WHAT LURKS BEYOND GREED-CAPITALISM?
If the federal government helping people in danger of losing their homes is socialism...
If a progressive income tax in which wealthier people pay a greater percentage of their income is socialism...
If saving the auto industry from its own mistakes that will cost millions of jobs is socialism...
If adequate health care guaranteed for everyone is socialism...
If everything that seems to help the average person and average family is socialism...
Then, I suppose, I have a right to call those who oppose these humane, federal programs "fascists."
And now for all of you self-styled, greedy fascists, a few INTELLIGENT quotes:
"We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism." -Richard T. Ely
"... the idea, which is popular with rich men, that industrial disputes would disappear if only the output of wealth were doubled, and every one were twice as well off, not only is refuted by all practical experience, but is in its very nature founded upon an illusion. For the question is not one of amounts but of proportions." -R. H. Tawney
But the conservatives and neocons and right-wingers who have no intention of sharing with any other citizen who does not live as they do or who has not accumulated wealth...these people, though they do not realize it, are very close to fascism. One of the original fascist leaders attacked liberals and explained fascism this way:
"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary . . .does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal." -Benito Mussolini
So, to my fellow Americans who call everything that differs with their idea of "sharing" to be "socialism," I say: welcome to your fascist world.
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