In defining Musk's fascism, this comparison:
X Everything App
'...."He wants to create an app similar to how WeChat is used in China, where it's part of the fabric of day-to-day life." '
It's necessary to go back in time to witness fascism's evolution:
'Although the methods by which Mussolini reached power were traditional, his advent to power marked the return to the Western world of a form of government that historians must brand as the worst this century has so far provided. Something like it was known to the Greeks over 2000 years ago, and condemned by virtually all the Greek political philosophers.
Plato and Aristotle referred to it as democracy, but what they meant was the rule of a demagogue through mob intolerance and violence. The Greek demagogue, however, pernicious as he was, could not gain effective control over a territory substantially greater than that which he could bawl at.
Modern means of communication and the superiority of offensive over defensive weapons, and the ease with which the former may be obtained, have brought back the demagogue and democratic tyranny, dormant and impotent for two millenia, in a more terrible metamorphosis. Dictatorships are known to many societies and to all ages, but popular dictatorships, those backed by the active support of mobs, are a twentieth-century recrudescence of an ancient evil from which the world had long been free.'
(The Government of Republican Italy, p. 34)
Demagogue territory, such as Musk's, has been expanded, though we still have fascist resonance with his modus operandi in screenal space:
'A phase of Fascist despotism little known abroad was the virtual re-establishment of serfdom in Italy. A law of the early thirties (9 Ap 1931) made it illegal for a farm family to leave its province of origin in search of work without a police permit and subjected the employer to a fine to be paid to the police official who had refused the permit.
In 1939 a more detailed and radical law (6 Jul 1939, No. 1092) was enacted that among other things: (1) forbade anyone to migrate to a provincial capital or to seek work there without a police permit; (2) made it a crime to let a house, apartment, or room in a provincial capital to persons from another commune who lacked a permit; (3) made it a crime to buy a house in another commune and live in it without permit; (4) forbade farm laborers to register in employment agencies for non-agricultural labor; (5) made it a crime to employ anyone who should have had such a permit and did not. This law was finally repealed in Feb 1961.'
(GoRI, p. 49)
The catholic religious "corporate" suggestion has already mentioned in this thread, as has been the definition of fascism as 'bundle.' The Vatican is comparable to Musk's geographic X bulemia that mimics China's WeChat, a replay of events in Fascist Italy. Adams-Barile continue:
'The year 1926 was a big one for the Fascists; they took over not only the economic system but control of justice as well, with the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. This court, which was not bound even by the inferior Italian codes of procedure, tried persons who were accused of crimes against the state. It was given retroactive jurisdiction and its judges needed no law degree, provided they were good Fascists.
By the law of 3 Ap, 1926, No. 660, promulgated the same day the corporate system was instituted, the prefects were given a stranglehold over local government. With this law the power of the Fascists was secure, opposition was stifled, and the Fascists were in control of everything that mattered. Previously their control had been (de facto [italics]), based on their illegal use of violence; now it was legalized.'
(GoRI, pp. 47-8)
This post has now explained the fascist resonance with Musk's "everything app."
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