Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 16, 2011
August 15, 2011
August 17, 2011
Transcript:
Man: I like the memoir idea. Who would write it? Duke: It'd write itself, Trff! There's a certain kind of a story that people just eat up - the sullen, semi-educated son of an abusive farmer fails dismally at everything he tries... until he discovers politics and rockets to power, unleashing a reign of terror, leaving countless dead before he's toppled! Man: That's my story? Duke: No, no, it's Hitler's. But that's your model.
“Socialism for him meant keeping the CAPITALISTS in line and under HIS PERSONAL CONTROL. " – That’s what fascism is (in the economic sense) – it combines elements of a protection racket (the private sector nominally owns the means of production) and Marxism (but the decisions of what to produce are owned by the State). Youse can own da joint, but da boss decides what’s made.