America and China: Joined at the Hip »
Posted By populist 1 year, 3 months ago in Political NewsIn America, as in China, individuals are left to sink or swim, and private property is only private as long as the government, or some well-connected developer, doesn't want it. In China, if the state decides it wants some land for a mega commercial development, it just ejects the current residents, offers them a token sum for resettlement, and moves in with the bulldozers. In the US, the government does the same thing. Just ask the residents of New London, ousted from their riverfront property on orders of the US Supreme Court to make way for the "higher use" of a luxury hotel and commercial development.
Fascism has perhaps been best defined as a system in which the government and corporations merge, and in which militarism becomes a dominant value. I have long argued that this is an apt description of modern China. It is increasingly also an apt description of modern America.
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Not so long ago fascism and the like sounded like loony propaganda of conspiracy theorists...we may have a way to go but we're too much in that direction to ignore it. I've forgotten a bit about economics, but if the government is buying these companies, don't they now own our homes...essentially? And, which government for that matter?
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