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This meit be a bit confusing, because it was late at neit, but it is something that pops up constantly with supporters of Liberals (not just the politicians themselves): the Rule Of Law.

All the time, I see that Rule Of Law is cast as something that is the best thing ever, as if Fascism is a criminal phenomenon.

I originally thoht this was Liberals trying to get courts to fight Fascism due to fears about having Fascists being in kahoots with the legal system, but lately it seems that this "rule of law" idea is pushed as a sort of anti-Fascist panacea. It is really ahistorical, considering how the law and police force are not simply there, but evolve and expand as Capitalism does: instead of simply catching criminals, there is an entire network of copaganda to convince people that they need the police due to fear of crime, then there are private prisons which inherently need more prisoners due to the logic of the market, then there are the politicians who do nothing as police get more and more funding, then there is the mistreatment of criminals which seeps into the mistreatment of prisoners, then mistreatment of people near cops, then mistreatment of people that the cops dislike. All because there the needs of the Law were put above the needs of the human being.

I need to really research this, and find out why this line is being pushed, in detail.

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[-] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Liberals fear fascism for a different reason then socialists, they are worried that the government will lie, seize and walk away with their investments however they see fit to pursue their nationalistic/monopolistic aims, hence the obsession with "Rule of Law". They want their guarantees that they are included and protected in the capitalist umbrella, working class suffering is a non-factor.

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