That’s what I’m most concerned about—it reminds me of that documentary Shoah about IBM “counting” machines being a crucial part of the Holocaust, empire’s contributions to the horror. Whose socialism? Which “brand”? etc.

for 8 years now the ‘left’ has complained of ‘fascism’ from the Bush administration, relying on the same imprecise definition of fascism the West has used for sixty years, on the basis of civil liberties destructions and police-state tactics. but the present financial actions by the U.S. government share with the semi-private, state-funded machinery of the Iraq war a synergy between government and big business that is the very definition of fascism’s economic program.
not the only two options indeed.

Because, frankly, I don’t see how shoring up finance capital–even if the Treasury gets a piece of any future profits–is really going to avert a vicious contraction. The mortgage relief the Dems want is a start, but even then it seems like too little, too late. So, there will be some credit, but no wages, really. What are they gonna do? Increase household debt even more?