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5. For those who don't know the words of originator of fascism, plus FDR who fought it:

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The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. -- Mussolini

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

The essence of privatization of anything done by the government or owned in common for the use of all or the preservation of natural resources for all people, leads to fascism. Mussolini also spoke of the religious aspect of the corporatist state as well, and it is working here now.