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?

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 years ago

    I mean pretty much, what do you think our police state is all about?

    Police states are rather ubiquitous around the world now, so unless you want to point between your feet and call the globe a fascist - I'm doing that right now because it's funny - that's rather a moot point

    Not to mention our bourgeoise democracy was already so shit, even among other bourgeoise democracies, that we don’t even need to make serious changes to it to pursue fascism.

    I'd say let's see how the French do with their election before saying we're the vanguard of having shit bourgeoisie democracies.

    Ukraine? Latin America? The midddle east? Much of southeast Asia and the pacific islands? These are all military intervention in the last 75 years. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop-Grumman are evidence.

    Refer to the bit talking about Korea, Vietnam, and Vichy France and let me know if that addresses this point or not

    yes? And even conceding that it’s not the same kind of violent repression that Mussolini conducted, the historical repression and amplified propaganda is so great that the battle is basically already won in the US and the state doesn’t even need to invest that much energy into it any more because communism here is already stomped into the dirt.

    I'm going to echo Stalin's condemnation of Jay Lovestone's heresy of American exceptionalism, and say that the greatest theatrics performed by propagandists and the greatest repressions exersized by the most autocratic states can only be swept aside by the material conditions the people find themselves in. The Great Depression shattered Lovestone's theory that capitalism in America is so exceptionally entrenched that nothing could shake the foundation it's built upon, and if it wasn't for FDR and the War, it's entirely possible we'd be in a different America. After all, there are decades where nothing happens, and in those decades the communist movement must build and rebuild and continue building so that when there are weeks where decades happen we won't be caught with our pants down and can leap into action as needed.