Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roy J. Tellason to Wayne Chirnside: 

 WC>> Yeah, anyway isn't government subsidizing industry COMMUNISM rather
 WC>> than capitalism? 

 RJT> My understanding of that stuff is that if the state owns all of the
 RJT> means of production,  then it's communism.  If the state works with
 RJT> large corporate and business entities to further each other's mutual
 RJT> interests,  then it's fascism.

 BA> Mussolini's definition of fascism is that the means of production
 BA> are privately owned, but controlled by the government.  (Can you
 BA> say federal regulatory agency?)

Sounds like another way of saying about the same thing,  more or less...

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