(April 1, 2011 at 2:35 pm)Chuck Wrote: When you say fascism won WWII, can you suggest some bench mark to show that prior to WWII, we were in fact less corporatist then we are not?
We dont need no stinking bench marks! Just kidding. Yes, we were corporatist before WWII. Our country started as a slave driven plutocracy and stayed that way until the civil war. After the civil war the theories of Karl Marx was becoming more and more popular and the plutocrats sought to find better means to secure their power, especially after people like teddy roosevelt gets elected to office (I honestly think the mast majority of presidents have been plutocrats, but once in a while a few come to power who honestly care for the people...they usually wind up getting a bullet for their concern). We especially became corporatist during ww one.
To me I always considered fascism and corporatism to be closely related. Fascism being the extremist form of corporatism.
