Fascism (present, US):
Twenty-first century fascism in power is the open terroristic dictatorship of the mega-corporate state. The mega-corporate state is the merger of the social, economic and political power of the mega-corporations with government and state. Fascism is state power, hence political and can be defeated based on political will. Fascism is militarization of the police and state intervention in every aspect of the economy and society to protect the rule of private property.
It is a basic principle of Marxism that politics and political regimes are concentrated expressions of economic policy and economic classes even when such policy and class interests are hidden and obscured by the ideological form which the fight takes. Fascism is a political regime, a superstructure in relationship to production and distribution which constitute the economy. Existing in correspondence to the economy, fascism today expresses the deep transition from industrialism to the robotic economy. This transition is taking place on the basis of the further development of the corporation. A corporation is a material manifestation of private property. The mega-corporation (megacorp) is a material manifestation of private property in the era when speculative finance and the transnational corporation write the agenda for world capital. Specifically, it is the gigantic accumulation of capital, in the era of globalization and the robotic economy, when corporations are valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, hence, “mega.”
The state is an organization of violence in the hands of the ruling class. It is a product of the irreconcilability of class antagonism. The power of the state guards the property relations. Fascism is not an economic regime. Fascism is not the economy – production and distribution. Fascism is a political regime – state power that protects productive relations and private property. It arises from an economic regime, at a certain stage in developing the productive forces.
Fascism is a shift in state rule. Today this shift takes place in the growing robotic economy. Fascism represents an increasingly narrow ruling class of speculative financiers in a global market dominated by the mega-corporation operating in a robotic economy.
Today during the era of the robotic economy fascism is a political expression of the enormous concentration and centralization of capital, which requires direct state intervention to protect mega-corporate interests in the global market.
The purpose of fascism in power, in the past as well as in the new robotic economy, is domination and perpetuation of three interrelated aspects of productive relations: private property, private wealth and privilege. Today fascism functions in an economy increasingly torn from its historical foundation in commodity production and appropriation of the surplus product. The mega-corporations seek protection of their production facilities, which are increasingly dominated by robotic systems. Both speculative finance and the mega-corporations seek state protection against the increasing mass of destitute proletarians shut outside the society which is founded on private property and privilege.
Twenty-first century fascism consolidates and evolves as society is undergoing social revolution. The social revolution is transition from the industrial system to the robotic economy.
