Issue
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Fascists and Corporatists
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Socialists and Communists
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Classical Liberals and
Early Progressives
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Origins
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US corporatism took off during and after the US Civil War. Fascism was mostly an angry reaction to the
humilation of Germany and Italy in WWI.
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Mostly Germany as an angry reaction to the
Industrial Revoltion, and Russia due to a power vacuum after liberals overthrew the Czar but had no power.
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Mostly England, France, and North America, inspired by
contact with American Indians, contact with Taoist literature by
Eastern traders, and the revival of ancient Greek texts.
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Human Rights
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Only those who serve the state have rights.
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Rights come from government, which is both the protector
and arbiter of rights.
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Rights come from God or Nature, and government is
subordinate to those rights.
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Ownership and
Control
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"The means of production" is privately owned but state
controlled to benefit owners and the state.
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"The means of production" is collectively owned and
controlled. Communists take this further than socialists.
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"The means of production" is a bogus term that conflates
the fruits of
labor with the commons.
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Property
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Everything is private property, including state-created
monopolies.
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Major industries collectively owned under socialism.
Everything collectively owned under communism.
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Fruits of labor are private property. Coercive
monopolies and
right-of-way monopolies are publicly owned. Access to land is an equal,
individual right.
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Monopoly and
Competition
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Love monopoly, hate competition.
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Love monopoly, hate competition.
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Hate monopoly, love competition.
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Government
Centralism
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People and businesses are subordinated to a strong,
intrusive, centralized government.
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People and businesses are subordinated to a strong,
intrusive, centralized government (except that anarcho-syndicalists
don't see that as the inevitable result of their proposals).
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Government should be as decentralized and unobtrusive as
possible.
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Political Systems
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Hate Democratic Republicanism and attack it.
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Selectively hate Democratic Republicanism and attack it
when it doesn't go their way.
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Love Democratic Republicanism and defend it.
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Political Rhetoric
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Pander to the rich, vilify the poor.
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Pander to the poor, vilify the rich.
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Focus on principles, pander to nobody and vilify nobody.
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Political Violence
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Seek power through a combination of political action and
violence.
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Seek power through a combination of political action and
violence.
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Seek progress through a combination of political action
and reason, without violence wherever possible.
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Free Speech
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Suppress speech that can be called communistic.
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Suppress speech that can be called fascistic.
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Support free speech for all and rebut communistic and
fascistic ideas.
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Gun Control
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Heavily armed police, disarmed citizens.
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Heavily armed police, disarmed citizens.
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Citizens armed well enough to resist tyranny.
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Militarism
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Military domination of others for national supremacy.
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Military domination to spread socialism and communism to
other countries.
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Minimal military for defense only.
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Free Trade
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Protectionism in the national interest.
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Protectionism in the name of "fair trade," but without a
clear sense of what's fair.
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Free trade that is also free of privilege.
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Racism
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Fan hostility toward minority races, portray majority
race members as victims.
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Fan hostility toward majority race, portray minority
races as victims, at least until it attains power.
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Remove legal privileges that underly racial inequality.
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Taxation
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Tax the poor in ways that utimately hurt the rich; sales
taxes, poll taxes.
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Tax the rich in ways that utimately hurt the poor.
Income taxes, wealth taxes.
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Tax the value of economic privileges so everybody
ultimately benefits. Land value tax, extraction royalties, pollution
charges.
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