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For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed
by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of
fascist economics both as ideology and state policy. Instead there is a
fixation on marchers in Charlottesville chanting “blood and soil” or
other Nazi era memes. Before considering whether people like Donald
Trump or Steve Mnuchin seek to impose a fascist dictatorship on the USA,
it might be useful to take a look at some of the demands found in the
Manifesto of the Fascist party founded by Benito Mussolini in 1919 that
was co-written by labor syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti, the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto that had a
powerful impact on Russian art in the 1920s.
+ The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour
workday for all workers
+ A minimum wage
+ The participation of workers’ representatives in the functions of
industry commissions
+ To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be
technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or
public servants
+ A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a “partial
expropriation” of concentrated wealth)
+ The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and
the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous
liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor
Unlike Donald Trump, whose populism was mostly campaign bluster and a
rightwing version of the hokum Barack Obama used in 2007 to get votes,
Mussolini’s dictatorship could hardly be confused with the neoliberalism
that has been hegemonic since the early 1970s under Republicans and
Democrats alike.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/10/27/the-political-economy-of-fascism/
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