Sorry to do this debate-bro stuff, but how would you respond to someone who says fascism is left-wing?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qOsVqXMFAdg is two rightists talking is fascism left or right, and Gerard Casey concludes that fascism is left-wing. He cites the Fascist Manifesto of 1919, which in fairness does look pretty left-wing, is mostly about worker benefits.
Counterpoints I can think of:
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Fascism is inegalitarian.
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Fascism is oppressive
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Fascism is about privatisation – but I'm not very clued in on the history of this, on what industries fascist governments privatised and how consistent they were with this. Did they also nationalise other industries?]
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Unask the question, say 'left' and 'right' are meaningless
Again, sorry about this. Obviously not trying to defend fascism, just trying to get clarity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Communist_Party_USA_members_who_have_held_office_in_the_United_States
You will note that there is an empty period from 49 to 2019
more like a yawning maw. so excited for when the next republican (or who am i kidding maybe dem) administration decides to start enforcing this. maybe after jd second thought decides to run for office or something as a wholesome communist
Looks like they're in order by state rather than chronologically, so there's actually been 3 since 1949, and all at the city level lmao
Cue shock