So “capitalism” in America largely means corporate welfare and other government favors for corporations.  But don’t these groups hide what they are doing behind the capitalism banner.  It seems to me that opposing the fascist state in the name of capitialism still makes sense.  We want capital to be privatized.  We want this raving beast to be forced survive without jillions in subsidies for an fuel that is more expensive and inefficient than oil and that is driving up our food prices (*).

Maybe we need a new name (one that doesn’t pull us into all the problems of “libertarian” ethics).  Maybe.  But I would mind raising my fist in the name of “capitalism”–and demand that ADM be brought to its knees along with any number of other socialist institutions that are currently called “corporations.”

Honestly, when one looks a lobbyist, government contracts, local governments claiming imminent domain for Bass Pro Fascists, and the way politicians go to high corporate positions, is there really even any intelligible reason to talk about a “private sector” in the US?  The “private sector” of the economy is the public sector.  The difference is illusionary.

So maybe we have to give the devil (the Marxists) their due in equating capitalism with fascism.  But it still seems a debatable point to me.