Liberal Fascism and Big Business

“Upton Sinclair… unleashed populist rage against the cruel excesses of the meatpacking industry, and as a result Teddy Roosevelt and his fellow progressives boldly reined in an industry run amok… This narrative lives on as generations of journalism students dream of exposing corporate malfeasance and prompting government-imposed “reform.” The problem is that it’s totally untrue, a fact Sinclair freely acknowledged. ‘The Federal inspection of meat was, historically, established at the packers’ request,' Sinclair wrote in 1906…” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, p. 291


"Socialists believe in government ownership of the means of production. Fascists believed in government control of privately owned businesses, which is much more the style of this government. That way, politicians can intervene whenever they feel like it and then, when their interventions turn out badly, summon executives from the private sector before Congress and denounce them on nationwide television." --economist Thomas Sowell Wednesday Chronicle - Vol. 09 No. 14