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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (348660)8/26/2007 7:02:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576929
 
Their interest are "aligned" by the state deciding what "their interests" will be.

Sure maybe business gets a better deal than some other groups, they get the chance to be subordinate allies, and receive benefits from that position, rather than just being trampled on. In fact they can get some of the trampling transfered to people who oppose them, as long as they serve the state well enough, but its still all about serving the state, which really means serving the government or most specifically the dictator.

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"Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state, and seeks to forge a type of national unity, usually based on, but not limited to, ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes..."

en.wikipedia.org

or even corporatism

"Historically, corporatism or corporativism (Italian: corporativismo) refers to a political or economic system in which power is given to civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, social, cultural, and professional groups. These civic assemblies, known as corporations (not necessarily in the same sense as contemporary business corporations) are unelected bodies with an internal hierarchy; their purpose is to exert control over their respective areas of social or economic life...

...According to various theorists, corporatism was an attempt to create a modern version of feudalism by merging the "corporate" interests with those of the state. [citation needed]

Political scientists may also use the term corporatism to describe a practice whereby an authoritarian state, through the process of licensing and regulating officially-incorporated social, religious, economic, or popular organizations, effectively co-opts their leadership or circumscribes their ability to challenge state authority by establishing the state as the source of their legitimacy,..."

en.wikipedia.org

"An inherent aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigisme.[12] In general, apart from the nationalizations of some industries, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state."

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