Is Neo-Liberalism really Fascism Light?

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, because it is a merger of State and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini The UK economy today has some startling similarities to the economy of Nazi Germany and privatisation is at the heart of both. The Spanish economist Germà Bel1 stated that the word – which is synonymous with neo-liberalism – has its origins in the German word reprivatisierung (denationalisation) and the term was first used in English by the Berlin correspondent of the Economist in 1936 to describe how the Nazi economy worked. In the totalitarian world of the Soviet Union, the state…