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Nazism is just a form of capitalism
Nazism is just a form of capitalism
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- 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:
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Stealing this meme. Too good.
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If it was an ubisoft meme, you'd be stealing the right to post that meme, not the actual meme.
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- Tommy Douglas:
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You comparing additional deaths per year per capita or what?
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Capitalism is a right-wing ideology. There is no center. The political spectrum is not a gradient. It’s either left or right. You either believe people should be above others or you believe in true equality. If you want a better future, elect people who understand this properly and fight for workers rights.
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If you want a better future, elect people
You had me in the first half.
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I would argue that fascism is the capitalism’s second final form.
Final form is feudalism, as always
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I would say fascism is just Capitalism when it needs to put on a mask and do especially brutal acts to protect itself, then blame its sins on fascism, rather than Capitalism. It's like an alter-ego.
The final stage of Capitalism, rather than feudalism, is Imperialism. Feudalism had very specific relations and relied on workers largely producing their own goods like clothing, peasants were relatively self-sufficient and thus paid large rents to their feudal lords. Capitalism relegated the new proletariat to repetitive, small-scale tasks that, when combined with others and new industrial machinery, resulted in vast expansions in commodities produced.
Imperialism is when domestic markets are all "taken," and thus must spread internationally to super-exploit foreign populations. This is self-defeating, though, and provokes war.
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It's also helpful to highlight the relationship between imperialism and fascism. Fascism can be described as turning the tactics and violence of imperialism (that are initially reserved for the periphery) inwards, on "undesirable" parts of the imperial core. Usually this follows on the heels of closing imperial horizons.
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fascism is a tool to promote and prop up capitalism.
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@Confidant6198 i’m afraid you’re mistaken – capitalism is just a form of Naziism.
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OP had it right. Capitalism takes two predominant forms: liberalism, when it works satisfactorily for the bourgeoisie, and fascism, when it doesn’t. Hence the aphorisms, “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” and “fascism is capitalism in decay.”
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Can you compare an economic system to a political regime?
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They are both systems that require state oppression abroad and domestically to exploit workers and uphold private property with police and military force
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Capitalism per se still offers you the chance to buy fair and sustainable products. Nazism did not offer you the chance to save jews without risking your own life.
Therefore nazism is worse.
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Nazism is of course worse than normal Capitalism, but they are the same thing underneath, reacting to different circumstances. Nazism is a Capitalist response to left wing organization in order to violently suppress it, and ensure the existing ruling class does not lose power.
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Nazism is a Capitalist response to left wing organization in order to violently suppress it, and ensure the existing ruling class does not lose power.
Well, not exactly. I can see why many of us have this oversimplified view of Fascism (it was my own for a while), but as respectable as our numbers were in the Kingdom of Italy and the Weimar Republic, we were still too minor to ensure a revolution. Rather, preventing capitalism’s collapse by any means necessary—saving it from its own contradictions—was the ruling class’s main motive for institutionalizing Fascism. Listen to this monologue by Michael Parenti or read Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big Business for the details.
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But it looks insane and out of touch too make posts where it suggests both are the same
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I'll do you one better. All political/economic systems are just an extension of human nature.
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Less human nature, more a product of the material conditions at the time. Capitalism grew rapidly because of the Industrial Revolution, as an example.
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you know that this sort of statement only benefits nazism, right?
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Mmm, yes, very nice. Now let's hear your opinion on the government of Russia
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No neoliberalism isnt its inhuman
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