• Barx [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    The things that people call fascism nowadays is just reactionary liberalism. Fascists were inspired by liberals that already did all the shit that people think makes you a fascist. They did the xenophobia, the race laws, the apartheid, the concentration camps, the genocides, the Lebensraums, the conquering and colonizing, the central leaders with command authority, the cults of personality. Those are old liberal values and they never really left, we were just told they had gone by wishful thinking from those with intense cognitive dissonance and propagandists.

    Fascists were a phenomenon born from the emergence of global perialism building on European regional imperislism. Namely, Germany and Italy were excluded from imperial spoils and colonies after WWI and so were stuck transitioning into Imperialized states under capitalism and therefore liberalism. It is in this context of "fallen" nations that fascism existed, it is why it was nationalist, revanchist, built up mythologies of why they deserved large swaths of land and colonies, and why they opposed their current liberal order but only in the service of transitioning to an imperialist one.

    Generally speaking, that kind of reaction no longer exists and cannot exist until the downfall of the United States or other parts of the imperial core. Conditions can degrade and reactionary sentiment increase in response due to the oppression of the left leaving an ideological vacuum, yes. But those are reactionary liberals, they have no plans to "restore glory" and carve out their own place as major imperialists. They just turn inwards and violent while maintaining the current capitalist relations. A liberal tendency.