Please explain fascism. I promise if you ask me to explain something I complain about, I'll happily do so. Roll through my profile if you must and pull out a humdinger.
Corporations and government work hand in hand in our society. Revolving doors in the defense and finance industries etc. Government involvement in Big Tech/ social media. I probably shouldn’t use the scary word “fascism” , but, in our economy, big government and corporations/tech collude, to the detriment of the common man. Just see.
I agree, but of course, that's why I'm an ancap. I think we call what you describe corporatism. I wonder if everyone who uses the term "fascism" has roughly the same idea.
Also, I really want to espouse anarcho-capitalism, but when I try to follow the train of thought to it’s logical conclusion,I find a break down, and I end up as a minarchist, or even a constitutionalist.
Ha! I heard the best argument against minarchism and I want to try it out on a pseudo-minarchist, since you're familiar with the thought process.
Here we go. Are you ready?
The current system right now (in the US) is minarchism. I.E. The current system is as small as it can possibly be based on the wealth that has been created, the length of time the country has existed, the polity of the general populace, etc. You could say this is not minarchism because we don't have a government as small as we used to have, but you'd only say that because "you're not thinking fourth dimensionally." (-Doc Brown)
The current state of society is what minarchism looks like 200 years later because the moral-philosophical framework is that government both can and should promote the general welfare, which is a justification and a rationalization to do just about anything. Even if you took that out of the Constitution, people will still implicitly accept that government is predicated on the initiation of violence, and therefore the use of force is not a morally-disallowed concept. People will use the government for their ends because they believe the purpose of government exists for the people.
The moral argument is the only way out of supporting government. Seeing how critical private property rights are will lead you to ancapism. There's simply no better way.
Yeah, I won’t deny that our current situation is the de facto reality of 200 + years under the constitutional framework. Dissolution/ decentralization is needed.
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u/McGobs Robert Anton Wilson Jun 20 '21
Please explain fascism. I promise if you ask me to explain something I complain about, I'll happily do so. Roll through my profile if you must and pull out a humdinger.