Metchosin - Great quotations! I myself have used the term "corporatism" to describe the monster which is devouring the World, but I had no idea that Mussolini had tagged it way back in the 30's with that name. I did know that Lincoln had seen it well on the way in the 1860's. There is a movie out now called "The Corporation" that addresses this issue very directly, and should probably be seen by anyone who cares about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". A corporation is a fictional, invented being with the legal rights of a living human being and the mindset of an egomaniacal psychotic monster. It lacks a conscience, a moral sense, and a sense of proportion. It seeks only to enlarge itself. It is also potentially immortal. This adds up to creating an insane god (or demon) and then having people serve it till death does them part. You may die, but the corporation lives on. What a disastrous institution on which to found an economy or a society!

Indeed, it is not so much fascism we should fear as it is the rise and dominion of corporatism.

- LH