Not sure if the takeaway is more that fascists aren't required to make sense, or that social democratic collaboration with capitalists can be easily weaponized against socialism.
In Weimar, the word Socialist was like the word Freedom is now in the United States.
Everyone said they were one, and it never meant anything coherent.
But in the 30s, it was literally impossible to win elections by stanning Capitalism. It had just destroyed the entire global economy.
Fascism's primary goal was promoting a "third way." A way to synthesize anti capitalist politics (in aesthetics anyway) and excise away the left reforms.
the free market died with the great depression imo. we fight against "its not capitalism its corporatism" but all corporations are held up by the state nowadays, fascism's economic policies are just part of capitalism now
We're seeing exactly the same thing now, with chuds genuinely believing that cUlTurAl mArXiSm is being backed by corporations and privately owned main stream media.
What a time to be alive.
its jews my dude, the words are meaningless they just mean jew
It isn't capitalism, it is jews. This is just a different way of saying Judeo–Bolshevism.
Not saying that I agree with it, but when the Nazis railed against capitalism it was specifically jews. If you have that context this poster makes more sense.
Didn't think I'd have to explain that I don't agree with the message of Nazi propaganda on here. Figured that the Jewish banker caricature would give the real message away at a glance.
The Nazis had a list of enemies that went beyond just the Jews, but they did tend to conflate them. Thus Capitalists = Marxists = Jews = Russians in a lot of Nazi propaganda. The SPD guy's nose in the poster is supposed to indicate that he is a drunken Russian, for example.
Also, Hitler was furiously anti-Marxist and that's the aspect of the NSDAP that really put them in mainstream politics. Of course, Hitler didn't actually know anything about socialism and had probably never so much as read the Communist Manifesto, but that kind of thing never stopped him.
social democratic collaboration with capitalists can be easily weaponized against socialism
pretty much this, the image really isn't wrong it's just advocating for the wrong party and assuming what SPD was doing is actually Marxism (not like Marx wrote a whole book ripping apart the SPDs founding document or anything...). If it wasn't for the fashy font I would have thought it was a KPD poster at first glance
More the former than the latter, at least as it applies today. Today's fascists (at least in the U.S.) aren't going to attack capitalism anytime soon.
they'll attack (((corporations))) as much as they want though
It's crony capitalism actually. In an ethn- in a just society with this and that you see it's actually this way and the way it works is over there and Ayn Rand said some shit and then the other...
