Monday, February 21, 2011

Fighting the 5 Fascisms in Wisconsin and Ohio | Common Dreams

Fighting the 5 Fascisms in Wisconsin and Ohio | Common Dreams:

"The escalating confrontations in Wisconsin and Ohio are ultimately about preventing the United States from becoming a full-on fascist state.

The stakes could not be higher---or more clear.

As defined by its inventor, Benito Mussolini, fascism is 'corporate control of the state.' There are ways to beat around the Bush---Paul Krugman has recently written about 'oligarchy'---but it's time to end all illusions and call what we now confront by its true name.

The fights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and in numerous other states are about saving the last shreds of American democracy. They burn down to five basic realities: "

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