Natorgator wrote:A lot of people say they're libertarian and that they're for smaller government. However, what is inherently bad with a big government, as long as it stays out of the lives of it's citizens?
How exactly do you have a big government that stays out of the lives of its citizens? The two are mutually exclusive, unless you somehow manage to have a "big government" that doesn't do anything at all, in which case it's just a big waste of money.
Boyish-Tigerlilly wrote:Well. According to Mussilini, "Corporatism is fascism."
The "corporatism" he's talking about has little or nothing to do with business corporations.
Wikipedia wrote:Historically, corporatism or corporativism (Italian corporativismo) is a political system in which legislative representation is given to corporations such as industrial, professional, or economic groups. Unlike pluralism, in which many groups must compete for control of the state, in corporatism, certain unelected bodies take a critical role in the decision-making process. This original meaning was not connected with the specific notion of a business corporation, being a rather more general reference to any incorporated body. The word "corporatism" is derived from the Latin word for body, corpus.
