I have to disagree! Your vision of what Capitalism is, is warped and molded by a blinded flag. How can you say that now about Capitalism after 9/11 and the attack on the world trade centers, one of the biggest "Time Share" events in history. The people in this country are crying for Socialism!
American people that know the real Truth definitely... are NOT... crying for Socialism. The reason today's economy is in the slump it's in is because of... Socialist type policies, causing the disappearance of a middle class structure. Socialism = a rich ruler class vs. a poor class, nothing in between. Like the old saying about Communist-Socialism: "An equal amount of poverty for all."
You cant say that Capitalism doesn't breed fascism. Simply because there is an upper and lower class system in place.
Free-market capitalism doesn't breed fascism, Socialism does, as shown even by your OWN words in bold. Socialism = two classes, a ruling class of the rich, and a poor class, the EXACT principle and design of Marxist Socialism.
Didn't you realize that's why Hitler and the Soviets used the word '
Socialist' in their party definitions? (Hitler's 'Nationalist SOCIALIST party', and the Soviet Communist's 'United Soviet SOCIALIST Republic'). Apparently, today's Socialist bent public school systems from the Socialist John Dewey's design forgot to teach people like you about that!
Sometimes even the upper class looks down on the lower class people. With Capitalism there will always be a lower class. Its just the way the Capitalist system works. The haves and the have nots. This creates hatred which then leads to fascism. People need to start working with one another in this country to make a change!
You're still talking about Socialism, not Free-Market Capitalism. Under a Free Enterprise system, the many Socialist-Marxist type policies in place in today's system would not be allowed!!! Government would not be allowed to own and operate businesses, which is essentially what the rich Socialists have been getting the government to do, even bail them out by stealing from the people using their powers to sway their political coherts in power in government! That's exactly... how a Socialist system works. Under Marxist-Socialism, the government has power and control WITH the corporations, both in bed together serving each other! Under a free-market system the government has only certain financial powers per the U.S. Constitution, and all other powers belong in the hands of the states and its peoples!
I don't think Fascism began with Mussolini..I personally think it all started with the invention of the clock.
Socialist public school systems do a great job today teaching history I see. Mussolini's politics were the idol of Hitler. You probably didn't know they were allies either.
As for Stalin if you were to actually read history he fought against the Nazi's and Nazi collaborators, and defeated them, bombing the German capital into submission ending WWII.
If you really knew your history, you'd have realized that Hitler and Stalin were allies together just prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland that kicked off WWII. They even signed a pact together at the beginning. Also, the Soviets were not the ones doing all the Allied bombing of Hitler's Germany. It was the U.S. and Britain that did most of the bombing. The Soviets didn't even have much of an air force at that time.
A little Lesson on doing Research:
Primary Source - first person source, someone who actually saw and lived through events to tell about it.
Secondary Source - someone who researches info from a Primary source, and then gives their own opinion about it.
Tertiary Source - third removed from a Primary source; opinion of an opinion from a Secondary source.
Most history books written today are so far removed from the Tertiary source level that it's become a whole other 'history'. This operation is called 'Revisionist History' when the far-removed source material is so steeped in opinion built upon opinions that it departs from the facts of a Primary Source that actually experienced the events.
So go ahead, keep buying those Time-Life history book club rip-offs written by some super-professor at Harvard, Princeton, etc. Even the History Channel is guilty of doing some of the history rip-off Revisionist stuff, just for entertainment. Oh yeah, to some people history is supposed to be like fictional entertainment!!! Welcome to George Orwell's 'Newspeak'.