The Big Intel Investment Comes From Already Awarded Grants
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The article discusses how a significant Intel investment comes from previously awarded grants by the Trump administration, sparking debate on the value and conditions of such grants.
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For the communists isn’t this exactly what you want? State ownership of the means of production? Shouldn’t you be cheering Trump on for nationalizing corporations and/or industries or at least heading in that direction? Or is the primary criticism he isn’t nationalizing industries fast enough?
What we're seeing here is a situation in which favored firms are subsidized by the government in exchange for personal loyalty to the leader, but profits are still privatized. This is called the "fascist mode of production"
I hear you on the potential for state nationalization of companies to turn into fascism, though. It's often hard to tell the difference between some of these authoritarian regimes (fascism, dictatorship, communism) because they tend to take similar actions from time to time albeit with different goals.