Is the United States Now Socialist or Fascist?

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      As the 21st century moves forward let us stop calling the United States a Constitutional Republic that the Founders created because it is not. It hasn't been for quite some time and scholars now say that we are traveling faster and faster away from our original beginnings toward a mixture of Democratic Socialism(Progressivism), Fascism, and pure Communism. During this transitional period we need to make an attempt to clarify this mixture of similar ideologies. 

      Democratic Socialism originated in 19th-century Germany from the influence of both the internationalist revolutionary socialism and doctrine of communism advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; and the reformist socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle. The two factions battled over ideology until 1869 when Marxism became the official basis of Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany. Social democracy in the 1930s began to transition away from association with Marxism towards Liberal Socialism.

      Social democracy is a political ideology that officially has as its goal the establishment of Democratic Socialism through reformist and gradualist methods. Social Democrats have advocated for a peaceful and evolutionary transition of the economy to Socialism through Progressive social reform of capitalism. It is defined as a policy regime involving a universal welfare state and collective bargaining schemes within the framework of a capitalist economy.

                                           So, we are Socialist now, and not Fascist?

      As an economic system, Fascism is Socialism with a capitalist veneer. To have a Fascist state one must have a dictator, but does a dictator need to be a single person? The answer is no. A group, acting in unison, can be that dictator. That group is today's Democratic party. By demonizing anyone who does not agree with their ideas for a Progressive America, they have laid the mindset for this and future generations. It was accomplished by using the "gradualist method" of indoctrination both in our schools and in our media. Where pure Socialism seeks totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, Fascism seeks that control indirectly with government control of the economy, while leaving corporate ownership in private hands. Politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector. Where pure Socialism nationalizes property explicitly, fascism does so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority(rich Leftists) conceived it. Where Socialism abolishes money and prices, Fascism controls the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. A look at today's American economic system says it all as "40% of U.S. CEOs have come to have a very large portion of their income paid for by U.S. taxpayers."- Huffington Post

      Recently, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was repeatedly pressed by MSNBC host Chris Matthews over the difference between a Democrat and Socialist. The video below speaks volumns of just exactly who these people are. She is dumbfounded when asked a direct question about her party. She searches for a way out and instead tries to change the subject.

           Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, when asked to spell out the differences between a Democrat and a Socialist stated, "These days, it's largely a distinction without a difference." The United States would appear to be well on its way to adopting Fascisms political-economic system, favoring the politically-connected,(rich Liberals) while starving entrepreneurs out of the economy. Although today in America, we call it "crony capitalism". And the people who practice it "Progressives".
Don't you think we should start calling it what it really is?