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    • Spartacist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That’s not really how it works. Social Democracy is integrated with Capitalism, not Fascism. Fascism isn’t just capitalism.

        • Spartacist [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I agree overall. My main point is that I don’t believe that social democracy is fascism.

          • Value_Form2 [none/use name]
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            Social Democrats view class compromise in the same way fascists do. They consider workers to be another special interest in comparison to the interests of capital, so they invariably govern how fascists would govern when they try to preserve capitalism without empowering workers beyond handouts.

        • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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          This quote frequently gets misattributed to Lenin, and it’s also just not accurate.

          Fascism is a reactionary social movement that arises under certain conditions, namely when capitalism is in such an acute crisis that the ruling class basically is forced to hand over the reins to this movement in order to keep the system going.

          While capitalism is decaying, and spiraling into crisis after crisis, the conditions for mass fascist movements aren’t constant or more available now than they were in the 1930s.

          The base of mass fascist movements is in the petite bourgeoisie, which as a class is actually much less influential than in the 1930s, as the process of proletarianization squeezes their ranks down into the working class.