I forget where I heard it (might have been on here), but someone once posted that a better way of looking at it is that social democracy is the left wing of capitalism and fascism is the right wing of capitalism. I never liked the original quote, there's no such thing as moderate fascism.
Except capitalism tends to exploit the wealth difference between regional and ethnic cohorts, while social democracy tends to smooth them over. As anyone familiar with the Volker-Era and the demand for a permanent tranche of unemployment can tell you, it's neither fascism nor social democracy that forces people into poverty through monetary policy. Neither are responsible for artificial shortfalls in food, health care, housing, or education.
The artificial scarcities of capitalism may polarize people into social democrat (we have enough if we redistribute it) and fascist (we only have enough for my people) camps. But they are not wings of capitalism, just political outgrowths of the material conditions capitalism creates.
I don't think it's any different when liberals kill and improvish millions of foreigners to maintain their hegemon and rate of profit but they're "nice" to people living within their borders.
Even then look at how Sweden and France reacting to refugees and how thin that veneer of civility and tolerance is. They don't really see the others as full and equal human beings. They still see themselves as more worthy than the poor under their boots, when they even think about them at all.
I forget where I heard it (might have been on here), but someone once posted that a better way of looking at it is that social democracy is the left wing of capitalism and fascism is the right wing of capitalism. I never liked the original quote, there's no such thing as moderate fascism.
social democracy is the carrot of capitalism, while fascism is the stick
Except capitalism tends to exploit the wealth difference between regional and ethnic cohorts, while social democracy tends to smooth them over. As anyone familiar with the Volker-Era and the demand for a permanent tranche of unemployment can tell you, it's neither fascism nor social democracy that forces people into poverty through monetary policy. Neither are responsible for artificial shortfalls in food, health care, housing, or education.
The artificial scarcities of capitalism may polarize people into social democrat (we have enough if we redistribute it) and fascist (we only have enough for my people) camps. But they are not wings of capitalism, just political outgrowths of the material conditions capitalism creates.
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I don't think it's any different when liberals kill and improvish millions of foreigners to maintain their hegemon and rate of profit but they're "nice" to people living within their borders.
Even then look at how Sweden and France reacting to refugees and how thin that veneer of civility and tolerance is. They don't really see the others as full and equal human beings. They still see themselves as more worthy than the poor under their boots, when they even think about them at all.