The author is no anti-capitalist, but he is perceptive enough to identify the nature of the beast under which we are now living. However, I doubt that he believes, as I do, that fascism is the inevitable final stage of capitalism when the ruling capitalist class feels threatened and resorts to more aggressive methods in its war against working people.
The mailed fist which is the well known symbol of fascism has been disguised by softer forms of police state methods (government surveillance of personal electronic media and suspension of many civil liberties) in addition to aggressive attacks upon protesters that have been promoted under the cover of "anti-terrorism" and anti-immigration "reforms".
...this is “control without ownership,” or fascism, rather than socialism.
