http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPwkDF5AxQM

Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity (11). It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual

Benito Mussolini – The Doctrine of Fascism

op. cit.

Bernstein, I think, missed it: Brandeis was writing within the living memory of the 1896 presidential election exposed as being bought and paid for by the robber barons. The street talk was that Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan all kicked in massive financial resources behind McKinley — and side-tracked Teddy Roosevelt into the VP slot — where he could do no harm.

“Republican campaign manager Mark Hanna pioneered many modern campaign techniques, facilitated by a $3.5 million budget. He outspent Bryan by a factor of five”

“The McKinley campaign invented a new form of campaign financing that has dominated American politics ever since. Instead of asking office holders [ ie Post Office management and line troops et.al. Ed] to return a cut of their pay, Hanna went to financiers and industrialists [starting with the three big boys Ed] and made a business proposition. He explained that Bryan would win if nothing happened,[ie without big bucks Ed] and that the McKinley team had a winning counterattack that would be very expensive. He then would ask them how much it was worth to the business not to have Bryan as president. He suggested an amount and was happy to take a check. Hanna had moved beyond partisanship and campaign rhetoric to a businessman’s thinking about how to achieve a desired result.[an absurd Wiki bombast: the players were die hard Republicans going way back. Carnegie actually was Lincoln’s personal telegrapher, for a time, during the war! IIRC, he handled the Gettysburg transmissions, and much more. Ed] He raised $3.5 million. [massively weighted to the big three. Ed.] Hanna brought in banker Charles G. Dawes to run the Chicago office and spend about $2 million in the critical region”

Wiki (cited with caution)

{Dawes is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to have penned a #1 pop tune… now an American standard: “Melody in A Major” aka “It’s All in the Game.”}

In the parlance of the Court, corporations, per se, were not deemed to have a social interest. As artificial beings, corporations were deemed to have strictly economic interests.

THAT’S the significance of the term. The Justice is pushing for an un-repressed expression of the HUMAN interest.

Bernstein is taking off at an angle.