I've often wondered about accusations that corporatism and fascism are fundamentally linked. Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism always seemed to be the best circumscription, to me. But I've seen many others talk about the breakdown of
the boundary between government and corporations as a hallmark of fascist regimes (e.g. the current situation where Trump blocked money for the USPS in the covid19 stimulus). Eco's main attributes go something like the below (mostly my own summary phrases).
How does corporatism fit in?
1) traditionalism
2) rejection of modernism/irrationalism
3) action for action's sake
4) dissent is treason
5) xenophobia
6) appeal to frustrated middle class
7) conspiracy theories
8) the (elite) enemy is both too strong and too weak
9) permanent warfare
10) exceptionalism
11) hero worship
12) machismo and fixed gender roles
13) delegitimizing elections
14) minimized vocabulary and Newspeak
On 4/13/20 8:35 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> The book is a few years old. Nevertheless Peter reports that many Chinese back then saw both Hitler and Mao as great leaders (!), despite their crimes and their millions of victims. Some even confuse the dictator in Charlie Chaplin's movie "The Great Dictator"
with the real Hitler. Of course in the US and in the EU nobody shares this view.
>
> Peter also reports about the strong effects of lifelong propaganda from the communist party of China. In Europe we have propaganda as well, but it is mostly in form of marketing and advertising for corporations and their products. Advertising for political
parties only happens during elections for limited periods of time. We have freedom of speech in EU & US, but there is no freedom of speech in China. I believe that's a major difference between EU & US and China.
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