• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Liberalism morphs into fascism when threatened under war conditions

    that's not remotely how it works

    fascism is an ideology that tends to crop up in societies where hiring gangs of thugs to brutalise people is an accepted and common part of the economy and political system and there is a threat of communism to react to

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      Wrong. Liberalism and fascism are the same exact thing under different parts of the capitalist cycle. They are the same people fighting for the same interests.

      If fascism requires a credible communist threat, why is it so widespread in Ukraine where there is no serious socialist center of power or movement? Fascism does require anti-communism, but it doesn’t require actual communists to oppose, just the Spectre of one in their imagination. It will find a suitable scapegoat and label it cultural marxist (as seen by the labeling of the Russian’s as “the new USSR” and conspiracies about Putin being controlled by the “commie Jews” or the “chicoms”)

      Fascism does arise in crumbling capitalist states in periods of crisis, that much is true which is why I said it’s Liberalism under bad conditions.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      societies where hiring gangs of thugs to brutalise people is an accepted and common part of the economy and political system

      So cops?