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by sph 22 hours ago
Words have a well-defined meaning. Fascism, as established by Benito Mussolini, has nothing to do with oligarchy or plutarchy.
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No idea why people downvote you when you’re right.
Only American-style political discourse is accepted on the Internet, where either you're with us or you're against us.
It sure as shit has to do with corporatism!
Fascism, as established by Mussolini is very deeply related to plutarchy.
Please produce your evidence that Mussolini's ascent or style of government was a "society ruled or controlled by people of great wealth", as defined by Wikipedia.

Fascist political philosophy is about racial purity, militarism, autarky, and suppression of dissent through political violence. In fact, one of their methods of enacting such worldview was by appropriating the wealth of rich people to advance their own purposes.

Please educate yourself, it's free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

If you read your link, you will discover it's not focused at Mussolini's fascism at all, but still talks about the merge of the government and corporations... Because it's a very important feature of that regime.

Maybe try it next time.

> the merge of the government and corporations

This is not plutarchy, the direction of control is going the other way.

I'm referring to how both Lütke and DHH, a Shopify board member, have fascist politics.

The word does have meaning. But underlying that meaning is a philosophy that there is an in group that should have power and many out groups from which power should be stripped. There is a long history of industrial leaders supporting fascist ideology.

Shopify's former COO Kaz Nejatian and his wife Candice Malcolm are behind True North and Juno News, sketchy far right media outlets.
Yeah, but please google first on what Mussolini preached. State-owned corporazioni are nothing like privately operated businesses of today. Don’t hang on the word. The correct word you are looking for is plutocrat, indeed.
The word I wanted to reach for was Nazi but I toned it down
Whatever you’re reaching for, you’re reaching for a wrong thing. Go back to school, crème de la crème of the society my ass.