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I've got Umberto Eco's essay but I know there are others with different approaches to defining fascism. I'm about ready to study another, do you have any to recommend?
The works of Georgi Dimitrov are the go-to for defining fascism hands down.
"Fascism is not a form of state power "standing above both classes – the proletariat and the bourgeoisie," as Otto Bauer, for instance, has asserted.
It is not "the revolt of the petty bourgeoisie which has captured the machinery of the state," as the British Socialist Brailsford declares.
No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. Fascism is the power of finance capital itself.
It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.... >
The development of fascism, and the fascist dictatorship itself, assume different forms in different countries, according to historical, social and economic conditions and to the national peculiarities, and the international position of the given country."
Give The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International, a read
Eco's analysis lacks fascism's focus on anticommunism, which is the whole reason capital first tolerates and later embraces fascism. This is the defining characteristic, especially if you try to parse out what separates fascism from a mere dictatorship or an absolutist monarchy.
There are also some points he makes that are things everyone does to varying degrees. You can drop the "the enemy is both too strong and too weak" on anyone who talks about the strengths and weaknesses of an opponent, for example.
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti is fantastic if you haven't read it
That article from Jewish Currents is really interesting. It's the first time I've heard of double genocide theory. This explains that whole thing with Canadian Parliament applauding that old SS soldier a few years ago.
Didn’t that happen like a few months ago? Or does Canada just have multiple incidents of applauding Nazis?
This reminds me of the bit from the Qanon Anonymous episode about the Obama produced movie Leave the World Behind. Julian says something like "you get out of the theater and you're somehow 10 years older and not just you but the whole world has lost a decade of its time"
“Black Ribbon Day” and “Double Genocide” in Canada (2022)
https://redsails.org/black-ribbon-day/
The next time someone tells me the Soviets killed 20grajillion people I'm just going to tell them they're a Holocaust denier and watch their head spin.
It's been a thing thats been roiling in the dark corners of the Warsaw pact states only to emerge and rear its fascist head after the great disaster of '91
My favourite ones are when the lemmy.ml accounts dunk on an ignorant lib alongside us. Is this how we build class solidarity?
I swear. The words "by definition" have lost all meaning. You can't just slap a "by definition" onto an assertion like flex tape just because it sounds stronger lol
Yup by definition I'm the coolest person on earth.
It's my deffiniton and there's not a lot of other people that agree with it.
Wow, what a coincidence! I'm also by definition the coolest person on Earth.
These are the same people who think "dictatorship of the proletariat" is automatically bad because it has the word 'dictator' in it.
And then they say shit like "by definition."
