that is a given by now. for billionaires the name of the game is "which politicians are my bitches"
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What if we give all billionaires so much money they will become trillionaires ? Will that save democracy?
We can raise taxes on the middle class and cut social services and education!
And don't let people enter the housing market. Just charge them higher and higher rent forever!
The author they're criticizing, McGinnis, sounds like a real asshole.
Would unfettered Fascism and Billionaires exist? The leader would just take all their wealth. Look at North Korea.
If you could define fascism, you would know that they're very compatible. In fact, liberalism turns to fascism to save capitalists from Consequences™
NK isn't fascist, buddy. Authoritarian, yes. Communist, mostly. Feudal, quite a bit. But not fascist.
Fascism is the marriage of the state and corporations to protect both from growing resentment, using nationalism to distract the public from their actual troubles.
Fascism is the marriage of the state and corporations to protect both from growing resentment, using nationalism to distract the public from their actual troubles.
Now I'm not sure if you are trolling because that sounds an awful lot like NK... They don't have corporations like in your definition but they do have very powerful syndicates who influence and manage any internal conflict.
not if the leader is one of them
You can’t have communism and billionaires
Right! Democracy and communism it is!
you honestly think people turn to communism because they want to become billionaires themself?
I don't understand how that's a reply to what you replied to. Did you reply to the right comment?
You’re an idiot if you think that’s what I said.
Of what use, then, are the American Communists?
They serve one function extremely useful to you and to the country, so useful that, if there were no Communists, we would almost be forced to create some. They are a reliable litmus paper for detecting real sources of danger to the Republic.
Communism is so repugnant to almost all Americans, when they are getting along even tolerably well, that one may predict with certainty that any social field or group in which the Communists make real strides in gaining members or acceptance of their doctrines, any such spot is in such bad shape from real and not imaginary social ills that the rest of us should take emergency, drastic action to investigate and correct the trouble.
Unfortunately we are more prone to ignore the sick spot thus disclosed and content ourselves with calling out more cops.
--Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Heinlein had some ideas, but never consistent ideas.
Starship Troopers was sort of a love letter to fascism, and also the idea of power armor. Most of that book is gushing over how cool power armor could be.
Stranger in a Strange Land was rather anti-authoritarian, but there were some hints at something darker in a few places.
Time Enough for Love is time travel incest porn.
And all of Heinlein's ranting about Communism, which in his day was mostly Leninism.
i agree, national socialism is not the way.
long live international solidarity.
Drop the national part. Socialism has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the 20th and 21st centuries.
did you somehow read my comment as condoning the national part? if so, please explain how you came to that conclusion or simply do everyone a favour and re-read what it says
Both of our comments were pretty straight forward. You seem confused.