i need to have a paragraph break here so that i can continue typing and take up more screen real estate but im really out of things to say. i guess now i should probably post something about the neo-proto-christo-fasco-globo-pseudo-imperial-industrial-complex troglodytic rovian halliburton profiteering blood-mongering war-for-oil scandal-ridden orwellian totalitarian racist homophobic misogynistic hermaphroditic satanic evangelical masonic Zionist theocratic cronyist neo con bush administration and its role in plotting the 9/11 attacks in order to rob the entire middle east of all its oil through criminal globo-expansion-wilsonian-interventionist saber rattling genocidal maniacal imperialist neo-nazi terrorist warfare. okay i think i’ve written enough now that nobody will finish reading what i wrote and theres lots of words here so that means i must have said something important and i win. i look forward to everyones responses this was a good article even if youre a crazed leftist socialist and i had a lot of fun. thanks everybody bye bye.

Some of the governments and parties most often considered to have been fascist include Fascist Italy under Mussolini, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, Spain’s Falange, Portugal’s New State, Hungary’s Arrow Cross Party, and Romania’s Iron Guard. Some authors reject broad usage of the term or exclude certain of these parties and regimes.[8] Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, there have been few self-proclaimed fascist groups and individuals. In contemporary political discourse, fascist has become a slur, used by adherents of some ideologies to describe their opponents”.

from wiki…

as pointed out above, the term, like “communist” or “socialist” canrefer to a wide variety of systems. indeed what i referred to as “classic” fascism, the fascist systems of early to mid twentieth century europe, did indeed manifest itself in variant versions.

but my point was that these forms of fascism were spearheaded by political parties who co-opted private economic entities, as opposed to the american style of OBVERSE fascism, where private economic concerns co-opt the political process. its stated clearly in my gigantic screed, by the way.

indeed, people do often use the term “fascism” as a slur…much as other people slur anything opposed to utter laissez faire capitalism and nihilistic aynrandism (the bedrock for levayan satanism, which is why i often slur it as satanic, or mammonistic)
as “communism” or “socialism”.

in all honesty years ago i began fabricating my “obverse democratic fascism” mantra as a sort of focault’s pendulum intellectual excercise aimed at countering the absurd hyper-partisan right wing hyperbole that bandied about “socialist” and “communist” to slur opponants when “liberal” simply failed to demonize enough.

as i researched i found one silly, mean spirited, delusionary lie and historical misinterpretation after another being vomitted forth from right wing press/media figures and upjumped mercenary mind hacks, swallowed hook line and sinker by an alarming and depressingly large number of pop culturally lobotomized ignoramuses and angry know nothings looking for someone to blame for their childish misery.

and, much like in eco’s book, the more i researched in an effort to fabricate a “fascist threat” absurd alarmist counter-lie to the absurd alarmist “commernist threat” initial lie…the more it started actually making sense…

yes, virginia! there IS a great right wing conspiracy! and why not go ahead and call it what it is indeed a form of, “fascism”? because if the right can resort to hyperbolic use of ideological terminology to slur its opponants, why can’t the left do the same?

in fact i detest both communism and fascism and consider both to be abominations to the human spirit, but after years of researching and trying to get beyond our stupidifying concentrated ownership, murdoched media…

i have to say that we are a hell of a lot closer to some 21st centry form of nightmarish fascism than communism.

i will respond in more detail later – pressed for time at the moment.

actually i liked your article, though i think you over-identified communist/socialist influences. thus the constant repetition of the word “fascism” or its derivatives in my super screed/rant.

again, i liked the article despite some disagreement and look forward to responding to your response soon.

I see that you posted a Wikipedia link. I once read the entry in question, but since the communist-dominated Wikipedia has zero credibility on any political subject, posting that link was perfectly in intellectual character with your … lack thereof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

“Lets digress a tad…fascism…what does that mean? Well, the classic model was Mussolini/Hitler/Franco.”

What “model” might that be? There is no “Mussolini/Hitler/Franco” model, “classic” [sic] or otherwise. What common ideology or social model did those three men embrace? The answer is, None. Mussolini believed in a corporatist society led by a “great man.” That’s fascism. Neither race nor genocide played any role.

Conversely, Hitler promoted “national socialism.” There was no German “facist” party (as the word was then spelled in English). National socialism was based on a notion of a racial community (master race) that finds itself in a fight to the death against its racial enemies, which also happen to be its racial inferiors—Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, etc. Genocide is as integral to national socialism as is racial community.

In the English-language world and in Europe, most people use the same misleading term, “fascism,” to describe both actual fascism and national socialism. That they do so, remains one of communism’s enduring triumphs. Following Hitler’s 1933 seizure of power, communists initiated the tradition of using the same term to describe both of communism’s European insurgent rivals for total power, that is, when they weren’t allying themselves with national socialists. (That’s where Orwell got the idea for the constantly changing, murderous alliances he depicts in 1984). As communism was itself an insurgent form of tyranny, having first imposed itself on a nation in 1917, three separate insurgencies were then fighting for domination of Europe, with liberal democracy a rapidly falling star.

Communists came up with this idea based on: 1. Stupidity (they couldn’t comprehend the fundamental differences that distinguish fascism from national socialism; 2. Stupidity (for them, all anti-communist systems are indistinguishable and/or part of a grand, capitalist conspiracy); 3. Tyranny (it has always been imperative to communists to force everyone to mouth their moronic pieties); and 4. Tyranny (until communists aggrandize sufficient power to imprison, torture, and murder all dissidents, it has always been imperative to them to intimidate anyone disagreeing with them).

I am sure that other observers will be able to come up with additional forms of communist stupidity and tyranny.

First of all they adopt a certain language and jargon…”Liberty” for example becomes not quite its dictionary definition but rather the freedom to believe and behave as they…”Traitors” are those who dare question anything about capitalism or those who benefit most by it…”Communist” or “socialist” or even “liberal” is used to dismiss anyone much to the left of David Duke or Ayn Rand.

Some even deny the reality of Mccarthyism…

But I jump ahead of myself…

Ever since the great depression showed the flaws and dangers inherent in pure laissez-faire mammonism, closet fascists pretending to be patriots have been organizing and conjuring up red boogeymen in order to protect their fortunes or just lash out at that which they cannot comprehend/stomach – like pretty white girls getting with bestial black men or accursed atheists being allowed to speak freely or whatever. If not for the vaguely socialist mixed economic policies of that awful old class traitor FDR the 30’s might have seen the break-up of the country or even a wall street fascist takeover, which of course fascists like Prescott Bush would have loved… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot.

Well, then WW2 came along and obvious, outward, honest, undeniable black wearing skull and crossbones goosesteppin’ jew gassin’ foriegn fascism had to be opposed, so closeted red white and blue fascists rolled up their sleeves, sang the star spangled banner, cursed fascism, pretended to stomach uncle Joe, and made an ass of moolah. God bless the USA!

And as the only capitalist economy intact at the end of the whole mess, for almost 30 years the vaguely socialist policies of the New Deal which had helped so many average schmuks share the benefit of our collective sacrifice were harder to begrudge, so bounteous were the returns for our investment.

Not that some fascists did not begrudge, mind you. No matter how much they have, the worshippers of mammon never have enough, and no matter how they wrap themselves in the mantles of god and country, their only concern is wealth and the power to guard it. So Birchers and McCarthyite fascists went to work as soon as the open fascists were hanging high and did indeed cause misery to a few…but times were so good and the mass media was yet not owned by them…

For that awful old class traitor, FDR, had enacted “commernist” laws that prohibited monopolizing of media and ownership of news providing organs by a wealthy and politicized few…and by God it worked!

The schmuks saw for themselves what an evil, self aggrandizing, fascist, demagogue Senator McCarthy was and years later they found out how rotten our own government had become in its fanatical, amoral war against “commernism”, how close to fascism we had grown, manufacturing lied-into wars in far flung corners of the globe and spending buzillions of taxpayer dollars to enrich a bloated arms industry. Then the schmuks saw their very own president committing felonies, lying about the same, and nudging us toward some kind of fascist abomination.

This is when fascists like Cheney and Schlaffly and Scaife and all the others began to look around and ask themselves how they could undo the damage. How could they bring about fascism in America? This is also when the seeds of that evil, soulless amoral Russian hysteric, Ayn Rand, began to resonate and lend a veneer of intellectual respectability to the ridiculed and discredited Goldwater style John Birch psuedo fascists…

So what must be done? Well, the first and most obvious impediment was a dispersed, rigorous, fact checking, independent media. In fact, the way a democratic people got their news was just about the only way they could make informed decisions.

Lets digress a tad…fascism…what does that mean? Well, the classic model was Mussolini/Hitler/Franco. An anti democratic political party seizes power, co-ops business, and rules undemocratically. Fascism in many ways is the ultimate development of nationalism and relies on a sense of shared national identity to overcome class division. Shared, cherished cultural ideals are indispensable to fascists….and this caused American would be fascists some problems… Sure, they may personally, secretly have had no problems with jackboots and all the satanic paraphernalia of fascism, but there’s no way the masses of schmuks would swallow that. “Freedom” and “democracy”…that stuff was part and parcel of American national identity, an indispensable element of the American psyche that flies in the face of the concept of fascism…hmmm…

But ideology, like religious theology, always finds it must adapt when applied to a new culture, and fascism did indeed evolve into an Americanized form in the late twentieth century…

So the American fascist overmen, drawing on the satanic economic nihilist philosophy of Ayn Rand much as the Germans reveled in the militarist mystical humanist nihilism of Nietzsche, came up with a slick, Madison Avenue, yankee-doodle dandy form of fascism – obverse democratic fascism…

Obverse – unlike classical European jackboot fascism, where the politicos co-opt capitalists, in American style fascism the capitalists co-opt the politicos…not so hard to do with a corrupt, buyable election system, just kind of costly…but oh the returns!

Democratic – yeah sure, give the schmuks their elections, but control the selection of candidates and – more importantly and essential to the whole scam – control the media, and PRESTO BLAMMO – SHAM DEMOCRACY!

Fascism – remember Ike’s farewell address when he warned about the growing influence of the military industrial complex? Remember the red scare of Mr. McCarthey? Rabid anti-commernism is oh so close to fascism already… Hey look! Another lied-into unnecessary war! WE NEED A BIGGER MILITARY! THE REST OF THE WORLD IS OUT TO GET US! THE U. N. IS OUT TO GET US! Hmmm…

So, ok, back to the late seventies, early eighties… Satano-aynrando-corporatist fascists begin looking around and figuring out what the will need to take control of the country and institute a façade democracy behind which lurks the real edifice of fascism. People are disillusioned with politics after the Nixon fiasco and the Vietnam lies – that’s good. But there’s that damned, irritating, meddling, “fourth branch of government” the media! So the fascist buzillionaires began financing an alternative press/media, as well as a bogus, propagandized, faux scholarly establishment of “think tanks” to support the outrageous lies of their pocket press as well as systematically debunk anything that reputable, peer reviewed academia might put out that contradicted fascist ideology.

Synchronous to the birth of this satano-aynrando corporatist fascist movement was the growth of reactionary christo-fascist fundyvangelist Cromwellian movements such as the presumptuously and Orwellianly self anointed “moral majority”. Ah…now the randian fascists had a highly motivated legion of low IQ religious nut dupes to use as voting power! Sure, true Randian overmen found them silly and absurd, but true randian overmen swallow their distaste in a heartbeat in order to realize and implement their elitist satanic fantasies. Besides…no matter how many silly christo-fascist laws and regulations those dumbass Jesus freaks may force on poor schmuk nation…NOBODY tells an uber-wealthy uberman what to do! The ubermencsh get abortions, prostitutes, drugs, whatever they want, no matter how depraved, regardless of the “godly” hell those nutty evangelicals inflict on the masses of the undermen!

So, the unholy American fascist alliance of the demiurge was forged…satano-aynrando-corporatist fascists supported by Christo-fascist cromwellian-luddite fundyvangelist masses… Truly a marriage made in hell!

So little by little the fascists chipped away, subverting, corrupting, perverting, and purchasing one politician and institution after another. Ever was there a slick, smart sounding justification by some “distinguished fellow” at some high falootin’ sounding “institute” out there like “The Cato Institute” or “The Heritage Foundation” to counter the voices of caution and reason. Indeed, repeat a lie persistently enough… And chiming in were a chorus of lowbrow radio zombie masters, telling angry white men self gratifying and infuriating bald faced lies… And year after year there were the bought and paid for politicos of BOTH parties selling their souls, scmuk nation’s asses, and any shred of national conscientiousness or constitutional dignity to our Randian, corporatist, fascist overlords!

Little by little they chipped away at the old media laws and proceeded to buy up almost all the media, until the “fourth branch of government” became little more than a slick, hypnotic, entertaining, bullhorn for Fascist Americorporation… Some, like Faux News, are directed at the true duped moron. They use the most obvious Orwellian doublespeak and slanted propaganda. Although this fools only the borderline retarded, the less obvious fascist owned organs are therefore able to slip their more subtle fascist slanted propaganda/news to increasingly sophisticated segments of the population. From “FoxLite” ABC, through GE owned NBC, to supposedly “liberal” CBS, with a similarly arrayed group of cable outlets, the American public is presented with a spectrum of news/opinion that supposedly flows smoothly from right to left, but in fact flows from far right to perhaps barely left of center, if that…

In between, the American public is continually bombarded with a constant stream of ever more trivial and idiotic drivel, interspersed by inescapable commercials urging morons to spend themselves into debt slavery and rather than demand a fairer cut in the economic pie while CEOs pay themselves multi-hundred million dollar a year salaries. All the while these pop culturally lobotomized consumer zombies grow more ignorant and disconnected from reality, watching IQ lowering reality TV, dreaming of becoming famous, playing video games and taking out car title loans to pay for a vacation or afford an ass of stupid Christmas gifts for their fat, ingrate kids, spouses, and gaggle of other irritating friends and relatives…

And with control of the media, and control of the polity, the fascists are able to cheat into power a mushmouthed Manchurian candidate gagged on a silver spoon moron that the average Springer person or good ole dimwitted christo-fascist borderline retard can look at and say, “Hey…he’s kinda like me…think I’ll vote fer him!”

And the mushmouth puppet fascist, who mouths fundyvangelist platitudes and repeats what his handlers whisper into his hidden earpiece receiver, continues sending well paying schmuk jobs overseas where exploited commie workers make toxic, cheap plastic crap that ever more impoverished American schmuks can afford, because median income has been falling since 1970… Every year as job after job gets outsourced, fascists get richer and scmuks get poorer. But the fascists control the media, and the schmuks just get stupider and more indebted, in that the fascists need the schmuks to keep buying more crap even though they don’t want to pay said schmuks more to enable this. You see, even the satan-aynrando fascists’ IQ is lowered at least a standard deviation by their uncontrolled mammonist greed.

So they outsourced the manufacturing jobs and told the scmuks to “Go back to school! Get retrained! The future’s in the service industry!” And of course stupid, patriotic, trusting, schmuk nation believed them and flipped burgers while struggling through night school to learn how to program computers or balance books – you know…service sector jobs… But now the satano-aynrando corporate fascists…are outsourcing THOSE JOBS TOO! So what’s a schmuk kid to do these days to get ahead?

Exactly what the satano-aynrando fascist self styled demigodly military-industrial complex owning overmen wanted all along…JOIN THE MILITARY!!!!

But when the christo-fascists and the duped schmuks send their kids/spouses/parents to war against someone who did not even attack them for their satano-aynrando obverse democratic fascist corporate overlords, they’re not just too butt ignorant to know any of this (partly as a result of the fascist owned media, granted), but many are too butt ignorant to even point to the country their loved ones, are dying in on a map!

AND THIS IS EXACTLY HOW OUR SATANO-AYNRANDO CORPORATE FASCIST OVERMEN WANT IT! OBVERSE DEMOCRATIC FASCISM – THE NEW AMERICAN WAY! GAWD BLESS THUH YEEEOOO ESSS AIYYYY! UHMURUHKUH!