what are they even turning fascist for? it's not like there's communists anywhere near europe right now, are we just going to start doing pogroms against immigrants now? fucking worthless "continent" and i use that very loosely
While the Russia-Ukraine war made things worse for Germans, far right has been on the ascend for a while and things weren't even that bad in Germany! Like lots of issues with the German center-right, but they were doing a good job of extracting wealth from the rest of the EU.
Fascism doesn't require the threat of communism to exist, it simply requires capitalism to start showing signs of failure and then those who profit circle the wagons around their hoarded wealth and you're gonna get a fascism out of that if people don't stomp it down and replace capitalism so it can't happen again. They're the immune response of capitalism. The white power blood cells if you will.
i dont think fascism requires the presence of communism to show up. Neoliberalism is destroying everything, the anger and energy of the masses has to be directed somewhere and there are only a few possible ways for it to go. Fascism is the least bad for the bourgeoisie.
Yeah and it is much easier (I.e. less pushback) to direct that towards the vulnerable and under privileged than those with power, guns, and money. One of those could get you killed.
It’s part and parcel of the US strategic ambition to destroy the European economy and to absorb its talent/labor force. Which, I remind you, is exactly what the US has been doing to the post-Soviet states and the Global South over the past century - only this time it’s the white Europeans who will become the victims of the US imperialism.
As the fascistization of Europe ramps up and the economy continues to deteriorate, more and more people - especially educated youth who become disillusioned with their country’s future - will be looking for ways out.
Where do you think they will end up emigrating to? The most attractive place is the United States, with a strong currency and living standards on par with Western European standards, not to mention their affinity to American cultural exports.
This is what the Republicans don’t understand. You cannot construct a white supremacist state in the US by keeping yourself isolated from the rest of the world. The US has always relied on immigration and will always remain so. As foreign talents (especially Chinese) are increasingly purged, this gap in the labor force will need to be replaced by someone else. And who else to replace them with than white European immigrants fleeing a destabilized Europe succumbing to war, poverty and fascism?
The Democrats understand this principle well and that’s why they are building the Fourth Reich by importing European immigrants to replace the non-white labor force.
I don't think even Putin realized the war in Ukraine would result in the US staging a silent coup of western Europe. It's obvious now in hindsight Russia's economy would be fine going into the war, despite harsh sanctions by NATO. What isn't obvious is how Europeans would sell themselves out to American energy and food suppliers. This whole thing has been a godsend for American companies running out of people to exploit in the US as its working class never recovered from 2008.
Europe has been steadily losing its neocolonial grip on the Global South, so it is inevitable they turn to fascism in hopes of reasserting their position as colonial metropoly.
This was bound to happen. Liberals win against fascists by 2% and think that they've defeated fascism forever and never try to actually remove the rot.
It is uncharted in that there can't be a state government in Thuringia and Saxony (and who knows maybe in all of germany eventually) that either doesn't include the far right or doesn't include every party except the far right
It really seems like the living memory is the only reall window in which one can hope for a lesson humanity learns to persist. It's not lost on me the very last few people who remember WW2 are approaching zero by the day, and the closer to 0 living that number gets, the more violently capable fascism seems to be at re-asserting itself.
Shame the cold war is so much further than that from exiting living memory - every generation that grew up under duck and cover drills can't be redeemed.