Capitalism in Decay
Fascism is capitalism in decay. As with anticommunism in general, the ruling class has oversimplified this phenomenon to the point of absurdity and teaches but a small fraction of its history. This is the spot for getting a serious understanding of it (from a more proletarian perspective) and collecting the facts that contemporary anticommunists are unlikely to discuss.
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For our purposes, we consider early Shōwa Japan to be capitalism in decay.
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We would not get classical fascism. It was a response to a threat of revolution by a strong labour movement in well-industrialized society. Now with deindustrialization and weak labour movement we'll get some new horrors within human comprehension.
We won't get classical fascism, but we should be prepared for an echo of that phenomenon; a (for lack of a better word) pseudo-left compromise supported by the bourgeoisie. While slow, the labour movement is growing (even the Palestinian conflict itself is accelerating union activity where I am) and it's possible it will reignite like in major capitalist crises of the past - they're hard to predict but they're inevitable.
America is already fascist for some time now you're going to have to call it double fascism
It's not useful to consider the USA fascist. If fascism is capitalism in decay, neoliberalism is capitalism in stride.
Where fascism tries to put the state above all, neoliberalism has purchased the state. Where fascism demands our class struggle halt, neoliberalism proudly yells 'keep going; we're winning'. Where fascism has silly bullshit idealism about their nation and its spirit, neoliberalism is cold and individualist, and won't even spare the ruling demographics from its greed.
They're both capitalism and they both want us dead. But we must understand the differences if we want to fight them most effectively. Fascism's weaknesses don't always apply to liberalism, and vice versa.
@[email protected] it is not useful to consider the USA a non-fascist country to just to hype yourself about project 2025. read
Sorry, let me be more blunt. Will it only be fascism when they lynch white people?