Is the US fascist? Are all bourgeois states fascistic? If not then why are some fascist and others not? Is post-Stalin USSR fascist? Was FDR fascist? Is Putin fascist?
Is the US fascist? Are all bourgeois states fascistic? If not then why are some fascist and others not? Is post-Stalin USSR fascist? Was FDR fascist? Is Putin fascist?
Extreme short version: fascism is the consequent state of capitalism when the frontiers of exploitation must turn inward because the inherent contradictions have intensified too much to do otherwise.
Capitalism is capable of cruelty before fascism, but fascism is what capitalism requires to try to continue its own existence when the rate of profit falls but the investors demand eternal growth.
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