> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman@yahoo.com>
> To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:27 PM
> Subject: Re: It gets messy-er - MG/ROVER
>
>
> --- Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't think that's a textbook definition of Fascism - but I get
>> your
>> point.
>
>
> No, it's not a textbook definition, but basically the only
> difference between fascism and communism is that under
> fascism, the government enlists the cooperation of
> business with bribery and threats. Under communism,
> the government converts businesses to state property
> by brute force. There's precious little practical
> difference between the two, which explains how China
> has been able to morph from one into the other with
> such ease.
>
> ****************************
>
> "fas-cism (fash'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a
> dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state
> and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.", The
> American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)
>
> This reminds me of the Medicare Rx bill that Bush had the loyal Republican
> House and Senate pass and he signed after misleading us about the true
> cost.
> This law made it illegal to bargain with the drug companies for volume
> discounts (like the V.A. does). This insured that the American taxpayer
> will pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs and the
> pharmaceutical
> companies will make record profits which they can then donate back to the
> party that gave the people's treasury to them.
>
> I'll leave it up to alll of you to decide if that makes them fascists.
>
> Larry Daniels
>
Ok, but you didn't pt in the official definition of communism - from the
same dictionary
Communism 1. A social system characterized by the absence of classes and
by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence 2.a. A
poolitical, economic, and social doctrine aiming at the establishment of
such a classless society. b. Often capital c. The Marxist-Leninist
doctrine of revolutionary struggle toward this goal, the political
movement representing it, or loosely, socialism as practiced in countries
ruled by Communist Parties. c. Communalism 3. Leftist activity aiming at
revolution. Used loosely.
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