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(06-02-2017, 11:50 AM)xxlt Wrote: Great points.

I think what many miss in fascism is what holds up the state is its bromance with corporations. In libertarian economics (see Cato today for an example as they praise Trump's deregulation!) what happens is the reverence shifts to the corporations (or "the market") and what holds up the market is the bromance with the state. So the state gets love and corporate support by letting the corporations have carte blanche as long as the state is "first" in fascism. And the corporations gets love and state support and still get carte blanche as long as "the market" is first in libertarianism. I don't really care if "country" or "business" is at the top of the flag pole, if they are colluding to screw us all (see withdrawal from Paris accord, which I suspect libertarians to cheer) then it doesn't really matter. The suckers think a smaller government can't screw them, so they won! All a smaller government can't do is police the market! Win for the corporations, loss for the people who voted libertarian. (Except that .01 percent who own the market!)

True libertarianism rejects corporatism or crony capitalism while fascism usually embraces state control over many aspects of the economy. 

No matter how you cut it (social acceptance, economics, or government control) they don't belong near each other.