I'm not trying get around the_dunk_tank's rule 8 with this post- loathsome as both these guys are, I think this exchange actually does illustrate a real tension and contradiction within American reactionaries and within American capitalism. The petty-bourgeois tyrant wants the most exploitable worker and the white lumpen-prole feels entitled to be a labor aristocrat. Interesting and unresolvable contradiction that exemplifies why fascism is ultimately unworkable.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    5 months ago

    It's not an unresolvable contradiction.

    This is class conflict visible within fascism. The resolution of this contradiction is the same resolution throughout historical materialism - revolution and the construction of a different society that loosens the relationship between ruling class and exploited class.

    You're right, and I'm sorry because I may have poorly phrased what I meant. I mean it's unresolvable within the framework of fascism, that fascism is unable to resolve this contradiction. Is that clearer?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      No no you don't need to to be sorry about it. I just wanted to point out we're just watching the same historical force play out in a different form. It'd be legitimately interesting if not for the horror involved with it.