be doing what you accused others of ... moving the dial left, just because a government becomes more authoritarian. Even if a government forces a company to make something, but lets the company keep the profits, in what reality is that socialism? No changes in classes, and an end to the class struggle. No worker control. No wealth redistribution. You just seem to be equating "state" to "socialism", and therefore it can't possibly be authoritarian state capitalism.
Fascists were leaders in privatization ...
http://www.ub.edu/graap/bel_Italy_fascist.pdf
https://daily.jstor.org/the-roots-of-privatization/
Fascism isn't even trying to be socialism, at all, let alone some perfect version of it ...
"Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle."
"Such a conception of life makes Fascism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of all else."
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