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Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
OWS is against corporate greed in Wall Street I thought? Now it's sweat shops. Are you policing what is happening in Indonesia?
Are you for or against some corporation making the computer you are using for your anti-corporate rant?
Again, not all corporations are sweat shops in Indonesia. Adbusters seems to be against all corporations, but they sure take money from the very corporate Soros.
Don't even talk to me about corporations and Wall Street without addressing the Soros connection.
Perhaps you want us all to live in the Stone age? You are free to do that, but stop screaming and yelling about corporations when every day you use products made by them.
Originally posted by christina-66
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
You what? Corporatism is the main definer of fascism . For a moment imagine left and right do not sit at the opposite ends of a straight line – imagine a circle. The result of extreme left and extreme right amount to the same thing, as you say, totalitarianism. Given the recent news that the majority of the world’s holdings are in the hands of just 177 corporations – that is indeed the very direction we’re heading in...on a global scale. The corporation has no long term interests – it cares only for short term gain – and will manipulate duly elected officials to ensure they can achieve that aim.
In what way does describing a person as fascist imply they are a supporter of the police state – that is the very miscomprehension that has allowed the current fascistic system to come into being. ‘We don’t have a police state therefore we are not fascist.’ That’s a falsehood. Fascism has nothing at all to do with support or non-support of the police.
I did not call you a fascist because you do not support communist or socialist agendas – I called you a fascist because you stated that those who were against corporatism were communists. That’s rather extreme don’t you think?
The capitalism we have been living with is a fraud encouraged and supported only by the slackening of credit restrictions (evidenced by its current state). A good business model should be able to fund its own expansion with minimum borrowing....a household should be able to survive week to week without resorting to a credit card or releasing the equity on their home. You at least note that capitalism has been abused – on that at least we can agree.
How in heaven’s name have I ‘boxed your ears’ about not supporting Soros – as I previously stated it was your reference to ‘anti corporate communist agitators’ that I was ‘boxing your ears’ for.
What’s fascism got to do with Hitler?
Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood.[3] To achieve this, fascists purge forces, ideas, people, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration.[3]
Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, discipline and family policy (such as eugenics).[4][5] That state is led by a supreme leader who exercises a dictatorship over the fascist movement, the government and other state institutions.[6] Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition.[7]
Fascism promotes political violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality.[4][8] It views conflict as a fact of life that is responsible for all human progress.[9] It exalts militarism as providing positive transformation in society and providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character and creating national comradeship through military service.[10] Fascists commonly utilize paramilitary organizations for violent attacks on opponents or to overthrow a political system.[11]
Fascists advocate: a state-directed, regulated economy that is dedicated to the nation; the use and primacy of regulated private property and private enterprise contingent upon service to the nation or state; the use of state enterprise where private enterprise is failing or is inefficient; and autarky.[3] They are hostile to finance capitalism, plutocracy, the "power of money", and internationalist economics.[3]
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
OWS is against corporate greed in Wall Street I thought? Now it's sweat shops. Are you policing what is happening in Indonesia?
Are you for or against some corporation making the computer you are using for your anti-corporate rant?
Again, not all corporations are sweat shops in Indonesia. Adbusters seems to be against all corporations, but they sure take money from the very corporate Soros.
Don't even talk to me about corporations and Wall Street without addressing the Soros connection.
Perhaps you want us all to live in the Stone age? You are free to do that, but stop screaming and yelling about corporations when every day you use products made by them.
That's not answering these simple questions, ThirdEye.
Are you for or against sweatshop labor? Yes or no?
Should companies that indulge in sweatshop labor face penalties or not?
Do the women and girls working these places deserve a living wage and fair treatment, or not?
I still await your response to these three questions on your stance regaring the ethics of sweatshops.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Are you for or against sweatshop labor, ThirdEye? Should companies that indulge in sweatshop labor face penalties or not? Do the women and girls working these places deserve a living wage and fair treatment, or not?
Yes or no?
Originally posted by Black Fan
We are no supporting anything that even has a hint of Soros involved...simple as that.
The notion of "Totalitarianism" a "total" political power by state was formulated in 1923 by Giovanni Amendola who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from conventional dictatorships.[7] The term was later assigned a positive meaning in the writings of Giovanni Gentile, Italy’s most prominent philosopher and leading theorist of fascism. He used the term “totalitario” to refer to the structure and goals of the new state. The new state was to provide the “total representation of the nation and total guidance of national goals.”[8] He described totalitarianism as a society in which the ideology of the state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens.[9] According to Benito Mussolini, this system politicizes everything spiritual and human: Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.[7]
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by jameshawkings
Congratulations, your post is the biggest nonsense I've read on ATS today
So in short, you are against protesting against corporate infiltration of the government, and are perfectly ok with banks being allowed to use taxpayer money to guarantee $75 TRILLION (BoA alone...count GS and the others and it's a lot more) of risky derivates investments...and of course the regular bailouts.
Go home people, be blind little sheep and continue to not show your outrage...your plan sounds awesome