Mussolini, in one of his more honest moments said, “Fascism should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” For Americans it is universally associated with despotic regimes in other countries. It can’t happen here. Huey Long, the self-styled populist governor of Louisiana, once warned, “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.” —Alternative Radio

Source: Biden Threatens Mexico Over Oil

Imperialism and colonialism, far from being artifacts of some remote stage of history, are alive and well today. Every country is infested with oligarchs, and would-be oligarchs (the Empire calls the latter ‘warlords’). It’s a consequence of what we blithely refer to as Civilization, and a consequence of greed living in every heart, yours and mine included. It will kill us all in the end.

For a hundred years at least, modern thinking about societies and civilization itself has been dominated by two broadly defined ways of seeing, the socialistic and the fascistic (fascism being, as Mussolini knew well, simply the apex state of capitalism).

In the Cold War this was represented by the Commies on one side and the Capitalists on the other. Note that these are primarily economic systems, and that political ones like ‘democracy’ are irrelevant to the discussion, except to people who conflate and confuse those two things, much like those who think the breakup of the USSR in the nineties signified the death of the socialistic tendency, or “the end of history”, a sly dig at the Marxist way of seeing things.

The socialistic tendency is alive and well in places like Mexico, and the fact that they socialized their oil industry like a lot of countries do is good evidence for that.

The corporatists who run America don’t like it one bit, and are doing everything in their neo-colonial power to try to stop it.

The NYT headline in the picture is really quite shocking, at least to me. What business is it of the Biden Administration, how Mexico proceeds to organize its resources internally and domestically?

Well, it’s a threat to the real American masters, the corporatist class for whom Biden or Trump or Obama or Bush are merely figureheads. Mexico’s socialized oil threatens their profits, so they kicked Biden’s ass and told him to threaten back like a good puppet, because what possible good is he to anyone otherwise?

The reason voting for a Democrat or a Republican changes nothing is because both halves of the uniparty are owned by the same people. If you challenge that truth even a little, you are quickly reminded of the facts. Bernie Sanders. Nina Turner. AOC. So long as you limit yourself to feel-good platitudes about the working class, or socialized medicine, or black lives mattering, or whatever tripe falls out of your mouth on any given day, it’s all good. Take one real step in the direction of real change, and the banhammer comes down with a shocking and obliterating force. JFK. RFK. MLK. Malcom X. Fred Hampton. Patrice Lumumba. And thousands of people you will never hear about.

The smart thing is to keep your head down and your nose to the grindstone and be glad you have a job supporting the corrupt system that you can barely see the outlines of anyway.

Because Democracy. Because Freedom.