With the government buying stocks in private companies, such as the US government’s newly-announced purchase of ten percent of technology giant Intel, it’s important to know why this is fascist and not communist.
There is a difference between the two.
With communism, government owns all of the capital outright. There is no private ownership of business or industry. Communism always collapses very quickly because there are no market prices.
With government being the only owner of capital, you can’t have a market. It takes (at least) two property owners to tango and to generate market prices. Without market prices, you can’t have profits and losses. So the government has no idea what they are doing. They don’t know where to add resources, and where to take them away.
No market signals.
Poverty and starvation comes quickly with communism.
“The powers that shouldn’t be” use communism more as a weapon to destroy a targeted society, than as an actual economic system. Communism is a tool to destroy…and then it’s replaced with something that has at least a hint of rationality to it.
Fascism is usually the go-to for “the powers that shouldn’t be” because there’s a hint of rationality that keeps it from dying quickly. With fascism, government and corporations are “separate,” but act as one. As opposed to communism, government isn’t the sole owner of capital.
Markets still exist … profits and losses exist … But the whole process is warped and retarded.
BIG NEWS: The United States of America now owns 10% of Intel, one of our great American technology companies.
This historic agreement strengthens U.S. leadership in semiconductors, which will both grow our economy and help secure America’s technological edge.
Thanks to Intel… pic.twitter.com/AYMuX14Rgi
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) August 22, 2025
Corporations tied to government are kept in business when they should go bankrupt. Resources that should be freed to do more productive things, are instead kept in losing ventures.
With fascism, THE BIG decisions and investments are made, not for the consumers, but for the power of the government. The corporations are arms of the state.
Government won’t censor you, the corporation will, on behalf of the government. Government won’t counterfeit money; the private bank will, on behalf of the government.
Tech isn’t made for us (even though we enjoy many benefits). It’s made for the government to surveil and try to control us.
Since fascism consists of markets for the benefit of state power, the markets ultimately become so warped and resources are so misallocated, that fascism collapses too.
With communism, the economy bleeds out without anything to coagulate it. Nothing stops the bleeding. There is no market. With fascism, the economy bleeds, but slower, since there are remnants of the market. But both end in economic death.
Fascism is what strangles the world today.
In America it’s as obvious as anything. We continually watch our standard of living bleed away. But it bleeds much slower than if it was communist. It has taken generations.
The United States is called “capitalist,” but it is fascist.
China is called “communist” but it is fascist.
Both are state + corporations operating with market prices; with profits and losses. Fascism ends very badly. It is known as a “vampire economy.” The economy bleeds to death slowly. We’ve gone very far from the original “land of the free.”
This article originally from the Ron Paul Institute.
