Well. . . .let's say Marxist more than Fascist though of course some Facist tactics are necessary in the game plan for Marxism too.
Ohh, I don't agree.
Fascism is an command economy where the means of production are controlled through a series of well connected and controlled corporations.
A prime example of this is Obamacare. Instead of directly controlling the medical industry as Marxism would dictate, Obama turned to a well connected cabal of corporations, Blue Cross, Kaiser, Cigna, etc. These groups are not just doing the bidding of the the state, but also have the force of the state to coerce all to purchase their service and to enforce payment. The IRS being designated as the bill collector for these looters.
Forcing an insurance company to provide a specific coverage could fall within the scope of either.
It's part of the plan though, all providers will be forced from the market save those few that report directly to the state. Fascism does not support competition.
And if we are absolutely fair, there may be a few ideologues in there who are genuinely ideologically convinced that Obama is the "One" who will save us and if we will just give him his way, we will have the closest thing possible to Utopia on Earth. (They would have to be blooming idiots by now, but we cannot be intellectually honest and say they could not possibly exist.)
I wonder how many really believe, and how many just lust after raw power?
There is a fine line between Facism and Marxism. Again the road to the ultimate Marxist state as Marx and Engels presented it included aspects of Facism in order to get there.
Analysis of... seven [fascist] regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism...
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights...
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause...
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism...
5. Rampant sexism...
6. A controlled mass media..
7. Obsession with national security...
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together...
9. Power of corporations protected...
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated...
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts...
12. Obsession with crime and punishment...
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption...
14. Fraudulent elections.
BRITT, LAURENCE W., Fascism Anyone?, Free Inquiry, Volume 23, Number 2
And the steps on the road to accomplishment of Marxism (communism) from Marx’s Communist Manifesto – listed with some literacy license taken and will vary somewhat in order and method from society to society and adapting to social and political changes in these more modern times and conditions:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (Gradual extension of state control and ownership of all the nationÂ’s wealth.) It is somewhere in this portion making it necessary to develop class envy, then class warfare, until the common man overthrowing the monied class is complete and the state holds or controls all the wealth. Toward that end. . . .
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state until the state controls all; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. (Local governments will be gradually but systematically rendered impotent and then finally abolished with the central government controlling all.)
10. Free education for all children in public schools with state control of the curriculum and teachers. Abolition of child factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc."
Once the state has complete control over all the nationÂ’s wealth and means of production, controls the media and the Church, and the people are totally subject to the dictates of the state, the government can be abolished, the wealth equally distributed, and the people will live in harmony and cooperation ever after. (Of note, no government that has ever implemented Marxist principles to gain power has given it up in favor of that final step.)