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Ex-fascists of lemmy, what made you escape the alt-right pipeline? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

You can't just call everything you deem bad fascist, you're taking away all the meaning from that word

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

    Explain how that doesn't describe North Korea.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago*

    Fascism is defined by the destruction of capital in non-military sectors, the dominance of some sectors of capital over others (beyond as laid out in imperialism to the point of contravening the typical form of the dictatorship of capital)and imperialist policies like forced labor being directed inward to compensate for a decline of empire.

    Given that DPRK has industrialized throughout its history, has taken steps to shrink its military expenditures in comparison to the rest of the economy, has no dictatorship of capital within the country, doesn't use slave labor and is a historically imperialized nation as opposed to a former imperial power, I do not see how you can define the DPRK as fascist.

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