Evergreen
Evergreen
Cross-posted from "Evergreen" by @InevitableSwing@hexbear.net in !slop@hexbear.net
46 comments
-
You really need remedial history if you think every capitalist society has declined into fascism.
-
- Benito Mussolini: Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
- Tommy Douglas: Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt—it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
- Michael Parenti: 🔈 Fascism, The False Revolution
- Gabriel Rockhill:
-
The ones that haven't just haven't made it there yet. Fascism is capitalism in decay.
-
There is zero reason to believe every capitalist economy declines into fascism when you can easily make the case that only two fascist nations have existed up to this point (Germany and Italy).
-
-
A list of fascist movements isn’t going to be a list of nations that instituted fascism. Im not sure what you thinks this proves other than that you didn’t stop to think if this actually proved your point.
-
Oh look, you hurt their wittle liberal fweelings.
-
-
-
-
-
Is the example you're thinking of but can't post real?
When you phrase it like that I literally can't think of a single example of Capitalism that doesn't end up like the game of Monopoly...
-
No what I am saying is you need to relearn basic history if you think every capitalist nation has become fascist. Only two to five have depending on how you define fascism. That leaves 150 or so that haven’t.
-
Nah actually you need the history lesson if you still Capitalism = Mercantilism
Capitalism has existed less than 100 years
-
Really, capitalism started sometime after 1925? And yet Das Kapital was written about 150 years ago, building on David Ricardo’s early 19th century work and Adam Smith’s 18th century work.
Capitalism goes back at least as far as the English enclosure of the commons, which left peasants with no option but to sell their labor to burghers, AKA the bourgeoisie. The American Revolution was a bourgeois revolution[1].
-
-
-
-
46 comments