(Context: the conversation in the screenshot was under a post about China and LGBT)
Fascism is an expression of Imperialism. That's the way we usually understand it. We analyze its very essence, its goal, its cause, its necessity. In contrast, liberals, especially liberal media, and their entertainment industry, have a tendency to define Fascism by its symptoms and aesthetic. They'd like to blame it on "hatred" and moral failings. At least, that was my perception of liberals due to the few interactions with them through the limited medium that is the Internet.
It is for this reason that I now think the average Westerner doesn't know what Fascism actually is. This perhaps was one of the factors that have enabled them to act like online Fascists without shame.
The Twitter comment in the screenshot is not the only instance I have encountered in regards to online chauvinism and stupidity. I've seen them many times before, be it on YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and more. It almost always[^1] come from the English speaking space, likely by some American.
Online Fascists are ignorant of history. They also don't know they are acting like Fascists.
[^1]: I wrote "almost always" to give room for errors but my memory certainly did not register exceptions.
Yes, I agree.
Fascism is not "just what happens when colonialism turns inwards," which is frankly overly simplistic and negates the fact that the overseas colonies and possessions receive an even stronger form of repression, genocide, terror, and bourgeois dictatorial rule.
Fascism is exactly Dmitrov's definition in his writings and speeches which Joseph Stalin himself endorsed and backed.
Many people try to deny this to this day and ignore the Comintern's final word on the matter.
Which ends up making communist spaces have just as much of a confused definition of fascism as the liberals they so much despise and hate.
Instead, they turn to anything other than what the Comintern actually said lol
I mean, to be clear, I think the official definition of fascism can be deepened and added on to but we shouldn't disregard the theoretical work that everyone in the Comintern worldwide had basically decided on lol
You are disregarding theoretical work done more recently, such as the writings of Losurdo.
I am not at all but neither am I disregarding Stalin and the Comintern.