Fascism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The term fascism has come to mean any system of government resembling Mussolini's, that in various combinations:
- exalts the nation, (and sometimes the race or culture) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
- stresses loyalty to a single leader.
- uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
- engages in severe economic and social regimentation.
- engages in syndicalist corporatism.
- implements totalitarian systems.
"Corporations have been enthroned . . . An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people . . . until wealth is aggregated in a few hands . . . and the Republic is destroyed." President Abraham Lincoln"This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations." Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S President, 1876-1880
"The halls of legislation were transformed into a mart where the price of votes was haggled over, and laws, made to order, were bought and sold." -Mathew Josephson, in The Robber Barons
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism. Ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I keep thinking of Mussolini's definition of fascism: "Fascism should more properly be called 'corporatism,' since it is the marriage of government and corporate power." When was the last time we saw this administration do something that involved standing up to some corporate special interest in favor of the great majority of the people." Molly Ivins
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