Michael Parenti -- The Functions of Fascism 1/3

THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM!

Parenti says that fascism is a pseudo-revolutionary movement that serves the same old power structure and promises to solve the ills of the many while really protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties.

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[wvprogressive1933]

Jonah Goldberg is seriously confused.

If you want the truth, pick up Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.

He's a far better writer than Jonah Golberg, and my guess is Parenti has 40 or 50 IQ points on him.

[otacon451]

libertarian socialism

[buzzhawk]

@00RoninSamurai00 You're more like the middle-aged smug libertarian who thinks he knows something about economics by listening to Alex Jones and R0n Paul. There is no "free market". It has never existed, it can never exist. It's just a theoretical device they teach in colleges. Libertarians would give more power to such banks, which would make them more "corporatist" than everyone else. So Parenti correctly identifies the systemic need for fascism.

[00RoninSamurai00]

@MrJimmyMad To be more specific, it exists as a concept, but it is not the economic system under which we live. We have a MIXED ECONOMY (Look it up), in which the unconstitutional Federal Reserve private banking cartel has been granted BY THE STATE exclusive rights to interfere with the natural market dynamics of the FREE MARKET and unfairly REGULATE in favor of its corporate shareholders. Under such an unfairly regulated market, capitalism ceases to function and CORPORATISM results.

[MrJimmyMad]

@00RoninSamurai00 If it doesn't exist then how can we be talking about it?

[00RoninSamurai00]

@shortywheat - Typical inexperienced twenty-something with who thinks he knows something about the real world, but has to resort to 'straw man' tactics because he has no real facts to back up his flawed argument... Your understanding of economics, or more precisely, your lack thereof, is abundantly clear. You, like all of you brainwashed statists, just keep trying to blame the failures of our current Keynesian system on the "free market" that doesn't exist, and see where that gets you...

[00RoninSamurai00]

You supporters of Parenti need to learn the meaning of words, and so does Parenti. What Parenti calls capitalism, is actually corporatism. What he calls a free market, is actually a regulated market. The capitalist free market can't be at fault where it doesn't exist.  Try studying Keynesian v. Austrian economic theory, then maybe you can get your facts straight.

[Tougemaster06]

@wvprogressive1933 Jonah Goldberg is a dumb ass libertard

[rageagainstboxhead]

I don't wanna be a Facist pig! \m/

[TheeUnidentified]

5:55 -spot on. I marvel at how American rightwingers (who often fail to realize the views they espouse *are* very RW) desperately try to align socialism & the Left with fascism. Little wonder this dying empire is where it's at given how such a significant portion of its citizenry doesn't understand basic political/ideological philosophies ...and really, that's been strategic here; RW talking points are common within the culture, absent being accurately identified as such for what they represent.