Public Private Partnerships or Fascism?

Economicpolicyjournal.com has a post about what our betters apparently have in store for us:

"The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration... The plan, now four years in the making, includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon... The internet companies may eliminate service altogether for repeat file-sharing offenders, although the plan does not directly call for such drastic action."

 But fear not, Hillary Clinton cometh to the rescue to calm things down:

"The problems we face today will not be solved by governments alone. It will be in partnerships - partnerships with philanthropy, with global business, partnerships with civil society."

If you head over to Wikipedia and type in "fascism" in the search box this is one of the things you can read (my bold):

Economic policies

Further information: Economics of fascism

Fascists used to promote their ideology as a "Third Position" between capitalism and Bolshevism.^[237] Italian Fascism involved corporatism, a political system in which the economy is collectively managed by employers, workers, and state officials by formal mechanisms at the national level.^[238] Fascists advocated a new national class-based economic system, variously termed "national corporatism", "national socialism" or "national syndicalism".^[35] The common aim of all fascist movements was elimination of the autonomy or, in some cases, the existence of large-scale capitalism.^[239]
According to Bruce Pauley, Fascist governments exercised control over private property but did not nationalize it.^[240] However, according to Patricia Knight, they did, with the Italian Fascist government coming to own the highest percentage of industries outside the Soviet Union.^[241] The Nazis also nationalized some business.^[242] In fact, the "Twenty-Five Point Programme" of the Nazi party, adopted in 1920, demanded "the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations."^[243] Other scholars noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi and Fascist governments as it became increasingly organized. Business leaders supported the government's political and military goals, and in exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies.^[244]

Hip hip hurray for public private partnerships. Mussolini would be proud.



Matej Avsenak Ogorevc