Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Wisconsin and Learning from Our Mistakes a fascist economy is when government subsidizes corporations with tax payer money, its called nationalizing corporate debt…fascism is not mass murder, it is the big business big government collusion which aids predatory monopoly thru oligarchy. mussolini and hitler did just that very thing too. our fascist economy started in 1948 when the pentagon system was established to help funnel tax payer money to capital intensive industries under the umbrella of “National Security”. no emotion or rhetoric on my part, merely facts… » Posted By phread On March 12, 2011 @ 7:21 pm EVERYBODY who has been following the WI union busting has born witness to FASCISM American style…there is no longer any reason to be afraid of using the correct term FASCISM FASCISM does not mean gas chambers, FASCISM is predatory capitalism as we have seen in the USA starting with reagan, yes folks reagan was a true blue, dyed in the wool FASCIST. WW2 was planned by IG Farben, the very same petro-chemical cartel that built Auschwitz. Fascism has been presented to us historically as the savage and murderous plague of antisemitism that it truly was, but what has been conveniently ignored by history are the capitalist who paid to have hitler established in power. WHY? as long as the republicans do not murder people they have been able to destroy the middle class and subisidies the corporations who fund them, when reagan destroyed union power in the 1980’s, democrats started taking corporate money too. we have ONE political party, fascist, corporately controlled and antilabor just like hitler, mussolini, and even stalin was a fascist who was in every way worse than hitler. Walker is doing the bidding of the koch boys, whose family made their money from stalin. As long as walker does not set up concentration camps he will succeed…propaganda is the only thing in the media, there is no truth… » Posted By phread On March 11, 2011 @ 8:51 pm Save the American Dream Rally in L.A. I hope this the right place for this and I’m sure most have seen it before…but I think it is pretty good none the less: A public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO sit at a table with a dozen cookies on a plate. The CEO reaches across, takes 11 of the cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that Union Guy: He wants a piece of your cookie.” » Posted By phread On March 1, 2011 @ 10:01 am Friday Music Thread – Favorite Films and Film Music OMG…salma … !!!! » Posted By phread On February 25, 2011 @ 4:56 pm ======= AWESOME !! ====== » Posted By phread On February 25, 2011 @ 4:43 pm The Kochroaches Emerge from the Woodwork I think this is an appropriate quote: “I am worried by those who fail to remember-or have never learned -that Big Business-Big Government partnerships, backed up by other elements, were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese empire builders.” » Posted By phread On February 24, 2011 @ 9:17 pm koch roaches » Posted By phread On February 20, 2011 @ 8:17 pm gop = fascists » Posted By phread On February 20, 2011 @ 8:16 pm Wisconsin, what does it really mean? its called fascism… » Posted By phread On February 21, 2011 @ 7:31 am what does this really mean? the fascists are out in the open… » Posted By phread On February 20, 2011 @ 8:22 pm very good article. Stiglitz is da bomb…sadly obama will not hear the correct economic advice from the likes of stiglitz or krugman, instead obama’s man crush on reagan will intensify his infatuation with reaganomics. » Posted By phread On February 20, 2011 @ 8:38 am From a union worker family standpoint… “Neoliberalism is the expression of the desire of a class of capitalist owners and the institutions in which their power is concentrated, which we collectively call “finance,” to restore-in the context of a general decline in popular struggles-the class’s revenues and power, which had diminished since the Great Depression and World War II. Far from being inevitable, this was a political action. The rules whose imposition define neoliberalism are generally designated euphemistically as “market” rules, avoiding the direct reference to capital. In this use of the term “market,” various types of mechanisms are at issue. The labor market refers to the tightening up of rules concerning hiring, layoffs, wages, and labor conditions. This market has been a favorite target of neoliberalism. The other market, directly at stake here, is that of capital. Neoliberalism has indeed completely changed the conditions under which the capital markets function. There are many aspects to this the centrality of the stock market and of capital in general, free international mobility of capital, and so on. Finally, neoliberalism is indeed the bearer of a process of general commercialization of social relationships, and that is one of its more shocking aspects. But it is the logic of the capitalist relationship that extends and governs the whole process, in accordance with its rules.” Capital Resurgent product description: The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism, economic growth was high and income inequality decreasing. But in the mid-1970s this social compact was broken as the world economy entered the stagflation crisis, following a decline in the profitability of capital. This crisis opened a new phase of stagnating growth and wages, and unemployment. Interest rates as well as dividend flows rose, and income inequality widened. Economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy show that, despite free market platitudes, neoliberalism was a planned effort by financial interests against the postwar Keynesian compromise. The cluster of neoliberal policies–including privatization, liberalization of world trade, and reduction in state welfare benefits–is an expression of the power of finance in the world economy. The sequence of events initiated by neoliberalism was not unprecedented. In the late nineteenth century, when economic conditions were similar to those of the 1970s, a structural crisis led to the first financial hegemony culminating in the speculative boom of the late 1920s. The authors argue persuasively for stabilizing the world economy before we run headlong into another economic disaster. product description » Posted By phread On February 15, 2011 @ 9:15 pm Union bashing has always been part of the right wing…Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco destroyed unions for their capitalist backers. Yes, fascists are in the service of capitalism…fascism has been called capitalism with a bayonet. » Posted By phread On February 15, 2011 @ 9:04 pm Budget, Deficits, the Debt and the lies from the right I don’t believe social programs are at fault…a decade of war and the bush tax cuts are the cause of the deficit » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 4:28 pm In a nut shell…every tax dollar spent on We The People, is one less dollar toward corporate welfare. Our economy is fascist, the government subsidizes “heavy industry” at the expense of “light industry”…guns or butter as the macro texts phrase it…the military-industrial complex does not walk alone. As Bertram Gross pointed out in his book Friendly Fascism; “It has many partners: the nuclear-power complex, the technology-science complex, the energy-auto-highway complex, the banking-investment-housing complex, the city-planning-development-land-speculation complex, the agribusiness complex, the communications complex…”each of these cartels/complexes buys politicians to do their bidding. » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 3:15 pm Please do finish the other pieces! » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 3:09 pm SPOT ON… » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 3:05 pm The dismissal of legit economists is due directly to the corporate agenda that has taken over our nation. reaganomics aka neoliberalism aka corporate welfare and war. Our economy is fascist with the right wing ideology of neoliberalism grafted onto it. » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 3:01 pm Very nice indeed!!! I love the link to Jamie Galbraith-Galbraith is the son of economist John Kenneth Galbraith!! Out FN standing!! We need more people like krugman and stiglitz speaking out on these matters. Very nice…kudos! » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 2:57 pm A Short List of Pres. Obama’s Accomplishments Indeed Adlib…corporate control-inverted totalitarianism. the plutocrats have been pursuing their agenda since 1972(powell memo) using tactics going back even earlier. My concern about obama is him being more business friendly, foolishly thinking this is the way to fix the economy. The 2010 elections were IMHO not about obama being anti business, rather the 2010 elections were FACT FREE, a propaganda driven right wing agenda. What is needed is some good old fashioned Keynesianism! » Posted By phread On February 14, 2011 @ 2:27 pm absolutly right…obama is better than the alternative, yet he APPEARS to embrace the pro-business ideology… » Posted By phread On February 13, 2011 @ 3:15 pm A nice list for sure…I am one of those folks who believes that the real threats to the USA are the corporations. My fear is that the pro-business ideology of the last 30 years has infected obama… » Posted By phread On February 13, 2011 @ 3:11 pm Friday Music Thread–Moving to The Planet Soon, Gonna Buy… me gusto flamenca!!!!!!!!!!!! » Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 7:17 pm un otro maestro de flamenca, Pepe Habichuela
» Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 6:51 pm nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! » Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 6:31 pm “f & f” for a little zep… » Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 6:30 pm wow that must have been fantastic! paco es dio! » Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 5:58 pm este video es del gran maestro guitarrista flamenco Paco de Lucía…enjoy
» Posted By phread On February 11, 2011 @ 3:36 pm The State of Education in America The dumbing down of America is a deliberate action… » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 4:55 pm Texas’s pull is purely economic…it is a large state and book publishers produce materials for Texas that are used around the country. This has been going on for decades, there used to be an older married couple in Texas who scrutinized books, they decided what people would learn. They were a private couple with out any credentials if I remember correctly. » Posted By phread On February 9, 2011 @ 4:52 pmComments Posted By phread
“I am worried by those who quibble about labels. Some of my friends seem transfixed by the idea that if it is fascism, it must appear in the classic, unfriendly form of their youth. “Why, oh why,” they retrospectively moan, “didn’t people see what was happening during the 1920s and the 1930s?” But in their own blindness they are willing to use the terms invented by the fascist ideologists, “corporate state” or “corporatism,” but not fascism.”
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Friendly Fascism
The New Face of Power in America
by Bertram Gross
South End Press, 1980
Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution
http://www.amazon.com/CapitalResurgentRoots-Neoliberal-Revolution/dp/067401158¬9
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