Meet the new boss

MUMBAI, India — President Obama, fresh off a stinging electoral defeat for Democrats, opened a 10-day tour of Asia on Saturday with a courtship of corporate America, including private meetings with American business executives who are here for his visit and an announcement that he will lift longstanding restrictions on exports of closely held technologies to India.

(New York Times, November 7, 2010)


Fascism: the organization of a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems.


Fascists believe:

• The nation requires strong leadership and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong
• Individual identity and pluralism are dysfunctional aspects of society and justify a totalitarian state as a means to maintain order
• Attempts to create autonomy are an affront to the nation and a threat to order

Fascists reject:

• The autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated
• Opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement
• The concepts of egalitarianism, materialism, and rationalism in favor of action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit, and will