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?

  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism is pretty good as a starting point, lists different people's definitions

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        If you want to cut out the BS, the best materialist definition is by Dimitrov, and the best summary of the ideological superstructure built on that foundation is Eco's Ur-Fascism, but a bunch of the others are worth reading just for a good laugh.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      FDR's definition is actually quite elegantly concise, even if it is too vague and broad to really be discerning.